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Parker's Place Village, 210 Redwood Highway, Grants Pass, OR (2026)

We help people move from crisis to stability with compassion and a clear, supported path toward independence.

06/15/2026

Update June 14, 2026

As some people debate heat and air conditioning on social media today, Glen and I spent our Sunday in the mid-90-degree heat forming up the ADA sidewalk at Parker's Place Village after cutting back the asphalt on Friday.

Tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM we will pour approximately 130 feet of ADA sidewalk. Once that work is completed, we can schedule inspections and move one step closer to welcoming up to 40 people into safe sleeping units over the coming days.

The goal has always been simple: Safe Beds First getting people out of tent camps to safe places and tent camps on city property removed.

This project is not about politics. It is about creating a safe place for people living outside to sleep, secure their belongings, and connect with services that can help them move forward. Parker's Place Village is designed to keep improving over time as we learn what works best for both residents and the broader Grants Pass community.

As beds become available, the City can begin reducing tent spaces on public property. As additional phases open, more people can move from unmanaged camping situations into safe, organized sleeping units. When all 150 beds are operational, the City will have options that did not previously exist.

That means people experiencing homelessness gain access to a safe bed and services, while residents, visitors, businesses, and property owners can begin seeing parks and public spaces restored to their intended use.

A special thank you to Glen for spending a hot Sunday working alongside me to prepare for tomorrow's concrete pour. Projects like this move forward because people show up and do the work.

If anyone believes there is a better solution to homelessness, I sincerely invite them to come visit the site, see what we are building, and share their ideas. Bring your work clothes as we are not bashful to ask you to pitch in. We are focused on creating real solutions, one safe bed at a time.

Bernie Woodard
Parker's Place Village
Grants Pass, Oregon

06/10/2026

Folks, here we go… very soon.

After months of work by the Grants Pass City Council, Mayor, city staff, engineers, architects, contractors, volunteers, and many others, we are getting very close to seeing whether a completely different model for addressing homelessness can truly work in Grants Pass, Oregon.

What started as an RFP process by the City of Grants Pass, to seek real solutions for homelessness moved through months of applications, reviews, planning, engineering, code changes, and construction. Following the December 2, 2025 project award, Parker’s Place Village has steadily moved from vision to reality.

Now, after months of work by Elk Island Trading Group, LLC, Alternative Living Solutions, Inc., MINT - bridging the gap for the houseless in Josephine County, city staff, and our engineering and architectural teams...the entire Parker’s Place Village campus is finally taking shape.

The first photos show Parker’s Place Village with every major building now placed as planned and final work taking place on approximately 150 safe beds located in semi-private sleeping rooms. The goal has always been to create something compact, organized, environmentally responsible, safe, and welcoming…while still operating at a scale large enough to actually impact homelessness in our community.

The other drone photos show three existing city camping sites in Grants Pass containing nearly 150 tents and campsites combined.

That comparison matters.

As each phase of Parker’s Place Village comes online — first 40 beds, then 44 beds, then 42 beds, and finally 24 beds — the plan is for the city camping areas to gradually reduce by those same numbers until unmanaged public camping is no longer necessary. City officials have discussed potentially keeping the site near the police station open temporarily during the transition process.

This is what “Safe Beds First” looks like.

Not simply moving people around…
Not hiding homelessness…
But creating actual places for people to sleep safely with lockable doors, elevated beds, storage space, wraparound services, hygiene facilities, navigation assistance, and pathways toward long-term housing stability.

The next step after Parker’s Place Village is helping people transition either back into permanent housing or into larger secondary transitional housing opportunities.

The end goal is simple:

Safe beds for people.
Safer public spaces for the community.
And the eventual end of large unmanaged tent camps in Grants Pass.

Now we watch together and see how it plays out.

Bernie Woodard

06/09/2026

Parker's Place Village Update – June 8, 2026

Sometimes the work behind a project isn't glamorous, but it's what turns a vision into reality.

The doors for Parker's Place Village were manufactured in Iowa and arrived so quickly that the routing for the door hardware wasn't completed. Enter Richard Weber, who stepped up to figure out how to get the job done. Once he figured it out, it wasn't just a matter of doing it once…it was a matter of doing it over and over again. 75 doors later, and with 44 still needing to be routed for trim, the work continues….

That's been the story of this entire project: figure out how to do something, then do it 75, 150, or even more times.

As Building Complex 4, our Phase One operational complex…nears completion, we're getting a look at the finished doors that will soon welcome residents. This first complex includes 14 semi-private standard rooms and 6 larger ADA-accessible units, for a total of 20 rooms providing sleeping accommodations for up to 40 people.

Every door installed, every room completed, and every challenge solved brings Parker's Place Village one step closer to opening its doors and providing safe shelter for our community.

Getting closer.

06/08/2026

Parker's Place Village Sunday June 7, 2026

These 3 emergency Grants Pass firefighters stopped by Parker’s Place Village on Sunday afternoon to look around the project in preparation for the future.

This was exactly the type of proactive community involvement that makes projects like this stronger and safer for everyone. Rather than waiting for an emergency situation to happen and then trying to figure things out, they took the time to come out, walk the site, understand the layout, and prepare ahead of time.

That level of professionalism and planning deserves recognition and appreciation.

Thank you to the Grants Pass firefighters for taking the time to visit Parker’s Place Village and for the work you do protecting our community every day.

Bernie Woodard
Elk Island Trading Group, LLC

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Grants Pass, OR
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