Yes, that top 10 Portland tall building list from Emporis is highly (pun) inaccurate. It's best to reference the source in that type of posting, so that other searches can be done for cross referencing. And, though sorry to say, if Portland's central peninsula core was not a hill--62 feet higher--the downtown buildings would barely pop up above its plethora of six story structures. We probably wouldn't even be here, discussing the tall building subject in this blog. Another stat or idea that irks me is that Portland is such a tiny city, or town, with only 66,000 people. I was in El Paso, Texas for a few weeks for work, and loved it's culture and vibe. It reminded me of Portland in so many ways, including size in look and feel. But then I did a population search and it was around the same population as Boston, and nearly 200,000 more than Miami's. What? I spend a lot of time in Boston and Miami, and both of these cities feel--and are--SIGNIFICANTLY bigger than El Paso in so many measures. I always like to point out that a true measure of a city's size is the metro area stat, of which Portland lands at around half-a-million, thus greater than Manchester, NH and Halifax, NS. I would also add--for the summer--another stat for Portland. It would be actual number of people staying the night in the "town." If you count the many hotels and airbnb stays it's probably taking it to nearly 80,000.
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