EUGENE, Ore. – After several years of waiting and jumps in costs, the former Montgomery Ward building in Downtown Eugene is finally expected to be demolished in early 2025 to make way for a new mixed-income housing complex.
Lindsay Selser is the communications and engagement manager for for the city of Eugene’s planning and development department.
“It started as the Montgomery Ward development or the Montgomery Ward department stores,” Selser said “And then the Lane Community College had used this as their downtown campus, I think, from about ’79 to 2012.”
The city of Eugene bought the property located at 1059 Willamette Street and announced plans in 2021 to turn it into a mixed-income housing complex.
The complex will have a total of 133 …