the Portland area just didn't overnight become a place where jobs pay well and people flock to live there...those people have had a can do attitude that welcomed those high paying jobs and people to work in them whereas this area has been (for countless reasons that could fill a novel) a can't do area eschewing those same  jobs and population.  Now they can easily put up the proper structure that their area needs and deserves to the tune of $277 million and their people will be greatly served by this structure and it's working folks and we will probably not get anything...which we apparently deserve I guess...