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Column: Moving the chains with Oregon's women's tackle football team
Last weekend, my girlfriend and I needed something to do that wasn't going to keep us holed up inside. She just moved here a few months ago, so I went on the hunt for something that even I hadn't done yet around the Portland metro.<\p> That's when I remembered: Oregon has a tackle women's football team, and they just so happened to be playing at home (at Milwaukie High School's football field) earlier this month.<\p>
ZoomInfo puts nearly half its new Vancouver HQ up for sublease
ZoomInfo announced plans in 2021 to lease more than 366,000 square feet in the under-development Terminal 1 offices on the Vancouver Waterfront.<\p> As its 2025 move-in approaches, the Vancouver-based sales intelligence company (Nasdaq: ZI) has placed nearly half its leased offices on the sublease market, according to market reporting and real estate promotional materials. <\p>
Gregory Gourdet's buzzy bar adds a happy hour
One of the city's hottest bars has added its first happy hour program.<\p> Sousòl, the sibling of Gregory Gourdet's highly regarded Kann restaurant, now has a happy hour Wednesday through Saturday and 9 p.m. until closing. The spot is billed as a "pan-Caribbean, subterranean cocktail bar."<\p>
Heated debate erupts at Oregon alcohol tax task force meeting
The tense debate around whether an increase in beer and wine taxes would devastate the industry or benefit public health was on full display at a Thursday meeting of a state task force dedicated to studying the matter.<\p> The Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services heard from two industry representatives who laid out arguments about why they think higher taxes would be a bad idea, generating some pushback from the group’s chairwoman and from treatment providers.<\p>
In promotions and culture, the Portland Pickles outslug their weight
The Portland Pickles kick off their ninth season next week, and while the team may seem like every other collegiate summer baseball team, the least of owner Alan Miller’s worries is the baseball aspect.<\p> He's instead ensuring that the team’s marketing is funny, and that fans have a good time at games.<\p>
How fired up Timbers' fans helped the team win its new jersey sponsor
Earlier this year, the Portland Timbers dropped their jersey sponsor after allegations of misconduct at the latter company surfaced. Within 24 hours, Tillamook received mass comments, posts, emails and even phone calls from Timbers fans.<\p> “They were all saying ‘It has to be Tillamook, the next sponsor has to be Tillamook,’” said Kate Boltin, VP of Marketing at the Oregon coast-based dairy brand. “We started talking to their team and asking ‘What might this look like?’ and said ‘Let’s do this for the fans.’”<\p>
Search the PBJ database for real estate deals, liens and bankruptcies
Each week the Business Journal compiles public records on real estate transactions, business formations, liens, lawsuits and bankruptcies. <\p> Scroll down to see this week's noteworthy activity or check out the PBJ's public records database, which is searchable by company or individual. <\p>
Judge rules in lawsuit challenging Oregon's hospital M&A oversight law
A federal judge has thrown out the Oregon Association of Hospitals’ lawsuit challenging the state’s new program to review health care mergers and acquisitions.<\p> The association said in a statement Friday that it is considering appealing U.S. District Judge Michael Simon’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.<\p>
PSU expands Keller Auditorium replacement plan (renderings)
Portland State University has released new renderings of its proposed Keller Auditorium replacement ahead of a critical City Council meeting later this month.<\p> As first reported in Oregon Arts Watch, PSU is broadening its initial proposal for a Keller replacement to include not only a 3,000-seat auditorium, but also a second 1,200-seat venue. <\p>
Some employers are weighing a six-day workweek
Editor's Note: Welcome to The Playbook Edition, a look at stories, trends and changes that could affect your business and career. Want more stories like this in your inbox? Sign up for The Playbook newsletter. <\p> Given how some hiring managers view them and the unique pandemic-fueled hurdles they've faced, Generation Z's debut in the workplace has certainly come with some challenges. <\p>
Column: A no-brainer idea from a small business titan gains traction
In late February, the PBJ hosted our first Advancing Portland Growth Summit event, in which we asked business leaders for ways to help downtown recover, deal with heavy tax burdens and nurture Portland's small businesses.<\p> I introduced the small businesses segment. To seed the discussion a bit, I offered a suggestion from Stephen Green, the Business for a Better Portland executive director, who, for more than a decade has called on the city to hire a small business liaison. This worker would as the PBJ's Malia Spencer once explained, "make sure every step of the operating process is accessible, equitable and clear." <\p>
A win for Vancouver Waterfront as 600+ employee tenant eyes move
The thriving Vancouver Waterfront will get another big boost next year when ZoomInfo’s 600-plus local employees begin moving into their new world headquarters. <\p> Lincoln Property Company, the developer on the project, is on schedule to complete the 366,000-square-foot building, on land owned by the Port of Vancouver. <\p>
Old Town Portland college to close after 41 years
The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) is closing after 41 years, and pending approvals, will give students the opportunity to continue their education with Portland’s National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM).<\p> In a Thursday announcement, OCOM attributed its closure to “financial challenges created by three main drivers: the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, major shifts in higher education and contraction in Chinese medicine education.”<\p>
NW Natural breaks new ground with Bill Gates-backed climate technology
Small amounts of clean-burning hydrogen are flowing on the NW Natural (NYSE: NWN) grid, at least occasionally, produced at a regional station in Inner Southeast Portland in a process that removes carbon from natural gas.<\p> What that means for the 165-year-old Portland company's decarbonization efforts as it faces a headwind known as "electrify everything" is an open question. <\p>
Leatherman's CEO on being a tinkerer, and staying in Portland
Many people dream of one day leaving their hometowns to discover someplace new. Ben Rivera, president and CEO of Leatherman Tool Group, can’t relate.<\p> Born in California and raised in Portland, Rivera became CEO of the Portland-founded family-owned company in 2013 after over two decades with the company as a manufacturing engineer. <\p>
Kotek tosses a lifeline to a critical Oregon shipping hub
A month after Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland announced it’d close container services later this year, Gov. Tina Kotek has proposed $40 million in state investment to keep it open.<\p> With the possibility that the money will arrive, the Port announced Terminal 6 will continue providing container services beyond the October closure date it originally gave stakeholders last month.<\p>
The best and worst industries for finding a job right now
Workers in the market for a new job are finding quick success if they're targeting a select few industries — and, perhaps surprisingly, if they're hunting without the aid of artificial intelligence.<\p> A new survey from Resume Builder of workers hired into new jobs within the last six months paints a picture of workers in food and hospitality, retail, and construction being been able to find jobs quickly. Prospective employees in business and finance, education, and software are having a harder time landing a new job.<\p>
Downtown Portland hotel once again faces foreclosure
Owners of downtown Portland’s Dossier are again in peril of losing the upscale hotel thanks to lingering debt and a tepid market for guest rooms.<\p> Borrowers under the name Portland Hotel LLC defaulted on debt tied to the 205-room hotel at 750 S.W. Alder St., public records obtained by the Business Journal disclose. Dossier is owned in a joint venture between Gordon Sondland-founded Provenance Hotels, Miami investor Gencom and private real estate fund manager Corten.<\p>
Rose Festival plucks a parade grand marshal from the sports world
After only two years in business, the owner of the world’s first women's sports-focused bar in Portland will lead the Rose Festival’s Starlight Parade.<\p> Jenny Nguyen, owner of the Sports Bra, will act as the grand marshal of the parade, one of the most popular events of the two-week-long festival. The parade features marching bands, floats and other hand-built works of art. It starts at 8 p.m. June 1 on Southwest Naito Parkway near the Morrison Bridge, and ends at Providence Park.<\p>
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