The owner of the Portland Beavers, Merritt Paulson, is withdrawing his proposal to build a ballpark in the city's Lents neighborhood following community protests.
Paulson, the son of former us Treasury secretary Henry Paulson, had planned to have a new major league soccer team play in PGE Park in the next three years and move the Triple A Beavers baseball team to a new stadium in the Lents neighborhood in Southeast Portland. Hundreds of local residents opposed to the stadium turned out at a meeting on Thursday night.