North Park Blocks PDX

Arts/Events in the Park

  • 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.”…

  • Parks ARE For Everyone – But Lack Safety And Order

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    A North Park Block neighbor sent the following email to Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz: Thank you for the work you do for the city. I write because I heard about the Sept 1st task force meeting called by Mayor Hales regarding  the conditions in the North Park Blocks. You stayed for only 20 minutes, but before you departed early you…