Is that a day laborer pictured in the foreground?

Ugliest since the Portland Building?

it's not ugly. it's awesome. it's great to see some nice looking buildings popping up around this town. finally. now can we get the trust fund hippies on the east side to mow their lawns and take those couches off their porches? maybe haul those "vintage" VWs to you pull it while you're at it?

I don't want anything to increase the incidence of that wasteful fetish Americans call 'lawn care', but I think it's the most interesting new building I've seen around here for years. Bside6 is refreshingly small-scale and doesn't look dull like most of these kind of projects (or the unforgivable space-wasting drugstore/car dealership on the block to the west).

Time (no offense) for people complaining about the upscaling of East Burnside (and Portland) to put their money (or lack thereof) where their mouth is and actively advocate for solutions that will keep this city from being gentrified into dullness. That kind of interactivity and willingness to challenge recieved notions was completely missing from the Rontom's gentrification debate last week. This city WILL be ruined unless people start to think harder and work to shape the inevitable.

Portland is used to trusting its leaders and following, and that has served the city well thanks to a fairly benign municipal class in recent years. But there is too much money to be made here now. Take a look at the Pearl and ask, 'How could this have been different?' There is an enormous reservoir of progressive feeling in this town, and it should be put to use on this issue.

And yeah, I just moved here - so please fill me in if I'm missing something - but did so after keeping tabs on the neighborhood for most of the decade, and from Seattle, the official warning sign of the boring fate of the urban 'success story'.

It'd be even better if American Tatoo and the Vietnamese Restaurant that were there before the empty lot (and the suspected arson)were invited back.
Don't see that happenin' tho'.

This building looks superb to me. I wish some of the bigger condo developers would choose this architect instead of some of the safer choices they make.

The building looks interesting, that's for damn sure. As for "gentrification" if you're going to have a new weird looking building or a run down pile of shit with weeds growing all over it, wouldn't you pick the nice building?

The people make the city, the city does not make the people. If Portland gets "lame and dull" because this building goes up, it's no ones fault but our own.

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