Published: October 15, 2009
Tags: obesity, Oregon, Portland, Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association, sidewalk
Tyler Graf
Dolan Media Newswires
Portland, OR - Sometimes, a neighborhood’s street layout can be harmful to public health.
That’s why the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is undertaking the Southeast 122nd Avenue pilot project, a study of the land-use, transportation and connectivity problems in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood and how they affect residents’ health.
Planners and public health [...]
Published: July 28, 2009
Tags: Construction, economy, job creation, Obama, Oregon, stimulus
Ryan Kost
AP Writer
Portland, OR — Politicians are straining to convince people the government is stimulating the economy.
In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, [...]
Published: July 27, 2009
Tags: computer modeling, manufacturing, material, Oregon, research Portland, test
Tyler Graf
Daily Journal of Commerce
Oregon State University associate professor of engineering Jamie Kruzic spends his days breaking things. If he doesn’t, then planes fall out of the sky, hips shatter and bridges collapse.
Or, at the very least, they operate less efficiently.
Computer modeling and basic pen-and-paper equation techniques have long been used to predict the structural [...]
Published: April 23, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Commonwealth Development Corp LLC, Dan O’Connell, Dustin Bowie, Great Lakes Capital Fund, Kate Venne, Oregon, Ted Matkom, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wis., Wisconsin development director for Gorman & Company Inc., Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, Wisconsin Housing Development Corp., Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp.
Dustin Block and Sean Ryan
dustin.block@dailyreporter.com, sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Dan O’Connell held back his celebration after learning Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp. received $2.57 million in state tax credits Thursday.
Getting the credits clears the first hurdle, said the vice president of Astar Capital Management Inc., which manages WHPC. The second, and significantly higher, hurdle is finding investors to [...]
