For about 70 years, anyone heading west on Highway 26 past Sunset Transit Center saw a green tower with red neon letters spelling "Cedar Hills." According to KPTV, people had come to treat it as a local landmark, and generations of drivers saw it every day on the way home from Portland. A crew took it down on the morning of Monday, June 15, 2026.
The sign was the last visible piece of the part of the Cedar Hills Shopping Center that's being redeveloped. With it gone, the Park Way corner splits into three parts: the businesses the redevelopment left alone, the businesses that moved, and a construction site that will reopen as mostly housing. This fall, the places on the block that are open to the public are mostly the ones outside the project.
The sign is in storage, and nobody has said where it will go
In May, the developer told The Cedar Mill News that it was still deciding whether the big sign would stay, be replaced, or go away. Local Facebook groups, including the Cedar Mill News Group and "You Know You're From Beaverton, OR. When……." had been debating the same question.
The next update came in the paper's August development roundup. Crews had removed the sign carefully and put it in storage, and the developer was still looking for a good place to reinstall it. No site has been named since. Two monthly roundups have come out since August, and neither gave an update on the Cedar Hills project.
So the sign still exists. Whether it comes back to Park Way, and in what form, is still open.
What opened in 1955, and what goes up in 2027
The first version of the center held a lot. KPTV reported that the Cedar Hills Shopping Center opened in 1955 with a Safeway grocery store, a Sears catalog store, several other shops, a gas station and a bank.
The project replacing most of it centers on housing. High Street Residential, a division of Trammell Crow, broke ground in late April on 369 market-rate apartments, from studios to three-bedroom units, in three buildings of four and five stories. The site runs between Park Way and Wilshire Street. The Cedar Mill News reported that the retail portion will be about 5,000 square feet, "probably" two or three spaces.
A street-facing ground floor with two or three tenants is a much smaller commercial footprint than a center anchored by a grocery store and a department store's catalog counter. Trammell Crow principal Damin Tarlow told the paper the team has to balance what residents and neighbors will want against which companies will commit to the space for the long term. As of May, no tenants had been named, and the developer said it was open to suggestions.
Most of the new building's shared spaces are for residents only. Plans include an indoor/outdoor fitness area with an outdoor sauna and cold plunge, a residents-only speakeasy and sports bar, a community greenhouse and a co-working area. The changes everyone will notice are at the edges of the site. Beaverton's approval calls for a 12-foot shared bike and pedestrian path along the frontage road, wider sidewalks on Park and Wilshire, and new bike lanes on both streets. Parking entrances will be on Wilshire.
Here's how the site changed over 2026, based on local reports:
- March 30. The Cedar Mill News reported that the last tenants had moved out of the part of the center slated for redevelopment.
- Late April. High Street Residential announced the start of construction.
- May. Crews were doing environmental abatement, with demolition expected soon. Tarlow predicted visible vertical construction "July-ish."
- June 15. The sign came down.
- Early August. Demolition was nearly complete. A basement had been filled, concrete footings for Buildings C and D were underway, and walls and columns were rising on Building A.
- Late summer or fall 2027. First move-ins are expected, after about two years of construction.
The western end stayed open the whole time
The redevelopment never included the western end of the center. That's why two of the most practical errands on the block still work.
The Oregon DMV and the Harbor Freight store are staying. They have parking to the west and north of their buildings and full access during construction. Back in April, The Cedar Mill News reported that the project would replace most of the old center but not the western end with those two tenants.
The corner isn't fully fenced off. You can still renew a license and pick up a tool in the same trip, and you'll see the new buildings going up next door while you're there.
The former gas station building is the one piece without a known future. In May, The Cedar Mill News said it had no information about what would happen to it.
808 Grinds moved, but stayed in Beaverton
The best-known business to leave the center was the Hawaiian restaurant 808 Grinds at 10100 SW Park Way. OregonLive reported that its last day there was a Tuesday in March, and the paper quoted the restaurant's goodbye post:
"12+ years ago we opened the doors in Beaverton not knowing what the future would hold. Yesterday we closed them surrounded by people who became 'ohana."
OregonLive's report on the closure noted that 808 Grinds first opened in 2010 and became known for kalua pulled pork, shoyu chicken and creamy macaroni salad, served in big portions at affordable prices. The same article said a new Beaverton location at 10970 SW Barnes Road was expected to open by June. 808 Grinds' own site now lists "808 Grinds – Beaverton" at that Barnes Road address with posted hours, so plate lunch is still close by. Check the hours before you go.
The busiest door on Park Way on Halloween is the rec center
Farther up the street is the one Park Way building built to bring people together. The Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District's Cedar Hills Recreation Center, at 11640 SW Park Way, holds its Fall Festival on Saturday, October 31, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
THPRD's listing describes:
- festive games and crafts
- a sensory room
- a silly science room
- an obstacle course through Pirates Cove
- a photo room for showing off costumes
THPRD lists the ticket fee as $10 per child. PDX Parent's event listing shows $8, so go by THPRD's number. The THPRD listing doesn't give an age range.
If you want a second Halloween stop that afternoon, Bethany Village Shopping Centre at 4720 NW Bethany Blvd runs a free Halloween Hunt from 1 to 3 p.m., with trick-or-treating through the center.
The new shop opening nearby is at Cedar Hills Crossing
The two places have similar names but are different sites. Cedar Hills Crossing is the mall on SW Cedar Hills Boulevard. The old Cedar Hills Shopping Center is the Park Way site described above. Don't mix them up when you're giving directions.
While the Park Way storefronts were coming down, a new shop opened at the Crossing. The Cedar Mill News reported that Creo Chocolate opened at 2855 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. in September. It's the family-owned Portland company's fourth shop and the first outside central Portland. Father and son Tim and Kevin Straub run Creo. Their beans come from a single family farm in Ecuador, Hacienda Victoria, and the case holds truffles, chocolate-covered treats and seasonal items.
"We started [Creo] with a raspberry farm in Ridgefield, WA," Kevin Straub told The Cedar Mill News. "While running the farm, we started making chocolate for family and friends, and things got a little out of control."
So this fall, new retail is opening at the Crossing, while Park Way's commercial future depends on the two or three ground-floor spaces still to be leased in 2027.
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