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Bank Teaches Teens Dollar Sense

by Staff | May 21, 2012 1:13 pm | Comments (3)

START Bank’s Lynn Smith sent in this write-up about a recent financial awareness class the bank taught to teens:

Working with Dr. Abie Benitez, Principal, and Ms. Cortney Costa, algebra teacher, Start Community Bank has ‘adopted’ the 8th grade graduating class of the Columbus Family Academy.

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Edge Expansion OK’d

by Thomas MacMillan | May 21, 2012 12:02 pm | Comments (1)

While a dispute with a neighboring property owner remained unresolved, the City Plan Commission Wednesday night approved the expansion of the Edge of the Woods natural foods store.

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Register Pitches The Hill On Retail

by Paul Bass | May 18, 2012 11:31 am | Comments (27)

You won’t get a factory. You might get a supermarket.

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Cutler’s Act II Underway

by Paul Bass | May 17, 2012 4:00 pm | Comments (3)

Phil Cutler may be packing up the beloved record store his family has run for 64 years. That doesn’t mean he’s leaving Broadway.

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Marchand: I’m No Rubber Stamp

by Thomas MacMillan | May 17, 2012 1:00 pm | Comments (16)

When it came to his first vote on a major development project, Adam Marchand hadn’t read the 200-page plan before him. He voted yes anyway.

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Check-Cashing Quashed

by Thomas MacMillan | May 17, 2012 8:22 am | Comments (7)

Faced with an outpouring of objections from nearby businesses and neighborhood organizations, the City Plan Commission put the kibosh on a plan to convert a Whalley Avenue utility closet into a check-cashing outlet.

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Cutler’s Closing Doors

by Staff | May 16, 2012 5:40 pm | Comments (16)

One last blow-out of sound is beginning on Broadway, as the famed Cutler’s Record Shop prepares to close its doors.

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Foe Neighbor Takes Grocer’s Plan To The Edge

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2012 3:33 pm | Comments (6)

As grocer Peter Dodge gears up to expand his natural foods store, he’s run into an obstacle: The property owner with whom he shares a parking lot.

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Mayor Enters New Urbanist Lion’s Den

by Paul Bass | May 14, 2012 5:42 pm | Comments (24)

It fills in a failed urban renewal highway. Does that make it “new urbanism”?

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“Silicon Forest” Offers Clues

by Gwyneth K. Shaw | May 14, 2012 2:00 pm

PORTLAND, Ore.—The Portland State University Business Accelerator sits in a nondescript, brick and cement block building hard up against Interstate 5. There’s a view of the nearby Willamette River, but the foreground is all cars and city trappings.

The point of this stripped-down center isn’t the aesthetics. Its appeal lies in the pricetag. In this spot, start-up companies are able to slip into laboratory space on the cheap, and access business and technical advice, too.

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