This by way of the good folks at Treehugger.com who point us to an article chronicling yet another reason Portland is sucking away all of your friends and neighbors. Curse you Portland!
We're not completely a toxic waste dump uptown, of course. We have a mini-version of a similiar project down around Vine and Western. Go check out the Growing Vine project if you're feeling crunchy. Hopefully, efforts like Vine will help us not fall too far behind progressive Portland and its neighbor-stealing ways.
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Metropolismag.com: A Green Blueprint
A Portland neighborhood may become a model for sustainable retrofits
Lloyd Crossing, a 35-block section of Portland, Oregon, may be the first urban neighborhood in the country to get off the city grid and the planetary dole. Plans call for the office and retail district--dating from the heyday of freeway construction and passed over by the downtown boom of the last 20 years--to build up to eight million square feet of floor space, quadrupling its capacity to 21,000 residents and workers by 2050. Towers and mid-rise buildings will go up around the intersection of Portland's MAX light rail and a scheduled streetcar extension. And during the same period net energy and water consumption will be reduced to levels nearly equivalent to a patch of native Northwest forest.
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-- J
Tags: uptown, seattle, portland, green, urbandesign, crunchy
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