North Park Blocks PDX

Arts/Events in the Park

  • Pearl Block Party: Sept 11

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    Pearl Block Party that is happening on Sept. 11th from 5 pm – 9 pm on 13th Avenue. Beyond being a fun event both for residents and workers of the Pearl, we will have a table set up for new volunteers for the neighborhood foot patrol. 

  • 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…

  • NW Examiner: Civility Collapses on North Park Blocks

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    The September 2015 issue of the NW Examiner details this summer’s dramatic decline of the North Park Blocks. Click here for PDF of article Our lovely park has become home to vagrants who openly do drugs, have sex, fights and regularly urinate and defecate in public. … This is affecting my business and more importantly, Portland’s prosperity in the long run.”…