SOUTH WATERFRONT
PORTLAND OREGON

There has been a lot of buzz lately about our Greenway here in South Waterfront since the story in the Oregonian on November 24th reporting a 76% increase in the cost to build the Greenway due to rising material prices. You can read the article here.

Now the original proposal costs were done in 2004, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the overall price of the project rose, the longer you wait to begin a project the more the price tag increases due to inflation and other market factors. Did they actually think the price would decrease?

An excellent editorial was written in the Oregonian yesterday titled “Portland deserves something spectacular” and I couldn’t agree more. Not only do the citizens of our city deserve this green space for recreation, but our down trodden river (one of the most polluted in the USA) and ecology deserve this restoration and revitalization as well. The editorial said it best:

Restoring a working river, revitalizing industrial lands that have complex histories, is an immensely complicated task. What’s at stake here is a regional amenity that will serve, both recreationally and environmentally, a community far larger than that inhabiting those high-rise condos. As a community, we committed here to creating something spectacular.

Portland deserves nothing less.

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