This Wednesday, the City Council will consider putting Terminal 1 up for sale for the second time. The hearing is a victory for Commissioner Nick Fish, who is charge of the Bureau of Environmental Service, which owns the 18-acre piece of industrial property in Northwest Portland.
The original sale had been put on hold when the council voted 3-to-2 to lease the site to the Portland Housing Bureau for a temporary homeless shelter and potential permanent homeless multiservice center.
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