Enclosure is coming this year, in late 2114. Are you and your loved ones prepared? PSTU 3 has all the latest news and coverage on pre-Enclosure events. Stay tuned here for important news as it happens. [more info]
(Portland) For over five years, rumors swirled around the large swaths of downtown real estate acquired by the Hastings Group, parent company of Hastings Gun Corporation. Late last January, the truth came out when the activist group Domes for People released secret communications from within Hastings. Once the corporation completes the acquisition of 19 downtown blocks, it will immediately begin to cover them in a Petron-built SecondSky polymer shield.
Hastings has been in negotiations for months with building owners within the designated zone, and today announced that it had come to terms with enough of them to secure 16 downtown blocks. Nine of the newly-acquired blocks are located in the northern end of Portland State University. The fifteen-member Board of Trustees signed away the land in exchange for settlement rights in the new dome, including an unspecified number of berths for family members, university deans and provosts, and union leaders.
In order to secure other blocks, Hastings had to negotiate with 31 different property owners, nearly half of whom live outside Oregon. There were no details about arrangements made with those owners, though four appeared with Hastings CEO Alfonso Maldonado when he made the announcement yesterday afternoon.
Hastings has refused to release information about the number of berths already committed to the prospective future dome. PSTU has been tracking announced and rumored berths. With the newest acquisitions, PSTU has 2,315 confirmed berths and another 11,972 rumored berths. Hastings has not indicated how many berths will ultimately be available, but a lottery will allow 25,000 lucky winners to join as workers and staff.
In early 2006, Hastings began construction of new buildings on its downtown holdings. Ignoring the City Council’s warning about exceeding height regulations, Hastings began by building twin 62-story towers in west downtown. Within two years, they had projects throughout the downtown core underway, with building plans calling for structures from 55 to 110 stories tall. As the national economy entered its third decade of recession, these behemoths made little sense except as the infrastructure for a new enclosed city.
With the latest acquisition, Hastings has secured all but three of 142 downtown blocks. The five owners of buildings on those blocks are believed to be in negotiations with Hastings now.
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