Comments on: Here it is, Portland — the long-awaited vision for the Rose Quarter area: JumpTown

By: Matty

Matty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:08:29 +0000

Well, I hope it succeeds. I think it is a risky proposition given the history of that area, the economy, and the probable bad mix of tenants that they will try to bring in…

that said, let’s hope it works, becuase if it does, the city will look better, feel better, and have another nice place to stamp into the culture.

By: Jim Klee

Jim Klee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:39:09 +0000

Great idea! Lets build stuff we already have too much of in an area no one wants to hang out in. Brilliant! Portland city counsel if you have a clue, sell it to the casinos for $350 or $450 million. Let the Casino invest another $250/$350 making it into a world class casino. This would most definitely lead to one or two major world class hotels being built near the Rose Garden & Convention Center which they badly need to help draw big events to the city. The city would have the money in hand to renovate PGE Park and build a new ballpark for the Beavers and inject about 1 billion in construction work in the city. Who looses with this one? Oh I forgot, we don’t approve of gambling in our city. Only video poker, card rooms, lotto, ect, ect, ect!

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:51:39 +0000

This is so stupid. Indeed – as others have mentioned, for starters, it’ll cost way way way more than it would to bulldoze the MC, and build a 3A baseball stadium. Secondly – what the hell is it? Sports? And music? And retail. And restaurants. Oh yeah – even though there’s a plethora of retail and restaurants just over the river in the Pearl, and just to the east at Lloyd Center, they’ll build more here, even though it’s not entirely clear what the actual draw to this area will actually be. So there’s no place to play music in Portland? Hm. Other than the Schnitz, PCPA, the Armory, and oh yeah – the Rose Garden, which is right FREAKIN’ NEXT DOOR! If the concerts at the Rose Garden can’t draw folks into the restaurants that used to be in the Rose Quarter, how is this going to change things? That Nike “interactive experience” (whatever the heck that means) better be one hell of a show. Oy – you’ve got to be freaking kidding me.

By: GRAHAM

GRAHAM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:55:39 +0000

Dwight, I expected you to have a lot more to say about this subject. More to follow I’m sure….

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000

Right on David.

By: Godzilla

Godzilla — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:15 +0000

Why don’t Portland just sell the MC to Paul Allen via Vulcan and they can develop it all on their own. Take the money and build the baseball venue and both can win!

By: the gardener

the gardener — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:31:21 +0000

Yup saw this one coming months and miles ago….this is why the blazers hated the baseball parl being built…glitz and spam. yawn. Glitz is so midwest….btw the midwest sucks.

you see libby and his bunch were in these glitzer’s pockets….all the way up the underwear.

By: david

david — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:54:22 +0000

Wow… This makes tearing down the MC and building a new baseball stadium look like a great idea!

By: jj

jj — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:44:34 +0000

Sorry Larry, I like you but this looks like a colossal failure to me. You said all the right things like Sustainable and named it after the history of the neighborhood which is great, but I can see them putting some really corporate restaurants in here that don’t fit Portland.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:07:30 +0000

Add:

A commenter on the O’s website mentioned the possibility of PSU getting in on the action for their needed arena as well.

If Paul Allen, Bill Gallacher and PSU can all play nicely, we’d be talking about alot of serious money that can be thrown at this project… and two fairly decent tenants in place as well.