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Corgis Fill the North Park Blocks
We used our Corgi Cam to capture this morning’s Corgi Walk in the Pearl. It was Corgi mania North Park Blocks. The Corgi Walk in the Pearl began eight years ago by dog fancier Lynde Paule, who wished to create a venue to raise money to care for injured, abused, abandoned, or neglected dogs, specifically Corgis.…
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Hampton Inn Coming to North Park Blocks
Proposed hotel: view from NW Park and Everett A new hotel on the North Park Block has been approved. The Portland Design Commission has approved a 243 room Hampton Inn & Suites proposed for the Pearl District. At the ground level the building will have public spaces such as the lobby, lounge, dining area and meeting rooms facing…
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Dear Mayor Hales, Park Conditions Affect My Business
Local businesswoman, Michelle Cardinal recently wrote to Portland Mayor Hales to express her concerns over the deteriorating conditions in the city’s historic North Park Blocks. … Our lovely Park has become home to vagrants who openly do drugs, have sex, fight and regularly urinate and defecate in public. My employees and clients are verbally harassed and physically threatened when…
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Trash This Painting
Pulse Gallery is hosting an ‘Awareness Campaign’ for our First Thursday Event (see our attached poster). Over a year ago PM was inspired to paint the North Park Blocks on a 4′ x 4′ canvas but, as you know, the park no longer looks like the beautiful painting. We are inviting people to “trash” the…
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Frustrated Homeowners on the North Park Blocks
After ten years of living here, this is the worst we’ve seen it. Not just stray carts but Street Freightliners! We all willingly moved here knowing, as Thom likes to say, and choosing to live in the “Recovery Blocks.” We did not sign on for the Detritus Blocks. Any city official who thinks this is…