Letter: Portland’s trees make way for yet more soulless construction

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 13, 2026

Early in June, the bureaucrats of the city of Portland approved the murder of 16 beautiful and perfectly healthy birch trees, after being hidden behind an ugly chain link and black plastic construction fence at the corners of Middle, India and Fore streets. This marks the beginning of the construction of yet another hotel in our city. The city prefers to see more dollars in the coffers than trees in our neighborhoods. Forest City is being overrun by foreign corporations that build soulless architecture of no benefit to the people who live here. ~ Julia Flanders, Portland