Pending a city appeal, a justice grants a temporary stay until Monday morning.
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Judge rules against Portland in plaza dispute
The city plans to appeal the ruling, which says Portland shouldn’t have blocked a petition that could prevent the sale of Congress Square Plaza.
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Push back at polls against Portland councilors who favor selling city
I encourage residents, families, artists and lovers of Portland’s culture to stand up against the sale of Portland’s peninsula by the City Council. Everywhere you look in Portland, residents are bombarded with the construction of four new hotels, several events centers and luxury condos at the expense of affordable housing and community spaces. Our current […]
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Court weighs Portland public’s right to affect plaza sale
A citizens group seeks to save the park – and other open space – with a petition to create a new protective land ordinance.
Posted inOpinion
Michael Cuzzi: Referendum process too easily hijacked by small group of activists
An initiative often is a political weapon used to advance an agenda, a poor way to make public policy.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Portland sees ‘failed space’ where it should envision ‘opportunity’
Congress Square Park is a great chance to create a public oasis, as other U.S. cities have done.
Posted inNews
Group sues Portland over plan for Congress Square
Friends of Congress Square Plaza wants to circulate a petition that seeks to save the public land, which is being sold to an Ohio developer.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Congress Square deal favors developer
The sale of part of Congress Square Park to the new owners of the Eastland Hotel may go down in Portland’s history as one of the great mistakes, along with: 1) the demolition of Union Station; 2) the abandonment of Portland Public Market by the Libra Foundation, and 3) the failure to develop the State […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Eastland should not benefit from Congress Square’s decline
There are homeless people in the park in part because the hotel eliminated low-income housing.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Nemitz derides park supporters’ views
Bill Nemitz is not expected to always say what some of us might want, but I am disappointed in his generally derogatory approach to the subject of Congress Square and condescension toward citizens who spoke of it (“Portland plaza reality gets lost in the kerfuffle,” Sept. 13). I missed the Sept. 9 hearing, but comments at […]