Oregon's First Crowd-Funded Building, The Fair-Haired Dumbbell

Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 8:56 p.m.

b'Do you ever drive by one of the dozens of buildings going up in Portland and think, man, I wish I owned a slice of that masonry pie? Well, now you can.

In the middle of one of Portland\\u2019s biggest real estate booms, one building stands out, and not just for its name and psychedelic paint job. The Fair-Haired Dumbbell is the first building in Oregon and one of the first in the country to raise money via new crowd-funding regulation approved by Congress.

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