Editing Cedar Hills, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Early Cedar Hills, looking southwest (Beaverton, Oregon Historical Photo Gallery) (202).jpg|250px|thumb|left|Cedar Hills in its early years]]
Plans to build the large new neighborhood were announced by the project's developers in April 1946, and construction of the first 50 homes had begun by then.<ref name="community rising">"2000-Home Community Rising Here; Two Firms Launch $25,000,000 Town In Beaverton Area" (April 28, 1946). ''[[The Oregonian|The Sunday Oregonian]]'', p. 1; also section 2, p. 1.</ref>  Along with roads and utilities, the plans included a shopping center, schools, parks and churches,<ref name="community rising"/> in a neighborhood of around 2,000 homes on about {{convert|800|acre|ha}}.<ref name="shoemaker">Shoemaker, Mervin G. (September 29, 1946). "Cedar Hills: Something New in Building".  ''The Sunday Oregonian'', Sunday magazine section, p. 2.</ref> A writer for ''[[The Oregonian]]'' newspaper at the time called it "the most ambitious suburban housing development ever attempted in the Northwest".<ref name="shoemaker"/> The planned neighborhood was consistent with the [[racism in Oregon]] at the time, as the 1946 restrictions stated that "only Caucasians shall use or occupy the properties, except in the capacity of domestic servants, chauffeurs or employees."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opb.org/television/programs/local-color/|title=Local Color|website=www.opb.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-22}}</ref>

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 | caption1  = Cedar Hills Shopping Center in 1997, when the Safeway store was closing after 43 years of operation<ref name="oreg-1997aug6">{{cite news|last=Colby|first=Richard N.|title=Safeway store says quick goodbye|date=August 6, 1997|newspaper=The Oregonian|page=C2|edition=West Metro}}</ref>

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Construction of the planned shopping center began in 1954.<ref name="center starts">"$1,000,000 Cedar Hills Shopping Project Started; Second Phase of Big Center to House 27 Shops" (June 20, 1954). ''The Sunday Oregonian'', section 2, p. 8.</ref>  Located immediately south of the [[Sunset Highway (Oregon)|Sunset Highway]], at the northern end of the neighborhood, Cedar Hills Shopping Center opened in April 1955.<ref name="oreg1955apr3">"Cedar Hills Shop Center Opening" (April 3, 1955). ''The Sunday Oregonian'', section 2, p. 7.</ref>  It originally included a [[Safeway Inc.|Safeway]] supermarket (opened in August 1954, months earlier than the remainder of the center),<ref name="oreg1954aug">"Outlet Added By Safeway: $250,000 Store Opens in Cedar Hills" (August 22, 1954). ''The Sunday Oregonian'', p. 48.</ref> a [[Rodgers Stores|Rodgers]] [[five-and-dime]], a [[Sears]] catalog store, and several other shops, along with a bank and a gas station.  The center's tall [[neon sign]] became a local landmark.  In 1979, [[TriMet]] opened a bus [[List of TriMet transit centers|transit center]] on Wilshire Street, behind the shopping center.<ref name="oreg-1979jun19">Bodine, Harry (June 19, 1979). "Tri-Met west side transfers pass muster". ''[[The Oregonian]]'', p. B4.</ref>  Cedar Hills Transit Center remained in operation for almost 20 years, until replaced by the [[Sunset Transit Center]] – located immediately across the Sunset Highway (US 26) freeway from Cedar Hills Shopping Center – in 1998, with the opening of the [[MAX Blue Line|Westside MAX]] line.  The Sunset TC's construction included a long pedestrian bridge over the freeway, to provide access between the TriMet bus and MAX station and the Cedar Hills neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sunset Transit Center: Pedestrian Bridge |url=http://www.tri-met.org/westside/maxfacts/mf-sunset.htm |publisher=TriMet |date=August 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990218155937/http://www.tri-met.org/westside/maxfacts/mf-sunset.htm |archive-date=February 18, 1999 |access-date=August 25, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  In 2009, the [[Oregon Department of Transportation]] opened a new Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division (DMV) office in the Cedar Hills Shopping Center, serving as the DMV's Beaverton office, replacing one located on Allen Blvd. in Beaverton proper.<ref name=dmv2009>{{cite web|title=DMV to open new Beaverton office April 28|date=April 14, 2009|publisher=[[Oregon Department of Transportation]]|url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/news/2009_nr/09-074.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510063808/http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/news/2009_nr/09-074.aspx |archive-date=May 10, 2013|access-date=February 8, 2015}}</ref>