Orenco / Northwest 231st Avenue

Orenco MAX Station, formerly known as Orenco/Northwest 231st Avenue, is a light rail station in the MAX Light Rail system in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. The station is the 14th stop westbound on the Westside MAX and is served by the Blue Line. Near the station is the award-winning Orenco Station mixed-use development, considered a positive model for Smart Growth development. Also near the station are some office complexes and the Intel Ronler Acres campus. Opened in 1998, the stop includes a park and ride lot and public artwork. With the renaming of NW 231st Avenue as NE Century Boulevard by the City of Hillsboro in 2017, TriMet changed the station's name from its original, longer name.HistoryTriMet began construction of the Westside MAX project in 1994, with the Orenco Station stop opening on September 12, 1998, with the rest of the line. The station’s location helped to spur growth in the area with transit oriented developments for both commercial and residential usage. This includes the 190acre Orenco Station development that opened in September 1997, a year before the MAX station opened.In September 2017, the station was renamed from Orenco/Northwest 231st MAX Station to Orenco MAX Station, in connection with street-name changes approved by the Hillsboro city council in October 2016. The changes included the renaming of NW 231st Avenue within Hillsboro as NE Century Boulevard, in January 2017.