I don't know Steve, their was quiet a few media articles and statements from OHSU on why this Florida arrangements works. Burns me a little too.

Your arguments are a moving target. You indicated that the OHSU building pays zero in property tax dollars and I pointed out that you are correct, but there are several towers that are paying and will be paying a large sum of property taxes.

Many of the improvements you are mentioning are requests the Corbett-Lair neighborhoods have been begging for many years. Cleaning up the Ross Island I-5 mess, building a pedestrian bridge connecting the neighborhood with the Willamette. Other improvements like the Willamette riverfront restoration should arguable be enhanced to clean up our riverbanks throughout ALL of Portland. Benefiting the regional population as well as our poor suffering Salmon.

In any case, you seemed to throw our the property tax argument like nobody is paying for anything down there, and I wanted to clarify there were people paying some of the bills. By the way, 'cause I know you love this kind of information, how many developers down there have been granted property tax waivers?