I found this most troubling in his post.

"Two significant financial issues are the covers and lease terms. Ah - the devil is in the financial details. The cost of the covering will be what will be. Who pays is an issue. Lease terms - now that is the issue.

For many, many years the Market has been the place holder of several pieces of properties with a month to month tenancy with what one might consider favorable rates. However, Parks has raised the possibility of charging rates comparable to other commercial users of the Waterfront Park. Suffice to say - this could cripple the Market. "

You can't build the fancy new Public Market for Ron Paul until you kill the competition.

"The current Portland Public Market concept was envisioned by former restaurateur Ron Paul, who was one-time Chief of Staff to former City Commissioner Charlie Hales, and is now an official with the city's Bureau of Planning. Ron started championing the project in 1999, and it's hard to find a proposed completion goal but I think the year 2009 has been mentioned.........allowing an opportunity for the Public Market to exist in a permanent central location with easy transit access (there was even talk of moving the under-Burnside MAX stop in front of the Public Market). The Central Fire Station location seemed like a done-deal that would spark new development in that whole somewhat-sketchy area, but now other possible locations will have to evaluated and the revitalization of the neighborhood will be no doubt slowed."

Read the rest at. http://www.urbanhonking.com/portland/

Titled Portland's Kitchen.

My bet is there is plenty of UR money for that one.

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