Portland City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to move forward with the Oregon Sustainability Center, a $75 million gleaming tower of eco-innovation that will rise eight eco-stories over downtown Portland. The eco-vote directs the Portland Development Commission to spend $450,000 on the next phase of designing the building and sets a contingent commitment for the city to rent 33,000 square feet of eco-office space in the finished building at an estimated cost of $32 million.
I criticized the plans for the building on Wednesday, writing that it will be crass to build an expensive new symbol of Portland's green values at the same time we can't find money to keep our parts of our current sustainable infrastructure, TriMet, running.
So who exactly is going to be shouldering the eco-burden for this project? Budget breakdown below the cut.