PORTLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL: Don’t Count Portland Out

This article was originally posted in Portland Business Journal on March 11, 2021. Here’s an excerpt below featuring our fearless leader, Georgia Lee Hussey. Read the full article here.

There is reason to be hopeful.

Portland has decades of ingenuity on which to build: The Oregon Bottle Bill, the urban growth boundary, the Oregon Health Plan, Portland Saturday Market, food carts and a legion of entrepreneurs and successful Oregon brands — Bob’s Red Mill, Leatherman, McMenamins, Nike, Columbia Sportswear and on and on.

“I think of the transit bus mall downtown: That was innovative and forward-thinking,” said Georgia Lee Hussey, founder and CEO of the Portland investment firm Modernist Financial. “Some developers might want it gone, but the urban growth boundary basically created the Pearl District. It makes me think, OK, that worked. What can work next? Let’s take the economic mobility and growth and spread the wealth.”

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