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This is an ready-mix concrete facility that has apparently recently or is now in the act of behing retired. Part of the Ross Island Sand and Gravel constellation in the area along the Willamette and between the river and SE McLoughlin Blvd.
The facility gate appears to be at the corner of SE 4th and Ivon, and the interesting thing abut the place is how neat and tidy ... well, for a cement plant, anyway ... it seems to be for being in the state it seems to be. A coat of spray-paint tags, some quite skillful, is well in evidence but it doesn't seem to be a mess outside of that.
A look at Google Street View, last one is 2009, shows the facility without tags. In the intervening 12 years, RISAG have largely wound up operations; the iconic lot on SE Mcloughlin just north of Holgate Blvd, where a dedicated crew used to wash all the mixer trucks each night and line them up with laser-precision for use next work day (wish I had gotten pictures of that, that was something special) is now empty of said trucks and Dr. Pamplin, the owner of the company, has moved into media to lose his money that way.
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