North Park Blocks PDX

Category: Conditions

  • Park Behavior Drives Out Business

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    A historic city park should be an asset to adjacent businesses. But the city’s failure to address the deterioration of the North Park Blocks has claimed another causality. Remedy Wine Bar announced that it will close on January 30th. In an announcement Remedy writes: We’re sad to announce that Remedy Wine Bar will be closing at the end…

  • Conditions in North Park Blocks Documented in Research Study

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    Dr. Bruce Stephenson is dedicated to the art of city planning. A Rollins College Environmental Studies professor, his research and teaching reveal how history informs the intersection of regional planning, sustainability, and urbanism. He started studying the North Park Blocks in early June as part of a project to document the livability of the Pearl…

  • Portland …. Wake Up and Take Back Your City

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    Note: This first came to us as a comment by lowestcommondenominator. It deserves to be a post Having traveled both nationally and internationally in some pretty rough areas…and now settled in the Pearl for about 2 years, can this be compared to anything I’ve seen ….anywhere?    Nope! Only in the Pearl. Only in Portland. And it’s getting…

  • Mayor Visits Park – What Happens Next?

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    Dear Mayor, Thank you for your walk in the North Park Blocks initiated by the Emerson School this morning. I would like to share with you the events of my day subsequent to your walk. By noon: I had to call Clean & Safe to remove shit that someone smeared on one of our office entryway…

  • Emerson School Mom To Mayor Hales

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    The following email and photograph was sent to Mayor Hales by a concerned Emerson School parent on Sept 1st. Mayor Hales, It was a grim scene outside Emerson Elementary today for the first day of school. See photo for a sampling. By 9:30am the surrounding North Park Blocks were full of debris, off-leash dogs, marijuana smoke, nudity,…