The $149.8-million MAX Red Line Extension and Reliability Improvements Project—TriMet’s “Better Red” program—delivers the most significant capacity and operational upgrade to Portland’s Red Line since the service opened more than two decades ago.
The nonprofit Latino Network’s vision for its first-ever all-encompassing home, La Plaza Esperanza, translated as “a place of hope,” looked to bring programming and people together at the east Portland site.
Whether it’s smooth or choppy waters ahead, five years of shifting conditions have made West Coast specialty contractors more adept at navigating whatever comes next.
Joe Schneider recalls when he and Dave Garske approached Vince Granato about a series of near-misses on the construction site of the $1.2-billion TCORE project, the centerpiece of the $2-billion PDX Next program to transform Portland International Airport.