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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…
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Notes From the Field
I watched as 2 bicycle rangers with Portland Parks & Rec talk to a couple men in the park with their off-leash dog. The men and dog immediately left. Phil and I went over to talk to the rangers-2 very nice young men—Josh Schubert and Hunter Bronson. The rangers said the men were being “raucous”…
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North Park Blocks Meeting and Update
Friends and neighbors; A meeting of the North Park Blocks residents has been locked in. When: Thursday, August 6, 2015 6:00 pm Where: Powers Studios/Visiting Media 825 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR 97209 All of us are adamant about working with the necessary agencies, parks bureau, and the police to resolve the illegal, criminal activity…