Portland Development Commission
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The Portland Development Commission is the urban renewal
agency created by the city of Portland, Oregon
. It promotes development, housing projects and economic development within the city's eleven urban renewal districts.
It has controversially sought to establish measurable standards for workplace diversity among its contractors.
Urban renewal
Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Renewal has had both successes and failures. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an intense phase in the late 1940s – under the rubric of...
agency created by the city of Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. It promotes development, housing projects and economic development within the city's eleven urban renewal districts.
It has controversially sought to establish measurable standards for workplace diversity among its contractors.