The Swan Island Industrial Park is an

industrial park An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development. An industrial park can be thought of as a more "heavyweight" version of a business park or office park, ...

on Swan Island in

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, United States. The industrial park comprises and is operated by the Port of Portland.

History

During World War II, Swan Island was the site of the

Kaiser Company The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located on the United States west coast during World War II. Kaiser ranked 20th among U.S. corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. The shipyards were owned by the Kaiser ...

Swan Island Shipyard The Swan Island Shipyard was a shipyard on Swan Island (Oregon), Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was constructed by the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser in 1942 as part of the U.S. Maritime Commission's Emergency Shipbuilding Progr ...

. Kaiser's

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and ship repair facilities were acquired by the Port of Portland in 1948. Prior to World War II, Swan Island was the location of the Swan Island Airport, and there had been some dispute about whether Swan Island should continue to be used as an industrial area or re-appropriated for aviation purposes. Oregon voters approved an $84 million bond to expand the shipyard in the late 1970s. The Port of Portland sold the facilities to shipbuilder Cascade General in 2000 at a cost of $30.8 million.

Description

More than 200 businesses are located at the Swan Island industrial area. As of 2008, more than 10,000 people were employed at the site. Shipbuilder

Vigor Industrial Vigor Industrial (Vigor) is an American shipbuilding, shiprepair, and industrial service provider in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Based in Portland, Oregon, the company consists of several subsidiary companies for a combined total of seven ...

is headquartered at Swan Island, where it operates a shipyard with three dry docks. Swan Island is also the headquarters of

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and

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have packaging and distribution centers at the Swan Island area. Residents of nearby neighborhoods have complained of odors coming from the industrial facilities on Swan Island.

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