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McMenamins’ history of owning bars, restaurants, hotels and music venues in Oregon and Washington started in 1983. And for the first time in 40 years, the chain is giving people the full story behind how the brand got its start and how it’s become one of the region’s successful family-run empires. The storytelling happens in the form of a new podcast: “The Red Shed Tapes.”

The Rainbow Logo Challenge is a month-long community celebration of the global LGBTQ+ rowing community

The Cook County assessor says the value of the downtown skyscraper’s mostly vacant retail space is 68% higher than it was last year — when he lowered its value by 37%.

Owners in the luxury building banded together to appeal their tax assessments.

commissioner sugaya that i agree with him and i understand why he is voting against the motion. i brought it up originally -- the fact that they should have separated and we would have prevented -- and we were prevented from considering them separately. i hope i do not see that again in the future. i am agreeing with commissioner olague and that the space has to move ahead. >> i am not like to complicate this but you can vote on one form and not the other. bundling them -- you do not h...

-- you can vote separately. commissioner borden: in the tenderloin, they are having a hard time getting a grocery store. i do not want to belabor the point, but for whatever reason, we do not have a lot of grocery operators. i think the reason you have these two uses is for other reasons. trader joes model is not for large stores like safeway. they cannot get a grocery retailer. in reality about the size and space of this site that has put us in this situation -- i would caution agains...

public comment at this time. >> one minute. wow. sue hester. i have as much to -- on this project as they do. we have been asking at the community level the department to do a dashboard showing. what type of housing is being proposed, pardon me, approved by the department, and constructed by price level? weve been asking for it for four or five years. peter cohen and i particularly have been diligent on this. weve been asking it so that you would have something to look at that shows wh...

ive been asking it for at least five years. before you were even the planning director, because we need that information. we need to know who is being served. and im tired of extensions. the market has changed since this project was approved. the economy has changed. and we keep chugging along building really high end housing. thank you. president olague: is there any additional public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya. commissioner sugaya...

operate. probably not a huge percentage of their sales, but enough to make it possible for them to operate at that site given the square footage. it is a business decision. we are getting in the way of business decisions for not a valid reason, as far as i can seek. i am very much in favor of the project and i hope it does pass in a different form. well see how the vote goes. vice president miguel: i do not want to continue this too much further but i just want to tell commissioner sug...

forward at the earliest possible time. that concludes my comments. im available for any questions you may have. and rick juarez from artstone is also available for any questions you might have. thank you. president olague: thank you. i would like to open it up for public comment at this time. >> one minute. wow. sue hester. i have as much to -- on this project as they do. we have been asking at the community level the department to do a dashboard showing. what type of housing is being ...