Hmmm, hopefully in the future the Oregonian can report about what the mayor's proposal for office space at Gateway is, instead of what the proposal is not.
Mayor Sam Adams proposes moving city offices to Gateway but not the Oregon Sustainability Center
Published: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 2:28 PM Updated: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 2:34 PM
Beth Slovic, The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/i..._river_default
Quote:
Mayor Sam Adams wants to move 25,000 square feet of the city's downtown office space to the Gateway Transit Center to spur development around the Northeast Portland hub.
But that space won't carry the infamous name of the Oregon Sustainability Center.
After Adams' plans to build a gleaming, green sustainability center next to Portland State University downtown tanked last spring, the mayor went back to the drawing board, pledging to revive the project. He suggested a new financial partnership with PSU that eliminated the need for additional state support, for example.
Additional documents that The Oregonian obtained in a public records request in June also showed city officials explored moving the center to Gateway, about eight miles away from downtown. But project developers feared that a Gateway version of the center -- so expensive to build that it would require rents 50 percent higher than downtown's Class A average in 2011 -- wouldn't fetch top rents.
Tuesday, Mayor Sam Adams' director of economic development, Peter Parisot, said the city isn't moving the Oregon Sustainability Center to Gateway to create the new office space the mayor wants.
The city faces other hurdles, however.
An April audit showed that the city already has 26,000 square feet of vacant space at a downtown building that it currently owns.
-- Beth Slovic; on Twitter
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