Mercury staff The developers and neighbors challenging a city-brokered deal moving Right 2 Dream Too into the Pearl District—after a month of looking and several days of tense back-and-forth in the media—have finally submitted a short list of alternative sites, according to R2DToo’s lawyer and sources close to the process. Mark Kramer, representing R2DToo, confirmed […]
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Right 2 Dream Too Will Dismiss Lawsuit; Attorney Says Pearl Site Still Very Much Alive
Mercury staff Right 2 Dream Too, the homeless rest area that’s been operating for more than two years at NW 4th and Burnside, has formally agreed to drop a lawsuit filed against the city as part of legal agreement with the city that would move the site to a lot on the fringes of the […]
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Hales Personally Emails Assurances to Developer in Right 2 Dream Too Relocation Clash
mercury staff An email obtained by the Mercury sheds new light on the quietly influential role Mayor Charlie Hales has claimed in ongoing, tense talks about the relocation of Right 2 Dream Too—revealing, for the first time, that Hales has provided some personal assurances to the Pearl developers and neighbors fighting a plan by Commissioner […]
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Pearl Group Announces Proposed Framework of Deal with Right 2 Dream Too
The consortium of Pearl District neighbors and businesses fighting Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s plan to move Right 2 Dream Too onto a city-owned lot beneath a Broadway Bridge off-ramp shed some light this afternoon on their efforts to find an alternative site for the homeless rest area. In a detailed statement, the group—led by Williams/Dame Associates, […]
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Street Roots Wants to Go Weekly by Next Year
After a long spell of puzzling over how to pull it off—the sizable sums of money required, and whether an already-generous Portland would dig even deeper to provide them—Street Roots is taking the plunge on a much-rumored major change. The nonprofit paper, in its current edition, has launched a fundraising push meant to take it […]
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UPDATED: Pearl Group Files—but Then Puts on Hold—a Land-Use Appeal over Right 2 Dream Too
The Pearl District neighbors and businesses working to head off Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s plan to move homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too beneath a ramp of the Broadway Bridge have filed a formal appeal with the state Land Use Board of Appeals, a spokesman for the group has confirmed. But the Pearl group also […]
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Pearl Group Praises Mayor's Role in Talks over Right 2 Dream Too Relocation
A group of Pearl District neighbors and developers working to put off homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too’s planned move to a city lot beneath the Lovejoy ramp of the Broadway Bridge issued a statement today confirming recent reports on the painstaking progress of their talks and touting Mayor Charlie Hales’ “leadership” of the […]
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Fritz on Right 2 Dream Too Delay: "They Haven't Put Anything Reasonable on the Table in Two Weeks"
Reading between the lines, or just plain reading them as written, it wasn’t hard to see Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s plain frustration at Mayor Charlie Hales’ request she pull back tomorrow’s planned vote on a city letter okaying Right 2 Dream Too’s move to a city lot in the Pearl. “Although no viable sites have been […]
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Fritz Pulls Back Right 2 Dream Too Vote—at Mayor's Request
Commissioner Amanda Fritz has announced she’s decided to heed a request by Mayor Charlie Hales and pull back a planned vote this Wednesday on a controversial zoning letter that would let homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too move from Old Town to a city-owned parking in the Pearl. Fritz confirmed last week she’d been […]
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Fritz Confirms: Vote on Right 2 Dream Too Zoning Could Be Pulled Back
Commissioner Amanda Fritz has confirmed that she may decide to pull back Wednesday’s scheduled vote on a city zoning letter giving Right 2 Dream Too permission to move onto a Pearl District parking lot owned by the city’s urban renewal agency. That possibility came up in reporting this morning by KOIN, the Portland Tribune, and […]
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Saltzman Plans Task Force on Homelessness Cash; Hales Also to Meet with Homeless
Dan Saltzman got the message loud and clear yesterday after his colleagues on the Portland City Council unanimously approved a $300,000 step toward what he hopes will be a $2 million burst of one-time spending on targeted homelessness programs. “Reading between the lines,” he says, he’s confident all those votes will still be there when […]
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Street Roots Has Audio from Pearl Neighbors’ Meeting on Right 2 Dream Too
In this week’s Mercury, you’ll find a lengthy interview with Patricia Gardner, president of the Pearl Neighborhood District Association. Gardner sat down with me the afternoon after her group officially voted to spend $10,000 from its scrupulously saved contingency fund on a potential legal fight against Commissioner Fritz’s plan to move Right 2 Dream Too […]