January 2011 - NW Examiner

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JANUARY ’11
VOLUME 25, ISSUE 5
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Northwest activist says it heightens social inequities, can’t be controlled
julie keefe
John Bradley, chair of the Northwest District Association’s
land-use committee, called the urban renewal process
“ridiculous from a public money perspective.”
By Allan Classen
Urban renewal west of the I-405 Freeway may not be
dead, but it’s on ice, and no one knows if the proposed
Central City Urban Renewal District will ever come to
life.
After 15 months of meetings by area stakeholders,
Mayor Sam Adams announced last fall that the evaluation committee would be suspended until mid-year, if
not longer.
Resurrection—if it comes—may have more to do with
Adams’ political traction than the wisdom of launching
the far-flung downtown-Goose Hollow-Northwest District renewal area. But in Northwest Portland, key people
are wondering if letting the whole effort fade away might
be best for all.
That’s not the usual dynamic for proposed urban
renewal districts because the communities and propertyowners within them stand to gain handsomely from the
associated corralling of property tax revenues for their
benefit.
Scott Seibert, former board member of the Northwest District Association, charged that the self-interest
of property owners, developers and other stakeholders
serving on the evaluation committee is so obvious that
they could not be trusted to provide an honest verdict on
whether a new urban renewal area should be formed. He
Guide ignored by merchants
likened it to pigs feeding at a trough.
And yet, some longtime NWDA activists believe the
association should, in fact, pull away from the table, ur
trough. That hasn’t happened before. Portland Development Commission staff, who administer Portland’s 11
urban renewal areas, couldn’t cite an example of a neighborhood association wanting to opt out.
The association has not yet taken an official pro or
con stance and may never do so if the question becomes
moot.
But John Bradley, the NWDA leader most responsible
for leading that discussion, is increasingly disenchanted
with urban renewal in general and the proposed Central
City Urban Renewal Area in particular.
“I don’t think we necessarily want the money,” said
Bradley. “It comes with a whole lot of strings.”
He also wonders, “What would happen if you did
nothing?”
Although Con-way’s underdeveloped property in the
Slabtown area is a major magnet for urban renewal, there
is reason to believe the 20 acres—most of which have
been devoted to surface parking lots since the middle of
the last century—would develop on their own. The land
sits between the Pearl and Northwest 23rd Avenue, after
all.
Continued on page 5
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julie keefe
Bud on Larry King
Both were new faces in 1986
Hear no parking, see no parking, speak no parking.
Last month, the Northwest Examiner prepared a flyer
listing the seven commercial parking facilities along Northwest 23rd Avenue. It was, we at the paper believed, the
perfect gift to local merchants, who often tend to focus on
parking facilities they wish they had rather than ones they
already have.
We emailed the flyer to virtually every business on the
avenue, and to be sure, Mike Ryerson hand-delivered stacks
of flyers to ones we didn’t have emails for.
Then, just to make sure the information was getting to
the people who needed it, we commissioned local resident
Karen Harter, who also proofreads for the paper, to visit 23rd
Avenue businesses to see how they were making use of it. Her
report, which follows, was quite a holiday surprise.
PAGE 24
By Karen Harter
I first went to Christmas at the Zoo, where the clerk
pointed immediately to the pile of flyers on the counter
and said, “We have a list right here!”
She seemed proud of being so well prepared. I asked
which would be closest, and she said, “Probably Glisan.”
Thanking her and, hurrying out to find my imaginary
harried driver, I continued down the street.
It was Dec. 15 and I was hopeful that Christmas shoppers everywhere would find warm accommodation in our
neighborhood.
Then I went to Polish Pottery Place, which is just east
of Ether on Hoyt Street. I said I’d like to shop for gifts,
but couldn’t find a parking space.
Continued on page 20
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Editor’s Turn
By Allan Classen
Editor & Publisher
Public schools at disadvantage
The Renaissance School sounds like a wonderful place to be a student or
a teacher. Isn’t it amazing what two public school teachers can do with a 10:1
student-to-teacher ratio and the freedom to do what they know is right for kids?
Unfortunately, many public schools have ratios of 30-plus to 1, and the curriculum
becomes more rigid all the time.
Amy Robbins
NW Reeder Rd.
Saving history
I want to compliment the Examiner for once again standing up to predatory
developers, who seek to wipe out the rich cultural heritage of the Alphabet District
by bulldozing another majestic historic residence. And just because Nathan Simon
was merely the brother of the 36th mayor of Portland, who also served almost one
full term as a U.S. senator from Oregon at the turn of the century (I’m talking
about his brother now), doesn’t make him, or any of the homes he may have lived
in, any less important. That would be like saying we don’t need to protect the “Billy
Carter Home” or the “Boyhood Residence of Roger Clinton.” Apropos the relatives of other less well-known Portland mayors, I would think any of the residences
of Frank Ivancie’s children should be protected, as well as those of anyone with the
last name of Shrunk, Clark, Potter, Katz or Lee. (Have I left anyone out?)
It’s comforting to know that a publication like the Northwest Examiner is so
vigilant in the defense of our neighborhood.
Ted Thomas
NW 23rd Ave.
Silence puzzling
As manager of Highland Court Apartments, I oversee a community of approximately 80 individuals directly across from Trader Joe’s. I enjoy patronizing the
store, as do a majority of my residents. In fact, I routinely mention its value and
convenience when residents move into the building.
This is what makes the current manager’s attitude of ignoring his neighbors’
polite requests to communicate even more frustrating. While Trader Joe’s did
cooperate and eliminate some of the unnecessary noise factors caused by their
operation and covered in the Northwest Examiner [November 2010], the manager has never once reached out to speak with the Examiner, myself or any other
neighbor with similar concerns.
I will continue to patronize the store but remain baffled why management
would take such an unresponsive attitude when approached in a courteous manner
by their neighbors.
Todd Keith
NW Glisan St.
index
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Going Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Community Events. . . . . . . . . . 16
Business & Real Estate. . . . . . . 18
In the ’Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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CONTRIBUTORS: michaela bancud, JEFF COOK, WENDy
Gordon, Carol wells
Urban renewal:
connecting the dots
Urban renewal used to be about
rebuilding areas. Whether in Portland or
elsewhere, urban renewal programs targeted geographically defined neighborhoods
or sections of cities.
Now we have urban renewal properties. Under Mayor Sam Adams’ directives,
the Portland Development Commission
searches out particular parcels with the
potential to multiply in value and then
connects the dots into a non-pattern
resembling a Rorschach test.
You might call it cherry picking.
Because the targeted properties are scattered here and there, they’ve invented a
term—cherry stem—for the required link
connecting them to the rest of an urban
renewal boundary.
These connecting stems may exist in
ether only. In the proposed Central City
Urban Renewal Area, there’s a stem going
up the center of Northwest Hoyt Street
for two blocks to encircle properties near
21st Avenue. Obviously, the street itself
cannot be developed; it’s merely a conduit
to circumvent the principle and law that
urban renewal areas be literally contiguous
areas.
While there’s a certain efficiency in
picking properties that were about to be
developed anyway, the downside is that
the ensuing urban renewal areas have no
common identity or coherence. The Central City URA would stretch all the way
from Portland State University and the
riverfront to Northwest 23rd and Vaughn
streets. This is not a single community.
These are not even abutting neighborhoods. If an attractive public project were
built on the far side of downtown, people
in Northwest Portland would not cheer
for their good fortune; more likely, they
would say, “They got theirs; when do we
get ours?”
That’s at the heart of how the whole
idea broke down among Northwest Dis-
trict activists. They were concerned that
their end of the district would get shortchanged as the big money went to PSU
or downtown. Some wanted two separate
urban renewal areas go ensure an adequate
degree of local control. They even talked
about wanting three separate citizen
oversight bodies so each section of the
district would have an advocate. Clearly,
this cobbled together contraption was not
going to move as one body.
Nor would investment in one part of
the urban renewal area lift properties
across the board. Investors would rightly
conclude that construction three miles
away would not bring their neighborhood
new life or boost their property values.
In that sense, the attempt to handcraft
boundaries may be supremely inefficient.
By picking out “islands” for development,
the mayor’s men also chose islands with
little interconnection.
That may be the fatal fault in the cherry-picking theory of urban renewal.
There are other strong contenders for
that honor.
How do government “experts” know
which properties are likely to rise in value?
By talking to the owners and learning of
their plans. Many property owners don’t
wait to be asked; they actively lobby for
inclusion in urban renewal. Since City
Council took control of PDC’s budget
four years ago, the most direct path has
been the familiar one paved by campaign
contributions and inside connections. If
urban renewal becomes the normal channel for politicians and big money interests
to feed their mutual ambitions, it is not
worthy of the name or its special powers
of the purse strings.
Other jurisdictions—public schools
and the county, primarily—no longer trust
Portland’s urban renewal system to promote their interests. They’ve gotten legislation to protect their share of property
tax revenues up front. They don’t believe
the original theory that urban renewal
only takes tax revenues that wouldn’t exist
otherwise.
Affordable housing advocates also get
a 30-percent share of urban renewal funds
off the top because they don’t believe
unfettered urban renewal will provide
housing for poor and working families.
The beast of urban renewal is so
weighted down, conflicted and confused
that few see it as a champion anymore. It
looks beautiful only in the eyes of those
who get its money.
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— O B I T UA RI ES —
Charles Stariha
Charles Stariha, who co-operated the Trinity Episcopal bookstore formerly on Northwest 23rd Avenue, died
Dec. 13 at age 89. Mr. Stariha was born Oct. 6, 1921, in
Portland. He served in the military in World War II. He
also owned a bookstore and was a matchmaker. He was
preceded in death by his wife, Anna; and son, Charles.
Craig E. Wollner
Craig Evan Wollner, a Northwest District resident and board president of the
Oregon Jewish Museum, died Nov. 20 of
heart failure at age 67. Mr. Wollner was
born Oct. 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and moved to Oregon at the age of nine
months. He graduated from Portland State University in
1966 and earned a master’s degree from PSU in 1969. He
received a doctorate from the University of New Mexico
in 1975. At the time of his death, he was professor of public administration in the Mark Hatfield School of Government and associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at PSU. He was founding
editor of Metroscape, the journal of PSU’s Institute of
Portland Metropolitan Studies. He is survived by his wife,
Patricia; brother, Howard; and sister, Deanne Wong.
Stephen A. Brand
Stephen A. Brand, a teacher at Chapman Elementary School, died Dec. 24
at age 45. He was born April 11, 1965,
in Orange County, Calif., where he
graduated from Webb High School. He
received degrees from Pacific University and Lewis & Clark College. He is survived by his
wife, Myndi; daughters, Ruby and Charlotte; father, Tom
Brand; stepmother, Kathleen; sisters, Claire and Kate; and
brother, Tony. Remembrances may be made in his name to
the Chapman Educational Foundation.
Kathryn A. Jensen
Dr. Phillip L. Nudelman
in the Northwest Vintage Speedsters and the 4-BarDr. Phillip Leo Nudelman, a King’s rels Club. He is survived by his wife; sons, David, John,
Heights resident for 45 years, died Dec. Thomas, and Andrew; sisters, Barbara MacEwan and
9 at age 95. He was born June 30, 1915, Gloria Ann Wilson; and nine grandchildren.
in Spokane, and moved to Portland
when he was 2. He graduated from
Robert W. Blakeley
Stanford University and the University
Robert William Blakeley, a Hillside
of Oregon Medical School. He served in
resident, died Dec. 14 at age 86. He was
the U.S. Navy during World War II. He practiced internal
born Aug. 25, 1924, near Detroit, Mich.,
medicine for 45 years in the Medical Dental Building
and attended Milford High School. He
downtown. He was a member of Temple Beth Israel. His
served in the U.S. Navy during World
wife died in 1969. He is survived by his children, Leslie
War II. He earned a bachelor’s degree at
and Ron; and three grandchildren.
the University of California, Santa Barbara; a master’s at
the University of Oregon; and a doctorate at the University of Michigan. He headed the Speech & Hearing Clinic
Lucy S. Howard
Lucy Shepard Howard, who grew up in the historic and Craniofacial Disorders Program at the University of
Failing House at 1937 NW Johnson St., died Nov. 10 at Oregon Medical School for 43 years. He also served 20
age 95. Born Lucy Shepard Feb. 18, 1915, she attended years on Kaiser’s Craniofacial Disorders Team. He was
Miss Catlin’s School and earned a bachelor’s degree at president of the State Speech and Hearing Association
Reed College. She taught seventh grade at Hayhurst and a section of the National Cleft Palate Association. As
School for many years and was later a teacher and a volunteer, Blake served children with cleft lip and palate
librarian at Riverdale School. Three of her poems were in Costa Rica, Canada, Russia, China and Peru. He is surpublished when she was in her 90s. She married Gordon vived by his wife of 42 years, Barbara; daughter, Britany;
E. Beebe; he died. She later married Robert S. Howard; and two grandchildren.
he died. She is survived by her son, Gordon S. “Sandy”
Beebe; daughter, Leslie M. Beebe; three grandchildren;
and one great-grandchild.
Thomas L. Weber
Thomas L. Weber, who retired after 43 years at ESCO
Corp., died Dec. 9 at age 76. Mr. Weber was born Oct. 12,
1934, in Portland. He graduated from Central Catholic
High School, after which he served three years in the U.S.
Navy. He served as plant manager at ESCO. He married
Phyllis in 1954. He is survived by his wife; daughters,
Laurie Bales, DeeDee Weber and Carolyn Anderson;
sons, Tim and Brad; 14 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.
Donald D. Shreve,
Kathryn Ann Jensen, who lived in
Donald David Shreve, who retired
Northwest Portland since 2002, died
after 34 years at Consolidated FreightDec. 3 at age 97. Kathryn Diebag was
ways, died Dec. 17 at age 80. He was
born April 7, 1913, in Machias, Wash.,
born in Eugene Nov. 21, 1930, and
and graduated from Everett High
graduated from Central High School
School. She married Howard A. Jensen
in Knoxville, Tenn. He served in the
in 1941; he died in 2000. She is survived by her daughter,
U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He
Joleen Jensen-Classen; and her sister, Alice White.
graduated from the University of Oregon in 1955 before
joining Consolidated Freightways, where he became the
director of licensing. He married Billie Bay in 1959. He
married Elaine Conklin Doench in 1965. He was active
Death notices
Norman Lee Ahl, 76, supervisor at Graphics Art Center.
Dwayne G. “Dee” Erickson, Jr., 49, scenic and production artist for Laika. Donald C. Glutsch, 89, a long haul truck driver for BlitzWeinhard Brewing Company.
Bobby Arthur Haney, Jr., 55, a senior systems security
analyst for Con-way.
Beatrice D. Hazlett, 83, worked in community affairs at
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Shelly Lynn Ritchie, 48, an X-ray technician for Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of people who
lived, worked or had other substantial connections to our
readership area, which includes Northwest Portland, Goose
Hollow, Sauvie Island and areas north of Highway 26. If you
have information about a death in our area, please contact us
at [email protected]. Photographs are also welcomed.
There is no charge for obituaries in the Examiner.
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Urban development continued
ates new investment and property tax revenues that would
Bradley, for one, finds it hard to stomach the notion of
not exist without it, Kafoury, Bradley and other critics taking from the poor to give to the rich.
Bradley and other members of the NWDA Planning see it as diverting part of the revenue stream that would
“I’m concerned about equality,” he said.
Committee, which he has chaired since the 1990s, have otherwise go to schools, county services for the needy and
weighed the benefits of gradual, market-driven devel- other more basic government projects.
Results unpredictable
opment versus rapid, artificially boosted
His criticisms don’t end there.
growth that may overwhelm the scale and
density of the Northwest District Plan.
“I think this whole urban renewal proOn the positive side, urban renewal could
cess is ridiculous from a public money
bring parks, public squares, a community
perspective,” he said.
center, extension of the streetcar line and
He sees no particular catalytic projects
other features the community wants. The
on the horizon that will spur independent
calculus gets complicated.
private investment, and few limits on what
“We face the simple question of, can
type of development might emerge.
we get the projects we want funded while
“It could wind up in parking structures,”
avoiding those projects and consequences
he speculated, a fear made plausible by
that we don’t want?” Bradley wrote in a
a gerrymandering loop in the proposed
position paper sent to County Commisboundary to include a potential garage on
sioner Deborah Kafoury.
the west side of the Metropolitan Learning
His own answer to that question: There
Center.
is no way to know ahead of time.
Don Genasci, another long-time PlanBradley laid out his concerns about
ning Committee member, would be more
urban renewal in three areas:
sympathetic toward bringing urban renewal to his neighborhood if a development
*Social inequity,
agreement—such as the 1997 deal between
*Governance and decision-making
City Council and Homer Williams of Hoyt
regarding projects selected for funding,
Street Properties—were possible.
*Unpredictability of outcomes, inability
No one believes it is.
to control long-term consequences.
“The whole idea of a development agreeWhile not giving a flat failure grade in
ment is automatically dismissed by PDC,”
any of these categories, his paper is heavily
said Genasci. “We should require some
skeptical on each.
“A
dollar
spent
here
is
a
dollar
you’re
not
able
to
spend
type
of
development
agreement, even though it’s hard
“I have become less and less confident that any of the
there,”
said
Kafoury.
to
accomplish.
It’s
happened
in the Pearl, so we know it
goals we set for the urban renewal area will be accomcan
be
done.
Otherwise
we’re
subject to the politics of
Kafoury
estimates
that
all
Portland
urban
renewal
areas
plished,” he said.
downtown.”
combined
divert
about
$1
million
from
the
county
a
year,
Bradley characterizes the mechanism of urban renewJuliet Hyams, NWDA’s past president and representaal—tax increment financing—as “sucking the life out of noting that PDC hasn’t provided sufficient information
surrounding areas … by taking out development money to produce a more reliable number. As a consequence of tive on the Central City Urban Renewal Area Evaluation
this and the lack of state funding, the county could be Committee, has grown tired of vague assurances about
and concentrating it here.”
forced to shut down entire programs, such as adult mental what urban renewal would bring to her neighborhood.
health.
“I also have lost a lot of confidence in PDC in this
Is it fair?
“One or more taxing jurisdictions may gain funds over process,” she said. “I don’t understand why they do what
That raises issues of social equity. Is it fair to divert the life of the bonds, whereas others will lose them,” they do.”
public resources from schools and programs serving Bradley said. “In our case, the city will gain these monies
She is also troubled that the stakeholders committee is
lower-income areas and individuals across the county in while the county and the public school system will lose
advisory only and can be dissolved at any time.
order to pour additional blessings on communities doing them.”
“City Council has all the power,” she said. “There are
quite well without them?
NWDA President Ron Walters is candid about his no checks and balances.”
Roger Vrilakas, a business operator and member of neighborhood’s place in the larger scheme of things.
Despite all the negativity toward the proposed Centhe NWDA Planning Committee, said society should
“We don’t think we’re blighted,” he said.
tral City Urban Renewal Area among neighborhood
be funding teachers and more important social purposes.
In the common understanding of the term, few would representatives, Bradley has not persuaded them to go
“Spend the money on something that needs to be done
disagree. But in order for an urban renewal area to be clas- on record in opposition. When he has pushed for such a
right now,” Vrilakas said, “which isn’t another building.”
sified as blighted, it need only show that it has land not resolution, some of his colleagues—though as cynical in
While urban renewal advocates say the process gener- fulfilling its development potential, whatever the reason.
Continued on page 6
“It seems it’s more in our interest
to say we believe an
urban renewal area is useful,
but I’m prepared to believe
we’ll get run over either way.”
- bill welch
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Urban development continued
julie keefe
John Bradley, standing in one of Con-way’s many parking lots, characterizes the mechanism of urban renewal—tax increment financing—as “sucking the life out of surrounding areas … by
taking out development money and concentrating it here.”
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many ways as he is to the concept—have
pushed back on practical grounds. They
have argued that it would be better to be
players and use their influence to get the
best results possible for their neighborhood if and when a district is formed.
Committee member Fran Goldstein
advised putting aside the question of
whether an urban renewal district in sum
is good policy and instead emphasizing
the positive. She suggested drafting a
white paper stating support for a URA
that accomplished three to five specified
projects or goals of the organization.
Committee member Steve Pinger, who
is also an architect and developer, suggested that urban renewal can be a means
of attaining NWDA goals and public
amenities in the Con-way area.
“It’s one of the few tools to do that, if
not the best one,” said Pinger. “We should
be consistent, but we can support urban
renewal relative to these objectives.”
No choice
Besides, opting out may not be a choice.
While neighborhood opinion is one factor,
the decision to form an urban renewal district and determine its boundaries is made
by City Council, and the lure of dense
development on Con-way’s idling acres
may override all.
“Do we even have the ability to say we
won’t?” asked Bill Welch, a committee
member since the 1970s. “I don’t think
we do.
“It seems it’s more in our interest to say
we believe an urban renewal area is useful,
but I’m prepared to believe we’ll get run
over either way,” said Welch.
Craig Boretz, the man in the room with
the most to gain from creation of the Central City Urban Renewal Area, is still not
a big fan. Boretz is in charge of real estate
for Con-way. He serves on the stakeholders committee and on an NWDA task
force developing a vision for the Slabtown
area, which includes the company’s holdings.
Boretz called urban renewal just one
tool to drive and shape development.
“It’s a very flawed tool,” he said. While
he favors reform of the urban renewal
process, he’s not holding his breath. He
considers adequate reform “beyond possibility.”
As he’s turned it over in his mind over
the months, Bradley’s critique of urban
renewal has grown from mere local logistics to a general indictment of the entire
system.
The reason PDC staff have not talked
much about specific projects that might
be funded by a URA, he believes, is that
a project for PSU or the riverfront is seen
as providing no benefit to Northwest
Portland, and visa versa. Therefore, no
single project is likely to be supported by a
majority of the stakeholders.
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political constituency. That’s the reason
why there’s this deliberate ambiguity,” he
said.
“The only reason we’re doing this is it’s
an easy way for city [leaders] to get money
and do whatever they want with it. It saves
politicians from identifying a project and
selling it to the voters and taxpayers. It’s
the least democratic—and I don’t usually
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News & Views
Growth transforming 14th Avenue on edge of Pearl
By Allan Classen
If you’ve heard about a recent development in the Pearl District, chances are it
was on 14th Avenue.
The biggest redevelopment news to hit
the central city in years, Vestas taking the
old Meier & Frank depot, is on Northwest
14th Avenue.
The Ramona, a mid-rise, 138-unit,
affordable apartment building, will be completed at 14th and Quimby this spring.
The Overton Pearl at 14th and Overton
is already 65-percent leased, thanks to a deal
with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, midway through construction.
Activewear maker Icebreaker moved its
U.S. headquarters to Northwest 14th and
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Pettygrove two years ago.
MachineWorks, an eight-story office
building at 14th and Northrup completed
two years ago, was fully leased in its first
18 months.
Freedom Center, a 150-unit apartment
building aimed at bicycle riders who don’t
have cars, has been approved locally and
awaits a federal loan guarantee to break
ground.
A half-block conversion of a warehouse
at 14th and Flanders into retail spaces is also
well along.
Raleigh Square, one and a half blocks
of commercial spaces carved from older
industrial buildings, has attracted a cluster
of home improvement businesses to the
north end of 14th Avenue.
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at Icebreaker, oversees an open, airy workspace.
Overton Pearl (left) is fully leased, well before
its completion.
Raleigh Square (far left) has turned light
industrial buildings under the freeway into
retail/office space.
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Craig Sweitzer, owner of Urban
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planning. As the heart of the Pearl
District has been built up, developers have looked to cheaper, lesscongested land on the edges, and
14th Avenue has a lot of offer.
“It’s the one place where retailers and businesses can grow,” said
Sweitzer, noting that it has great
vehicle access to the freeway and
downtown, and good pedestrian
access from all directions.
While the freeway and its associated noise and fumes may dampen the interest of some residential
developers, it’s not a problem for
retail and office uses, he said.
There is also little opposition
to development on 14th Avenue
from surrounding neighbors, both
because there are few residential
MachineWorks was fully leased 18 months after opening.
buildings in the area and the Pearl
The 155-unit Enso apartment building, District Neighborhood Association supcovering almost a full block between 14th, ports dense growth.
15th, Lovejoy and Marshall streets, is a year
“We’re beginning to see daytime busiold.
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Professional firms and creative agencies
Art, planned at 14th and Kearney, was are moving to 14th because it now offers
recently put on hold.
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The rest of the Pearl District combined and places to meet. Sweitzer said a large
hasn’t had this much development activity daytime population is crucial to making a
in the past two years.
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he said. “Daytime trips make the coffee shops succeed.
That gives a sense of place.”
Mark Madden, the developer behind Overton Pearl,
Raleigh Square and Freedom Center, said 14th Avenue
“seems to be the street that’s got the action now.
“It’s amazing. Even in this economy, it’s still chugging
along and has projects going.”
Madden expects it to be the next street that transforms
into a popular pedestrian place.
Plans for the Freedom Center are still up in the air.
The reason is no mystery. It represents most of the land
available for development that isn’t controlled by Hoyt
With all the growth ahead, he can’t see how 14th Avenue
Street Properties, the company that has built the core of the can continue to have only one lane for vehicles north of
district under a 1997 development agreement with the city. Glisan. There’s already a bottleneck going north at Lovejoy
it backs up two or three blocks, he said.
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Icebreaker moved its headquarters and design center
from Ketcham, Ida., to Portland to tap into the talented
community of local clothing designers and for better
transportation connections. Company spokesperson Lee
Weinstein said Icebreaker always wanted to come to the
Pearl, and 14th Avenue works particularly well for the company’s needs.
“It’s a great location for employees,” said Weinstein. “We
have a lot of folks who walk or bike to work, and it’s super
easy access to the freeway, Naito Parkway or downtown.”
The 41 employees at this office tend to be physically
active. Some run in Forest Park or along the Willamette
River during their lunch breaks. Many also go to 24-Hour
Fitness or LA Fitness for workouts. They also frequent
nearby places like Urban Grind and Rogue Brewery.
Weinstein said Icebreaker employees, who average about
31-32 years in age, would “absolutely” be interested in
300-square-foot apartments without parking as planned by
Madden’s Freedom Center. He described them as people
who travel a lot, take advantage of the outdoors and want
fast commutes.
The company’s catalytic effect on surrounding businesses is expected to grow if the company approaches its
Work has begun on the Vestas headquarters in the former
intention to double its revenues in the next three years.
Meier & Frank warehouse at Northwest 14th and Everett.
Vestas is expected to bring a similar type of workforce,
and a lot more of them. There will be about 400 workers
Fourteenth Avenue is also well served by the freeway on-site when the new headquarters opens in early 2012,
and arterials.
with a commitment to add another 100 within five years.
Madden doesn’t consider the freeway that much of an
While someone might think that by then 14th Avenue
impediment to residential development. The decibel range could be as busy and well-known as any street in the Pearl,
is moderate, “and people like to see the activity on the free- city traffic engineers believe one traffic lane will be able to
way, especially the lights at night.”
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It’s beautiful. Maybe you can forget a little noise if you get engineers aren’t the only ones looking to 14th Avenue as a
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GladYou
Asked
The 1896 city directory lists Sam Simon at
690 Flanders (2124 NW Flanders). His
brother Joseph lived in the house directly
behind at 689 Everett (2125 NW Everett).
According to the 1900 U.S. Census, the home
on Flanders was occupied by Nathan D.
Simon and his family that year. They lived
there until the late 1920s.
Answering your questions about
Northwest Portland history
By Mike Ryerson
‘Who the heck is Nathan Simon?’
(When the developer who is proposing the
demolition of the 1895 house at 2124 NW
Flanders St. appeared before the Historic
Landmarks Commission to present his plans
for a 28-unit apartment house, he was overheard loudly addressing opponents of the
project with the following question as they
were leaving the meeting room.)
When Sam left Portland to work in
New York, the house at 690 Flanders (now
known as 2124 NW Flanders St.) went
to his younger brother Nathan and his
wife Hattie. Nathan became a prominent
lawyer, and he and his family lived in the
house from 1900 until shortly after his
wife’s death in 1923. He died four years
later in his family’s home on Southwest
Vista Avenue.
Question:
Joseph Simon lived at 689 Everett (2125
“Who the heck is Nathan Simon?”
NW
Everett St.), the matching house with
– Dennis Sackhoff,
an abutting backyard. He became a state
president of Arbor Custom Homes
senator (1880-1898), U.S. senator (1898When Sam Simon, the original owner of the
1903) and Portland mayor (1909-1911).
Flanders house, died in New York in 1939,
Answer:
He never married. He shared the home
he left much of his estate to local Portland
Nathan Simon was born in 1864 to with his sister Minnie and her husband.
charities. They included the Boys & Girls’ Aid
German parents David and Eliza Simon.
Society, Waverly Baby Home, Neighborhood
The family, which also included his older Have a Northwest Portland history question?
The 1900-01 city directory also shows
House, the Visiting Nurses and Temple Beth
brothers Joseph and Samuel, had come a Email it to [email protected]
the Nathan D. Simon family as living
Israel.
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in the Flanders house. Brothers Joseph
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worked as a merchant.
and Sam are listed in the house on
In the early 1890s, the family purEverett, along with their father, David.
chased several parcels of land just west of
Sam left for New York around this date.
Northwest 21st Avenue between Everett
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and Flanders streets. In 1895, they built
matching Queen Anne Victorian homes
on back-to-back lots.
When Sam was in his early 20s, he was
a bookkeeper for Fleischner, Mayer & Co.
Eventually, he became a part owner of the
Oregon-founded business, which became
a national wholesale distributor of dry
goods. Around 1900, Sam left Portland to
work out of his company’s New York office,
where he remained until they went out
of business at the beginning of the Great
Depression in 1930. He then returned to
Portland and lived in a home the family
owned on Southwest Vista Avenue. He The 1895 Simon House at 2125 NW Everett has retained its Queen
The similar house at 2124 NW Flanders has been severely altered
later moved back to New York, where he Anne Victorian charm.
inside and out. Major changes were made to the porch and front of
died in 1939.
the structure in 1947. It’s currently a rooming house.
Then &Now
This turn-of-the-century building on the southeast corner of Northwest 23rd and Kearney street was once a nickelodeon owned by Nina Larowe and Philip Gevurtz. Larowe
had earlier run a dance hall and charm school. For many years, it housed the Nob Hill
Theater, Nob Hill Grocery and (until around 1950) the Nob Hill Tavern. It then
became the Esquire Theater, which closed in the 1980s. (Mike Ryerson Photo)
Since the Esquire Theater closed in the mid 1980s, the building has been occupied
by several restaurants, including Gabriel’s Bakery and Torrefazione Italia. The two
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home of Tributes, Mio Gelato and Rose’s Delicatessen & Bakery. The building is 100
years old in 2011. (Mike Ryerson Photo)
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Dining & Entertainment
Specials menu
lives up to its name
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By Wendy Gordon
Whatever you order, you can be pretty much guaranteed
of a tasty Thai meal at Red Onion, the third Portland-area
restaurant venture for chef Dang Boonyakamol.
But if you desire a more unique culinary experience,
order off the specials menu. This menu (which rotates
about once a month) is where Boonyakamol showcases
authentic recipes from his native Northern Thailand.
While it lacks the hip vibe and interesting cocktails of
Division Street’s Pok Pok—which has garnered national
press clippings—the food compares most favorably.
Pla Meuk Yut Sai (deep-fried calamari tubes stuffed
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in many Thai restaurants. But here the filling predominates over the breading, providing a satisfying burst of
flavor. The calamari is of good quality, clearly tasting like
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Wor Somanand serves Tom Linstrom, his daughter Mandi
Middlestetter and granddaughter Mirabelle.
Tom Mamuang and Pla Trout Tod Krob is a take-off on
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Chu Chee Pla Dook, batter-fried catfish in a curry
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Oregon Nikkei Center tells story of former Japantown
By Carol Wells
buro Ban, who arrived in
Oregon in 1891, would
eventually bring thousands of workers to
Portland on their way
to jobs as far away as
Wyoming. He provided housing and
transportation, and
in return, the laborers
paid him a commission of 5 to 10 cents
per day.
Among Ban’s
The Oregon landscape is dotted with
ghost towns. To visit one is to sense the
inevitability of change brought on by time:
The timber runs out, the promise of gold
doesn’t materialize and people close up
shop and move on.
The small museum at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center portrays a less-familiar history lesson: One whole section of
Northwest Portland was once a ghost town,
its population made to vanish during a
seven-day whirlwind in 1942.
The area bounded by Southwest Ankeny, Northwest Glisan, First and
atsushima
Sixth streets had been a center Courtesy of Yoji M
of Japanese-American cultural
and commercial life since the
1890s. Japantown was crowded with businesses; a snapshot
from 1940 shows the block
between Couch, Davis, Third
and Fourth contained (among
others) Saito Shoes, Tanaka Grocery, a laundry and bath, three
restaurants, a realtor, a barber and
a dentist.
Two years later, on April 28,
signs were put up on light posts
and sides of buildings notifying
people of Japanese ancestry that they
were to take what they could carry
and report to the Pacific Northwest
Livestock Exposition Pavilion (on the
site of today’s Portland Expo Center),
which had been converted into a temporary detention center. From there,
after a stay in manure-filled pens, most
would be sent to the Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho.
businesses was the Oshu Shimpo (Oregon
By May 5, the businesses of Japantown were padlocked and the people were News), the first Japanese daily newspaper
gone. Instead of families stepping out to a in Oregon. Its offices were in the Merchant
special dinner, cannery workers in town to Hotel, which was also the family residence,
replenish their soy sauce and sake supplies, near the corner of Northwest Second and
farmhands to buy a new Stetson hat, chil- Davis. The building today houses the Oredren on their way to the Japanese school gon Nikkei museum and other businesses.
The first exhibit in the museum pays
at Fifth and Flanders or to the North Park
homage to the laundry and bath business
Blocks to play, there was only stillness.
The roots of Japantown begin in 1882 that also operated on the site. Behind
with the Chinese Exclusion Act. Having a counter are stacks of finished laundry
completed the transcontinental railroad, wrapped in brown paper and tied with
Chinese laborers were suddenly seen as string, with each customer’s name neatly
unfair competition. A federal law decreed written in Kanji, all ready to be picked up.
that no new immigration was permit- Patrons dropped off their laundry, went
ted. Into this labor void stepped Japanese down the hall to take a bath and finished
emigrants (known as Nikkei, as are their up with a shave.
The next exhibit shows a counter from
descendants).
The efforts of contractors like Shinza- the nearby Teikoku store on Third and
ones that most others would be sent to a
few months later.
Oregon
Kikkei Legacy
Center
On one visit to the
museum, I happened to
meet Joyce (née Tadakuma) Gee, who was there
to show her daughter the
Taken: FBI exhibit. She
was pointing to and identifying family members
in the photos that focused
on her grandfather, Sadaji
“Hood” Shiogi, a prominent
farmer in Montavilla. She
had been born at Minidoka,
leaving when she was a year
old.
While she was growing up,
family
members did not talk
The Teikoku
about
the
camps.
store at Northwest Third
“You
asked
them, and they
and Davis sold supplies to men who came into
shrugged
it
off,”
she
said.
town from logging camps, canneries, railroads
The museum’s executive director, Mari
and farms.
Watanabe, had a similar experience. When
she asked about the large polished rock
The Merchant Hotel circa 1938, site of the
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center today. The little that was always on display in their home,
she was told, “Grandpa did that in camp.”
girl on skates is Aya Fukuda.
She assumed her parents meant Boy
Davis, where customers could buy canned
Scout camp.
goods imported from Japan as well as
The last camp closed in March 1946.
logging boots with spikes embedded in
Only about half of the Japanese-Americans
their soles and judo outfits. That buildwho came from Portland returned, and
ing also still stands, now housing Old
most did not return to Japantown. In 1952,
Town Pizza. After the war, the family
Japanese people were allowed to become
changed the name from the unacceptcitizens.
able Teikoku (meaning “imperial”) to
It is the more than just the suddenness
Anzen and moved the business to
that makes this particular ghost town story
Northeast Portland, where it continso affecting. A natural disaster like an
ues today.
earthquake or a fire can empty out a town
The museum is a vibrant part of
all at once, but this cataclysm was manPortland’s Japanese-American community.
made, generated by hysteria. Here was
Many of its artifacts are there because its
an event that was not only shameful and
patrons went into their own attics and
misguided, but so avoidable. The Oregon
found them. All of the displays are obviNikkei Legacy Center stands firmly in the
ously done with loving care and are made
center of this once ghost town, determined
all the more interesting by the realization
that the story be told, its very presence a
that they are created by volunteers. Near
refusal to just shrug it off.
the store exhibit is a list thanking the huge
number of carpenters, cabinetmakers and
exhibit constructors who contributed.
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Chicken skewers on brown rice with almonds and cranberries ($4)
Nook Café
1524 NW 23rd Ave. | Happy Hour: daily, 4-7 p.m.
Warmly-painted yellow walls and sky-blue ceilings in the dining area comfortably
contrast the bright bar just inside the door, where customers are directed to place their
orders before taking a table. The cuisine, touted as Mediterranean and American, is a
cross between flexible European and a good diner, and while the happy hour menu is
slim, the portions are not. The cup of macaroni and cheese ($3) was perfect—pasta al
dente, coated in a thick sauce with a simple bite. Chicken skewers, three thick slices of
moist breast meat cooked just past being pink, laid atop a generous scoop of brown rice
with almonds and cranberries ($4) was the favorite. By far the impressive bargains are
the cocktails at $2 off and beer for $3 a pint. That includes Ninkasi, one of Oregon’s best
microbrews—motivation enough to try this new spot.
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Community
Events
Town Hall
State representatives Mitch Greenlick
and Chris Harker and Senator Suzanne
Bonamici will host a town hall meeting
Saturday, Jan. 8, 10:30 a.m., at the Cedar
Mill Library, 12505 NW Cornell Rd. They
will preview the 2011 Legislative session
and answer questions. Portland Plan
The city of Portland will hold two
workshops on the Portland Plan in the area
this month as part of the “Inspiring Communities” series. Each event will include a
keynote speaker, a local panel discussion
and audience participation. On Wednesday,
Jan. 12, 7 p.m., Cynthia Girling and Ronald Kellett, University of British Columbia School of Architecture & Landscape
Architecture, will speak on designing for
environment and community at the Ecotrust Building, Billy Frank Jr. Conference
Room, 721 NW Ninth Ave. On Monday,
Jan. 17, Bob Weissbourd, RW Ventures,
will speak on economic development at
Mercy Corps Action Center, Aceh Community Room, 28 SW First Ave. For more
information, go to www.pdxplan.com.
Jan. 30, at 4 p.m. The Pacific Youth Choir
Chamber Choir will also perform. Tickets
are $10 for seniors and students and $12
for adults. For information, or to order
tickets, call the Portland Youth Philharmonic at 503-223-5939. Town Buffet ( Jan. 11), Wells Fargo Museum and Huber’s Restaurant ( Jan. 18), Chinese Garden and Tea House ( Jan. 25) and
Bob’s Red Mill ( Jan. 31). For reservations,
call Ride Connection at 503-226-0700.
Remodeling 101
Northwest neighbors are invited to a
free seminar, “Remodeling 101–De-mystifying the Process,” at Giulietti/Schouten
AIA Architects, Saturday, Jan. 22, 10 a.m.noon at 2800 NW Thurman St. Dave
Giulietti will explain the process of planning for and carrying out major or minor
home remodels. Reservations are required;
call 503-223-0325.
Workshop on sleep
A free naturopath workshop on sleep
is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 11, 6-7:30 p.m.,
at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave.
Physicians from A Family Healing Center
will show how to get a more restful sleep
without medications. Call 503-228-4391
to register.
Chamber concert
Members of the Portland Youth Philharmonic and Conductor/Music Director
David Hattner will present a Chamber
Senior field trips
Senior field trips sponsored by Friendly Orchestra Concert featuring works by
House and Northwest Portland Ministries Bach, Mozart and Copland in the Wieden
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uals with cancer will be held Monday, Jan.
10, 6-7:30 p.m., at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. Learn adaptive gardening
strategies, garden tasks for the season and
year-round indoor and outdoor techniques
for energy conservation. The instructor is
Teresia Hazen, a horticultural therapist.
Senior fitness
Registration required. Contact thazen@lhs.
Friendly House offers dozens of weekly org or 503-413-6507 for more information
fitness classes, activities and meals for and to register.
seniors, including: Tai Chi, Osteoporosis
Class, Easy Exercise, Swimming, Yoga, Garden tour
Library Shuttle, Game Day, Women’s
A free 20-minute garden tour of Stenzel
Writing, Watercolor, Internet Tutoring Garden at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospiand Field Trips. Call Friendly House at tal for individuals with cancer, their fami503-228-4391 for more information, or to lies and friends, followed by a 45-60-minask to be on the mailing list to receive the ute neighborhood nature walk, is scheduled
Senior Newsletter.
Tuesday, Jan. 18, 10 a.m. Meet at the
hearing garden at Northwest 22nd and
Glaucoma screening
Marshall. For more information, contact
Free glaucoma screenings will be offered Teresia Hazen at [email protected] or 503Tuesday, Jan. 11, at Legacy Good Samari- 413-6507.
tan Hospital in recognition of National
Glaucoma Awareness Month. No appoint- Rotary speakers
ment is required; testing is on a first-come,
Portland Pearl Rotary Club meets at the
first-served basis. Information is available Ecotrust Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave.,
at www.legacyhealth.org/devers. The event every Tuesday at 7:25 a.m. Meetings are
is coordinated by Devers Eye Institute.
open to the public. A $10 charge includes
breakfast. For information, contact: George
Adult recreation
Wright, [email protected] or 503The winter schedule of adult recreation 223-0268.
and education classes at Friendly House
Jan. 11: “Brew to Bikes: Portland’s Artibegins this month. Classes on Zumba san Economy,” Charles Heying, associate
Tone, Pilates, Yoga and Belly Dancing professor of urban studies and planning,
are beginning soon. Call 503-228-4391 Portland State University.
to register. A four-month membership
Jan. 18: “Creating Your Own Stimulus
that includes use of the gym, weight room Package,” Matt Mahaffy, broker, Realty
and Internet Center is $90. Information is Trust Group.
available at www.friendlyhouseinc.org.
Jan. 25: “21st Century Power: A Look at
the Future of Solar Energy at Home and
Gardening workshop
A free gardening workshop for individ- Abroad,” Jordan Weisman.
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Red Onion continued
limey bite as the green mango salad in
a smoother textural form. In the Glass
Noodle Salad (ground chicken, shrimp, rice
noodles, shallots, mint, cilantro, lime and
chilies), the noodles melt into the meat,
providing yet another rendition of the same
theme.
Stir-fries, curries, fried rice and noodle
dishes all come with a choice of tofu,
chicken, beef or shrimp. The many creative vegetable dishes make Red Onion
an excellent choice for vegetarians, but
carnivores will find the chicken and beef
of unusually good quality. The seafood, too,
including salmon and halibut, is of greater
quality and variety than one often finds in
Thai restaurants.
Beef definitely starred in two of the
dishes we tried. Beef and Pumpkin Mussaman Curry featured generous slices of
tender sirloin, potatoes, carrots and peppers, in a thin and mild, but very tasty curry
sauce. The only thing surprisingly underrepresented was the pumpkin, which would
have lent a welcome viscosity to the dish.
Stir-fried Green Curry Beef contained the
same tender beef, plus an impressive array
of vegetables (eggplant, bamboo shoot and
red peppers) in a delicious coconut-milk
curry sauce laced with lime and basil.
Thick, wide rice noodles provide the
centerpiece for both the drunken noodles
and the house special noodle curry. Both
feature generous helpings of crisp vegetables and your choice of protein; the first in
a chili sauce, the second in a peanut curry.
Yes, you can order standbys such as won
ton soup, fried rice or pad Thai. I’ve heard
they’re good, but haven’t felt compelled to
order such common items when there are
so many more exotic things to choose from.
The salad rolls are pleasant enough but
mundane, tasting mainly of bean sprouts
and julienned carrots.
Seasoning, even when the dish is marked
on the menu with a hot pepper, tends
towards the mild. Only the catfish (noted
as “SPICY” on the specials menu) packed
genuine heat. But this restraint allows
the sophisticated, nuanced flavorings to
shine through, and the sinus-clearing chilies aren’t really missed.
Red Onion does not have a liquor
license, but you can bring your own wine.
The best liquid accompaniment to Thai
food, to my taste, is the refreshing lime
juice with soda.
Prices for dishes range between $10 and
$14. If you order one dish per person, plus
a couple appetizers, you will find yourself
taking home goodies for tomorrow’s lunch.
The dining room fills up most evenings, so come early or make a reservation.
The atmosphere is plain and the service
competent but unobtrusive, essentially a
background for the delicious and inventive
food. They are open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Takeout is another
option.
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Finance & Real Estate Developer no fan of historic review process
Wants to level 1895 house on Flanders for 28-unit apartment building
By Allan Classen
Developer Dennis Sackhoff, who wants to demolish
an 1895 house at 2124 NW Flanders St. to squeeze in a
28-unit apartment building, did not endear himself to the
Historical Landmarks Commission in his first go-around
with the body.
The Beaverton-based developer criticized the commission, comprised of citizens appointed by the City Council,
for providing only resistance to his development plans,
which he had submitted for design advice.
“I’m trying to get constructive criticism,” he told the
commission. “I’m not getting a lot of that. … This looks to
me like a destructive process.”
After the hearing was completed, Sackhoff approached
the commission with a question: “Who is Nathan Simon?”
Simon, an attorney in Portland for 46 years and brother
of former mayor Joseph Simon, had been identified in the
December Northwest Examiner as the first owner of the
house. Due to this historic connection, two witnesses and
one commission member suggested that the existing house
has been misclassified as not contributing to the Alphabet Historic District. Further research by the Examiner’s
Mike Ryerson revealed that the house was five years older
than indicated on Portland Maps, and its first occupant
was another brother, Samuel Simon, a merchant and part
owner of Fleischner, Mayer & Company.
To Sackhoff, however, the building is of no historic
merit, either for its present condition or association with
past owners.
Dennis Sackhoff is president of Arbor Custom Homes,
which has built 18 residential projects in the Portland
allan classen
suburbs since its formation in 1988, according to its website. He bought 2124 NW Flanders St. for $850,000 three
years ago, at the peak of the housing market, and has been
managing the property, which is divided into 17 rooms
and apartments.
The commission, which has purview over the design
of the new structure but no ability to block demolition of
the existing housing, found fault with nearly every aspect
of the proposal. Commission members were united in the
opinion that the architectural drawings presented did not
suggest a building that would be compatible with the historic and pedestrian-oriented character of the surrounding
area.
Commission chair Art DeMuro advised Sackhoff that
if he chose to move forward with this design, it would
be unanimously rejected by the commission. Several
explained that the desire to pack maximum density into
the modest 50x100-foot lot forced most of the design
compromises they found offensive.
Neighbor Dan Anderson described it as “10 pounds
of stuff in a five-pound sack,” and commissioner Harris
Matarazzo said, “I couldn’t have put it better than Mr.
Anderson.”
“I’m surprised you could put this much building in this
lot,” said Matarazzo.
Older apartment buildings on similar-sized lots in the
district typically have about half as many units. To accomplish higher density, the proposed design has no front
entrance—the entry would be on the side.
No one at the hearing could cite an example in the
Otak Inc.
The proposed design was faulted by landmarks commission members for, among other things, having no entry in front.
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Developer Dennis Sackhoff called Portland’s historic design
review “a destructive process.”
district of an apartment building whose main entry did
not face the street.
DeMuro said the street face “has no welcoming pedestrian character,” making it obviously out of sync with the
area.
Matarazzo said it resembles an office building. He also
thought the screen for bike parking resembles a prison.
Other faults identified included five different types of
windows, none of which match existing window styles;
lapped siding on the sides of the building, another feature
not seen in the district; and a scale beyond that of surrounding buildings.
Sackhoff warned that he may request adjustments to
normal height and sideyard setback standards, but DeMuro cautioned that such a request would raise expectations
for a high-quality building.
After hearing the criticisms, Sackhoff was defiant.
“It looks like it fits right in,” he said. “I didn’t think you
wanted replica buildings, or I could have done that.”
As for the opposition of neighbors, five of whom spoke
against the proposal, he said, “The neighbors don’t want
anything. They want the neighborhood to remain the
same.”
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‘Luxury’ food cart pod to
open at 19th and Quimby
announce orders. “We want to be a good
neighbor, a place the whole neighborhood
A food cart pod where diners can eat can enjoy.”
indoors at an affiliated restaurant is coming
The first carts could begin serving food
to Northwest 19th and Quimby, the former later this month, though the grand opening
location of Cheers NW.
is planned for March.
Q-19 is the vision of Ted Watson, a
developer who has done two residential
and one commercial project in the NorthCarts signed up so far
west District but has not been in the food
business. The operator will be Scott McKSawasdee Thai Food, one of Porteown, a Portland attorney and investor.
land’s oldest and most popular carts.
Watson believes the arrangement will
solve some of the main drawbacks of other
Artigiana, a pasta cart that is relocatPortland cart pods—exposure to wet and
ing from the Woodstock neighborwinter weather, and a lack of comfortable
hood.
seating and restrooms. Eight carts will
Chili Inside, Chili Outside, which
share the parking lot, and patrons will be
is moving their Texas chili and hampermitted to bring their food inside to eat
burgers cart from downtown.
in the restaurant, which will be remodBy Allan Classen
eled and renamed Quimby’s at 19 . The
restaurant will serve pizza and alcoholic
beverages.
According to an ad placed on Craigslist,
Q-19 will feature “free use of a newly
remodeled, heated and air conditioned dining room (where all food cart menus will
be on display), full-time table busing, clean
indoor restrooms, sports events on HD
televisions, free Wi-Fi, piped-in music, a
juke box and an ATM machine.”
“The pod is going to be really nice,” said
Watson, who said concerns that other pods
in Portland violate city codes and resemble
shantytowns are valid.
He promised to be strict about meeting
all codes and keeping the property clean.
All tenants are being required to bring new
carts. He is also building a deck, a bandstand for performances and adding planters. There will be strings of lights around
the property to create a festive atmosphere
and encourage evening business.
All plates and utensils will be compostable.
“It’s going to be a tight ship,” he said,
noting that no music will be allowed from
the carts or public address systems to
th
Farm House, a new business featuring
home-style cooking.
Brisket, a new cart operated by Antoinette and Sanford Robinson, owners
of Catering at its Best as well as the
Q-19 property. They also live next
door.
“This is not like your typical cart pod
place,” said Antoinette Robinson.
Robinson said they had other proposals
for the property, but they chose Watson’s.
She is particularly pleased that he
intends to return the restaurant, opened
by her grandfather in 1947, to its original
appearance by removing the cheap siding
and reinstalling the larger, original windows.
“He’s going to bring grandpa’s building
back to its glory,” she said. “That’s really
important to us.”
And what if Watson doesn’t keep the
cart pod clean, quiet and orderly?
“He has to,” she said. “We live next
door.”
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business
Parking continued
The woman at the shop said that I
could park in their driveway or across its
entrance. (I would hope that the parking
enforcement people would understand that
I was a friend of the owner.)
I told her I needed a few hours to
browse on 23rd and had heard there was a
parking flyer. No, she didn’t have one, but
she pointed south to a lot on Glisan. She
also mentioned one behind the former
Elizabeth Street store.
Fair enough. Even without the paperwork, she had the gist of it. As I left she
said, “You are coming back, aren’t you?”
At Idom, two clerks hadn’t a clue. No
flyer was available. One said that there are
no parking lots. The other said that yes,
there’s one by Restoration Hardware, referring to a small customers-only lot where
I would not be welcome if I visited other
stores.
Then, the first clerk said that not many
people know there are some spaces behind
Blush Beauty Bar. It has 47 spaces, the
largest public lot along the avenue, and it’s
marked by several signs and arrows, but
somehow she thought she was letting me
in on secret.
They also recommended on-street parking up on 24th or 25th avenue, which is free.
Free People did not have a flyer for
customers.
“I don’t know, you just
have to drive around until
you find one,” the clerk
replied when I asked where
I could park the next time I
shop on 23rd. She suggested
looking up Kearney or maybe
on 24th or 25th, which happen
to be some of the most congested blocks around.
“There are no real parking
lots, unless you’re going to park
in a particular store’s own parking lot, where you might get
a ticket” if shopping elsewhere.
She added that I might try parking in the Alano Club parking lot
where they don’t really check.
I could tell she was sensitive to
other institutions in the neighborhood and surmised that she had
first-hand knowledge of parking
enforcement practices and what
one could get away with.
Brooklyn Industries’ two clerks
agreed that I should try up on 24th,
pointing west. One said that going
east would just lead to competing
with the Pearl traffic and parking.
Actually, the Pearl is nine blocks
away, but she was right about the
competition for parking spaces eastward, where one runs into 21st Avenue
and many residential buildings.
The woman minding the store at Oh
Baby gave me a sympathetic look.
“It’s really hard,” she said. “You might
try going up Burnside a block (to the
west) and turning right. It’s really tricky
getting into the lot there.”
The real trick with the lot she may be
thinking of is it’s part of Uptown Shopping Center, and attendants monitor it for
people who may be trying the very ploy she
was suggesting.
Suddenly, she had another idea. Looking out her front window, she noticed a car
vacate a space.
“Or, you could park right out front,” she
said.
She told me to just stand in the space
and wait for my driver, a ploy she said
people do all the time.
I inquired about the flyer listing parking
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lots that my friend told me about.
“I don’t know where she heard about
that,” she said. “I haven’t seen one.”
She turned to answer her ringing cell
phone.
A Dazzle salesperson pointed to 23rd
Avenue and advised me to try finding a
spot right out front. I explained that we
had been driving around and around, finding nothing.
She shrugged.
When I said I was told that I‘d find a
flyer in the stores, she said “Noooo. … Just
try to find something out front or on the
side street.”
Armed with this “insight,” supposedly
my next parking search would be much
easier.
Stopping at Child’s Play, I asked the
person helping me with my purchase where
people can park when their own small,
private lot is full. She thought there was a
parking lot on 21st Avenue, and she advised
parking north of Marshall on 23rd, where
there are fewer shops. Another helper said
she usually finds some spaces between 24th
and 30th avenues. The paid lot around the
corner on Lovejoy Street never entered the
conversation.
At Amai Unmei on Johnson Street, the
woman behind the counter advised me
Connie Nicoud, owner of Christmas at the Zoo, printed
copies of the parking lot guide for her customers.
to “just drive around.” Responding to my
request for a flyer, she said, “Oh, I saw that,
and I meant to print it out. Here, I’ll do it
now. She printed one and handed it to me.
Asked which is closest, she looked at the
list and said, pointing north, “Lovejoy.”
If you know what to ask for, she knew
how to find the right answer.
I went out the next afternoon to see if
the first nine shops I visited were atypical.
Unfortunately, it was more of the same.
A line of customers waited for the
attention of one employee at Signature
Imports. Interrupting, I asked, “Is there a
flyer listing parking lots?”
She replied that there are no customer
lots; only ones for monthly parking. She
did not know of a flyer. Had she seen it,
she would know she had it backwards. The
seven lots are for short-term use; not one is
reserved for monthly parking.
The clerk at Paper Source was on
top of things. She cheerfully said that a
gentleman had brought in some flyers that
afternoon, gesturing toward a pile on the
counter. She quickly printed out an extra
one for me.
“Will you direct me to the closest one?”
I asked.
She pointed diagonally across the 23rd
and Irving intersection at a brightly lit sign
marking the lot behind Papa Haydn’s res-
taurant. She also suggested the lot behind
Pizzicato.
The Goorin Brothers hat saleswoman
looked at her flyer, reading that there are
11 spaces behind Nob Hill Bar & Grill and
lots on both sides of Irving Street. I took
my recently acquired flyer to the grateful
clerk at the William Temple Thrift Store,
where she said customers complain about
parking problems. For that reason she
always walks to work.
Five days later, I went out again, assuming that more shops would have learned
about the flyers and gotten their routines
down.
After shopping upstairs at Urban Outfitters, I complained to the clerk about my
parking experience, asking where I might
have better luck next time.
“You can park on the street out here [on
Northwest Westover] for one or two hours.
“Hmmmm… I think there is a garage,
not on this street parallel to us [Everett],
but the next one down and to the right.”
She gestured north to Flanders, where
there is a garage under Williams Sonoma.
If she did not seem overly familiar with
it, perhaps it’s because, for her own needs,
she hunts for free spaces on residential
streets.
“I park way down [north] on 24th street.
Yeah, there’s really no good parking.”
Preparing to exit Urban Outfitters
downstairs onto 23rd, I asked the cashier if
there were any flyers to help with parking.
She looked to another worker, who replied,
“Oh, it’s mostly just on-the-street parking.”
Going up Westover, climbing the stairs
past World Market, I noticed that all the
spaces were full in the lot behind. I popped
into the store adjacent, the new location for
Blake clothing.
“The lot out here is full,” I said.
“That’s not our lot,” said the saleswom-
business
an. “Ours is across the street [23rd Place].”
Seeing that their lot, shared with many
stores, was also full, I asked about the flyer.
“Do you mean that guy out there?” She
motioned toward a man in a bright green
vest in the middle of the World Market lot.
“No, I mean a list of places to park while
shopping on 23rd,” I said.
She shook her head.
“It’s crazy. But maybe you can go
out and down to the right [23rd Place to
Westover] by the Levi shop, where there’s
a lot.”
Seeing my puzzled look, a customer
clarified: “It’s underground parking.”
I went out and found the garage at 2321
NW Westover, which is for customers of
the Thiele Square complex.
Next, I entered Umpqua Bank. Noticing
that the lots to their south and across the
street were limited to certain businesses, I
asked for a flyer. The teller directed me to
the bulletin board where the parking flyer
was posted and asked if I’d like him to print
one. He suggested the Pizzicato lot on
Glisan, where you have to pay, “but we can
reimburse you for the one-hour fee of $3.”
Perfect answer.
Calling on Wednesday to verify, I asked
a different banker, who said that, “Yes, we
can reimburse, and I want you to know also
that there is free, 15-minute parking on
23rd Avenue in front of the bank.
“If you’re really frustrated, though, you
can park in the Pizzicato lot, and we’ll give
you a get-out-of-jail-free pass.”
Amazing. Instead of being told parking
is difficult, I was getting options and useful
assistance.
Next-door at FedEx Kinko’s, however,
there was no flyer. When I inquired about
parking, the clerk pointed across the street
to Pizzicato.
“It’s usually free, meaning open,” he said.
“There are many spaces.”
Crossing the street to check it out, I
found two spaces open, one of which was
immediately filled.
The saleswoman at Clogs-N-More recognized my dilemma: “I wouldn’t even try
on 23rd. I just drive up and down the side
streets.”
She said there was no flyer that she
knew of.
“You might try parking downtown and
taking the streetcar back up here. There are
many parking lots downtown.”
Why use a commercial parking lot in the
neighborhood when I could drive downtown to find one and then take a slow
streetcar back to 23rd Avenue? There must
be a reason no one else had thought of that.
This time I gave my flyer to a woman
who was inquiring about the meaning of
the parking signs on Glisan, in front of
the William Temple store. If you want to
get word out that there’s plenty of parking
along 23rd Avenue, you have to take things
into your own hands.
Summary
In three days as a mystery shopper, Ms.
Harter visited 18 businesses. Only four
stores (Christmas at the Zoo, Umpqua
Bank, Paper Source and Goorin Brothers)
fully shared the list of parking facilities
immediately upon being asked. One more
provided it when asked specifically for it.
The rest denied any knowledge of the
flyer. Pushed for parking suggestions, most
offered only vague suggestions. And those
suggestions usually assumed free parking
was the only type worth considering.
–Allan Classen
2010 Parking Lot Survey November 26-December 25
Day/Date/Time
Williams-Sonoma
31 Total Spaces
Spaces used:
Pizzicato
47 Total Spaces
Spaces used:
Elizabeth Street 32 Total Spaces
Spaces used:
Papa Haydn
19 Total Spaces
Spaces used:
Black Friday, November 26 Saturday,
November 27
Sunday,
November 28
Monday,
November 29
Tuesday,
November 30
Wednesday,
December 1
Friday,
December 3
Saturday,
December 4
Sunday,
December 5
Wednesday,
December 8
Thursday,
December 9
Friday,
December 10
Saturday,
December 11*
Sunday,
December 12
Monday,
December 13
Tuesday,
December 14
Wednesday,
December 15
Thursday,
December 16
Friday,
December 17
Saturday,
December 18
Sunday,
December 19
Monday,
December 20
Tuesday,
December 21
Wednesday,
December 22
Thursday,
December 23
Friday,
December 23
Christmas Day,
Saturday,
December 25
12:12-12:25
3:53-4:02
11:41-11:52
3:23-3:33
12
11
5
20
31
39
12
42
5
5
5
10
9
9
10
17
2:10-2:16
11
26
11
8
2:34-2:43
15
14
4
3
2:18-2:26
12
9
3
5
3:44-3:52
11:51-11:58
4:48-4:57
1:09-1:16
1:09-2:16
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17
10
11
10
17
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23
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6
4
6
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10
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8
1:58-2:04
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26
14
16
11:30-11:48
10:57-11:37
2:43-2:45
4:48-4:50
12:40-12:53
4:38- 4:46
11
13
N/A
N/A
20
13
5
10
20
14
38
27
7
7
9
9
19
5
7
7
8
6
18
3
2:38-2:54
20
42
6
10
2:36-2:44
13
27
8
14
3:32-3:40
12
19
4
3
2:59-3:05
2:47-2:50
4:37-450
2:02-2:22
4:15-4:18
5:57-6:00
2:21-2:32
4:42-4:47
1:00-1:08
2:58-3:08
6:15-6:18
16
N/A
N/A
19
N/A
N/A
25
14
16
19
N/A
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20
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22
21
26
35
35
41
47 (FULL)
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5
7
6
4
6
13
12
11
18
18
9
2
8
6
9
10
13
9
9
17
17
14
2:58-3:08
3:15-3:25
5:07-5:10
11:46-11:49
1:46-1:49
23
24
N/A
N/A
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27
25
21
18
36
7
14
5
8
17
12
10
9
9
13
11:47-11:54
1:57-2:05
4:05-4:08
22
23
N/A
28
40
38
11
17
12
13
13
16
12:16-12:20
11
24
4
13
3:01-3:08
1
3
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2010 average % full
49% 52% 26%
50%
* Saturday, December 11, Holiday Village Event.
**NA refers to not applicable. The Elizabeth Street was not a pay-to-park lot in 2006-08. The Papa Haydn lot didn’t exist in 2006.
Parking lot entrance locations:
Williams-Sonoma - Enter under the store on the south side of Flanders Street near 23rd Avenue.
Pizzicato - Enter on the north side of Glisan Street behind restaurant on 23rd Avenue.
Elizabeth Street - Enter on the south side of Irving Street behind the former store on 23rd Avenue.
Papa Haydn - Enter on the north side of Irving Street behind the restaurant on 23rd Avenue.
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New
Businesses
Bull Run Distilling Co.
2259 NW Quimby St., 503-224-3483
Patrick Bernards and Lee Medoff, creator of Medoyeff
brand Vodka, plan to begin distilling rum, whiskey and
vodka in a 7,000-square-foot building near Northwest
23rd Avenue later this month. The co-owners have
acquired two 800-gallon stills, from which they intend
to produce 3,800 bottles of spirits per week, which they
claim will make them the largest craft distillers west
of the Mississippi River. In February, they will open a
store and tasting room, where customers may purchase
small drinks as well as bottled spirits, glassware, T-shirts
and cocktail books. “There will be spirits not seen, let
alone produced in the Northwest before,” said Medoff,
“including the first, true Oregon-style whiskey.”
Caffe Nizza
820 SW 18th Ave., 503-799-0709
Lisa Valteriza has named her new restaurant for the
French spelling of her hometown of Nice, France. She
calls Caffe Nizza a European-style café, blending Italian and French influences in a small, bright setting. The
menu includes sandwiches, salads, soups and omelets.
The highest-priced sandwich ($9) is a chicken breast
marinated in olive oil, garlic, rosemary, brie, and sautéed pears and apples, served on a baguette. The coffee is Umbria brand, and wine and beer are served.
Be Smooth
120 NW 13th Ave., 503-360-1178
Be Smooth offers waxing, facials and weight-loss treatments without the usual time and expense of spas.
Helene Lawless, a former cosmetic chemist in France
who has been selling beauty products to spas in the
United States for the past 15 years, intends to fill
a niche for individuals who want fast service without appointments and can do without the candles,
frills and atmosphere. Be Smooth offers the HCG
Homeopathic Diet, which uses a naturally produced
hormone to help burn body fat in men and women.
Lisa Valterza, owner of Caffe Nizza, which is named for her home town in France.
Halo Shoes
938 NW Everett St., 503-331-0366
Halo Shoes moved from Northeast Broadway to the
historic Otis Elevator Building in December. The store,
owned by architect Nathan Newell, carries mostly handmade shoes for men and women from Italy and Spain.
It also carries American-made shoes such as Cydwog.
Styles range from high fashion to casual. The store
was featured in a 2005 story in GQ Fashion magazine highlighting “the best shoe stores in America.”
PlayDate PDX
“The land of make believe”
1434 NW 17th Ave., 503-227-7529
Partners Robert Birkhahn and Shawn Van Deusen have
turned a 7,500-square-foot warehouse space into “the
land of make believe.” They describe PlayDate PDX as
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The facility is staffed 9 a.m.-8 p.m. seven days a week.
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membership is $360 a year. PlayDate opened Dec. 8.
BlowOut
128 NW 12th Ave., 503-894-5090
Former Nike managers Tara De La Rosa and Kristen
Ringo have teamed up to fill a new hair-care niche
they feel had missed Portland. BlowOut provides fast
hair- washing, drying and styling (no cutting) in 30
minutes for $32, a fraction of the time and cost of a traditional cut and style. They also apply makeup. De La
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Wash., and Portland International Airport. ... Pammela Springfield has closed Keep ‘Em Flying, a used
clothing store at 510 NW 21st Ave. It was opened in
the mid-1970s by local artist Tom Cassidy. Springfield also owns Cannibals, a sustainable art gallery
in the space next to the store. ... A-Boy Plumbing
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In the ’Hood
By Mike Ryerson
Worth buying a VCR to watch again!
As CNN was airing its final Larry King Live shows
last month, I recalled the time our Northwest Portland
neighbor Bud Clark appeared as a guest on the program.
It was in March of 1986, Bud had been mayor of Portland for just over a year, and King hadn’t been doing his
television show for much longer.
King’s producers invited Clark to appear on the evening
Cable News Network’s talk show while he was attending
the National League of Cities meeting in Washington,
D.C. It was taped at the University of Wisconsin before
Larry King moved his program to the West Coast.
I had been the new mayor’s original campaign manager,
and I served on his transition team as the press secretary,
so of course I enjoyed saving lots of stuff that got tucked
away in boxes, never to be seen again.
Or, at least that’s what I was beginning to think when
I went to look for the 25-year-old tape and something to
play it with.
Have you ever thought about how many of your friends
might own a VCR that works?
Luckily, I found a nice Panasonic, 4 Head, Hi-Fi Stereo,
OmniVision VHS tape player at William Temple House
Thrift Shop for $5. It had all the front-end buttons and
dials we had on the one we had spent $900 for when we
recorded the show the first place. Those things have really
gone down in price. They also had an eight-track tape
player for $3.
Back to Bud!
King started out the show by asking Clark about the
famous Expose Yourself to Art poster he had posed for
several years prior to being elected mayor. The standard
question of whether he had anything on under the raincoat went unasked.
“Did it hurt the campaign?” King asked.
Mayor Clark assured him that it actually helped get him
elected because it made him familiar to voters.
King went on to ask a few questions about Portland’s
Police Chief Penny Harrington, the first female chief in a
major U.S. city, who had been on the job about a year at
the time.
Bud’s past as a tavern owner was brought up, and King
appeared intrigued by his guest’s novel idea of running a
city like a business.
As far as his political background and qualifications to
run a city, Bud said, “I was a neighborhood activist who
helped stop a freeway from going through our neighborhood.”
He was referring to the extension of the I-405 Freeway,
proposed in the 1960s, that would have wiped out Thurman and Vaughn streets.
Larry King ended the show with, “We should have
more like him.”
Bud saved his best line for 25 years. When I emailed
him to tell him I’d watched the tape of the show, he asked,
“How many times did I stick my foot in my mouth?”
A younger Larry King looks the new mayor in the eye.
King wanted to know if “exposing” himself to a downtown statue hurt Clark’s campaign.
Parking Lot Math Quiz
It’s 12:25 p.m. on Nov. 26, 2010, the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping
days of the year. You’re near Northwest 23rd and Irving
Street, one of the busiest intersections on the avenue. The
parking lot near the corner holds 19 cars, and nine spots
are full.
Question: How many cars would have been parked
at the same location if there had been an 87-car parking
garage?
You can reach Mike Ryerson at 503-381-8050 or
[email protected].
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Clark was identified as a Democrat even though the Portland mayor’s position is nonpartisan.
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Snapshots
Mike Ryerson
Daniel Stark
Accident waiting to happen? Actually the driver in the blue Blazer just had one, and he’s retracing
his path back into the parking lot. He struck an SUV as he was turning eastbound (against the oneway arrow) onto Northwest Glisan from the Trader Joe’s parking lot Jan. 5.
Left, Liz Darby takes three classes at Friendly House per
week, including the osteoporosis-prevention class and yoga.
Daniel Stark Photography
Mike Ryerson
Johnny Staver watches model steam engine trains at the annual Holiday Steam Up hosted by
his parents Amy O’Neill and Larry Staver, who own Staver Locomotive. The event raised
$2,500 for Friendly House to purchase gifts and household essentials for seniors and homeless
families.
Hip Hound, 610 NW 23rd Ave., held a grand opening party
last month for its customers, many of whom brought their
owners.
Mike Ryerson
The under-10 girls Hillside Soccer Club team won the citywide Portland Youth Soccer Association Fall Cup Tournament
in November. The team, coached by Paul Giannini, also won the Nathan Thomas Tournament earlier this season in September. They celebrated last month at the Lucky Lab.
Right, Laura Foster, author of Portland City Walks, checks
out one of many Poetry Posts located throughout the city. The
above post is on the north side of Northwest Kearney Street
just east of 23rd Avenue.
Front row L-R: Eliza Grant, Olivia Giannini, Maya Lawliss, Illiana Schuring, Fiona Kendall and Kira Mesch.
Back row: Coach Paul Giannini, Kate Denhart, Chella Davidson, Jalaysha Edgecombe, Emily Buchholz and Kate
Reynolds.
Absent from the photo are coach Brad Lawliss, Zahra Sherman and Amanda Perry.
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1,585,000 4 Helvetia
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1,150,000
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1,100,000 8 Cedar Mill
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1,390,000
7800SF on rare .6 acre view lot in West Hills.
Call Lee Davies or Bob Harrington
Grand 6,261 Sq. Ft. Home on .51 Acre Level
lot. Call Lee Davies or Dirk Hmura
985,000
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929,900 14 Bauer Oaks Estates
4166sf exclusive estate on .82 acre,
1-level living, pool. Call Dirk or Roxann
Grand 4855sf home w/ extraordinary
attention to detail. Call Dirk or Suzanne N.
Bethany 1.72 Acres 775,000
Magnificent 5,856SF gated estate on
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Big views, walk-out level yard. .29 Acre,
5 BR, 5365SF. Call Lee or Dirk
4720SF Queen Anne Reproduction on .60+
acres. Call Dirk Hmura or Suzanne Newman
950,000
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949,900
12 Storybook Estate
819,900
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749,900 16 Ironwood
Private 6,014SF extate on .46 Acre with sport
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9 Lynnridge
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7200SF in Portland Heights. Adjacent city lot
also avail. Contract terms. Call Mike or Donna
4100sf 6 bedroom, 3.5 bath with sport
court. Call Dirk Hmura
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1,975,000
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BUILDING LOTS
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Level
449,000
Forest Heights .23
View
279,000
Cedar Mill
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350,000
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790,000
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749,900
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NW Acreage
744,900
Kings Heights .17 Close-in 209,000
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Bonny Glen
549,900
Germantown 4.89
View
525,000
4 Mtn., 2 River, City Views • 8 Avail.
Call Suzanne Newman or Mike Ness
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299,000
Moonridge
View
259,000
Skyline Heights
Secluded Cedar Mill 709,950
Prime L. Oswego Acre 599,900
Bauer Oaks Est. Coming Soon
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Call Suzanne Klang or Suzanne N.
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