South Waterfront. I've written about this place before. It was built on what had been the site of a scrap metal salvage yard. Connected to the city by a street car and to OHSU by a tram it's a strange place. It's like a shopping mall without any places to shop. If it had started out a little less ambitious it might have grown in to something interesting. I don't think it's ever a good idea to think you can just build a community and wait for it to be populated. In this case the planning seemed to be that everyone who moved here would be a wealthy professional weirdo like their poster boy Mr. Cycling Psychologist. Now there would be a Portlandia episode.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
South Waterfront. I've written about this place before. It was built on what had been the site of a scrap metal salvage yard. Connected to the city by a street car and to OHSU by a tram it's a strange place. It's like a shopping mall without any places to shop. If it had started out a little less ambitious it might have grown in to something interesting. I don't think it's ever a good idea to think you can just build a community and wait for it to be populated. In this case the planning seemed to be that everyone who moved here would be a wealthy professional weirdo like their poster boy Mr. Cycling Psychologist. Now there would be a Portlandia episode.
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