This article reads as a PR piece for the City. Everyone knows the property the City took isn't worth "nothing" which as I understand it is what the City paid when it stole the property back, and it seems more than a little off that the city hasn't done ANYTHING to develop this site or sell it to a developer to develop since it reclaimed the property YEARS ago. If the City were to say that it wasn't doing so because of the litigation, the same rationale could be turned around back at it from Fed Co's perspective. The bottom line is that everyone knows it's hard to do business in Portland, because of Portland, and even former city councilors will admit candidly that the staff operates in a way that keeps the council (and public) in the dark with regard to their actions. Look at things this way ... it's not in any developer's best interests to hold vacant property or to litigate for years with no trial. The fact that that's what is going on seems very telling to me in terms of where the roadblock is. Also, did anyone else find it odd that the image of homeless camps is over a year old? Another reason it seems this article was a PR piece promoted by the City - whose law firm seems to be behind it in at least some way.