Real Estate
Rethinking the River
Cities across Oregon transform industrial waterfront sites into recreation opportunities.
Beaverton downtown plan takes cues from Portland
City mulls design guidelines that emphasize density and walkability.
Editor’s Note: 16,000 vacant apartments, redux
A short item I posted two days ago about 16 thousand vacant apartments in the Portland metro area has attracted an outsize amount of attention.
Census estimates point to thousands of vacant apartments
(Update appended): According to the American Community Survey there are appoximately 352,000 rental units in the Portland metro area. The census Housing Vacancy survey estimates a 4.8% vacancy rate for the metro area during the second quarter of 2018. Combining these figures would imply roughly 16,000-17,000 vacant units, said Chris Salviati, housing economist for the rental site ApartmentList, in … Read more
Winners and losers as Oregon’s population ages
As investors flock to the red-hot elder-care market, long-term care bills loom for consumers and Medicaid.
Updated: Long-awaited Capital One Cafe to open in late August
It’s been almost a year since we learned a Capital One Cafe would open in the space formerly occupied by Abercrombie and Fitch on the corner of Southwest Broadway and Morrison.
A rural city’s aggressive push for more housing
In rural Oregon, a lack of new and good quality housing hampers economic development in communities that are desperate for investment.