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______CAPTION ______FOLIO ________JUMP WORD ________JUMP PAGE NO. ________STORY ENDS ACTION STARS DEW DOWNTOWN — SEE LIFE, B1 PortlandTHURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BESTEST NONDAILYNONNDADAIILLY PAPERPAPAPEPTribuneER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COMPORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHEDP TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Offi cials see Intel pledge as CAN THIS PARK … ‘ legacy’ 30-year abatement deal keeps chip giant in the state By KENDRA HOGUE The Tribune O’Bryant Square (right) One day after a proposed has little activity outside investment-and-tax-break the lunch hour. Three deal was announced by Intel blocks away, Director Park Corp., Washington County (below right) attracts all and the city of Hillsboro, the sorts of people with a Washington County Board of variety of programs. Bad Commissioners had an an- design is part of the swer for people who ques- problem at O’Bryant, but tioned the deal. some park experts believe “To people who say ‘You’re it can be overcome if the just giving it away,’ it’s not city were to commit to true,” said Commissioner Bob Terry, referring to tax breaks enlivening the square. for large corporations such as TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ Intel during Tuesday morning’s board work session. Though In- tel is growing at a rapid pace, without a tax abatement on ex- pensive new technology and equipment as proposed, “It would be a slow death, like … BECOME THIS PARK? Detroit,” added Terry. On Monday, ■ Tale of two designs: O’Bryant Square Intel and rep- resentatives of local and state languishes; Director Park fl ourishes government announced chopsticks and half-fi lled sauce cups ROGERS that they had on the ground beside the cans. Plas- reached a pro- TribSeries tic forks and paper napkins are scat- posed agreement for the micro- SECOND OF TWO PARTS tered throughout the park’s bark chip giant to invest $100 billion BY PETER KORN dust. in its Portland-area plants and A tall, 30-ish man with a scruffy facilities during the next 30 beard scavenges a couple of the gar- years. n a sunny Wednesday af- bage cans, coming away with what “That’s billion with a ‘B,’ ” ternoon, O’Bryant Square looks like some leftover biryani and a said Washington County Com- in downtown Portland is half-fi lled paper Coke cup with straw. missioner Roy Rogers, who led Omostly deserted. On the There is absolutely nobody in the a public relations swing around park’s raised north- center of the park, its the region with nearly a dozen east corner, two piles plaza. The large bronze offi cials and staff members in of discarded clothing “If you can’t fountain built in the tow. “It’s a staggering number.” and one discarded shape of a rose domi- The agreement is considered shoe sit in the shade of make a park a nates the plaza but is a job-retention program and a tree, a fl attened card- place that empty. The fountain the $100 billion represents new board box on the residents of the hasn’t spouted water gramming and around the clock se- specifi cally, Arnold says, the problem money that Intel expects to in- ground beside them. for at least 13 years. curity can accomplish. Holladay Park is the altered grade of the park. vest in research, development Four men are sleep- city want to go Two men and two next to the Lloyd Center is on its way From street level looking north, and manufacturing on its ing on the park’s upper to, you are women, travelers may- to joining the list of Portland destina- Southwest Ninth and Park avenues Washington County campuses. level. A dozen or so peo- be, homeless quite pos- tion parks. O’Bryant Square is, well, slope downhill. But inside O’Bryant, Rogers said Monday that the ple rest on the park’s declaring defeat.” sibly, have taken own- the counterpoint, an example of what the reverse is true. The park steps up proposed agreement meant perimeter, on benches — Alex Garvin, ership of the park’s happens when a city park is badly from south to north to accommodate that the county would retain and retaining walls, Yale University northwest corner. Ap- designed and allowed to determine an underground parking garage en- the state’s largest private em- most in shade, all but a professor and author proached by a reporter, its own fate. trance on Stark Street. So for those ployer for decades into the fu- few balancing lunches one of the women Design is the primary reason on the outside, three of the park’s ture, something that would af- from the nearby 10th shakes her fi nger and O’Bryant can’t be made to feel safe, four sides are less than uninviting — fect both his children and and Alder food carts on their laps. shouts, “Keep walking.” says Matthew Arnold, associate prin- they present blank concrete walls. grandchildren. It’s not a legacy Five park garbage cans are al- A few blocks away, lively Director cipal director of urban design and project, he said, but the people ready overfl owing at 3:15 p.m., with Park has shown what intelligent pro- planning at SERA Architects. More See PARKS / Page A2 who helped reach the agree- ment are paving the way for the state’s economic future. “There are 17,500 currently employed at Intel and three jobs created for every Intel job,” said Rogers, referring to a recent study by ECONorthwest, Anti-gang group rides to rebuild a private economic consulting fi rm. The agreement was ham- ‘Take Back’ rally mered out under Oregon’s Stra- “Obviously we can’t save every kid, but hopefully tegic Investment Program, a hopes to pave way for there’ll be some there that want to be saved.” public-private partnership that — Craig Ford, Take Back the Streets bike rally organiz er has spurred billions of dollars in peaceful community investment in Oregon in the By JENNIFER ANDERSON Washington never succumbed who spent his high school years See INTEL / Page A4 The Tribune to the lifestyle. But they have tutoring his peers and picking friends and relatives, including up trash along Martin Luther Kids rode scooters and Washington’s own brother, who King Jr. Boulevard. played tennis at Alberta were involved in and affected by He became a community ac- Park on a recent Thursday gangs. tivist with a group called Broth- morning. When they heard about the ers Gaining Equality Through There was no drug dealing, no recent spate of gang-related Excellence. violence or gangbanging like shootings in North, Northeast Now, 20 years later, Washing- there used to be at the height of and Southeast Portland last ton thought he’d get back to the Portland’s gang wars in the month — especially one that way he got around the neighbor- 1980s and ‘90s, when Jason TRIBUNE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE sent a 5-year-old boy to the hos- hood as a kid — by bike — both Washington and Craig Ford Jason Washington and Craig Ford are helping to organiz e a Take Back pital — they were moved to do for fi tness and to be a visible, were growing up. the Streets bike ride and rally Aug. 24 at the Community Cycling Center something. positive presence in the commu- Washington, a 1989 Jefferson in North Portland. They and a few other men, all nity. He rides three or four times High alum, lived across from Al- African American and in their per week, zigzagging through berta Park. Ford, a 1988 Wilson 40s, are working with the non- North and Northeast Portland, High alum, lived across the way the city’s long-running Anti- When they saw or heard shots profi t Community Cycling Cen- sometimes up to 25 miles. near Unthank Park. Gang Violence Task Force under in the park, there was only one ter to plan an Aug. 24 bike ride, Last month during a ride he “There were shootings, stab- then-Mayor Vera Katz. “I found a thing to do, they said: “Run!” barbecue and Take Back the happened to get a fl at tire just bings,” says Ford, 43, son of the guy dead at the corner of Haight As avid basketball players Streets rally. outside Community Cycling late Charles Ford, the iconic com- and Shaver in the bushes, on my who were raised with two par- “Man, it’s getting too crazy munity organizer who instituted way to basketball practice.” ents in the house, both Ford and out here,” says Washington, 42, See RALLY / Page A4 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the FOOTLIGHTS & FIELD: THORNS’ HANNA TERRY stories of our communities. Thank you STEPS OUT OF ACTOR DAD’S SHADOW — SEE SPORTS, B12 for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 14, 2014 Parks: Holladay Park could be a model East side ■ From page A1 to get The result? park with “You can’t see into (O’Bryant) and people can’t see out of it,” says Arnold. “That means the whole north portion of the park, there are no eyes on the programs park. Any illicit activity common to O’Bryant Square can occur back in When New York City parks those areas out of sight of the public.” authority Dan Biederman was And illicit activity does take place in touring Portland recently, he that “Keep walking” area, from home- said he couldn’t help but notice less camping to drug dealing, as Ar- there weren’t any parks with nold and his colleagues at SERA’s de- regular year-round program- sign studio are well aware.