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Re: Answer to theconductor
Author: theconductor
Date: 04-13-2012 - 10:35
Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Let me put it this way. There is reason why there
> is a Northwest Industrial Neighborhood
> Association. This group protested vociferously to
> plans to build a COSTCO on the site of the old
> U.S. Steel site at Yeon and Nicolai back in the
> mid 90s. The industrial companies in the area feel
> a bit threatened by the encroaching gentrification
> from the Pearl District. They are just as
> motivated to defend their industrial zoning, as
> farmers in rural Washington County are, to
> preserve the urban growth boundary against the
> Intel-ification of the Hillsboro area.
I completely understand where you're coming from. Working for the RR, I have one of those good paying, middle class, blue collar jobs. That being said, you didn't answer my question at all. I know it's not the same as a factory, but the rebuilding of the Pearl has created hundreds of jobs (a lot more during construction) and hundreds of thousands of dollars for the city. To me that is better than a vacant lot waiting endlessly for an industrial tenant..
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> Let me put it this way. There is reason why there
> is a Northwest Industrial Neighborhood
> Association. This group protested vociferously to
> plans to build a COSTCO on the site of the old
> U.S. Steel site at Yeon and Nicolai back in the
> mid 90s. The industrial companies in the area feel
> a bit threatened by the encroaching gentrification
> from the Pearl District. They are just as
> motivated to defend their industrial zoning, as
> farmers in rural Washington County are, to
> preserve the urban growth boundary against the
> Intel-ification of the Hillsboro area.
I completely understand where you're coming from. Working for the RR, I have one of those good paying, middle class, blue collar jobs. That being said, you didn't answer my question at all. I know it's not the same as a factory, but the rebuilding of the Pearl has created hundreds of jobs (a lot more during construction) and hundreds of thousands of dollars for the city. To me that is better than a vacant lot waiting endlessly for an industrial tenant..
