Developer reaches out to skeptics.(Business)(Steve Graves assures neighbors, who say they've been burned before, that his Santa Clara Crossings will be a good fit)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | May 20, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard

Redeveloping the land that for a quartercentury held Santa Clara Elementary School was bound to be a touchy exercise from the very beginning.

Neighbors were unhappy that the Eugene School District razed the venerable schoolhouse and sold off its 7.2 acres of land to a developer rather than turning it into a park or using it for some other public use.

They also were wary about buying into a developer's vision that they feared would not translate into reality.

Still, developer Steve Graves stepped into ...

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