Community Resource Trust has been working with local developer Mountain West Investment Corporation and several community partners, including the City of Salem, Oregon Housing and Community Services, Community Action Agency, Northwest Human Services, and several local nonprofits to build affordable rentals on Portland Road with on-site resident services and access to community resources.
The Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) is a public-private partnership between the Salem-Keizer School District and Mountain West Investment Corporation. Since the private purchase of the 100,000-square-foot building, Mountain West Technical Institute of Technology President Chuck Lee has been working with both Mountain West and the school district to coordinate the improvements to the building and provision of career technical education to 1,100 high school Juniors and Seniors from all six high schools in the district.