ELGIN â If the Boise Cascade plywood plant in Elgin closes this year, it could cost Eastern Oregon 446 jobs, nearly $21 million in labor income and more than $78 million in economic output within a year.
Thatâs according to an economic impact analysis conducted by the Eastern Oregon Center for Economic Information, a division of the Eastern Oregon University College of Business.
âThe reason I wanted to do something on this is really just to bring people to the table so that they can figure something out, because it would be catastrophic for our region,â said Scott McConnell, an economics professor at EOU who led the forecasting project.