North Park Blocks PDX

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  • PBOT: Suck it Up, Unhappy PDX Drivers Citywide

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    The folks who live and work around the North Park Blocks keep getting the cold shoulder from Portland’s Commissioner of Public Safety Steve Novick and his Bureau of Transportation. For months we’ve documented how Bolt Bus turned a quiet historic park into a bus depot. We were startled when PBOT suggested we suck it up since drivers all over Portland are frustrated. Cevero…

  • 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…

  • Terminal Chaos Forces Bolt Bus To Street Corner

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    Dear Mayor Hales and City Commissioners, I know that some other residents of my building (The North Park Lofts at 300 NW 8th Ave.) have written complaining about the Bolt Bus “stop” (read: depot) that has been moved from SW Salmon St. to NW Everett St. at 8th Ave.  I won’t add to the litany…

  • City Neglect Closes Another North Park Blocks Business

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    First, Glyph (another North Park Blocks eatery) closed in Sept 2015. Now Remedy. Remedy Wine Bar featured huge windows that overlooked the North Park Blocks. A park-side location should be an asset to a gracious wine bar. But not when it’s adjacent to a space that city neglect has turned into a de facto homeless encampment. Portland Parks Commissioner…

  • Business Damaged “Beyond Repair” by Influx of Homeless Campers

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    BY KATU.COM Staff and Lincoln Graves, KATU News PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland wine bar is closing its doors after being damaged “beyond repair” by the “influx of homeless campers … drug use and other crimes.” Remedy Wine Bar, which has been located on Northwest Everett Street by the North Park Blocks for three years, made…