North Pearl is booming. This is now rising - unique footprint similar to that Burnside tower above ^
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...tral_question_can_indus.html#incart_big-photo I'm having problems linking stuff on this new layout.
2 days ago, a fire ruined a 5-story high building. Built in 1390, it was a century old when Columbus sailed for America. Before and after: 2 other pictures http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2015-01/03/c_133894209_2.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2015-01/03/c_133894209_3.htm
Some family owns most of a block in the area they're talking about. Real Estate developers are trying to buy land at below market then turn around and make big profits when they'd build condos and/or apartments.
New estimates call for nearly $200m to repair this building - gutting the entire structure. There's no way. They have to just tear down this eyesore. The only thing worth saving is the statue.
The 'Right To Dream Too' camp are moving from their Chinatown location to a lot directly south of OMSI. I would be pissed if I were OMSI.
North Portland continues to boom. As does the gentrification of NE. This area of the city has improved dramatically over the past 5 years. Condos are being built in north Portland - freaking condos! Many would've scoffed at that idea 10 years ago. An all-wood framed condo building, N. Williams:
The $200m convention center (Hyatt) hotel looks like a go. It only took a decade: . . The height was readjusted with the idea that they didn't want to distract from the CC glass towers. Thanks, hippies.
Remember the 75 acres (Hillsboro) that Nike sold last summer? The company that purchased will soon break ground on this huge golf/entertainment complex:
Talk about a game changer: "Oh, and atop the market, two towers, 20 stories high, rising “like sails” on each side of the bridge."
Portland's version of Pikes Market. The full concept hasn't been fully revealed yet but this has been in the works for a while. The 'sail' towers + an office tower not shown in that rendering above:
This photo actually shows several lost treasures. It was taken during the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition and shows fair-goers walking on a bridge over Guild's Lake. Nearly all the buildings constructed for the fair were intended to be short-lived, though at least one survives. The National Cash Register building was moved to St. Johns where it is now a McMenamins tavern. (Portland Archives and Records Center)
This was the second home to The Oregonian, which was founded in December 1850 and remains the oldest business in the state of Oregon. The newspaper published out of this building at Southwest Sixth Avenue and Alder Street from 1892 until 1948, when it moved to its then-new building at 1320 S.W. Broadway. This building, Portland's tallest for a brief time, was demolished in 1950.
