{"id":17292,"date":"2020-01-09T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17292"},"modified":"2020-01-09T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:39:58","slug":"inner-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/inner-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Inner Visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 326px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=wg20_flipbook_for_issuu.com&amp;pageNumber=42&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Two mystics<\/b> and <b>two business sages<\/b> chart <b>Portland\u2019s future<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Winterguide 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Kyle Battle<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17328 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-Fortune-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"WG20 Fortune\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-Fortune-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-Fortune-200x120.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/WG20-Fortune.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cW<\/span><span class=\"s2\">e\u2019re going to call in the spirit of Portland in 2020 and read what\u2019s coming up,\u201d says psychic <strong>Sarabelle Gruber<\/strong>. She shuffles her tarot deck and draws. \u201cThe most amount of growth will be in communication and quickness of the mind. Younger people with lots of resources are coming. There\u2019s going to be a trend of buying property. We\u2019re going to figure out this housing crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe strength of Portland is in food. We\u2019ll see ecologically sound restaurants\u2014this is a trend Guidance is showing me\u2014and everything is edible. People are going to start using things like straws made of ice and edible plates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Driving Force: No Drivers!<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Jessica Estes, partner at <strong>The Boulos Company<\/strong>, believes metropolitan parking garages will soon become obsolete as Portland goes more deeply green. \u201cWe\u2019ll all be using self-driving cars or driving will eventually be a service.\u201d New parking garages will be built with future conversion in mind. Residential and office are the two product types that would make sense, with retail, possibly, on the lower levels.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>New Lamps for Old<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Hospitality companies are repurposing old neighborhood landmarks. Hotels like <strong>The Press Hotel<\/strong> and <strong>The Francis<\/strong> have inspired more boutique hotels that, as Estes says, \u201care made to fit Portland rather than being ubiquitous to their brand.\u201d Poised to open in 2021, Canopy by Hilton will be a six-story, 135-room lifestyle hotel across from the <strong>E. Swasey &amp; Co<\/strong>. building on Commercial Street, complete with a rooftop bar and over 2,000 square feet of space for special event capacities. Similar hotels are popping up across the city, like the <strong>Cambria<\/strong>,<strong> AC Hotel<\/strong>, and an upcoming \u201cguesthouse\u201d in the old church on Munjoy Hill called <strong>Best Bower<\/strong>. The six-suite, neighborhood-driven space is owned by Pliny and Melanie Reynolds, who also own <strong>Terlingua<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of publicity around the restaurant and hospitality industries,\u201d says Estes. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a bubble. It\u2019s going to continue to bring people into the city. Retail is transforming into a more experiential product. We\u2019re going to see more businesses like escape rooms, ax throwing, and specialized health clubs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As the new moves in, some of the old is inevitably pushed out. Local roller-skating staple <strong>Happy Wheels<\/strong>, whose location is owned by the <strong>Paul White company,<\/strong> closed its doors forever on December 15. Paul White, CEO, says what will move into the site is \u201cfor the developers to announce. We don\u2019t know for sure, and nothing is finalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Navigating the Gold Coast<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"> \u201cWhen it comes to the residential side of real estate,\u201d says John Hatcher of <strong>The Hatcher Real Estate Group<\/strong>, \u201cover 38 percent of our transactions this past year were cash. Because of this, we saw prices decline in the greater Portland area, but not surrounding areas. This trend will continue into 2020 and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cGrowth depends on what the city allows. At this point, they want to keep Portland a working waterfront.\u201d Roughly $176,000 in funding has been approved by the city to build an interim park along the eastern waterfront near the cruise ship landing. The city initially lobbied for a $16M version of the park, but has, for now, put that plan on the back-burner due to its skirmishes among Portland residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Remember Erebus?<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Portland loved its trendy store Erebus on Center Street. With counterculture fashions and an unspoken wink at hemp use, it channeled San Francisco style with a Haight-Ashbury theme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\">F<\/span><span class=\"s2\">ast-forward to 2020: <strong>Lenny Doon Supply Company<\/strong> will be the newest occupants of the ground-floor space with extremely high-visibility at the <strong>Schwartz building<\/strong> on Congress Square. This vacant space across the square from Portland Museum of Art has been boarded up for over a decade. For years, idle sidewalk soothsayers have ventured that we\u2019ll learn a lot about Portland\u2019s future by who ends up with this coveted spot. Lenny Doon is the retail store (with fashions included) for the hemp-derived, CBD supplier. You must be 21 years or older to enter their website. \u201cThe cannabis industry is where we\u2019ve seen the most growth in our commercial real estate,\u201d Hatcher says. \u201cOnce federally reserved banks and national institutions start accepting money from cannabis, we\u2019re going to see big changes. We\u2019re just starting to see people take advantage of the opportunities surrounding the cannabis industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Stars Look Down<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Reesa Wood<\/strong>, owner of <strong>Swamp Witch Apothecary<\/strong>, doesn\u2019t foresee the future with a crystal ball. Instead, she knows what will make Portland tick through astrological charts and a tarot reading. \u201cI\u2019ve just compared Portland\u2019s astrological birth chart to 2030. There\u2019s some stuff indicating conflicts between leadership and economic issues. Debt came up a lot. But the biggest thing to show up was feminine leadership. One of the charts implies women will gain power, but be out of touch. Perhaps they\u2019ll forget where they came from or won\u2019t look out for their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">How does the future look for poverty in Portland? Wood draws the Queen of Pentacles. \u201cThis is an extremely abundant card. I don\u2019t tend to predict this optimistically. It definitely suggests that poor people, the homeless in Portland, will be in a much better position in 2030 than now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe theme for 2020 is truth and rebuilding through destruction,\u201d Sarabelle says. \u201cI\u2019m not saying there\u2019s going to be an earthquake or anything, just more abundance, co-opting, and a lot of inspired people interested in the long-term fate of Portland. Because life in Maine,\u201d however the cards fall, \u201cis the way life should be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two mystics and two business sages chart Portland\u2019s future.<br \/>\nBy Kyle Battle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[677,676,675,678,680,671,681,679,673,301,683,670,682,684,672,674],"class_list":["post-17292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-best-bower","tag-cambria","tag-e-swasey-co","tag-happy-wheels","tag-hatcher-real-estate","tag-jessica-estes","tag-lenny-doon","tag-paul-white-company","tag-press-hotel","tag-psychic","tag-reesa-wood","tag-sarabelle-gruber","tag-schwartz","tag-swamp-witch-apothecary","tag-the-boulos-company","tag-the-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17361,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions\/17361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}