December 12, 2018
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A wrecking crew takes aim at the Sugar Shack, the former strip club in the Cully Neighborhood of
northeast Portland known for harboring prostitution and other criminal activity for the past 20years.
The deconstruction began Monday after community leaders gathered to celebrate plans to replace
the rundown buildings on the site with a 140-unit affordable housing development.
Sugar Shack Comes Down
of northeast Portland, kicked off
Monday with area residents and
community leaders, including
Mayor Ted Wheeler, in celebra-
tion of a soon-to-be affordable
housing development to be built
in its place.
The run down building at
Northeast Cully and Killingsworth
by D anny p eterson
Street was a source of blight in the
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The destruction of a much-ma- neighborhood, harboring prostitu-
ligned former strip club, the Sugar tion and other criminal activity for
Shack, in the Cully Neighborhood the past 20 years.
Blight to
give way to
affordable
housing
M ETRO
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“We’re really excited to final-
ly bring down the former Sugar
Shack,” said Rose Ojeda, the real
estate development director for
Hacienda who had been instru-
mental in the planning of the site’s
redevelopment for the past year
and a half.
The new 140-unit housing com-
plex, “Las Adelitas,” will replace
the old retail building. In addition
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Confession Made Under Threats
O PINION
C LASSIFIEDS
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Oregon’s Supreme Court has
upheld a lower court’s ruling by
throwing out the confession of a
black man accused of strangling
four black prostitutes in the 1980s.
Two of the victims were teenagers
and the other women were in their
20s.
The court agreed with Mult-
nomah County Judge Michael A.
Greenlick who had thrown out
statements admitting to the killings
that Homer Lee Jackson III, 58,
made during police questioning in
2015, determining they were made
under the influence of fear produced Homer Lee Jackson III
by threats or promises of leniency.
The police detectives in the
case “may have persuaded Jack-
son to tell what they wanted to
hear, whether or not it was the
truth,” the Supreme Court said.
It also considered Jackson’s di-
agnosed schizophrenia, signifi-
cant problems with memory and
that he provided incorrect details
about some of the killings.
Multnomah County prosecutors
are reviewing the opinion. Trial in
the case is set for this spring with
defense motions set for argument
in May.