| E-RFD: Hopping Beds a Feature of Portland Development
OMED: Steve Schopp, builder and sometimes conservative radio substitute
host, doesn't like what he recently read in the Oregonian. Neither
does Ross Smith, whose comments follow the brief Oregonian article segments
shown here. Use the link to read the full piece. It should
remain good until sometime late in January.
Subject: Fwd: PDC lapdog gets his bone
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:41:22 EST
From: STEVESCARE@aol.com
Matt Brown was the project manager for the SoWa Tram. Shove
the tram down our throats and get richly rewarded.
City
planner moves over to developer
South Waterfront - Matt Brown, who had a key role in Portland's
tram talks,
will do urban projects with Homer Williams
Saturday, December 31, 2005
DYLAN RIVERA
The Oregonian
Matt Brown, the city of Portland's lead planner on transportation issues
in the emerging South Waterfront development, is leaving the city to take
a job with a developer building the $1.9 billion extension of downtown.
Williams & Dame Development Inc. said late Friday that it had hired
Brown as a project manager to handle urban condominium projects under way
in Los Angeles and other Western cities.
The hiring underscores the tight alignment of the city's and developer's
goals and the close interweaving of their interests -- too close, some
say -- in the public-private project in Portland. The massive South Waterfront
development is transforming the central city's landscape, sprouting an
array of high-rise buildings, including condo towers and medical offices,
along the Willamette River south of downtown.
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Subject: RE: PDC lapdog gets his bone
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:11:54 -0800
From: "Ross A. Smith" <rosssmith@charter.net>
Incredible inbreeding, and the O could care less about the implications
of a planner going to work for a plannee. Some taxpayer group should seek
a restraining order to stop it. ras
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