Month: August 2011

The Port is pleased to be one of several sponsors of a SOLV community cleanup project on Hayden Island this Saturday, August 27. Everyone’s invited to join Hayden Island residents, Port staff, and local agencies and businesses to clean up litter, chat with City of Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz, and have a great time. Trash…

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The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program has selected the Portland region as one of four areas in the US for the development of an export strategy.  The other three regions selected include: Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Syracuse. Through this effort Brookings intends to: 1.   Demonstrate that expanding exports can be an effective and critical component…

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  Two new, and very different, developments in Cascade Station have taken shape this year, with the newest restaurant in the area now open for business and a government field office coming soon.   Lovers of barbeque food rejoiced when a local franchise of the Famous Dave’s opened in July. Located near the Best Buy…

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     Seeing log rafts being floated up the Willamette River to Terminal 2 in late July may have caused some to do a double take. After all, it had been 14 years since the last one made the journey. Like a blast from the past, it was the first such shipment of logs for…

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