Comments on: Rose Quarter deal seeks to revive community /news/2010/09/08/rose-quarter-agreement-seeks-to-revive-black-community/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Blazers’ development rights extended six months « Daily Journal of Commerce – Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest /news/2010/09/08/rose-quarter-agreement-seeks-to-revive-black-community/#comment-45161 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:44:27 +0000 /?p=58967#comment-45161 […] to city council with a plan for phase one improvements to the district, including a financial plan, a community benefits agreement and a good neighbor agreement with the nearby Elliott neighborhood. The PDC also expects to have […]

]]> By: Portland Oregon Real Estate – Oregon Commercial Real Estate /news/2010/09/08/rose-quarter-agreement-seeks-to-revive-black-community/#comment-43616 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:31:27 +0000 /?p=58967#comment-43616 […] Rose Quarter agreement seeks to revive black community […]

]]> By: Old Town /news/2010/09/08/rose-quarter-agreement-seeks-to-revive-black-community/#comment-38993 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:20:10 +0000 /?p=58967#comment-38993 OMG: Taxing Rose Quarter users to create a fund to benefit a chosen few in the private sector and community. Of course it is a tax. Walks like a duck . . . etc. Since when is it the local government’s role to bail out failed businesses? Or for that matter why should any one set of businesses be required to bail out failed or failing businesses, non-profit or not. And, one wonders just how this fund might be administered?

Is this an attempt at reparations for damage done by urban renewal? Get over it and move on. There is no political, social or economic justification for this lead balloon. Harebrained and sophomoric – is an apt description of the concept. Did I mention that it is a bad idea?

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]]> By: Rose Quarter agreement seeks to revive black community – Daily Journal of Commerce | My Black News /news/2010/09/08/rose-quarter-agreement-seeks-to-revive-black-community/#comment-38922 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:21:58 +0000 /?p=58967#comment-38922 […] Rose Quarter agreement seeks to revive black communityDaily Journal of CommerceRoy Jay, president of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon and Southwest Washington, has proposed a Community Benefits Agreement that would … […]

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