Jim was a community developer, housing activist, co-founder of the Portland Hotel Society and a Gastown resident since 1972.
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In 2003, he spearheaded the Woodward’s redevelopment with the goal of creating “redevelopment without displacement.”
When we spoke to him, a few months before his untimely passing from lung cancer, he expressed a feeling that the goal of the Woodward’s development had been realized, and called the project “a great victory for the Downtown Eastside.”