I lived in Portland from '92-'95, and this area was mainly abandoned buildings. I go back every year to visit family and friends, and I've been very pleased with the turnaround. Every time I go back I make a point to visit this area and go out to dinner or out to a bar/club. I remember seeing a Diesel store and an American Apparel on my last trip and thinking "damn, Portland's becoming a real urban city!" It's always been a great city, but now it's becoming more of a modern, urban place, not just a "northwest" place.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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