A match made in heaven: The Don and Uncle Phil
As is typical with any production by The Don, there's the obvious, and the denials:
After the boundaries were set, the city "learned that there were several areas that wanted to be approved or should have been approved," Mazziotti said.He declined to comment further, citing non-disclosure agreements.
"Nike did not request for its World Headquarters property near Washington County to be included in the proposed enterprise tax zone," said Mary Remuzzi, Nike spokeswoman, in a statement.
"No decision has been made on where our expansion would occur nor do we have a timeline to share on when a decision will be made," Remuzzi said.
We'll have to cut this post short, as we have to go attend to an equipment problem. Our polygraph machine just overheated.
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Comments (4)
Beaverton should count itself lucky that Nike is only getting enterprise zone tax breaks for 5 years (well, for now) and not demanding that the property be de-annexed from the city permanently.
Posted by Andrew | February 13, 2013 4:05 PM
Nike is not in Beaverton, it's in the county
Anyone remember Nike getting legislation exempting them from annexation just a few years ago?
Posted by T | February 13, 2013 8:49 PM
Yeah, Beaverton nibbled around the edges, but didn't have the juice. Now I'm just waiting for the campus footprint to incorporate as Niketown, Oregon.
Posted by Downtown Denizen | February 13, 2013 10:06 PM
T, Nike's headquarters is outside of Beaverton but the property they own in the new enterprise zone is. For now.
Nike is the latter day Southern Pacific of Oregon politics.
Posted by Andrew | February 14, 2013 7:13 AM