Ever get tired of the neighbors in your building? They come home at all hours of the night, leave little passive-aggressive notes on your door, and their footsteps sound like a stampede of wildebeest on your ceiling. Well, consider the Ritz-Carlton Residences! At last count, about 118 of the tower’s 132 condominiums are empty, so you can live that Omega Man lifestyle you’ve always dreamed of, starting at just $920,000 for one bedroom. WW’s continued look into the architects of this splendid isolation most recently considered Barclay Grayson, the lieutenant to Walter Bowen who spearheaded the development (“Five-Star General,” March 26). Here’s what our readers had to say:
Steve Herring, via wweek.com: “What good does this article do? Portland needs investigative journalism to dive into where the hundreds of millions of public dollars are going for homeless services which are clearly not being responsibly spent. The Block 216 project did not use public dollars—it was a risk taken by private money. As of today, it also has not failed in spite of all the gleeful energy WW seems to wish to expend in writing articles about its as-yet-happened demise.
“Stop wasting your resources and energy on soap opera-level drama and start writing about where the public money is going. How about diving into where the nearly three quarters of a BILLION dollars annually is going for public defenders in Oregon when there’s a supposed crisis in having public defenders available for all the people charged with crimes in this state?…