"If tax-credit funding is secured, it would first pay for a new roof and then accelerate loan repayments to 2025. In both cases, the loan would be repaid from the city's spectator facilities fund -- which collects ticket taxes and parking revenue from sporting events -- a money stream that is all but tapped out today because of two renovations to Jeld-Wen Field."

Ah yes, PGE Park renovation ... the gift that keeps on giving.

$35 million for this project, $5 million for the schools, and $47 million for the sustainability building...oh, how about a convention center hotel, who authorized any of this?

Oh Snap! It looks like Sam may never be able to help us out on this one!

"the process" needs to "bubble" some more!
Sam and Randy...go down to the Dollar Store at the Civic apartments and buy yourselves some of those bottles of bubble maker and BLOW!

Wonder how much less the renovations would be if they don't have to be to LEED gold standard. Couldn't suss that out from the O's article.

Solution to the whole problem:

put a streetcar line through it! Just move the new tracks a few hundred feet South East..

And if they get really creative they could run the tracks through the Rose quarter and some of the new condo bunkers proposed in that area.

That inspired me:

Also run it thorough the Safeway at the Lloyd center. And the Lloyd cinemas, and the Lloyd center itself.

I just created a neighborhood better than the 20 minute neighborhood: A new concept where you can go anywhere without going outside - just take the elevator to the ground floor, and take the streetcar in the lobby to any other destination's lobby. Don’t need a car! Don’t even need a bike! What an ideal life! And so gooey Green!

PS: Don't let Sam/Rand see this - they might actually go for such a dumb idea.

Thanks
JK

Everybody is getting their own intern to infuse?

I just created a neighborhood better than the 20 minute neighborhood: A new concept where you can go anywhere without going outside - just take the elevator to the ground floor, and take the streetcar in the lobby to any other destination's lobby. Don’t need a car! Don’t even need a bike! What an ideal life! And so gooey Green!

No - what you've created is Walt Disney World in Orlando. The monorail runs into each hotel; each one has a monorail stop on about the third floor. It's really kind of nifty, in a 1970's sort of way.

Actually the monorail has run into the Disney hotels in CA since 1956.

I just created a neighborhood better than the 20 minute neighborhood: A new concept where you can go anywhere without going outside - just take the elevator to the ground floor, and take the streetcar in the lobby to any other destination's lobby. Don’t need a car! Don’t even need a bike! What an ideal life! And so gooey Green!

I once had that concept and thought it'd be a really great idea - you could live, work and be entertained in a single skyscraper.

Of course, I was inspired by The Jetsons; the flying car has not been perfected; there isn't a machine to automatically dress me and food doesn't come in pellet form; I don't have a Rosie robot...oh, and I grew up and after living in college dorms and apartment complexes realized just how much I hate that kind of living, being subjected to the whims of neighbors who keep you awake and force you to breathe what they expel.

"realized just how much I hate that kind of living, being subjected to the whims of neighbors who keep you awake and force you to breathe what they expel."
Nice statement of the dreamworld future planned for us by the city planners.

Thanks
JK