Move over, Mom and apple pie
At the meeting, Larry Miller, president of the Trail Blazers, pitched a vision of a unique entertainment district that would honor the city's African Americans, green living, war veterans and Nike...What? No organized labor, gay people, Native Americans, or Latinos? It's amazing how many different ways you can try to sell a Hard Rock Cafe.
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Comments (6)
And the Bus Project! He left out the Bus Project!
Posted by Jack Bog | August 12, 2009 11:27 PM
And the Whales, the Salmon, the Children, the Sexual Minority Youths...
Posted by Morbius | August 12, 2009 11:51 PM
I think the whales and the salmon, as well as the streetcar, are subsumed under the heading "green living." I think that also covers condo towers, which, as you know, are super-duper-platinum green.
Posted by Jack Bog | August 12, 2009 11:55 PM
Miller is just trying to ride Paulsen's coat tails. If there's a public dole to be had for sports, surely the Blazers are as deserving as ... what is that minor league game where a round ball is kicked around.... yeah that one.
Posted by LucsAdvo | August 13, 2009 6:24 AM
Geezus Larry, get with the program . . . all those people can be honored by renaming city streets and other landmarks!
Since the Laurelhurst and Grant neighborhoods got the most recent shaft, I nominate any street up in the West Hills for the next politically correct / white man's guilt / appeasement of minorities / Apology Way.
Posted by Mike (the other one) | August 13, 2009 11:13 AM
A Nike entertainment district eh ? Sounds like a educational "people place". I want more detail from the media about Nike neighborhoods and Nike shrines being planned by the government and the architectural cult I refer to as the "toon town urbanists".
Posted by conspiracyzach | August 13, 2009 11:42 AM