Every claim on this site traces to a document

The lease and 2024 closing package, the adopted term sheet, the enacted statutes, the City’s own studies, the public-records productions. Every page here links them directly.

The scoring, the decompositions, the balance sheet, the comparisons. Sourced and badged, but it is analysis, and a careful person can read the same document differently. Where the other reading is strong, we print it.

The fair-deal terms, the market test, the Compact. This is advocacy. It is argued from the first two, and it is not a finding.

The tax clause, the five-county non-compete, the records the City may not copy, and what the NBA actually approved.

The records-notice understanding, the funding sentence, the “Dear Partners” email, and the NBA letter Council wouldn’t sign — verbatim, with the innocent reading beside each.

Neither August vote spent a dollar — they locked the number while the scope stays unwritten. What each government’s protections cover, and the five fixes still available.

The July 30 ECONorthwest study, taken seriously: where it’s genuinely good, the category error at its center, and the thirteen answerable questions — with responses published in full.

Every priced arena dollar, badged Verified, Calculated, Modeled, or Unpriced — and who gets to use it.

Stream by stream, what the building hands the operator — from an arena he rents for $1 a year.

Pick what keeping the Blazers is worth; the page computes the gap against the ask.

What the building would pay if it paid taxes — three tiers, from the certified floor to full equivalency.

Inspect the full report and workbook. Trace $252.9M of listed 2024 costs and the $504.9M forecast. Inspect VSG’s categories and our separately labeled commercial-purpose allocations.

The lease preserves maintenance obligations. Their scope, exceptions and remedies require a separate legal and engineering review; the assessment alone does not establish a debt owed.

The “$670M a year” claim, traced to the City’s own consultant — against ~$29M a year of bond service.

The City owns the building; a move means breaching signed contracts, fighting Portland in court, and paying the NBA.

The large-print one-pager: four reasons, each from a signed clause or the league’s own rules.

Private share, rent, revenue return, relocation penalty — Portland’s is the only one that still requires no private construction capital; its rent is proposed, not yet signed.

Comparable contracts, market evidence and legally feasible alternatives. Value costs, rights and risks on the same assumptions.

The sourced 1993–2026 timeline that answers “Paul Allen built it alone.” Includes the SB 1501 legislative archive.

What Council itself put on the record the first time it examined the deal.