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View Comments Kelsey Zionskowski 's dream of becoming a nurse shattered after she was hit on McLoughlin Boulevard near River Road On Aug. 5, 2014, 25-year-old Kelsey Zionskowski was heading home from her second day working as an office assistant at Oregon Health & Science University when her life was changed forever . Kelsey Zionskowski , 28, receives help from her mother, Raquel, in placing her walker in the back of her car." title="PHOTO BY RAYMOND RENDLEMAN - Kelsey Zionskowski , 28, receives help from her mother, Raquel, in placing her walker in the back of her car." class="caption" width="100%" />Zionskowski's dream of becoming a nurse was shattered after she was hit by a vehicle as she waited to cross McLoughlin Boulevard near River Road. She suffered massive trauma to both legs, just after getting off the TriMet bus that took her from OHSU to the bus stop across from her home in Milwaukie. While she was waiting for the traffi...

As you do more banking by smartphone, that bank branch you used to visit may soon turn into a restaurant, a day care center or even a condo tower. After a branch building boom a decade or so ago, banks are closing offices by the thousands as more of their customers bank online . They're leaving behind space ready to be transformed into something else, whether an urban storefront or a free- standing brick building with a drive-thru in the suburbs. "If the real estate is strong, any number of things can happen to the property," says Kim McGuire, senior vice president in the Chicago office of CBRE. It's a problem or an opportunity, depending on your perspective, that will be here for a while. Banks operate about 89,300 branches in the United States today , down 8 percent over the past decade, according to Chicago- based real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle . JLL expects an additional 20 percent drop over the next decade. In the Chicago area, the number of branches d...