Leases have been approved for Lower Mill’s first occupants: Rapid ReadyMix and Neal Creek Forest Products. Neal Creek Forest Products, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Odell, offers landscaping materials and other products native to the Columbia River Gorge region. According to owner Paul Jones, the company’s additional location at Lower Mill will be used as a transfer yard for non-treated telephone poles for national shipment. Rapid ReadyMix is a concrete contractor that has been located in Bingen, WA since 1973. The company’s short-term lease will enable uninterrupted operations on the Oregon side of the Columbia River as a result of new weight limits on the Hood River-White Salmon Bridge.