Comments on: Bloggers, Architects Rally Against Memorial Coliseum Demolition

By: Willamette Week | Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Willamette Week | Sunday, April 26th, 2009 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:36:42 +0000

[...] and city Commissioner Randy Leonard were busy too. They stayed busy e-mailing each other over the Coliseum and copying the rest of us conflict-loving reporters. Here’s their entertaining [...]

By: Do Better Portland » Blog Archive » DOES THE COLISEUM STILL HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO INSPIRE? DO WE?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:56:39 +0000

[...] reprieve for the coliseum, announced last week by Portland Mayor Sam Adams, is a testament to the members of our boisterous creative class, neighborhood leaders and citizens of Portland who have been [...]

By: Mister Tee

Mister Tee — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:31:19 +0000

degraded infrastructure? You mean like our cracking/failing roads, bridges, water/sewer pipes, and our dilapidated schools and parks?

Question: How is spending hundreds of millions on a new Paulson Boondoggle going to help these infrastructure problems?

Answer: it won’t, it will just make them worse, as the future operating costs of new city owned stadiums will rob city time/resources that could have been spent elsewhere.

By: annie

annie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:07:50 +0000

Kim, Kim, Kim, don’t you understand? It’s so much more pleasurable being wined and dined and given promises of revenue, courted in the countless delightful ways customary with these kinds of development project courting fests….not to mention whatever smiles the sport owners and their cronies are able to turn on with their seductive wiles.

And you have the nerve to talk….boring potholes? Please not at the cost of a neon rose…

By: Willamette Week | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Willamette Week | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:25:35 +0000

[...] The “open house” at the leftbank project about the city’s proposal to revamp the Rose Quarter for a new Triple-A baseball stadium, an entertainment district, a Nike museum and a small theater, brought out dozens of Portlanders last night to vent their anger about the destruction of Memorial Coliseum. [...]

By: Willamette Week | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Willamette Week | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:58:23 +0000

[...] folks are using the coliseum’s architectural history as a worthy reason to save it. And certainly the building also has plenty of sports history to draw [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:25:56 +0000

How can Mayor SAM and the rest of the gang promote Portland as the
center of global sustainability, when their first idea is to tear down a
world class building and stuff a baseball field into it’s carcass. With
examples all around the globe of intelligent and thoughtful reuse, such as the Tate Modern in the UK, Portlands own Brad Cloepfils update on the Museum Art and Design on Columbus Circle in NYC, it’s obvious their thinking has nothing to do with sustainability.
It has to do with being bullied by outsiders into ideas that are not
sustainable or even pro portland. Our mayor and commissioners are on a very dangerous path with the MLS.

By: annie

annie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:39:49 +0000

“friend”, I’m willing to accept that my comment about Europe not being so much behind tearing down their old stuff can be considered general, if you can site some specific European examples of “sound/intact architecturally significant buildings” having been destroyed to make way for something brand new.

By: Bob S.

Bob S. — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Basically, the Mayor is proposing demolishing a public building and handing over the land to be controlled by out-of-state corporate cronies. The proposed operator of the “entertainment district”, Cordish Companies, has a track record that isn’t stellar. Here’s how they run their “entertainment districts”:

Kansas City Tribune, 3/27/2009
http://www.kctribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18732

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:44:01 +0000

I did not agree with MLS or whatever is it called. It is crap that city hall wants to mess with the neighborhood. Let them mess with their neighborhood. We have 12% unemployment and city hall wants or is going to spend money who will be afford to go see this, when I was working I couldn’t afford blazer tickets. How about fixing our roads, like the ones where the builders do not fix the street where they just built homes-or that are empty . . . Sam and Randy grow up.