PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 11, 2022
Roux Institute’s recent announcement that it was reducing by 27 percent the footprint of a planned campus at the former B&M Factory came as no surprise to us, the residents of the adjoining neighborhood. IDEALS constantly tries to pull the wool over our eyes. They spin the fantasy that they are proposing a “campus.” But in reality, they propose a massive commercial development with a dense, clustered, urban, mixed-use design. The Roux Institute is merely a tenant. IDEALS has not met many of the required standards of the city’s rezoning process and the Institutional Overlay Zone. The lack of progress on traffic/parking issues is especially troublesome. We are not NIMBY’s. We are people who love our neighborhood. ~ Alison Brown and Phil Hoose, East Deering Neighbors for Responsible Development