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Cafes, restaurants, gallaries, shops, services, offices
and residental! There are 250 businesses in the Longview
Dowtown district bordered by Washington Way and 15th Street.
Entrepreneurs and professionals, artists and artisans work in historic
buildings erected at the city's founding in 1923-1929. The city's
founder, Robert A. Long, engaged the services of architects and
planners from his company headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri to
design the city's structure. The area which was formerly marshy and
subject to frequent flooding, was filled in, graded, and platted and
streets were paved using the most advanced techniques of the day.
Several buildings, including the high school, the public library, the
Community Church, the Monticello Hotel and the YMCA were built by R. A.
Long and donated to the City. The city was designed to accomodate
50,000 inhabitants, however the Great Depression put a halt to its
rapid expansion and even today, its population is around 35,000.
High speed Internet is available widely and there's a wide selection
of available commercial and residential space within walking distance
to Lower Columbia Community College, the library, park. Downtown is a
mile from the Amtrak station in neighboring Kelso with daily trains to
Portland and Seattle
By car, Longview is about an hour from Portland metro, the Pacific
beaches, or snow-capped Mt. St. Helens, two hours from vibrant
Seattle.
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