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TriMet's Plan to Bridge the Willamette Drawing Near The Portland Bureau of Development Services (BDS) seeks public comment before commencing on the construction of the Willamette River Transit Bridge, which, if approved, will make it the twelfth bridge to span the river. The bridge will link the south waterfront district at Southwest Porter Street to the a location over the river at Southeast Sherman. The bridge, which will more...
Wrecking Ball Might Soon Come for the Dirty Duck in Old Town-Chinatown The Bureau of Development Services (BDS) is requesting responses for the demolition of the historic brick Kiernan Building, built in 1916 at the corner of Northwest 3rd and Glisan which, until recently, was the home of Gail's Dirty Duck Tavern. The applicant, the neighboring Blanchet House, seeks to demo the one-story building in order to construct a more...
Proposed Ecological Learning Plaza at PSU PSU Proposes Ecological Learning Plaza Downtown Portland State University and the State of Oregon's Board of Higher Education are seeking approval to create an "Ecological Learning Plaza" on the block of downtown land intersected by Park, Jackson, Broadway and Hall. Having already demolished the one-story modular building east of Shattuck Hall, the applicants are more...
Elevations proposed for Homeland Security project. Image: GBD Architects Design Advice: Department of Homeland Security Garage/Office Space Proposed in South Portland The unoccupied building on the 4300 block of Southwest Macadam may be occupied by the Department of Homeland Security. To make room for the Feds, the owners of the building seek to build a new three-story 74,000 square-foot parking garage, topped by more...
Classic Foods' new location in Woodlawn. Welcome. This is the first of many articles to come about development in the spaces near you. This column, which shall published every other week, will hopefully provide you with a general idea of what's going on in Portland's world of land use. Of course, if there's something specific you think your fellow readers should know about, let me know and I'll check it more...
Portland Parks & Recreation and the Portland Water Bureau are in the final weeks of gathering public input on the planned improvements at Powell Butte Nature Park that will be implemented in conjunction with a new underground 50-million gallon reservoir at the park. The organizations unveiled design plans for a new interpretive center, restrooms, caretaker’s house and maintenance building, at a January 25 open house, more...
Portland-based architecture and urban planning firm SERA recently held a public forum at Ron Russell Middle School in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood to discuss the possibility of implementing its civic ecology pilot program within the neighborhood. Tim Smith, a principal with the firm, addressed several members of the Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association, concerned citizens and representatives of the neighborhood more...