Charlie Hales Learns Price Tag of Warehouse for Right 2 Dream Too, Abandons Idea

Mayor Charlie Hales shows off the Old Town warehouse where he wanted to move Right 2 Dream Too
By AARON MESH

 Mayor Charlie Hales doesn't have a home for homeless camp Right 2 Dream Too after all.

A month after debuting a warehouse at 320 NW Hoyt St. and urging camp leaders to move indoors, Hales has abandoned the idea after learning the cost of tenant improvements on the building: $335,000.

"That was simply a hurdle too high," Hales spokesman Dana Haynes tells WW. "That site's just not going to work."

The Portland Mercury and The Oregonian initially reported Hales pulling the plug this afternoon.

The mayor revealed the vacant 29,100-square-foot warehouse to media in December as an alternative—chosen by Pearl District developers Homer Williams and Dike Dame—to a parking lot under the Broadway Bridge known as "Lot 7."

Amanda Fritz
cut a deal with the camp
Pearl District developers
willing to negotiate the offer

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