Finding what you need in Warrenton and Hammond

   Downtown Warrenton

The small but charming downtown includes several restaurants and small shops, a public and a private marina, and the civic center that includes City Hall, the police station and the fire station. The city’s Urban Renewal Committee is working on a plan to unify and beautify this historic and traditional part of Warrenton.

 

Hammond

The community of Hammond, a formerly incorporated town that’s now part of Warrenton, has a marina, a couple restaurants and shops, plus its own post office. It is also home to the city’s library and a Northwest Fisheries field station.

 

Airport Industrial Zone

At Astoria Regional Airport, which is in Warrenton’s city limits, there is a Coast Guard station, a UPS distribution hub, the headquarters for Western Oregon Waste, and a number of manufacturing companies, including nationally acclaimed Lektro, which makes electric aircraft tugs.

Left: Lighthouse Museum Park presides over the intersection of Main Avenue and Harbor Street in downtown Warrenton.

What’s known as downtown Warrenton is comprised of just a few blocks of small businesses near the intersection of Main Avenue and Harbor Street.

U.S. Highway 101

When visitors first enter Warrenton from Astoria, they’ll come upon several shopping centers, including the Walgreens/Premarq Center, Youngs Bay Plaza, and the blocks that include Fred Meyer and Costco. Further along 101 at Ensign is the Home Depot, which opened in 2008, and Lum’s Auto Center. A new location for Costco is under construction on the other side of 101 and the development will include other commercial ventures.

Airport

Hammond

Downtown

Astoria

Business in Warrenton

Warrenton has several commercial areas. They include downtown, the airport industrial area, several commercial developments along U.S. Highway 101, and a small business district near the Hammond Marina (Hammond is a small community within Warrenton’s city limits).

Warrenton has ample land for commercial development along Highway 101 and is destined to grow as new projects are submitted and approved. Several, including an expanded Costco, the relocation of Lum’s Auto Center and a Home Depot shopping center, are in the works.

There are 14 manufacturing companies in the city. Top employers are Fred Meyer, the Weyerhaeuser lumber mill, Pacific Coast Seafoods, Costco and the Warrenton-Hammond school district.

For a complete list of Warrenton’s business license holders, click on the tabs on left side of this page.