ON BROADWAY, THE PLAYERS KEEP QUIET.

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This much we know: For 2 1/2 hours on Friday, developers Tom Connor and Don Woolley met behind closed doors with about a dozen West Broadway property owners.

The subject: The developers' ambitious plan to redevelop re·de·vel·op
v. re·de·vel·oped, re·de·vel·op·ing, re·de·vel·ops

v.tr.
1. To develop (something) again.

2. 2 1/4 blocks of West Broadway into a $165 million retail, housing and entertainment complex.

The rub: Connor and Woolley and their Portland development partner, Opus opus (ō`pəs) [Lat.,=work], in music, term used in cataloging a composer's works, designating either a single composition or a group published together or considered a unit. Northwest, want to own all of the land in the project before they proceed but have been unable to strike deals with 12 property owners who control 16 parcels.

The upshot: We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , even though we staked out the meeting at the Hilton Eugene. No one stormed out in a huff, nor did we hear champagne corks popping. All we really know is they plan to keep talking, but they won't tell us when.

In a statement, Connor and Woolley spokeswoman Jenny Ulum said negotiations are ongoing, but that the developers would have no further comment until there is something to announce.

For their part, the property owners, some of whom had been happy to speak publicly before Friday, decided to lower the cone of silence An inverted cone-shaped space directly over the aerial towers of some forms of radio beacons in which signals are unheard or greatly reduced in volume. See also Z marker beacon. and also declined to comment on the talks.

If the developers are unable to strike a deal with some property owners, they could ask the city to take the lead on negotiations.

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