"I think this is a pretty strong start for a district rising from brownfields."

Perhaps, but we still have a ton of taxpyare money from other areas to pour into the district, like $100M to fix up the river side area and probably close to $200M to fix the I-5 access issues that have not even been addressed yet.

So now we are at prob $400M of taxpayer funded improvements (if I assume 5000 living units there = $80K worth of subsidies per unit.)

I never said it wasn't nice, just tell me how many other neighborhoods get this kind of largesse. Meanwhile, the Sellwood bridge is collapsing along with the sewer infrastructure and Mr Adams says he needs $400M to fix potholes.

I guess we can pick ugly parts of town to pour a ton of money into, but if we can't maintain the parts of town people live in (like everything outside of downtown) isn't this a warped sense of priorities?

If the Tram was built to appease OHSU then why the job growth in Florida and job cuts here?