Management Team
Cascadia High-Speed Rail LLC (CHSR) is led by a team of professionals experienced in design, planning, engineering and real estate. Our purpose is to design, promote and develop a new corridor and station locations for the advancement of high-speed rail in the Northwest of the United States.
Brad Perkins: Chief Executive Officer
Bradley C. Perkins for the past decade has owned and operated Perkins Realty, a residential and commercial real estate company. Perkins Realty has been the catalyst in amassing multiple properties for development for the Hollywood Library, New Seasons Headquarters, and Madrona Studios in Portland.
Perkins is CEO of Cascadia High Speed Rail, LLC and has helped to design and advocate for this new and exciting transportation system for the past eight years. He has worked closely with a technical rail planning expert, Rudy Niederer, to develop a high-speed inter-city and commuter rail system between Seattle, Washington and Eugene, Oregon. Brad has spent considerable time influencing the direction of the newly-designed high-speed rail corridor with local, state and national leaders and officials.
Perkins had a long career owning and managing the design, building relocation, and restoration of more than 30 historical properties. He was a catalyst in saving and restoring significant buildings such as the Springfield Depot in Springfield, Oregon, the C.W. Calkins House in Eugene, Oregon, the United Presbyterian Church in Shedd, Oregon, the Simon Benson House and the William S. Ladd House in Portland.
Brad has a record of extensive community and civic involvement. He founded the Hollywood District Development Corporation, the Sullivan's Gulch Trail Committee, the Peace Memorial Park Foundation, the Irvington and the World Trade Center Farmers Markets.
Perkins graduated from the University of Oregon School of Architecture with a B.A. degree in 1975. He was born in Portland in 1951 and has lived in Eugene or Portland ever since. He has traveled the world extensively studying diverse urban planning, architecture and transportation systems.
Bradley C. Perkins for the past decade has owned and operated Perkins Realty, a residential and commercial real estate company. Perkins Realty has been the catalyst in amassing multiple properties for development for the Hollywood Library, New Seasons Headquarters, and Madrona Studios in Portland.
Perkins is CEO of Cascadia High Speed Rail, LLC and has helped to design and advocate for this new and exciting transportation system for the past eight years. He has worked closely with a technical rail planning expert, Rudy Niederer, to develop a high-speed inter-city and commuter rail system between Seattle, Washington and Eugene, Oregon. Brad has spent considerable time influencing the direction of the newly-designed high-speed rail corridor with local, state and national leaders and officials.
Perkins had a long career owning and managing the design, building relocation, and restoration of more than 30 historical properties. He was a catalyst in saving and restoring significant buildings such as the Springfield Depot in Springfield, Oregon, the C.W. Calkins House in Eugene, Oregon, the United Presbyterian Church in Shedd, Oregon, the Simon Benson House and the William S. Ladd House in Portland.
Brad has a record of extensive community and civic involvement. He founded the Hollywood District Development Corporation, the Sullivan's Gulch Trail Committee, the Peace Memorial Park Foundation, the Irvington and the World Trade Center Farmers Markets.
Perkins graduated from the University of Oregon School of Architecture with a B.A. degree in 1975. He was born in Portland in 1951 and has lived in Eugene or Portland ever since. He has traveled the world extensively studying diverse urban planning, architecture and transportation systems.
Rudy Niederer: Technical Planner and Designer
Rudy Niederer completed the concept plan for Cascadia High Speed Rail's commuter and inter-city rail corridor system and station locations between Vancouver, B.C. and Eugene, Oregon. Niederer has planned the 460 mile corridor, underpasses, fly-overs and tunnels to avoid all grade crossings and effectively connect CHSR with all other transportation systems at the station and platform stops.
Niederer also designed the light rail concept plan for Honolulu, Hawaii known as Honolulu Area Rapid Transit (HART); it connects its downtown to the airport and is currently being built according to Rudy’s plans. While in Hawaii, Niederer also owned and managed a health food store. Niederer worked 18 years for Custodis Cotrell Company, an industrial chimney company based in Chicago, Illinois. He acted as crew supervisor, traveling throughout the United States to troubleshoot, construct and rehabilitate massive industrial chimneys.
Niederer, born and educated in Switzerland moved to the United States in 1964 to gain US citizenship. In retirement, Niederer continues to innovate, invent and design solutions to complicated engineering and construction challenges.
Niederer has devoted more than 10’000 hours to layout this Cascadia High-Speed Rail cartographic corridor. Niederer studied many other CHSR corridors, including the I-205 corridor during his layout work but rejected them because of none functioning objectives and are therefore not publicized. Additional routes are in the design stage, including the Cajon Pass traverse. See under "More - Future NW HSR Plans"
Most recently also contributed plans for the Oroville CA Dam Spillway revision and repair. You can see the plans - More - Link Pages - Oroville Dam.
Ankrom Moisan Architects
Ankrom Moisan Architects creates places where people and communities thrive, with a particular emphasis on enhancing livability in the urban environment. Much of their work is mixed-use, mid- and high-rise residential projects with street-level retail. They understand that public transportation-like the Portland Streetcar system- is symbiotic with a vibrant combination of uses and density. They work closely with clients to foster easy access to bus and rail stops whenever possible.
Because of AMA’s involvement in Portland’s urban renaissance, they have the opportunity to complete many projects in other cities in the U.S., as well as making international connections with architects, educators, planners, developers and senior living entities in China, England, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. Their success includes the design of North American headquarters for both Vestas and Daimler corporations.
They are enthusiastically supportive of the Cascadia High Speed Rail initiative. They believe it could provide an enormous benefit to sustainability initiatives, urban revitalization, and connections between cities and people. (Travis Throckmorton has designed the Rose Quarter Transportation Hub and the Multi-Modal Bridge across the Columbia River for Cascade High Speed Rail, which are attached to this plan.)
Ankrom Moisan Architects creates places where people and communities thrive, with a particular emphasis on enhancing livability in the urban environment. Much of their work is mixed-use, mid- and high-rise residential projects with street-level retail. They understand that public transportation-like the Portland Streetcar system- is symbiotic with a vibrant combination of uses and density. They work closely with clients to foster easy access to bus and rail stops whenever possible.
Because of AMA’s involvement in Portland’s urban renaissance, they have the opportunity to complete many projects in other cities in the U.S., as well as making international connections with architects, educators, planners, developers and senior living entities in China, England, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. Their success includes the design of North American headquarters for both Vestas and Daimler corporations.
They are enthusiastically supportive of the Cascadia High Speed Rail initiative. They believe it could provide an enormous benefit to sustainability initiatives, urban revitalization, and connections between cities and people. (Travis Throckmorton has designed the Rose Quarter Transportation Hub and the Multi-Modal Bridge across the Columbia River for Cascade High Speed Rail, which are attached to this plan.)