In May 2020, the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) and Birch LLC signed a sale agreement for $4.5 million for the 159-acre industrial property, located on Millican Road south of the Prineville Airport.
The State Land Board on Oct. 17, 2017, approved the initiation of due-diligence review and determination of the potential sale of the Millican Road property in Crook County. The site was slated for conversion to industrial use in the Central Oregon Area Management Plan adopted by the Land Board in October 2011.
On June 12, 2012, the Land Board authorized an equal exchange of land with Premier Bank, the adjacent property owner. The due diligence conducted for that exchange included altering the boundaries of both properties from long narrow parcels to square parcels. The reconfiguration provided road access to the Millican Road parcel and improved the marketability of both parcels for future development and use.
The City of Prineville annexed the Department of State Lands parcel as an industrial parcel, and later it was certified as a “shovel ready" site under Business Oregon's Certified Industrial Site identification process.
Oct. 17, 2017 Land Board agenda item