Is Portland back?
That was the message both of Oregon’s U.S. senators and several members of Congress pitched in trumpeting the city’s alleged back-ness at a recent event announcing the James Beard Public Market’s new location.
Their main evidence: the proposed market, an upcoming WNBA franchise and, most tangibly, the Portland International Airport’s ongoing $2.15 billion remodel, which hit a major milestone with the main terminal’s August reopening…