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By Don McIntosh
At Portland’s Bureau of Development Services (BDS) union-represented workers review plans, issue building permits and inspect buildings to make sure electrical, mechanical, plumbing and other work is done safely and to code. But 98% of their agency’s budget comes from fees, and with an anticipated downturn in office and hotel construction, layoffs could be coming.
BDS employs about 400 in all, including about 300 who are represented by Protec17 and the unions of the District Council of Trade Unions (DCTU).
Due to COVID-19 and reduced commercial development activity, BDS anticipates reduced revenue over the next two to three years, says bureau spokesperson Ken Ray. The bureau has substantial reserve funds, but is looking at cutting costs, including personnel costs, to make those reserves last.
Shake Shack is already working on a second Portland-area location
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
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A race is on to see which cult-favorite burger chain can reach Portland first.
On Tuesday, Portland’s Bureau of Development Services approved a proposal to turn a former West Burnside Street vitamin store across from Powell’s City of Books into a new location of Shake Shack, the burger behemoth from famed New York restaurateur Danny Meyer. The proposal was first noted by housing advocate and architecture blogger Iain MacKenzie.
But that previously reported downtown location isn’t the only Shake Shack in the works for Oregon, and it might not even be the first to open, The Oregonian/OregonLive.com has learned. Another Shake Shack is already underway in Beaverton’s Cedar Hills Crossing shopping complex at the corner of Southeast Cedar Hills Boulevard and Walker Road.