"He looks at Hawthorne and all he sees are bulldozers and dollar signs"
Here's a new blog that promises to be verrrry interesting, if the author can keep it up.
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Comments (8)
He says he "hates to do it", too.
I call bullsh*t on that.
Posted by godfry | February 13, 2008 9:28 PM
"gentrification" is a symptom, not the problem. but i like his outrage.
by the way, i was one neighborhod voice against the McDonald's on Hawthorne. it had nothing to do with race--unless you believed the press, searching desperately for drama.
and--the condos that stand there now were secretly in the works before the McDonald's debate was even over--a fact often overlooked by the press and most everyone else. in other words--everybody lost, except the developer.
Posted by ecohuman.com | February 13, 2008 9:45 PM
I wonder if they hate the term "Stumptown" because tearing out trees but leaving the stumps behind was part of Portland's first gentrification.
Posted by b!X | February 13, 2008 10:44 PM
Hawthorne needs urban renewal. It is a blight. It needs a trolley. It is not vibrant like the Pearl. It needs a couplet. It needs to be planned. It's prospering under the old system of free enterprise has to stop. It needs to be gentrified. It needs be be Samsonized.
Posted by lw | February 14, 2008 12:04 AM
As soon as Randy Rapaport is through beautifying Division, we'll send him right up.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 14, 2008 1:03 AM
100s of city planners at the planning bureau and PDC need something to work on.
And as we all know, nothing can happen now days without central planning and lots of tax dollars.
Posted by Al | February 14, 2008 8:36 AM
Last time I was on Hawthorne, I went into the Powell's Books there and was "helped" at the cash register by a young woman tattooed with the words "vegan bitch". Now we're obviously talking about a very forgiving employer!
Posted by joebob | February 14, 2008 8:57 AM
Wait till the planners are finished with the Burnside Couplet which is beginnig to look a good deal like the tram (rim shot) price tag. And the 'big box/large format retail' are being trotted out as the "solution" to the current economic down turn in the CES neighborhood as well.
Same old s#@t folks... just different players.
Posted by portland native | February 14, 2008 6:57 PM