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Originally Posted by Sonny-Canzano
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That particular building (100 Multnomah) will happen, but I'd be surprised if the $400 million vision of restaurants and entertainment spots along MLK and surrounding streets ever makes it past that article I linked. That idea will go the same way as "capping 405," "moving I-5 off the eastside riverbank," "The Burnside Bridgehead," and turning the current area around 14th and Burnside into a Times Square-ish open plaza/retail district. All of those were interesting ideas that should have been further explored but died on the vine from overanalyzation and too much authority granted to neighborhood associations.
I'd love it if one of these ideas eventually comes to fruition, but I don't see anything in the current setup to suggest anything different in the future. Not when we have a mayor who overdemocratizes every decision. We really need a mayor who finds the balance between handing down decisions "from on high" and begging for permission from every citizen who lives in a 2 mile radius from a proposed project.
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