HIVE's Building and Engineering team cuts the ceremonial ribbon at HIVE on June 1, 2026. After years of vision and planning, the Housing Innovation Village Experience (HIVE) officially broke ground in Newberg on June 1, 2026. The ribbon cutting ceremony on North College Street brought together community leaders, city officials, sponsors, and supporters to mark a moment that's been years in the making. Newberg City Councilor Elise Yarnell Hollamon, SEDCOR's Abisha Romano, and

An aerial rendering of HIVE's 10 units and Community Center Standing room only. That’s how the “Coalition of the Enthusiastic” showed up on March 19 th to hear about our progress on the Housing Innovation Village Experience (HIVE) in Newberg. Business leaders, community partners, elected officials, innovators, and newly interested attendees came to Autodesk’s 6 th floor over breakfast to learn more about the future of housing. What they saw was a project that is no longer

Photo by rawkkim on Unsplash Oregon's Moderate-Income Revolving Loan (MIRL) program started with a straightforward premise: provide direct financing to help developers build housing attainable for households earning up to 120% of area median income. This is housing for the teachers, nurses, and service workers who earn too much to qualify for deeply subsidized housing, but can't afford market-rate homes. The program made sense on paper. However, for smaller communities that