June 08 2021
The Frog Ferry pilot program will take passengers from St Johns to downtown Portland in 25 minutes; other stops to follow.
Plans are moving forward with a $9.4 million pilot ferry project along the Willamette River, which could see ferry boats carrying passengers from Cathedral Park to Tom McCall Waterfront Park by next summer.
Expected to open in 2022 and run through summer 2024, Frog Ferry will run from St. Johns in North Portland south along the Willamette to the downtown core, with more stops planned. It s the biggest step yet by the nonprofit group Friends of Frog Ferry to bring a public passenger ferry service to the Portland area.
B is for Alaska May 05 2021 The new Concourse B is taking shape at PDX, providing space for Alaska and Horizon Air flights before the main terminal reopens.
Of the three projects going on at Portland International Airport right now, the replacement of Concourse B is closest to being done. The Port of Portland is building a new rental car center and third parking garage, and expanding the main terminal, known as T-Core.
Concourse B, like any concourse, will be a long corridor where air passengers who have passed through security can do two things. They either wait to board their plane, checking with the airline staff, playing with their phones and eating security-approved snacks. Or they get off a plane there and hurry though with barely a thought of stopping until they get to their bags or their connection.
Oregon s cheap power, undersea cable lure 5 new data centers February 27 2021
Taking over the old SunPower solar panel factory, NTT now has all your selfies, streams and shopping history in one place.
Data centers are really in the business of selling electricity. Think of them as a large charging brick with lots of outputs.
On Feb. 25, NTT Global Data Centers opened part one of a planned five data center campus on 47 acres in Hillsboro. The first space is a retrofit of the SunPower solar panel factory, but the next four will be new construction.
The companies that need data centers everyone from the tech giants like Amazon and Intel to mid-sized companies that have outsourced their computing needs to the cloud need stable power. No spikes, and certainly no interruptions.
Mass timber Living Building planned for downtown Portland January 13 2021
PAE will be the anchor tenant in a mostly mass-timber office building that pushes the envelope for energy efficiency.
The engineering firm PAE, which did the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering for Seattle s Bullitt Center, is forging ahead on its own Portland headquarters.
Behind the Pine Street Market food hall and Kell s Irish pub in downtown Portland, the structure will be built to Living Building standard, the hardest benchmark to achieve in energy efficiency. It should be the first certified Living Building in Portland. The PAE Living Building is being constructed with cross-laminated timber panels and glulam columns.