Category: NPB News
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An invitation from the Portland Bocce League
Anyone want to get into bocce this summer? – “The Portland Bocce League is interested in maintaining a relationship with the PDNA, since our principle base of activity is at the north end of the North Park Blocks. We activate the NPB in what we believe is a positive way. We also face the difficulties…
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Ankeny Square Activation Opportunity
We’re excited to hear that Portland Parks & Recreation is soliciting proposal for Ankeny Square. Can’t beat the rent: $1/ year. Ankeny Square is located between West Burnside and SW Ankeny, and between SW 8th Ave and SW Park Ave on the edge of the Pearl District in downtown Portland. This half-block actually sits at the southern end of…
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Activate the Block – A North Park Blocks Community Festival
Sat April 16th 2:00PM – 8:30 PM 511 NW Broadway (in front of PNCA) Free! Rain or shine Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Collaborative Design MFA first-year cohort is teaming up with Portland Parks and Recreation, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the Bureau of Transportation, and Better Block PSU to activate the Park Block…
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OPB Broadcast from Homeless Encampments In Lents
Lents Active Watch: Neighbors Try To Understand Homelessness OPB’s Think Out Loud March 7, 2015 Today we head out to Beggars Tick, a wildlife-refuge-turned-homeless-encampment in the Lents neighborhood, to try to understand the complicated relationship between housed and unhoused neighbors. “I’ve often said that if you want to be homeless, you might as well do it in Portland. It…
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A Vision for the North Park Blocks
Meeting Held with City Officials: Reported by Stanley Penkin Following the disruptive summer of 2015 in the North Park Blocks (NPB), there has been a good deal of discussion and citizen activism to assure that there is not a repeat occurrence this coming summer, or ever again. Residents and businesses adjacent to NPB gathered their forces late…