[CPEO-BIF] FedEx, Port of Portland, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port sells 77 acres to FedEx

Portland Business Journal (OR)
October 16, 2008

Two days after Daimler Trucks North America announced a plant closure 
that will cost the city 950 jobs, the Port of Portland signed a deal 
that could add 500 jobs to the local economy.

At a luncheon Thursday, Bill Wyatt, the port's executive director, 
announced that FedEx has purchased 77 acres of the 700-acre Reynolds 
Industrial Site in Troutdale to build a new distribution center.

...

"I believe it is the largest brownfield development in the history of 
the state," Wyatt said Thursday.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/10/13/daily46.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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