Articles by Jon Mitchell
Jon is a news writer at ReadWriteWeb. In his spare moments, he blogs for Burning Man. He was the managing editor of Neighborhood Notes from January 2011 to January 2012. He's still around helping out with content strategy and site development, but he doesn't have a title anymore. Jon lives in the Kerns area in one of those sweet, old buildings that probably used to be a hotel in the 1920s.
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The Sabin Community Association held its fall general meeting on October 17 at which neighbors reviewed plans to redesign Sabin Triangle. The small “pocket park,” as Oregon Architects Without Borders called it, has potential far beyond the approximately 50 by 20 feet of plain pavement near the corner of NE 15th Avenue and NE Prescott Street. We’ve reported on some of the community’s proposals more...
Hotel Planned for Pearl District
After years of rumors about hotels in the Pearl, real plans to develop one are underway. Representatives of SERA Architects have scheduled a pre-application conference with the Bureau of Development Services proposing “a new, six-story, 225-room hotel” on NW 9th Avenue at NW Marshall Street. The conference will be held on November 8 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at BDS, 1900 SW 4th Avenue, 4th Floor, Room more...
Update 6/14/2012: The 2012 season of the Lents International Farmers Market runs every Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., from June 17 through Oct. 28. At the start of the 2012 season on June 15, the Lents Farmers’ Market will be held on Fridays from 3 to 8 p.m. instead of Sunday mornings. The market will still serve the same purpose, but the new arrangement will let organizers try out more exciting programming. more...