Metro and City Hall have been trying to figure out how to prop up the Oregon Convention Center for nearly 20 years, so it's no great surprise that Metro announced today that it's going to need some more time to cobble together a financing package for a proposed 600-room headquarters hotel next to the Lloyd District convention center. The current scheme involves the City of Portland using its AAA credit rating to issue debt to finance the project (most recent price tag: $247 million), but as the press release below indicates, a number of significant challenges remain. Convention center headquarters hotel project timeline extended 75 days Metro announced today that it will extend its review of the proposed 600-room publicly-owned and privately operated headquarters hotel near the Oregon Convention Center (OCC) until Dec. 18 to allow more time for negotiations on project cost reduction and financing for the visitor-funded facility. The uncertainty of current market conditions, the commitment to fund the hotel using only existing funding sources and the need to coordinate multiple inter-governmental and public-private agreements have increased the complexity of the project's financing plan. The delay will also allow for additional efforts to shave costs from the project. Since July, Metro's negotiating team has identified $7 million in cost savings. Metro and the Metropolitan Exposition and Recreation Commission (MERC), in partnership with the City of Portland and Multnomah County, will continue to assess the feasibility of a fisca...

PDXpo 2008 Brings Portland's Design Community Together.
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rumor has it that there is some uber-special presale for people on the mailing list in the subject of this posting, of tickets to the sigur ros show coming up in october. the rumored presale is friday.

is anyone on their list and care to confirm? i'd bake you something tasty, love you forever, and bring you cash in advance if you'd buy me some tickets at the presale, however that works (maybe via ticketbastard?) since i got screwed by the bands own pre-sale website being down last week at 6am when i dutifully got up and tried to buy tickets.

thanks for your help, folks. sigur ros is one of my two favorite bands (which one is on top depends on mood) and i'm really looking forward to not experiencing the show from miles from stage.

For the third year, the AIGA's Portland chapter brings Portland's design community together for PDXpo tonight, Thursday, March 27 from 5:30-9 PM at the Portland Center for Performing Arts: The Winningstad Theater (1111 SW Broadway). The main event is the keynote address by former Portlanders Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton ...

Be sure to get tickets they are going fast!:)

This week,Baron Von Goolo (of FrightTown and PDX Zombie Prom M.C.)

will be interviewed on
105.FM by Daria O'Neill next Thursday at 4:45 about Zombie Prom!
Be cure to check it out!


You can buy tickets online or at any tickets west outlet;


Ticketswest Outlets

Ace Hotel
Music Millennium East
Portland Center for Performing Arts
Roseland Grill
Rudy's Barbershop - Division St.


Rudy's Barbershop - Pearl District

Safeways:
39th & Powell
Cedar Mill
Downtown Portland
Glisan Station
Jantzen Beach
Lloyd Center
Martin Luther King
Raleigh Hills
Rose City
St Johns
Woodstock

From Melissa Delzio: PDXpo 2008 Brings Portland's Design Community Together. Annual AIGA Portland Event Showcases Creative Industry. Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton are Executive Creative Directors at Euro RSCG in New York. Yes, we know what you're thinking. PDXpo is about the Portland design community. And no, Johnson + Wolverton, the seminal studio founded by our presenters, [...]

PDXpo: The Portland 2008 Design Expo
Portland Center for Performing Arts: The Winningstad Theater
1111 SW Broadway, Portland OR 97205
Thursday, March 27, 2008
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Type: OPB Standard Event
Event Description: PDXpo is a Vendor Showcase featuring speakers EuroRSCG Worldwide Executive Creative Directors Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton. Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton will present their work from their days in Portland (as Johnson + Wolverton) such as Amnesty International and the Sundance Channel to their current work with some of the world's most innovative and memorable brands such as Jaguar, Volvo and Air France. Hal and Alicia's work is on-going with many local creative firms in the Portland area and they will discuss those relationships, introduce those designers and share their work.
Cost: $12 AIGA Members, $17 Non-members; Free AIGA student members, $7 student non-members
Ticket Phone: (503) 274-6596

portland.aiga.org