Top Projects 2008

Apparently every year the Vancouver Business Journal (VBJ) has a special supplement showing the top construction or development projects in the city of Vancouver. Vancouver is a city across the Columbia River from Portland and is known of more of bedroom community for Portland workers who don't have to pay property tax in the State of Washington.

Two of the projects struck me as being inordinately lame:

#44 Sonic Drive-In on 850 NE 192nd Ave




Another project of dubious merit but not officially listed because information was not available:

Dutch Bros. Coffee - a franchise based drive-thru coffee chain in the Northwest. Its a drive-thru coffee place, how is it a top project?






I have no idea how a burger or coffee chain's construction of another franchise location is representative of a city's top project.