Portland Business Journal I April 30, 2015

Guest Opinion by Pat Kessi, President of PHK Development.

We must not bury our heads in the sand. Portland and its environs will grow and more people will want to live in downtown locations with close proximity to their jobs. Planners project that over the next 20 years, an additional 30,000 jobs will be created just in the South Waterfront, the Pearl District and Goose Hollow and all areas in between. Additional livable communities will most certainly be needed. Creating them inside a boundary is doing it right.

Compact livable communities promote investment in already existing roads inside the boundaries and redirect money for new transportation systems back into the central city – and we all benefit.

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