5,013
edits
Line 59: | Line 59: | ||
<br/> | <br/> | ||
{{#ev:youtube|ES-x2BcJO7Y|430|right|'''''Video: Tour of the Sears Center in 2011'''''|frame}} | |||
== Facility use since 2012 == | == Facility use since 2012 == | ||
The City has not approved the budget necessary to re-occupy the building and put it into the uses described in the 2013 Master Plan. According to an article in the ''Portland Tribune'', "A contract with MCA Architects to manage the project was signed in June 2016. But in March 2017, the council authorized a new contract to study adding a Portland Fire & Rescue training center to the facility. It would replace a fire bureau training center in the Clinton Triangle in Southeast Portland. That put the rest of the planning on hold until the study is completed."<ref>Redden, Jim (2019-01-22). [https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/sears-center-overhaul-stalls/article_6b9c5811-a4d0-5685-8257-2c2038770c7e.html "Sears center overhaul stalls"]. ''Portland Tribune.'' Retrieved 2023-10-30.</ref> It is unclear what happened after that study was made. | The City has not approved the budget necessary to re-occupy the building and put it into the uses described in the 2013 Master Plan. According to an article in the ''Portland Tribune'', "A contract with MCA Architects to manage the project was signed in June 2016. But in March 2017, the council authorized a new contract to study adding a Portland Fire & Rescue training center to the facility. It would replace a fire bureau training center in the Clinton Triangle in Southeast Portland. That put the rest of the planning on hold until the study is completed."<ref>Redden, Jim (2019-01-22). [https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/sears-center-overhaul-stalls/article_6b9c5811-a4d0-5685-8257-2c2038770c7e.html "Sears center overhaul stalls"]. ''Portland Tribune.'' Retrieved 2023-10-30.</ref> It is unclear what happened after that study was made. |