Is The Model City Of The Information Age Hitting The Skids?

Portland is suffering a crisis that threatens the future of this once buoyant, expanding Northwest market.

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May 22, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

Back in the 1980s, well before there was talk nationwide of an "urban renaissance", Portland was widely seen as a kind of model turnaround city. Its downtown was among the first to come to life, large portions of the middle class actually stayed in the comparatively safe and well-run city, while its suburbs bristled with technology plants and bright new housing tracks....Yet today Portland, both the city and the region, which boasts roughly 1.8 million people, is suffering a crisis that threatens the future of this once buoyant, expanding Northwest market...

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