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To Attract Tenants, Desperate Downtown Building Owners Roll Out Rich Broker Incentives (opens the original)
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Central Portland is awash in unused office spaceâ10 million vacant square feet of it. Vacancy rates near 40% in places. With so many options on the market, some property owners are getting more aggressive. In the freshly built, ultra-sustainable PAE Living Building in Old Town, local brokerage Apex Real Estate Partners now offers a bonus of $15 per square foot to any broker who can land a long-term tenant. Itâs a deal some in the industry call âunprecedentedâ and others call âinsane.â
New Polling Shows Most Oregonians Wary of AI and Data Centers (opens the original)
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As politicians struggle to grasp new dividing lines, fresh polling shows a majority of Oregonians across the political spectrum hold negative views on artificial intelligence and data centers and support restrictive policies to regulate them. Those are among the key takeaways of a new study by Portland polling firm DHM Research, which sought to discern which AI and data center policies the public might support and what outcomes they expect from leaders. The study found AI and data centers are re
Following Outcry, City Will Allow Brooklyn Park Waterslide to Return (opens the original)
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After days of public outrage, city leaders indicate theyâll reverse a decision to forbid a popular citizen-run waterslide at Brooklyn Park. Officials with Portland Parks & Recreation sent a letter Friday to the nonprofit Friends of Brooklyn Park, which operates a youth summer day program at the park, informing the group a 100-foot-long waterslide of wetted polyethylene sheeting can remain in use. âBased on our review, we have determined that the planned waterslide activities as a part of the
City Orders Citizen-Run Youth Program to Discontinue Popular Waterslide (opens the original)
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A popular and refreshing summertime tradition in the Brooklyn neighborhood has been suspended on orders by the city. The Brooklyn Park waterslide in Southeast Portlandâused by youthful summer day campers for nearly 50 yearsâwas shut down after coming to the attention of Portland Parks & Recreation. The official reason is that the âslideââa wetted 100-foot-long, 20-foot-wide strip of polyethylene sheetingâdamages the grass. âHeavy plastic sheeting causes severe damage to natural gra
City Ordered to Pay $717,000 to Portland Family Whose Home Was Crushed by a Tree in 2024 (opens the original)
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A jury has awarded $717,000 in damages to a family whose Southwest Portland home was crushed by a falling tree in 2024 after they had begged the city for two years to let them cut it down. On Friday, jurors in a Multnomah County Circuit courtroom delivered the verdict in the lawsuit of Joel and Sarah Bond, finding fault with the city of Portlandâs Urban Forestry division for refusing the coupleâs request to remove the 150-foot Douglas fir that crashed into their second story, just feet away
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