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Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing

(503) 228-4651

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton

Neighborhood: Beaverton

From Finder 2008: You scored a BS in computer science… Welcome to Beaverton Or Hillsboro! The “Silicon Forest” is home to Intel’s largest collection of campuses and Nike’s resort-ish world headquarters. (read more) A smattering of other tech and manufacturing branches are also representin’, including Sun Microsystems and Yahoo! (in Hillsboro). But unlike many an exploding manicured metropolis, these neighboring boroughs have a fairly diverse population beyond the largely white, tech-centric core, and the high Asian and Hispanic populations offer bites more authentic than those found at your P.F. Chang’s or Qdoba’s (but fear not—those aren’t hard to find). Suss it out at: Utopian commercial mecca Streets of Tanasbourne (19364 NW Cornell Road, Hillsboro, streetsoftanasbourne.com); exhaustive sake purveyor and Japanese pub Syun Izakaya (209 NE Lincoln St., Hillsboro, 640-3131).

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