(Portland, OR) -- The City of Portland is losing more than half a million dollars in federal grant money to create a shuttle service to a new sobering center. Willamette Week reports the federal government is revoking the 550-thousand-dollar grant after Multnomah County failed to create the new sobering center by the deadline. The city won the grant from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance in June of last year. The county's new sobering center was supposed to open earlier this year, but the county instead moved forward with a 20-bed stabilization center. County officials say communication failures with the city are to blame.