Here's a shocker from yet another "news" story about the Grocery Outlet that has opened at 122nd and Division:
Two years ago Mayor Sam Adams tasked the Portland Development Commission, the city's economic arm, with launching a "grocery store initiative" to help bring more markets to poor parts of the city. He noted that 40 percent of Portlanders live more than a mile from a market, which makes walking or biking to the store difficult.
But the city initiative wasn’t involved in landing the new Grocery Outlet, and Adams’ grocery store project is essentially dead, said PDC executive director Patrick Quinton.
Egad, there must be some mistake! Winners never quit.
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"Adams’ grocery store project is essentially dead"
"Katz's biotech cluster project is essentially dead"
Maybe just dead in the Southeast burbs, NoPo is about to get markets, pet wash and fixer shops designed by the kids from PSU. The major roadway from I-5 to St. Johns will become viable and sustainable shortly, maybe even a few street cars too.
OMG, if a chain like Grocery Outlet can open a store without tax payer dollars, maybe Avis can someday run its' car share program like a big, grown up capitalist enterprise!
Click on Phil's post. You'll discover that PSU's Planners in their "Swift Planning Group" wants to transform North Lombard from four lanes to two lanes with a turn lane and bike/ped paths! N. Lombard is a major ODOT Highway 30 BiPass that serves all of North Portland, St. Johns, traffic from Highway 30 west of St. Johns bridge serving Linnton, Portland's NW Industrial area, Scappoose, St. Helens and beyond.
So let's turn a major truck/vehicle route connecting to I-5 into a shared bike path-wonderful. Someone with sense needs to start speaking up.
Naw, major thoroughfares of travel and commerce need to be shut down, more bars and soon "weed bars" need to be built, and more bankrupting schemes concocted to keep people impoverished, medicated, and contained. Only then can this wasteful charade called democracy be abolished once and for all.
If you want a laugh on a Monday, checkout the survey being conducted by the kids at PSU regard all the fun stuff they would like to know about regarding taking Lonbard Hwy 30 bypass and making it into a friendly roller rink and bike track.
Talk to just about any planner in PBOT about inner-city four-lane streets and it seems whatever the street is, they want to “put it on a diet” with bike lanes, two travel lanes and a center turn lane – often with plans to remove parking or include a 20 MPH snail rail streetcar, or both. Portland’s economy is in part based on being a West Coast transportation hub, but not for the people who live her for whom the planners seem to think people shouldn't venture outside their neighborhood boundaries. The residue from the Sam-Rand dynasty continues. The system is still broken.
Maybe some of these students need to be "put on a diet" free of city planning ideas for awhile. Think outside the box. Cookie cutter plans all over are not a healthy solution in my book for any city. The city speaks with hypocrisy, when they carry on about diversity and yet there seems to be none in the planning department. It appears one plan fits all on our streets/neighborhoods.
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Comments (11)
"Adams’ grocery store project is essentially dead"
"Katz's biotech cluster project is essentially dead"
Posted by Bad news trend | March 11, 2013 8:09 AM
Maybe just dead in the Southeast burbs, NoPo is about to get markets, pet wash and fixer shops designed by the kids from PSU. The major roadway from I-5 to St. Johns will become viable and sustainable shortly, maybe even a few street cars too.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/03/portland_state_university_stud_5.html
Posted by phil | March 11, 2013 8:18 AM
My favorite line from the article:
"Grocery Outlet executives found the Division Street location through a commercial real estate agent in town who suggests potential sites."
Isn't the free market grand? It didn't cost taxpayers a dime.
Posted by Nolo | March 11, 2013 8:25 AM
OMG, if a chain like Grocery Outlet can open a store without tax payer dollars, maybe Avis can someday run its' car share program like a big, grown up capitalist enterprise!
Posted by Mamacita | March 11, 2013 8:52 AM
Click on Phil's post. You'll discover that PSU's Planners in their "Swift Planning Group" wants to transform North Lombard from four lanes to two lanes with a turn lane and bike/ped paths! N. Lombard is a major ODOT Highway 30 BiPass that serves all of North Portland, St. Johns, traffic from Highway 30 west of St. Johns bridge serving Linnton, Portland's NW Industrial area, Scappoose, St. Helens and beyond.
So let's turn a major truck/vehicle route connecting to I-5 into a shared bike path-wonderful. Someone with sense needs to start speaking up.
Posted by lw | March 11, 2013 10:14 AM
Naw, major thoroughfares of travel and commerce need to be shut down, more bars and soon "weed bars" need to be built, and more bankrupting schemes concocted to keep people impoverished, medicated, and contained. Only then can this wasteful charade called democracy be abolished once and for all.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | March 11, 2013 10:35 AM
If you want a laugh on a Monday, checkout the survey being conducted by the kids at PSU regard all the fun stuff they would like to know about regarding taking Lonbard Hwy 30 bypass and making it into a friendly roller rink and bike track.
Posted by phil | March 11, 2013 12:07 PM
survey https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com/SE/index.php?SID=SV_6GvgXFpAQO6gcWV&JavascriptDisabled=1
Posted by phil | March 11, 2013 12:19 PM
Talk to just about any planner in PBOT about inner-city four-lane streets and it seems whatever the street is, they want to “put it on a diet” with bike lanes, two travel lanes and a center turn lane – often with plans to remove parking or include a 20 MPH snail rail streetcar, or both. Portland’s economy is in part based on being a West Coast transportation hub, but not for the people who live her for whom the planners seem to think people shouldn't venture outside their neighborhood boundaries. The residue from the Sam-Rand dynasty continues. The system is still broken.
Posted by TR | March 11, 2013 2:30 PM
Maybe some of these students need to be "put on a diet" free of city planning ideas for awhile. Think outside the box. Cookie cutter plans all over are not a healthy solution in my book for any city. The city speaks with hypocrisy, when they carry on about diversity and yet there seems to be none in the planning department. It appears one plan fits all on our streets/neighborhoods.
Posted by clinamen | March 11, 2013 3:30 PM
As I said in another post, "progressive" liberalism is all about diversity unless you happen to disagree with them.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | March 11, 2013 5:39 PM