My work sent me there a few years ago for a conference. Here's what you need to know.
1) Ninkasi Brewery is pretty cool. I hung out there the entire time.
2) There are homeless youth everywhere there. One of the nights I was there, some co-workers and I went to the hotel hot tub. While we were in there, a junkie homeless couple snuck in through the garage and got in the hot tub with us. I'm pretty sure it was their version of bathing. The guy sat in there haucking loogies onto the side of the hot tub while we were in it. We quickly left.