The Oregon Convention Center Phase 1 opened in 1990, and Phase 2 opened in 2003. The Rose Garden opened in 1995, and the last constructed high-rise office building in the Lloyd District opened in 1997. We are now in 2013, and nothing of significance has been built in the three districts for more than 10 years.
Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies, shares what he’s reading.
Linda Navarro, President and CEO of Oregon Bankers Association, shares what she’s reading.
Skip Rung, President of Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, shares what he’s been reading.
Marie Osmunson, CEO of Chez Gourmet, shares what she’s reading.
Eight athletes, executives and innovators who are boosting the profile of Oregon sports.
Neglected eastside neighborhoods begin to attract political attention and grow new community-based business models.
Efforts to balance logging and environmental issues move forward in eastern Oregon as gridlock continues in the west.
Looking out the sixth-floor windows of the David Evans and Associates building in downtown Portland, a visitor sees numerous engineering projects the company has either helped build or rebuild.
After shelling out for acreage, machinery, landscaping, labor costs, bottling and marketing, budding vintners would be lucky to start a standard winery in the Willamette Valley for anything less than several hundred thousand dollars. But in Portland, another business model for wineries is sprouting that’s more like founding Facebook than starting a farm.