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Nike Passes on South Waterfront, Will Stay in Washington County
Portland's great white hope for caffeinating its listless South Waterfront district—a shiny new Nike campus, with lofty promises of some 6,000 new jobs—has evaporated.Nike announced this afternoon that...
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New Parking-Free Apartment Building Proposed in Kerns
The era of the parking-free apartment building isn't dead yet. Taking advantage of doomed zoning policy before its May demise, Beaverton developer Dennis Sackhoff last week applied to build a 50-unit...
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Beaumont-Wilshire Residents Take Fight Against Apartments to LUBA
While fresh plans for a 50-unit, parking free apartment building in Kerns are just being revealed, Beaumont-Wilshire residents are attempting to derail an almost-identical project.Bolstered by a...
View ArticleCounty Poised to Buy Land Near Sellwood Bridge, then Give it Back
To all the costly facets of the new Sellwood Bridge, add paying rent. Or, as Multnomah County legalese terms it: a "settlement of condemnation litigation associated with the Sellwood Bridge...
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Hales on Columbia River Crossing: "I Want it to Stop Lurking."
During his short tenure atop City Hall, Mayor Charlie Hales has made it a point to keep out of the squabbling over the Columbia River Crossing—a marked change from his predecessor. Turns out Hales,...
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The Much-Maligned Parking-Free Era Ends Today
Speculation developers might overwhelm the city with a flurry of apartment-free parking proposals in the run-up to Portland's new parking minimums did not come to pass. Today marks the end of...
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Unsurprising: Kerns Neighbors Might Fight a New Apartment Building
Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals might want to ready itself for more action courtesy of a now-defunct Portland parking policy. The Kerns Neighborhood Association appears to be seriously considering a...
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Union Way
I was a little bummed when Red Cap—the queer bar across the street from the Ace/Clyde Common—went out of business, and I didn't blink an eye when Aura slipped permanently into my well of...
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Arthouse: PNCA's Freshman Dorms Are Fancier Than Yours
Much has been made lately of Pacific Northwest College of Art's (PNCA) expansion, which will make the North Park Blocks something of a hub for what can finally be considered the makings of a real...
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The Bindery Gets Grayling
Now that the tenant mysteries of Union Way, are pretty well settled, we can turn our attention to the eastside's similarly landmark new development, The Bindery. This space, on SE Sandy and 31st, has...
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"Urban Green Living" Townhomes Heading to SE 25th and Ankeny
The lot on SE Ankeny that currently looks like this: Is slated to someday turn into this: Five townhomes and one condo will make up Ankeny Row (pdf), an "urban green living" project from design-build...
View ArticleOregonian: Dissent Kills Deal for Trader Joe's in NE Portland
Just hours after quoting a "top Majestic Realty official" saying he weighs the controversy over a new Trader Joe's at NE Alberta and MLK "every day"—part of a story exploring a lobbying rules...
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The PDC Wants Someone to Take Another Shot at Fixing Up Old Town's Grove Hotel
Months after a plan to redevelop Old Town's woebegone Grove Hotel crashed and burned—with the would-be developer placing the blame on neighboring Right 2 Dream Too—the Portland Development Commission...
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Next for the Wrecking Ball... Iconic Dive Bar Club 21? Someday?
It's entirely tentative—not even a Formal Project yet. But a developer's well-developed push to build a large apartment complex around and atop the site of one of Portland's iconic dive bars—the...
View ArticleFritz Slams Funding for Old Town Redevelopment Plan: "It's a Shell Game"
It's been well-known for months that a neighborhood-sponsored plan to redevelop Old Town and Chinatown—relying on infrastructure waivers to hopefully spur construction of 500 "workforce" housing...
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Here's What Four Decades of Gentrification in North and Northeast Portland...
In this week's Hall Monitor, I wrote about the first of four scheduled community forums meant to help city officials spend an extra $20 million on affordable housing in the Interstate Urban Renewal...
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Coming Tomorrow! Mayor's Office Sets Proposed Rules for Airbnb's Expansion to...
Enjoy the following sneak preview from tomorrow's Mercury—an abridged version of our lead news story. Read the whole shebang once we hit newsstands tomorrow!Mayor Charlie Hales’ office plans to release...
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Location, Location, Location: The Portland Made Real Estate Survey, the...
It's been mentioned on Blogtown before, but I've been watching the O's series on the Central Eastside with some interest, as the city contemplates how to handle the march of change in the area. At the...
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Good Morning, News: Blow Pony, A Baby on LSD, and Trump's RNC Speakers
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. Here are those links you've been waiting for. Blow PonyThis week's feature story, out in print yesterday, is about queer dance nights Blow Pony and Bearracuda...
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The Infiltrator Review: Now That's Some Grade-A Cranston!
by Andrew Wright It may be impossible to completely screw up an undercover cop movie, with the very nature of the premise guaranteeing some vicarious hopscotching over the morality line. Judged on...
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