Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland articles from July 2009

Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland archives from July 2009

Oregon's stimulus spending sparks debate.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci When Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood praised Oregon for starting federal stimulus projects ahead of schedule, they singled out the Highway 97 project in Deschutes County. That...

Portland Consultant: New strategies needed in recession.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Tyler Graf The current recession is unlike any in the past few decades, and what companies did in the past to navigate downturns won't necessarily work today, business consultant Max Corona said. Corona, president of Portland...

Season is over for downtown sign in Portland.
July 1, 2009... Byline: Dan Carter Eduardo Paez, left, with O'Mega Graphics & Signs peels a huge vinyl beer sign off an old brick building at 350 W. Burnside in downtown Portland. Paez and fellow swing-stage worker John Kehoe, above, will paint the newly...

Benton, Linn counties work to improve to water quality.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein A project is under way to identify old, unused wells that may be hurting water quality in Linn and Benton counties. Abandoned wells, when left open, will take in anything flowing on the ground and leak it into...

South Waterfront project in Portland starts at the ground level.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Dan Carter A new two-acre park taking up an entire block in Portland's South Waterfront District is scheduled to be completed by early fall. Named after an early Portland settler who owned the property in the 19th century,...

Birds may influence Willamette River bridge design in Oregon.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein When the Oresund Bridge opened in 2000, it had one of the longest cable-stayed main spans in the world and a problem: Dead and dying birds were being found along the deck of the bridge, which connects Denmark to...

Clackamas-based firm dealt contract complaint.
July 2, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci First, a Utah contractor hired Clackamas-based Emmert International to haul a historic building across a Salt Lake City street. Now the same contractor has hauled Emmert into court. Emmert walked off the job in a...

Matching grant program targets Eugene neighborhoods.
July 2, 2009... Byline: DJC Staff A matching grant program that pays for neighborhood improvement and community building projects in the city of Eugene kicked off its next cycle of awards on Wednesday. The city is now accepting applications in a...

Work shortage worries Portland architects.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Tyler Graf Portland-area architects say they're still feeling an economic pinch, a sentiment echoed across the country in the American Institute of Architects' most recent Architectural Billings Index numbers. After four months...

Oregon legislative session rouses participants.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Tom Henderson Kim Thatcher attended the 2009 Oregon legislative session. Bob Shiprack was there, too. But two witnesses can give two different accounts. Shiprack, the general secretary of the Oregon State Building and...

Commentary: Beware: Sensitive data is a frequent target.
July 3, 2009... Byline: Rich Meneghello Where is your company's sensitive information at this very moment? You may say that it is in the company's files locked in someone's office or in a certain directory on the company's server. I hope you're right. But...

Portable toilet use can be industry barometer.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci Call it the Honey Bucket Indicator: You can gauge the strength of the construction industry by the demand for portable toilets. David Litherland, accounts manager for Honey Bucket, hasn't started selling reports...

Salem-based Morrow Equipment Company waiting for stimulus projects to move forward.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci Serving customers across the world can help insulate a company if one country's economy turns sour. When every market area is down, Rick Morrow of Morrow Equipment Co. said, all you can do is wait. It's a global...

On the Boards: July 6, 2009.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein Lane Community College in Eugene will have a new look after its new LCC Health and Wellness Center, designed by SRG Partnership, is connected to the existing campus. Landscape architects at GreenWorks PC are...

Nailed by recession, Portland bar losing carpenters.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Jim Stasiowski At the Mousetrap Tavern in north Portland, owner Carol Krum overhears the carpenters vowing to stick together through the tough times. The problem is, Krum said, she isn't hearing as many voices as before the...

As construction firms get leaner, so do their trailers.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci If project managers have to tuck in their elbows as they flip through design drawings, blame the office trailer. Actually, Adora Maguire said, blame the recession. Companies have gotten leaner, said Maguire,...

Oregon City dry waste recovery company expands.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Tyler Graf So far in 2009, Glen Zimmerman has seen his company's profits decline by one-third of what they were in the first half of 2008. The owner of Pacific Land Clearing, a dry waste facility in Oregon City, Zimmerman...

Little activity in Beaverton's development department.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Jim Stasiowski Loneliness has crept into the offices of the Beaverton Community Development Department. Five years ago, the department's lobby overflowed with builders pleading for speedy processing of their...

Oregon City law firm shifts toward health care.
July 6, 2009... Byline: Tyler Graf Through 2008, workers' compensation attorney James Guinn was averaging three to five claims per week. By March 2009 that number was noticeably smaller. In the last few months I've seen less people come in, just...

City of Milwaukie joins program to improve its downtown.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein Clackamas County and the city of Milwaukie are moving forward with a project to revitalize downtown Milwaukie. The city recently became involved in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street...

Beaverton and Tigard agree on Barrows Road Bridge deal.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein The Beaverton and Tigard city councils have agreed to share the cost of a project to replace the Barrows Road Bridge, located between Scholls Ferry Road and Walnut Street, in Tigard. Tigard will contribute...

Tualatin City Council awards contract for I-5 landscape improvements.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Nathalie Weinstein Tualatin City Council has awarded Crown Landscape Inc. a $299,880 contract to perform a landscape improvement project at the Interstate-5/Nyberg interchange. The project will be constructed at Interstate 5,...

Oregon studying Westside Express Service possibilities.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Justin Carinci Getting Oregon's first commuter rail line built wasn't easy. Extending that line would present a whole new series of challenges. As the Westside Express Service struggles to attract riders, a study is looking at...

Block X Block: 135 N.W. Park Ave. in Portland.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Tyler Graf The writing on the side of the building at 135 N.W. Park Ave., though faded, is still readable: Home Furnishers. It serves as a reminder of the neighborhood's past, when it was known for light industrial manufacturing....

Mixed-use project in in the works on Mississippi Ave. in North Portland.
July 7, 2009... Byline: DJC Staff Reports Matt Bryant of Protemp Associates Inc. installs a Mitsubishi CITY MULTI heating and cooling system on the second floor of the Numiss mixed-use project at 4039 N. Mississippi Ave. in North Portland. The...

Log cabin in Silver Falls State Park being restored.
July 7, 2009... Byline: Dan Carter A historic log cabin in Silver Falls State Park east of Salem is in the middle of a restoration to become the home of a Friends of Silver Falls store. While following state and national rules for maintaining a...