PDT Staff Writer
The Portsmouth City Center/Justice Center project was originally the brainchild of a cross section of people from the labor and business segments of Portsmouth, according to two members of the community who are working to promote the project.
"This project did not originate with city government," said Mike Gampp, president of the Portsmouth Area Chamber of Commerce. "This project was originated as a grassroots effort by citizens from the bottom up as truly a community effort to move forward into positive change to develop some sort of a glimmer of hope






