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Cornell Wesley

Cornell Wesley

Executive Director of Prosper Portland, Portland's economic and urban development agency; previously Birmingham, Alabama's Chief Economic Development Officer.

Sep 28, 2026

5:52
What did that deal actually look like? And how did you hold all the pieces together?
5:58
So the capital stack and.
6:01
Some of the so let's broaden our definition of capital stack because the capital stack is not just cash from a municipal standpoint.
6:09
The capital stack can have ingredients like incentives, what have monetary value.
6:15
But without them, the deal won't pencil.
6:17
All right.
6:18
And so here's a great example.

5 MINS LATER

11:32
You've also got major flagship projects, the Broadway Corridor, James Beard Public Markets, Williams and Russell OMSI Master Plan, Albina Vision Trust, right? How do you think about balancing those? large-scale transformational projects against the need to support these smaller corridor revitalizations and neighborhood-level development? Especially when those come into tension, how do you make the call?

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