City's Budget Includes Millions for HQ Hotel

By NIGEL JAQUISS
 

One of the longest running sagas in local political history—proponents' two-decade long quest for a "headquarters hotel" adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center—may have new life again.

The Portland Development Commission budget released Jan. 31 by PDC director Bruce Warner in consultation with Mayor Sam Adams shows the agency will spend 32 percent less money next year overall—$144 million, down from $211 million this year.

projected expenditure of
$3.2 million
David Bragdon
Ted Wheeler.
Len Bergstein,
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