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Fez Hammersticks said:
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Photogenic Portland.
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Quite. Especially without all the bums and addicts.
 
Talk radio had an interesting topic today: population growth of the state. Even with the economy in shambles Portland's "conservative population projection" has the Portland proper-population from 582,000 to over 800,000 and the metro population to 3.4+ million by 2025. It'll be even more if you include Salem, which is within the 1-hour metro limit.

In comparison, Portland will be a tad bigger than what Seattle is today.
 
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probably due to california's economy going down in the shitter. watch out now!
 
SoWa's Tri-Met bridge gets the green light:

Construction on Portland's first new Willamette River bridge in 35 years has a green light. When the so-called "Caruthers Bridge" is finished, it will be the nation's largest no-automobile urban crossing.

On Wednesday, TriMet's board of directors unanimously approved a $127 million contract to start building the bridge for the Portland-to-Milwaukie light rail line. Construction is slated to begin next July.

Only trains, buses, streetcars, pedestrians and bicyclists will be able to use the 1,720-foot bridge, the centerpiece of the proposed 7.3-mile MAX Orange Line, when it opens in September 2015.

TriMet is still scratching to find an additional $35 million to cover its share of the most expensive transit project it has ever undertaken. The new MAX line is expected to cost about $1.5 billion, with half coming from federal transportation grants.
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nice! kind of reminds me of the millenium bridge, but with trains!
 
The transformation of PGE:

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The next high-rise @ SoWa.

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Construction has started on PSU college station:

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One of the world's most respected architects is designing a project for Portland, a major coup for a city that, even with its substantial array of local talent, has in the past lacked buildings by first-rate designers from outside our environs.

The Portland Japanese Garden and its upcoming expansion make an ideal project for Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect renowned for designs such as the Suntori Museum of Art in Tokyo, the diamond-like Tiffany flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo, and the Bamboo House beside the Great Wall of China. Kuma has been entrusted with redesigning what is arguably the most prestigious building in Japan, the Kabuki-za Theater in Ginza, Tokyo which since 1889 has been a landmark known around the world.
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Notice the trend? Lots of public projects, some entertainment, some residential, almost no commercial.

If you want a city to be vibrant, eventually you have to have jobs. Government can't create them; Government can only provide the atmosphere for them to flourish and then get out of the way.
 
maxiep said:
Notice the trend? Lots of public projects, some entertainment, some residential, almost no commercial.

If you want a city to be vibrant, eventually you have to have jobs. Government can't create them; Government can only provide the atmosphere for them to flourish and then get out of the way.
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Most of the development has been residential. In fact, First and Main Tower is the only one that comes to mind. Though, things are starting to pick up again for commercial development:

Portland's downtown real estate scene is about to get a lot more interesting, as multiple developers are suddenly pushing new projects to deal with a shortage -- yes, a shortage -- of large blocks of downtown office space.
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-Oregon Live

There are high-rise office buildings in the early stages of being proposed, most of which will be in the Pearl.
 
Speaking of development, Wendell Wyatt Federal Building renovation is well underway

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Fez Hammersticks said:
Speaking of development, Wendell Wyatt Federal Building renovation is well underway

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Yay! Another government project!

Building apartment buildings without employment growth is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. This region needs jobs--specifically private sector jobs--and the long term prospects for Portland aren't good without growth in that area.
 
maxiep said:
This region needs jobs--specifically private sector jobs--and the long term prospects for Portland aren't good without growth in that area.
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A few centuries later:

maxiep's decendants said:
Portland only has 10 billion people! We need more growth! More growth!
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Is that real grass? I thought I saw them painting the pitch the other day on their live cam of the stadium.
 
Wow that remodel sucks! Talk about crappy views for the press and sky boxes. It's still just a remodeled baseball stadium. I know these comments are going to piss a lot of you off but it's never going to be that nice of a facility. If soccer is a huge success here in Portland (which I firmly believe it will be) Paulsen is going to demand an entirely new facility within 5 years under threat of moving the team.

The city of Portland is going to spend over $600 million on bicycle paths but couldn't cough up the extra $30mill to just build a new stadium?!?
 
Three shows are now filmed in Portland:

IFC's Porlandia (season two is confirmed)

NBC's Grimm

TNT's Leverage
 
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The Pearl homeless shelter (Bud Clark commons) is looking quite posh.

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