Trends and Opportunities

Several major manufacturers, both national and local, call Pendleton home, and the area has excellent potential for growth. Pendleton has two shovel-ready sites listed with the state.

Besides sitting astride the “Redundant, Eastern Self Healing Telecommunications Fiber Ring,” the area has excess electric and natural gas available at competitive prices, and access to major inter-modal transportation facilities and ports. Those amenities, along with Pendleton’s central geographical location, put the area in a most favorable position for development.

In process is the plan to expand the urban growth boundary of the city to provide additional future housing and industrial development capacity. The industrial capacity is augmented with the “Airport Arterial” (aka Barnhart Road) expansion effort that will, once completed, bring at grade access to additional flat acreage near the current airport industrial park. In addition, the CTUIR is developing their “Coyote Business Park” on tribal lands (with unique financial incentives) that will add to the near-by industrial lands capacity.

Pendleton is maintaining steady growth with the capacity to handle a more rapidly growing population base. Pendleton’s market area extends to a broader population of between 50,000 and 65,000 outside of the city limits. The city population swells with visitor surges related to major events such as our signature event, the Pendleton Round-Up.

With the new activity in Pendleton and the renewed growth in additional housing, Pendleton foresees continued growth of residential, commercial and industrial development in its future.