April 27, 2010 – Mayor Sam Adams sent the following letter to the Stakeholder Advisory Committee: Dear Members of the Rose Quarter Stakeholder Advisory Committee, Throughout this extensive planning process, our focus has been on transparency and flexibility. One of the many benefits yielded from this commitment to transparency and flexibility has been the fostering [...]
These are the posts from April 2010
“The key to enlivening the Rose Quarter and making the Coliseum an even better facility is to add activity to it,” said MARC mastermind Doug Obletz.” –4/15/10 – kgw.com video is here: http://bit.ly/9A5LmB
Track & Field supporters will push hard at City Council tomorrow in support of World Class indoor track as part of MARC proposal. See: http://bit.ly/cmneqt http://bit.ly/bhcfcQ http://bit.ly/bVs2Zv “A plan that would include a competition-level, 200-meter indoor track as part of a Memorial Coliseum redevelopment was one of three to get a go-ahead from the Portland City [...]
“I haven’t heard a single person from ICURAC of the various neighborhoods within the boundary say that they support the Rose Quarter expansion,” said Chott. “The Trail Blazers have had the right to develop the Rose Quarter properties for the past 15 years, why are they deciding that right now is the right time to [...]
Onward Oregon takes on the Blazers’ Coliseum and JumpTown proposal and calls for action: “As you may know, the leading contender is the Trail Blazers’ plan to create an entertainment district called “Jumptown.” Many feel that such a district, including their proposal for the Memorial Coliseum, would serve a narrow demographic and will privatize a [...]
All Interested Parties: The opportunity for the MARC proposal to be a viable re-use option for Memorial Coliseum hangs in the balance. Despite on-going and recent efforts by the MARC Team to call attention to the inequities in the current selection process, the City Council is poised on April 14th to approve the next step [...]
See the following link: Dallas’ Jumptown