The Port of Portland is becoming one of the largest industrial property developers in the region.
The Port of Portland is becoming one of the largest industrial property developers in the region.
For the past 75 years, the port has created, improved and provided industrial land to businesses in the Portland harbor. With that supply almost exhausted, the port is buying and developing other property, including the former Alcoa-Reynolds Aluminum plant in Troutdale, land owned by the LSI Logic Corp. in Gresham and part of West Hayden Island, which it already owns.
Mayors in Troutdale and Gresham praise the port as a valuable development partner.
But Bob Sallinger, conservation director of the Audubon Society of Portland, blasts the port’s push to develop its largely natural West Hayden Island site. Sallinger says the land is more valuable as natural habitat and accuses the port of supporting business interests at all costs.
Read more at The Portland Tribune.
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