News May 14, 2009 at 4:00 am

The Case of the Private Jet and Missing Emails: A Rose Quarter Mystery

Illustration by Jack Pollock

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1
Memorial Coliseum's site is an excellent spot for the baseball stadium that will not drain urban renewal dollars for Lents.

However, the Cordish design is a TERRIBLE idea. I was at the one in Louisville, KY, last August and it would not work in Portland by any stretch of the imagination. The power-sucking, Applebee's-friendly abomination would hurt surrounding local businesses and eventually be nothing but a haven for too-drunk douchebags. Think Bridgeport Village-turned-nightlife.
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Let me say that I wasn't upset at the auto industry CEOs going to Washington to beg for money in private jets. (I was upset that they went at all, but private jets weren't the problem there.) The reason people take private jets is because it saves time: Direct flight, exactly when you need it. And if the CEOs of some of the biggest companies in the world's time couldn't be spent in a better way than driving for 12 hours, then I have to wonder what they do all day normally...

Likewise, my problem isn't private jet or not for Sam to go to Kansas City. And I really don't have a problem with it if someone else, (i.e. not the city and therefore, not me,) pays for it. But my problem is that he went at all. The "Live!" thing looks like it will be a big piece of garbage and I don't want it here, it reminds me of Bridgeport Village.
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I like Bridgeport village! Does that make me a douche-bag? I do think developments like it belong in the sub-urbs - does that make me less of a douche-bag? I hope so. I am against any sort of re-development in the rose quarter, that area is a night-mare as it is. Unless they tear down the ugly old coliseum and just make it a green-space - I'd vote for that. yep.

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