SoWa

Give it a few more months and a few more auctions of bank owned condos in SoWa and there will be plenty of affordable housing there in already constructed buildings.

Latest SoWhat casualty: affordable housing (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Group Mckenzie does biz with the city, owned and benefited from zone changes to their prior lacation in SoWa, and their President was the chair of the SoWa urban renewal advisory committee.

Why Sam can't pay his mortgage (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Perhaps OHSU is looking at a baseball stadium in SoWa to bail out their red ink.

OHSU is involved in Paulson stadiums deal (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Obviously this proves we need a convention center hotel, additional streetcar lines, more MAX and a lot more Beaverton Round/SoWa like transit oriented development.

Yet another big night for baseball (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

ODOT is punishing Portland for encouraging developments that adversely impact road transit, like SoWa.

Shocks and awe (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

In fact the SoWa plan has collapsed and both OHSU and PDC are in desperate need of bailout money.

More biotech lies from OHSU and the PDC (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

The inability for the public at large to grasp what is happening dooms us to be repeating the SoWa, Beaverton Round, Cascade Station, Convention Center schemes for another decade or two.

The next Portland "urban renewal" disaster: the Rose Quarter (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

It would be quite a cooincidence that soon after getting that fed funding OHSU finds $3 million laying around to repay the city for defaulting on the SoWa parking deal.

More cages at OHSU (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Don't worry Sam's working on a PowerPOint as we speak telling us the exact opposite about SoWa.

Linchpin lost (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Some of them are reminding me of Randy Leonard's stunt when he claimed the opponents to the Tram and SoWa were "the Lars Larson types who also want to destroy our public school system".

How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009