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Old 09-05-2013, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Portland Metro
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It's time for another city to become the trendy hotspot everyone wants to move to......
And the sooner that happens, the better for everyone who lives here. Maybe it will start when Portlandia gets cancelled.

So which other city will take it's place? It can't be Reno because the TV series centered on Reno was decidedly un-glamorous. I vote Spokane... or Boise... maybe Anchorage?
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Old 09-05-2013, 10:30 AM
 
Location: Portland, OR
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Portland's boom already happened.
Portland had a pretty good growth spurt in the last twenty years and has now reached a plateau.

Portland will just hold it's own for the next five or ten years and work on how to manage the growth it experienced.
It will still grow, slowly, but I really don't think we will see anything like growth we had during the last two decades.

Portland's "glory days" are fading......
It's time for another city to become the trendy hotspot everyone wants to move to......

BTW, Portland has never really wanted to be like Seattle.
If you're talking about an economic boom, I really hope it hasn't already happened.
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Old 09-05-2013, 10:50 AM
 
Location: NJ
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Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx View Post
Portland's boom already happened.
Portland had a pretty good growth spurt in the last twenty years and has now reached a plateau.

Portland will just hold it's own for the next five or ten years and work on how to manage the growth it experienced.
It will still grow, slowly, but I really don't think we will see anything like growth we had during the last two decades.

Portland's "glory days" are fading......
It's time for another city to become the trendy hotspot everyone wants to move to......

BTW, Portland has never really wanted to be like Seattle.
i dont agree
economically portland has always been weak for the last 20 yrs, the only boom that happened was people moving here, but job market-nah
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Old 09-05-2013, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Just outside of Portland
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I have lived in NW Oregon for almost seven decades, and I can tell you that this region has always been kind of "economically weak" in some ways.

It's not really that weak, but it's not really that strong either.

Kind of in the middle.

Nothing new there.




Read through this thread:

//www.city-data.com/forum/orego...-go-wrong.html

It has some interesting comments about Oregon's business climate.
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Old 09-05-2013, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I noticed a lot of growth while I was back in town, I think Portland is doing good with finally starting to rebound from the recession.
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR
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It seems like the South Waterfront is finally gaining some new projects - a projected Fred Meyer and a Lovejoy Bakery will add some amenities to the neighborhood. I know that half-built area really suffered during the recession...
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:11 PM
 
Location: NJ
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I have lived in NW Oregon for almost seven decades, and I can tell you that this region has always been kind of "economically weak" in some ways.

It's not really that weak, but it's not really that strong either.

Kind of in the middle.

Nothing new there.




Read through this thread:

//www.city-data.com/forum/orego...-go-wrong.html

It has some interesting comments about Oregon's business climate.
well yea, it was never really that robust
why is that tho? are oregon laws not business friendly? or portland is too earth thinking instead of business thinking?
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Just outside of Portland
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Did you bother to read the "Where did Oregon go wrong?" thread?

I think quite a few of your questions have already been answered there.



It's basically the same type of thread that you started here.
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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well yea, it was never really that robust
why is that tho? are oregon laws not business friendly? or portland is too earth thinking instead of business thinking?
I would rather see Oregon be attractive to businesses that put the environment as on of the important factors with how they do business.
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Old 09-05-2013, 12:33 PM
 
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So which other city will take it's place? It can't be Reno because the TV series centered on Reno was decidedly un-glamorous. I vote Spokane... or Boise... maybe Anchorage?
I know I'll get bashed, but Tri-Cities, Washington already is the fastest growing metro area in the country. And it's not just Hanford fueling it like The Boregonian suggests. They've recruited a variety of top industries. Coupled with affordable housing, excellent healthcare, well executed infrastructure and the lowest PNW COL for major players.........geez I sound like a commercial.

Sure, many will think no trees and Hanford make it uninhabitable.

Tri-Cities combine for nation's fastest-growing metro area, boosted by federal money to mop up Hanford | OregonLive.com
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