[davehogan]

pdxtex: It's a dense neighborhood. Of course there will be more crimes there.

What I thought was interesting was how many of them were simply property crimes. 61% on the first map:

Larceny - The unlawful taking of property from the possession of another; includes pickpocket, pursesnatch, shoplift, and bike theft.

18% - Theft from Auto - The unlawful taking of motor vehicle contents or parts. Note: Theft from Auto (Car Prowl) is a Larceny. It has been separated from the Larceny category to more easily identify where these crimes occur.

It actually seems like good news that of the serious crime categories, about 80% of them fall into those two segments.

From part 2, 55%:

Drug Laws - Offenses relating to the unlawful possession, sale, use, growing, and manufacturing of illegal drugs.

I do think it's strange to want to mix nightclubs and social services, but there aren't many other uses that really want to locate in that area right now. With height and far restrictions it's got to be tough for a developer to decide to build there instead of other parts of the city that have been groomed for development like Riverplace, South Waterfront, the Pearl, NW 23rd, the CEID, the Lloyd Center, along the new Orange Line, the Interstate Corridor, etc?

It's like Gateway. It's a challenging area, and there are much easier ones, so why would a developer waste their time on the harder project that would seem to have more risk?