WEA Newsletter
Last week, the WEA Land Use and Housing Committee welcomed Bret Marchant and Nick Triska from Greater Portland Inc to update us on the status of industrial land readiness and how it impacts our economic competitiveness. The hard truth we re-learned from the presentation is that Oregon has made little progress in addressing the near total absence of land available for employers to capitalize on the growth in manufacturing investment happening across the country.
While WEA believes it is a hugely positive step that the legislature is having a much needed debate on how to address our housing crisis this month, we also believe we need to ramp up our work to figure out how to truly identify land and make it ready for employers to create more jobs on the westside.