Thinking outside the Rose Quarter box (Oregonian) 11.21.09
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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Rose Quarter Makeover Looking for Ideas
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today is the first day you can formally pitch your ideas for how the city should repurpose Memorial Coliseum over at the city Rose Quarter redevelopment website . This is a slightly more legitimate process than our Blogtown poll last month that revealed the public's surprisingly strong support for turning the icon of modern architecture into a year-round farmer's market or giant shark...
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Downsized Memorial Coliseum part of new Rose Quarter plan (Oregonian) 11.3.09
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
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Marathon third quarter profit falls 80 percent on lower prices; production rising
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Marathon Oil said Tuesday that its third quarter profit plunged from a year ago when record-high prices sent gasoline prices over $4 per gallon.Yet the company, based in Houston, says production rose this quarter and for the entire year compared with 2008.The rising production numbers are in line with what other major oil and gas producers are reporting this quarter, as...
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Blazers share their Rose Quarter vision (and it includes bikes)
BikePortland.org (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Screen grab from ImagineJumptown.com. The Portland Trail Blazers have released their vision of the Rose Quarter’s future. On ImagineJumptown.com they lay out ideas to create “a world-class mixed-use sports and entertainment district in one of Portland’s most vibrant neighborhoods.” The Blazers are already giving a nod to the transportation component of their vision....
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Here it is, Portland — the long-awaited vision for the Rose Quarter area: JumpTown
dwightjaynes.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Here’s your link to the website. The plan also includes “a bright future for Memorial Coliseum.” That promise right there might be enough to make the project difficult to pull off.
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Wipro 2nd-Quarter Profit Climbs 22%, Beats Estimates After Surge in Orders
Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Wipro Ltd., India’s third-largest software-services exporter, reported second-quarter profit rose 22 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, after clients increased orders as the global economic recession eases.
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Gap Q3 In Line, Stock Sags
Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Shares of Gap (GPS) are sinking mildly this afternoon after the company announced Q3 sales and profit in line with estimates, and a record operating margin, but said selling expenses will rise this quarter. Sales rose slightly year over year to $3.59 billion, a tad ahead of the $3.58 billlion analysts [...]
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Well Wishes for Paul Allen
Blazers Edge (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... took place. But to get a deal done, Paul Allen put a lot of his own skin into what is now the Rose Quarter. Allen could have taken his team and likely gotten a sweeter financial deal from a city that was hungry for an NBA franchise. But even though Allen is from Washington state, he knew how important the Trail Blazers are to the fabric of Portland. And he forked out millions of his...
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JP Morgan Talks Up GE After CFO Interview
Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... the company’s outlook on industrial production except to say the company still expects orders to rise this quarter from last. No news on an NBC-Universal sale, said Tusa, though he thinks a deal is likely. GE shares are up 16 cents, or 1%, at $16.18.
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Housing Outlook Improves – Local Media Agrees
Amateur Economists (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Sales of previously owned homes rose across the country during the third quarter, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors. Nationally, sales were up 5.9 percent from the third quarter of last year. Previously owned homes changed hands at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.3 million, according to the report. [...] Related posts: Another Dozen...
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Marathon production rising; profits tumble
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Marathon Oil says its third quarter profit plunged from a year ago when record-high prices sent gasoline prices over $4 per gallon. Yet the company, based in Houston, said Tuesday that production rose this quarter and for the entire year compared with 2008.... Gasoline - Gallon - Marathon Oil - Business - Houston
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Marathon production rising; profits tumble
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Marathon Oil says its third quarter profit plunged from a year ago when record-high prices sent gasoline prices over $4 per gallon.
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Home Loan Modification – What Does it Take to Save Your Home?
Subprime Blogger (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... worked very hard to keep Americans in their homes. With the foreclosure rate rising each and every quarter it is very important for the economy and for every American to stay in their homes. In March, Pres. Obama launched the making home affordable plan and this is the plan you will use to modify your mortgage. Almost all lenders should be able to help you modify your home loan. Some lenders...
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The big old barn in JumpTown
dwightjaynes.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I sent you to the website the other day – imaginejumptown.com — but I didn’t have time to comment much. It appears that Larry Miller has gotten his old pals at Nike to buy into the thing with some sort of Nike museum. That sounds great for the area in the Rose Quarter. But what still [...]
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