North Park Blocks PDX

Arts/Events in the Park

  • Ted Wheeler: Reclaim PDX Public Spaces

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    First off, our congrats to Ted Wheeler for sweeping the primary. Now it’s time to get down to work making Portland a better city for all. In case you don’t read Reddit, we wanted to repost this piece from r/Portland 18 May 2016 Open letter to Ted Wheeler  Dear Ted, I’m a resident of Portland, a homeowner, and one of…

  • SF News Media Team Up to Fight Homelessness

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    Embarrassing politicians into action seems like a great idea to us! Last summer it took our “park porn” photos to get the Mayor Hales and city council to even notice the situation in the North Park Blocks. Now it seems that SF media is making a coordinated effort “to  create a ‘wave’ of coverage that will…

  • Portland Sidewalk Camping on Yelp

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    Update: Since we first posted this on April 26th, the Yelp listing has been pulled. But we can share this archived PDF Version 600kb While the mayor’s controversial street camping policy has triggered a lawsuit, it’s also inspired someone to create a new Yelp Business listing:  Portland Sidewalk Camping. Not surprisingly, it uses City Hall’s contact info. Last summer we…