(Sisters artist Katie Daisy paints a mural in one of the Jackstraw stairwells, adding local color to the newly opened residential and retail complex | Photo by Leah Etling)

Bend’s skyline has a significant new addition with the opening of Jackstraw, a $172 million mixed-use community that combines multifamily housing and local and national retail at the crossroads of the Old Mill District and downtown. Developed by Killian Pacific, the project brings 313 long-term rental apartments and more than 17,000 square feet of ground-floor retail to a 4.9-acre site.

For Cassidy Bolger, Killian Pacific’s director of development, the project is a game changer for the downtown-proximate neighborhood, which is located between Market of Choice on NW Sisemore St. and the existing Box Factory retail spac

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