Green + SW Portland Waterfront Condos = $$$,$$$
Posted By KyleySeems I’m commonly spouting off about green condos here in Portland, complete with malice filled diatribes about hippies and hemp… And then I stumble across this USA Today article discussing the Southwest Waterfront project.
Call it “eco-friendly.” Call it “sustainable.” Portland’s $2.2 billion South Waterfront project, rising on a decaying industrial site south of downtown, signals a watershed in the green-building boom…
The article then goes on to read:
“Eco-friendly was very important to us,” says Michelle Walsh, 63. “We knew seven years ago this project was happening, and we watched it. We wanted this place.” The couple paid $790,000 for a 10th-floor, two-bedroom, three-bathroom unit with a den — plus those killer views.
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The price tag of green is the painful thing to read. I can find the time to recycle my cardboard, but finding the cash to use recycled wood…that’s another story.
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