May 2016 - NW Examiner

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“Digging deep,
Shining a light”
MAY 2016 / VOLUME 29, NO. 9
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Elm trees
saved
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BY ALLAN CLASSEN
G
oose Hollow neighborhood activists
presented a slideshow in March featuring
a hypothetical high-rise
dramatically blocking the
view of the Vista Bridge.
The image was persuasive in causing city Bureau
of Planning and Sustainability staff to reconsider
draft plans to relax View
Corridor protections along
Southwest Jefferson Street.
It also drew broad derision
from NW Examiner readers, who saw the picture
on Page 1 of the April
edition.
What has not been
reported is that the property on which the fictitious
tower was sited belongs
to a man with a checkered
history in the Goose Hollow area.
Dan Petrusich is the
president and owner of
Melvin Mark Development
Co., the development arm
of Melvin Mark Cos. He
was also president of the
Goose
Hollow
Foothills
League in
2012 and
was instrumental
in
bringing
a
pro-development slant to
the association—
a slant repudiated
in 2014 as residential candidates swept the
board election.
Petrusich has also been
singled out for his role on
the West Quadrant Plan
Stakeholders Advisory
Committee in an ethics
complaint ruled valid by
City Ombudsman Margie
Sollinger last fall. Based
on her recommendations,
BPS required Petrusich
and the 32 other members of the committee to
disclose their financial
and professional interests
related to the area covered by the plan, which
includes much of Goose
Hollow.
Had Petrusich revealed
his holdings, they would
have included 1853 SW
Jefferson St., a 100x100foot parcel with a car
repair garage that has been
vacant since 2012 and the
parking lot next to it. Portlandmaps.com lists these
properties to Jefferson
Holdings
LLC, which Oregon Secretary of State records show
is registered to Petrusich
and five others. It uses his
home address.
Allowable
building
height on this land and
a few contiguous properties would rise from 45 to
130 feet if draft plan revisions are adopted by City
Council.
Is Petrusich the innocent beneficiary of a windContinued on page 6
Neighborhood associations zigzag on homeless camping issue
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
W
estside neighborhood associations are torn regarding Mayor Charlie Hale’s
declared homeless crisis and the
consequences of unrestricted camping in public spaces.
by Neighbors West/Northwest, the
coalition of 12 Northwest and inner
Southwest associations, evoked such
polarized comments that decorum—
much less consensus—soon became
a lost cause.
The Northwest District Association
delayed a month while searching
for the appropriate balance between
compassion and public order. It
finally resolved to offer support for
the mayor’s efforts to reduce homelessness while seeking clarity on the
As controversy sizzled over homeless camping in the city, real flames erupted at an
duration of the Safe Sleep program.
NWNW President Felicia Williams, who moderated the meeting,
made several statements suggesting
a less tolerant attitude than the one
emerging in the Northwest District.
She described the mayor’s program
to relax enforcement of the camping ban as “just a policy of one City
Council member” and declared that
“tents provide cover for criminal
A forum on the topic organized
Continued on page 13
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Editor’s Turn
Our river. Your pollution
BY ALLAN CLASSEN | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
should rightly be returned to the public.
They should count themselves lucky that
this isn’t part of the remediation formula.
So I don’t blanch if the total cost of
cleanup is $2 billion or some amount the
polluters claim is unreasonable. That’s
not the cost to the taxpayer, and polling
citizens to see if the most cost-effective
cleanup solution should be followed
dodges the matter of who will be paying
those costs. The relevant cost-benefit ratio
is public cost versus public benefit.
C
leaning up the Willamette River
will be difficult, complicated
and expensive. Anyone offering
a faster, simpler, cheaper way to go will
have an audience—particularly among the
major polluters who are on the hook to
pay for it.
I recently heard research on the Superfund
cleanup underwritten by ExxonMobil
Corp. that was guaranteed to appeal
its audience: leaders of the Northwest
Industrial Neighborhood Association.
Anne Kirkpatrick of AECOM told
the business group that the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency is about
to recommend a solution that could cost
several times more than necessary while
providing less environmental benefit
than the most modest and inexpensive
option. Kirkpatrick shared a simple graph
showing descending benefits as the price
tag rises. She claimed the least costly
option—which would merely cover toxic
sediment with sand or gravel—would
generate greater environmental benefit
than excavating the sediment and hauling
it to sealed landfills.
Kirkpatrick belittled the pollution
problem as mainly harming tribal people
who daily eat at least 6 ounces of fish
from the Willamette.
I grew increasingly suspicious the longer
Kirkpatrick talked. Had AECOM’s
research confirmed that the EPA findings
were reasonable and fair, I believe it
would have been discarded and new
“research” initiated. Consultants aren’t
hired to tell their clients to pay their share
and stand down; they make millions by
helping corporations evade multimilliondollar obligations.
Believing EPA would follow an
extreme plan, piling on inflated costs
to make things worse, requires only a
small leap if one assumes government
agencies are incompetent and clueless
about economics. There were no tough
questions from this audience, and I can
imagine some members went out to tell
others of the folly driving the cleanup.
Another fallacy underlying AECOM’s
 Readers Reply
As a member of the Goose Hollow
Foothills League, I was pleased to
see your recognition of our efforts to
retain those views. It is heartening
to see that these efforts, along with
our members showing up for the
March 3 meeting, will lead to a new
draft of the scenic protection map.
Thank you for covering this matter.
Liz Cooksey
SW 19th Ave.
The fair payback for this form of
externalizing costs is to at least repair
the damage caused. If it were possible to
measure how much ill-gotten gain they
accumulated over time, those revenues
On the matter of cleaning up our polluted
river, we are not all in the same boat.
The public didn’t pollute the river, we
didn’t profit from the dumping and we
should insist that those responsible pay
the full costs of restoring it. If we think
it’s “civic-minded” to accept incomplete
cleanup efforts, we should remember that
many of these toxins, such as PCBs, never
break down. They accumulate in living
organisms, concentrating as they move
up the food chain, and will impact future
generations in unknowable ways as long
as the sun shines and rivers flow. A quick
fix won’t do. n
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High-rise would block view Save Vista Bridge views
Thank you for giving front-page status (April 2016) to the concerns of
Goose Hollow residents regarding
the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s projected revisions to its
scenic protection map. We treasure
our views of the hills, mountains
and bridges as we carry on our
lives and business. The proposed
revisions to building height limits
would substantially decrease our
scenic vistas and thus our quality
of life.
study is that the total cost of cleanup must
be weighed against the environmental
benefit. This hides the fact that polluters
are supposed to pay the cost of cleaning
up environmental degradation they
cause or assume responsibility for. The
past practices that fouled the river were
essentially shortcuts to bigger profits—
industries dumped toxic wastes into the
river because it was the easiest thing
to do, thereby shifting the burden onto
publicly owned natural resources in a
transfer known as externalizing costs.
AECOM conducted 300 focus group
sessions to see how various citizen
subgroups felt about the costs of cleanup
and unsurprisingly concluded that most
participants were quite sensitive to
economic impacts. But that’s like asking
someone if they’d pay $1,000 to fix a dent
in their car’s fender without revealing that
90 percent of the cost would be covered
by insurance.
I am cautiously encouraged that
the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commissioners will react
forcefully on unanimous testimony
advocating preservation of the View
Corridor along Southwest Jefferson
that includes visibility of the Vista
Bridge along this route.
Just one more high-rise along this
Jefferson sight-path is enough to
compromise the viewing of this
iconic arched landmark.
ning Commission’s attentiveness
to neighborhood concerns and that
exhibited so effectively by that body
a decade ago. I am among many others who would like to see the Planning Commission regain its earlier
in-touch community focus. Preserving these view corridors will demonstrate movement in that direction.
Bill Failing
SW Georgian Place
Photo deceiving
receptacles in the neighborhood.
Even if the street people wanted to
clean up after themselves, there is
no place to put it. I see many caring people bring food and blankets
to the homeless. It would be nice if
they would come back and clean up
the trash.
At Northwest 19th and Thurman,
the city moved the homeless and
left a huge pile of trash for almost a
month. While the city plays whacka-mole, no one cleans up afterward.
Please don’t just give money to
the panhandlers lining our streets.
Give to the organizations that put
in the time and effort to understand
and effectively help those in need
and work to get in them decent
housing. Let’s put our wallets where
are mouths and hearts are and raise
the money to help eliminate the
terrible conditions of the homeless
and downtrodden.
The View Corridor illuminating
Mount Hood from the Vista Bridge
itself must also be preserved without compromise. (The ugly concentration camp-like fence—thank
you, Commissioner Novick—will
ultimately give way to an unobtrusive safety net below street level
and will restore the Mount Hood
view as we have known it since
1925.) Looking at the picture of the campsite on Northwest Johnson Street
[April 2016], I was wondering who
cleaned it up for the photo. The
location is just up the street from
us, and I can tell you that is not how
it looks. The entire area is full of
trash. The sidewalk is so full of stuff
you have to walk in the street. It is
one thing to decide to allow camping on the sidewalks and another to
ignore the trash associated with it.
It has been disturbing to note the
disparity between today’s Plan-
Most Portlanders want to help, so a
volunteer donation checkoff on our
To make matters worse, the city
has decided not to provide trash
Continued on page 5
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 Obituaries
Rev. Kent L. Haley
Rev. Kent Lambert
Haley, a priest at St.
Mark’s Episcopal
Church, died March
23 at age 98. He was
born in 1917 in
Seattle, and moved
with his family in
1926 to Corvallis.
He attended Oregon State University, earning a degree in animal husbandry. He taught in Marshfield
until serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1942. After the war, he
attended the Church Divinity School
of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif. He
was ordained as a deacon in the
Episcopal Church in 1949 and posted to St. Mark’s. In 1950, he was
appointed vicar of the Episcopal
Mission of St. Peter in East Portland.
He was later assistant rector at St.
Mary’s Episcopal Parish in Eugene
and vicar of the Episcopal Mission
of St. Timothy in Salem. He married
Janice Bramble in 1949. He is survived by his wife; sons, Rick and
David; daughters, Mary, Ellen and
Veronica; three grandchildren; and
three great-grandchildren.
Tracy A. James
Tracy Ann James, a
graduate of Lincoln
High School, died
March 21 at age 52.
She was born in
Portland Aug. 22,
1963. She attended
West Sylvan Grade
School. She sold
home electronics at Montgomery
Ward on Northwest Vaughn Street
and was a manager of home electronics at Fred Meyer. Most recently, she was working for her stepfather at Town & County Fence. She is
survived by her mother, Judy Fleck;
stepfather, Dennis Fleck; stepsister,
Lorna Loomis; and stepbrothers Bret
Pippett and Jim Fleck.
Janis C. Mumford
Janis Corbett Mumford, owner of
Mumford Manor in Northwest Portland, died April 12, of cancer at age
67. She grew up in Eastmoreland,
attending Duniway Grade School
and Cleveland High School. She
attended the University of Oregon
and became a flight attendant for
Trans World Airlines. She married
Courtland Lee Mumford in 1985; he
died in 2007. They developed a bed
and breakfast, Mumford Manor, in a
historic Northwest Portland home.
She is survived by her brothers, Nelson, Scott III and Douglas.
Jud Nelson
Jud Nelson, a volunteer at Linnton
Community Center,
died March 31 at
age 51. He was born
Sept. 28, 1964. Nelson worked as a
handyman, and he
maintained
the
heating and cooling systems at the
community center, usually at no
charge. He his brother Doug and
their employees were regular basketball players at the community center. He is survived by his sons,
Shane, Tyler and Ryan; mother,
Joyce Nelson; sisters, Teresa Saunders and Debi Paladino; and brother,
Doug.
Barbara Phillippi
Barbara Martha Macleay Phillippi,
who was born in the Mackenzie
House, later known as William Temple House, died April 8 at age 95.
Barbara Macleay was born in Portland Aug. 24, 1920, and grew up
in Wedderburn, near the mouth of
the Rogue River. The family moved
back to Portland during the Great
Depression. She attended Miss Catlin’s School for Girls, Mills College and joined the U.S. Navy as a
WAVE when World War II began.
She served as a docent at the Japanese Garden and volunteered for
Meals on Wheels and the Oregon
Food Bank. She was a champion for
Native American causes. She married Dick Phillippi in1948; he died.
She is survived by her son, Link,
and six grandchildren.
Robert L. Ponanski
Robert Leonard Ponanski, founder
of Phillips Electronics on Northwest
29th Avenue, died April 7 at age
91. He was born April 22, 1924, in
McKees Rocks, Pa. After graduating
from high school, he joined the U.S.
Navy and became an instructor in
electronics and radio communications. After discharge, he taught at
the American Television Institute
of Technology in Chicago. In 1952,
he moved to Portland, where he
started Phillips Electronics. He was
a member of The Parish of St. Mark.
He is survived by his wife of 71
years, Dorothy; daughters, Suanne,
Linda and Roberta; a brother; a sister; grandchildren; and great grandchildren.
Dr. Willard D. Rowland
Dr. Willard Daniel
Rowland,
who
worked at Legacy
Good
Samaritan
Medical
Center,
died March 29 at
age 101. He was
born April 15, 1914,
in Greenville, Ill. He
attended Greenville College and
earned a medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He served
in the burns and reconstructive surgery division of the U.S. Naval hospital in Bethesda, Md., during World
War II. After the war, he helped open
the plastic surgery unit at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. In the
late 1940s, Dr. Rowland moved to
Portland to establish one of the first
plastic surgery practices in the Pacific Northwest, specializing on children with congenital deformities,
burns and other traumas. He was
associated with Good Samaritan, St.
Vincent, Emanuel and Providence
hospitals, and he taught at Oregon
Health Sciences University. In the
mid-1960s, he opened a second practice at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif., although
he continued to see patients in Portland until retiring in 1989 at the age
of 75. He was married to Mary Saugrain Pettus, with whom he had five
children, and later to Barbara Wagstaff and Elynda Knauft. He was a
member of the University Club, Multnomah Athletic Club and Waverley
Country Club. He is survived by
sons, Willard D. Jr., Charles P. P.,
Anthony T. and Thomas H.; daughter, Martha S. Neskowin; 10 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Joseph Schwartz
Joseph Schwartz, a
dentist with offices
in
Sylvan-Highlands for more than
35 years, died April
23 at age 79. He was
born June 19, 1936,
in San Antonio,
Texas. His family
moved to Denver when he was 10.
He earned an undergraduate degree
at the University of Denver and a
graduate degree from the University
of Washington School of Dentistry
Department of Periodontology. He
taught dental and hygienist students
at the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Dentistry for more
than 45 years. He was a member of
Nevah Shalom Synagogue. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Susan;
daughters, Renee Biedermann and
Beth Wachtman; and two grandchildren.
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Andy Raubeson
Andy Raubeson,
the first director of
Central City Concern and a lifelong
creator of housing
for the homeless,
died of a heart
attack Feb. 26 at age
79. He was born
April 23, 1936, and raised in an
orphanage. He received a bachelor’s
degree from the University of Puget
Sound. He served in the U.S. Air
Force during the Korean War. He
came to Portland in 1971 to serve as
deputy director of the Model Cities
program. As head of Central City
Concern, then known as the Burnside Consortium, he purchased and
renovated buildings in Old Town
and Downtown as “single-room
occupancy” units for the homeless.
Mayor Tom Bradley hired him to
run a larger program in Los Angeles,
where he renovated 1,100 units. He
returned to Portland as executive
director of Human Solutions, an
East Portland family housing nonprofit. He is survived by his daughter, Linda A. Raubeson; son, Walter
C.; and former spouses, Virginia
Keefe Raubeson and Catharine
(Kitty) Church.
Death Notices
Gerald L. Allen, 82, Multnomah
Athletic Club member.
Nancy B. Davis, 74, First United
Methodist Church member.
Elaine (Dicks) Flowerree, 94, member of the Town Club and Portland
Garden Club.
Daniel J. Harrington, 88, co-founder
of Blanchet House.
Mary F. Haworth, 91, worked at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center
sleep clinic.
Betty M. (Spangberg) Garwood, 94,
employed at Montgomery Ward.
Louise R. Godfrey, 100, Multnomah
Athletic Club employee.
Gordon Jensen, 78, 1955 graduate of
Lincoln High School.
Alice Morgan, 80, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Lisa D. (Thomas) Turpel, 63, volunteer with LanSu Chinese Garden and
Pittock Mansion Society.
Leslie “Jean” Young, 73, worked at
ESCO.
John C. Beatty Jr., 97, attended Lincoln High School.
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Couch playground plans revised to save elm trees
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
of nowhere and without informing the community
closed the playground one day [in May 2014] it really
got the attention of parents who were feeling personally affected and angry, and [Fritz] used those emotions
to mobilize and lobby and organize for the bond.”
P
ortland Parks & Recreation responded to growing neighborhood objections about removing
two elm trees in the Couch Park playground.
March said some of the discontent over the playground can be traced to community efforts to replace
and improve equipment that have been prematurely
discarded. In 2009, $100,000 was spent to bring the
playground up to Americans with Disabilities Act
code, she wrote in December.
The parks bureau hired an independent arborist
who found the trees “have no significant hidden
structural issues or decay” and that binding them
together with cables will reduce the risk of injury
from their falling.
“Based on this information, [Parks] Director Mike
Abbaté decided that the elms will remain in Couch
Park,” wrote Maija Spencer, who handles community engagement for the 2014 bond measure that
included $2.2 million for Couch Park improvements.
Spencer also said the Project Advisory Committee
will be reconvened in five to seven weeks to review
the latest plans.
The change in plans followed a letter from the
Northwest District Association, which passed a
unanimous motion asking the bureau to keep not
only the elm trees but the brick-inlaid plaza intersecting the park.
Bill Welch, an NWDA board member who helped
lay the bricks as a volunteer in the 1970s, was adamant that they should not be replaced with a concrete walkway.
“They were built for the neighborhood for that
purpose, and they should stay there,” Welch said.
“It’s crazy,” said board member Don Genasci.
“There’s nothing wrong with those bricks. Why
don’t they just leave them?”
Tanya March, who chairs NWDA Parks Committee, said the bureau calculated that because conduits
need to be installed under the plaza, it would be far
more expensive to remove, save and reinstall the
bricks compared to simply paving the area.
Genasci and board member Karen Karlsson both
suspected that bureau staff was looking for a way to
justify removing the bricks.
“They should find another way to get services
under them,” Welch said.
Some neighbors of the park have grown distrustful
of the bureau’s handling of the project.
Pavlina Summers was one of only three neighborhood residents on the 10-person Project Advisory
Committee. She believed the decision that the playground would be a totally handicapped accessible
“Harper’s Playground” had been made before the
advisory committee was formed, and that organization’s insistence on artificial turf to allow wheelchair
access was assumed from the start.
Half of the money was donated by OPUS Northwest, the developer of Park 19 Apartments east of the
park, and $30,000 in pro bono labor was used.
Two (sometimes defined as three) elm trees on the northern edge of the playground will be cabled together rather
cut down.
“There was never an open discussion about the
artificial surface,” she said. “That was a given: ‘This
is how it’s going to be.’”
In time, Summers learned that installing artificial
turf dictated the removal of virtually all trees to hold
down construction costs and delays.
“The biggest shock was when I learned that
the elm trees were supposed to be cut down, and
nobody from the community really knew about it,”
she said.
Wayne Wirta, who represented NWDA on the
PAC, said the group’s opinions were “listened to but
not responded to.”
Park neighbor Sophia Pfaff Shalmiyev sent the
NW Examiner a long letter outlining her theory for
the unpopular decisions:
“If the parks bureau hadn’t taken out the old playground, Couch Park would not have gotten money or
attention of any kind, which would have been fine
with me. I loved it as it was. The old play structure
was magic and unique, and will be missed forever.
“The park will be desecrated for the sake of the
playground, the centerpiece of the park, by senselessly removing many beloved trees, taking away the
vintage red brick pavers and putting down concrete.
This is the least environmentally friendly design,
as concrete mixing greatly contributes to pollution,
looks cheap and wears badly.”
Shalmiyev prefaced her next comments as “highly
plausible”:
“[City Commissioner] Amanda Fritz wanted to
pass a parks bond measure. … When she came out
Fritz said safety was the driving force in removing
the old equipment, which was judged by an independent engineering firm to be in danger of collapsing
due to wood rot.
“I remember vividly the meeting at MLC where I
had to tell the community that the only responsible
choice was to fence off and take down the structure,”
she wrote in an email to the Examiner.
“I also had to tell them that there was no money
in the PP&R budget to replace it. The outrage I heard
was a major motivator for me in seeking new funding,
which led to the referral of the Fix Our Parks bond
measure with the promise that Couch Park would be
among the first projects if the bond measure passed.”
Fritz insisted that an extension public engagement
process was followed, and even though “differences of opinion remain … I believe the community
and PP&R have worked together collaboratively and
respectfully.” n
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Readers Reply, cont'd from page 3
property taxes of $5-$50 might finally raise the
funds to improve the situation. This would certainly be more effective than trying to cajole the
funds from an already underfunded city.
Photo misidentified
Edwin Campbell NW Johnson St.
I enjoyed the April NW Examiner, especially the
excellent and interesting map of development
projects.
However, there is a mistake in the photo accompanying the article on architect Edgar Lazarus
(“Holman House bears stamp of famed architect”
on Page 22).
The photo is said to depict Edgar Lazarus, but it
is identical to a photo of Frederick V. Holman —
his patron — which can be found on Wikimedia
Commons.
A photo of Lazarus is found at the Jewish Museum of the American West, and indeed he doesn’t
look anything like Holman.
Daniel Lenski
NW 12th Ave.
Editor’s note: Mr. Lenski is correct. The photo
was of Frederick V. Holman. (Lazarus photo
below.)
5
NEWS
"Stakeholder" cont'd from page 1
fall, or did he use his connections
and role to seek custom-made zoning
provisions?
The revelations are useless in
determining if particular recommendations Petrusich made as a
stakeholder impacted properties
he owned or controlled. No one
reading his general list of holdings
would learn whether his property
was affected in a particular way not
applying to all properties in the central city.
Height
Mindy Brooks, project manager of
the Scenic Resources Protection Plan
for BPS, confirmed that Petrusich
contacted her about the plan.
Height Increases
Based on
Reclassifying
Jefferson Street
to a View Street
“I spoke with Dan Petrusich about
the property located at Salmon and
16th and more generally about Jefferson Street,” Brooks wrote in a March
email. “When we spoke, I was still
doing the scenic analysis. I gave him
an update on the project and timeline and told him that the proposal
for height changes would be available with the CC2035 draft. “Ultimately
als for height
Street – some
and others are
… there are proposchanges on Jefferson
heights are increased
decreased.” Petrusich did not accept an invitation to comment on this story.
Petrusich’s credibility on matters
of ethics and conflict of interest,
however, is clouded by his behavior
on the Stakeholders Advisory Committee and his attitude toward public accountability.
Although BPS directed all 33 SAC
members to complete disclosure
forms as a matter of law, Petrusich
sent an argumentative email message
instead.
“This reply will serve as my disclosure,” he wrote. “Over the years,
I have had an ownership interest in
a variety of properties located in the
central city, including office buildings, warehouses, apartments and
parking.”
“At the beginning of the WQ SAC
process, the city staff made it clear
that our role was strictly advisory
and that we had no decision-making
authority. The name of the committee, West Quadrant Stakeholders
‘Advisory’ Committee, clearly represents our advisory role,” his email
continued.
The distinction between decisionmaking and advising is addressed by
city and state ethics law. Ombudsman Sollinger said members of
advisory bodies are not subject to
charges of “actual” conflict of interest because they do not make binding decisions. Public officials having
actual conflicts may be prohibited
from participation in deliberation
or voting. Those with potential conflicts need only declare their connections before participating.
“The anonymous complaint [to the
City Ombudsman] included many
false claims,” Petrusich continued.
“The Ombudsman did not follow a
judicial or administrative process
recognized under law. I received no
opportunity to participate or provide
input on the claims.” n
Base Height = 100 ft
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Base Height = 160 ft
Above: Light brown strip along Southwest
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denote former height limit; red numbers
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19th on the north side of Jefferson Street,
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Citizen advisers resist disclosure
City warns it won’t shield them from
possible penalties for ethics violations
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
S
everal citizen advisers to the
city’s proposed comprehensive plan are dragging their
feet on disclosing their private financial interests.
They may have good reason to be
wary of what lies ahead. A four-page
letter from Sallie Edmunds, Portland
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Central City planning manager,
advised that they may be personally
liable for potential actions before the
Oregon Government Ethics Commission, in which case the city will not
defend them.
Furthermore, all disclosures
become public documents open to
the media and public.
The disclosures were ordered by
the BPS as a result of a City Ombudsman’s conclusion last October that
members of city-sanctioned advisory
committees are considered public
officials under city and state ethics
rules.
As such, they must disclose pri-
be confidential? If not, who will
have access to them and for what
purpose?
The conflict of interest disclosure
forms will be a public record. …
Anyone, including the media, can
ask to review them. BPS plans to
summarize the disclosure information for the Planning and Sustainability Commission and City Council.
What if someone does not comply
with this request?
Any noncompliance with the
request will be noted to the Planning
and Sustainability Commission and
City Council.
How could the retroactive remedy
recommended by the Ombudsman
have any impact on the project?
Because neither the Planning and
Sustainability Commission nor City
Council has made a final decision
on the CC2035 Plan, either body may
take the completed forms into consideration as part of their final decision-making on the plan. Either body
as follows:
In brief, a public official or the relative of the public official is associated with a business in the following
circumstances:
When, during the preceding cal-
endar year, a public official or relative has held a position as director,
officer, owner, employee or agent
of a private business or a closely
held corporation in which the public official or relative held or curContinued on page 8
Goodman asks for favors, won’t
cooperate with ethics requirement
Greg Goodman, president of City Center Parking, is conspicuous among
those not responding to the Bureau of
Planning and Sustainability’s request
for financial disclosure.
He has a lot to disclose.
While a member of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee to the West
Quadrant Plan, he privately asked city
staff for greater height limits on parcels
owned by his Downtown Development
Group LLC.
“At the base of the Hawthorne Bridge,
the suggested 325 feet only goes to
Columbia Street. I believe it should go to Clay to pick up the second of two
development sites in the area, located between First and Second, Columbia
and Clay. … Ideally, I would suggest 375 feet be allowed, which would be
respectful of all the surrounding properties,” he wrote in a 2013 email.
What the memo failed to say is that the entire block he wanted included
belongs to him. Increasing the current 75-foot height limit to 325 feet could
multiply its value for redevelopment.
Goodman went into similar detail about zoning and policy changes having a
bearing on three of his other properties.
“The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability did not ensure compliance with state conflict of interest
law when it convened a series of
stakeholder advisory committees
to make land use and urban planning recommendations. State law
required that committee members
timely and publicly disclose if
they could financially benefit from
their recommendations.”
Lest there be any doubt about whose stakes he had in mind, at a 2014 SAC
meeting, he said, “I actually do think we should take a position against the
taxing or closing [of] parking lots.”
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Portland, OR 97225
-- Margie Sollinger,
Portland Ombudsman
vate and professional interests having potential bearing on their recommendations. Because the Stakeholders Advisory Committee to the West
Quadrant Plan completed its report
last summer before the Ombudsman’s findings were released, bureau
chief Susan Anderson directed committee members to make disclosures
after the fact.
They were told to do so by the
end of 2015. The deadline was later
extended to March 31 and then
April 14. By April 26, seven of 33
members of the West Quadrant Plan
Stakeholders Advisory Committee
still had not submitted disclosure
forms. Two others, Melvin Mark Cos.
executives Dan Petrusich and John
Petersen, sent emails outlining their
discontent with the requirement.
Instead of listing their financial
ties, several stakeholders have apparently been consulting their lawyers
or otherwise searching for reasons to
not comply.
A March 30 letter sent to SAC
members includes no names, but
is nevertheless revealing. The following questions and answers were
taken directly from the letter:
Will the disclosure form responses
could choose to amend or delete
policies and items in the previously
accepted West Quadrant Plan.
Why does this apply to the SAC
when their role was not about decision-making? The SAC’s role was to
provide input to staff.
State ethics law applies to volunteer members of advisory committees.
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chose to implement it. BPS’s decision is not subject to appeal.
What is the scope of the disclosure? “Property owned by … any
business with which I was associated” could include anything that
I worked on for any of my clients
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prospects.
ORS 244.020(3)4 provides the definition of a “business with which the
person is associated,” paraphrased
Continued on page 8
7
NEWS
"Disclosure" cont'd from page 7
rently holds stock, stock options,
equity interest or debt instrument
over $1,000.
When, during the preceding calendar year, the public official or relative has owned or currently owns
stock, equity interest, stock options
or debt instruments of $100,000 or
more in a publicly held corporation.
When the public official or relative
is a director or officer of a publicly
held corporation.
When a public official is required
by ORS 244.050(5) to file an Annual Verified Statement of Economic
Interest form and the business is listed as a source of household income.
My spouse works for a large corporation. I don’t know how to even
begin to find out if that company
contracted with the city in 2012.
Any advice?
Please provide your spouse’s title
and employer and a general description his/her work on the disclosure
form so that others can understand
the relationship to the Central City
and the work of the SAC.
How will the information be used?
Has there been any resolution with
the complainants? Are they free to use
whatever comes from this disclosure to
try to obstruct the process at the next
level or make claims against anyone?
The City Ombudsman will consider the specific complaint resolved
once the disclosures are presented to
the PSC and council. However, there
is nothing prohibiting the complainants from submitting subsequent
complaints to the City Ombudsman
or the state.
Will SAC members be provided a
release for participating in this process?
A public official is personally liable for individual violations of Oregon ethics law. The city may neither
indemnify nor represent the official
before the Oregon Government Ethics Commission.
Will staff re-evaluate the input in
light of the disclosures?
BPS has already developed a
CC2035 Discussion Draft and will
consider public feedback on that
draft as they prepare the Proposed
Draft. On May 10, BPS will release a
Proposed Draft that will be the subject of a June 14 hearing before the
Planning and Sustainability Commission. n
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NEWS
Old fairgrounds at center of
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D
evelopment and redevelopment has been
a continual process in Northwest Portland.
The Lewis & Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair of
1905 was all about change, both globally and
in the neighborhood.
According to an article by Carl Abbott in the
Oregon Encyclopedia, “Two years of landscaping had turned Guild’s Lake, a marshy
slough surrounded by dairies and trucks
farms, into building sites and terraces that led
to a sparkling lake kept fresh with a constant
flow of water pumped from the Willamette
River.”
The fair lasted less than six months. After it
closed, many of the cheaply made structures
were torn down; others were moved.
Above: Gondolas and rowboats on Guilds Lake were
attractions at the 1905 Lewis &
Clark Exposition.
Future industrial use of the property enticed
developers to begin filling in Guilds Lake,
which had been used for gondola and rowboat rides during the fair. In the mid-1920s,
sediment dredged to deepen the channel
between Willamette River between Northwest
Portland and Swan Island was used to finish
filling the lake.
Left: The Paige Detroit Motor
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"Old Fairgrounds" cont'd from page 9
The circa 1922 photo shows the two-year old Montgomery Ward & Co.
building. To its right is the industrial complex of the American Can
Co., built in 1921. The buildings were vacated around 1960 and were
later used by other companies. In front of the Forestry Building is the
construction framework of the new Bergmann Shoe Manufacturing Co.
building, which was later home to Romaine Electric. It was demolished
a few months ago.
1954
The brick building at Northwest 28th and Savier has a marker on it
that identifies it as Beno & Ballis Industrial Center. Portlandmaps.com
lists the owner as Trolley Car Lofts Condos Association. Built in 1914,
it can be seen at the lower center portion of the image. In 1918, it was
a warehouse for the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. and was later used by
the U.S. Forest Service for truck storage. It was transformed into condominiums in the mid-1990s. A painted sign from the car company
remains on the east end of the building. A “Garage and Storage” sign
obscures the older sign.
By 1954, the large buildings mentioned earlier remained the same. The
Hamilton House is near the right edge of the 1954 photo.
2016
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Commons Condominiums were built on the property in 1984. The
repurposed Montgomery Ward & Co. building was transformed into a
trade center and office building by the H. Naito Co. (now Bill Naito Co.)
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Noise regulators pounded for
laxity regarding pile driving
ment. Then they unloaded
months of pent-up frustration in a concerted series of
statements having the figurative force of the construction
method they condemn.
Pearl activists spur transformation to quieter construction
methods, but City Hall not ready for stricter rules
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
P
ortland was the first
American city to create a noise control
program, and 40 years later,
Noise Control Officer Paul
van Orden is proud of the
pioneering agency’s accomplishments.
Even today, few American
cities comprehensively regulate noise pollution.
When it comes to piledriving noise in residential
areas, however, Pearl District activists think Portland
should be doing more. Even
the construction industry
seems to have turned the
page on this jarring, 19th
century construction method. Developers of the last
12 major buildings in the
Pearl have chosen the much
quieter augercast method.
This despite no restrictions
on impact-hammer pile driving imposed by local government.
City
Commissioner
Amanda Fritz proposed a
rule restricting the hammer
method to cases in which
ground conditions make
drilling infeasible. After
hearing a roomful of construction workers from the
Pacific Northwest Regional
Council of Carpenters warn
in March that the rule would
cost them work, the Noise
Review Board unanimously
rejected the proposal.
NRB Chair Carol Gosssett opened the free comment period by declaring a
three-minute limit on each
speaker.
The first to rise, Maryellen Kincaid, was a citizen
member of the Noise Task
Force appointed by Commissioner Fritz to propose
reforms. Kincaid, a veteran
of airport noise battles, was
the only commenter living
outside the Pearl.
Fritz has dropped the issue
for now.
“I heard from both the task
force and the Noise Review
Board—as well as from the
pile-driver union members
and representatives who
attended the March Noise
Review Board meeting—an
overarching concern that
a variance process would
not deter the use of impacthammer pile-driving equipment,” she wrote in a letter.
Last month, seven sober
neighborhood activists sat
through a two-hour NRB
meeting, waiting for the period when citizens could com-
“It is citizens like Mary
Sipe and Patrice Hanson
who contacted developers …
and negotiated the use of
the augercast pile driver,”
she said. “The Noise Review
Board and the Noise Office
did nothing to reach those
agreements, or even assist
the citizens in becoming
informed about construction
noise.”
Kincaid said the task
force’s
findings
were
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"Pile Driving" cont'd from page 11
ignored, and “members of the public
were mocked” by the NRB.
as the go-to first resort chosen by
developers for cost reasons.”
Van Orden disputed her claims
of inadequate community notice of
noise variances, and Gossett reminded the restive citizenry that pile driving was not on the agenda, as if that
might defer other statements.
After his statement, the board
politely thanked him and braced for
ensuing blows. The three-minute
limit, exceeded by each speaker, was
never mentioned again.
Patrice Hanson, who received the
NW Examiner’s Livability Award in
2015 for her leadership on this issue,
admonished the board for shaking
their heads in disapproval as Kincaid
spoke.
The next speaker,
David Mitchell, is
a retired hospital
administrator who
ands:has overseen major
construction projas ects.
elle
hips
Stan Penkin’s statement, charging
that “diligent efforts of a number
of citizens concerned about public health and safety has come to
naught,” was read into the record.
“The failure of the this board to
support the pile driving variance
process proposed by Commissioner Fritz is both
and disturbing to
failure of baffling
me,” said Hanson.
“The
the this board to
support the pile
driving variance
process proposed by
Commis-sioner Fritz
is both baffling and
disturbing to me.”
Patrice Hanson
“You have fundamentally failed
in your responsibility to maintain
an appropriate balance between quality of life concerns
of thousands of residents and the economic interests of a
few developers and
contractors,” Mitchell said.
“This board was faced with a timely
and auspicious opportunity to put in
place enlightened and well-reasoned
measures modeled after those adopted in New York City, which would
have rendered hammer-impact piledriving as a last resort predicated on
geophysical imperatives rather than
“Impact-hammer pile
driving is one of the most
egregious, harmful noise
polluters in the city, as it
produces noise and vibration far beyond the decibel levels of most other
urban noise sources.
“I have the sense that the
Noise Review Board succumbed to pressures from
the construction industry
(DeWitt Construction Inc.)
rather than consider the greater good
of the many.”
DeWitt, which does not have largescale augercast equipment, had driven the piles for virtually all major
Portland buildings in recent years
until Pacific Foundation, using
newer auger equipment, captured
the local market.
PEARL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Name
Location
Block 17 Apartments
11th Overton
Cosmopolitan11th Northrup
NV Apartments
12th Overton
Abigail13th Raleigh
The Modera
13th Savier
Pearl West
14th Irving
Developer
Hoyt/Wood Partners
Hoyt Street Properties
Unico
Bridge Housing
Mill Creek
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Method
hammer
auger
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auger
auger
auger
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Hampton Inn
Canopy Hilton
Block 5/Station Place
11th & Hoyt Block 136
Premiere Press offices
Broadstone Apartments
Block 26 apartments
9th Couch
9th Everett
9th Glisan
9th Northrup
11th & Hoyt
12th Johnson
14th Hoyt
14th Raleigh
14th Raleigh
Urban Asset Advisor
Walsh
Raymond Anderson
Buccini Pollin/Menashe
Williams Dane
John Carroll
Security Properties
Anderson
Meriwether Partners
Alliance Realty Partners TBD
Portland Housing Bureau TBD
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Mary Sipe, who was also appointed
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“Over the past two years, you have
heard the same objections to any
efforts to limit the unnecessary use of
the impact-hammer pile driver,” she
said. “Those objections have been
from DeWitt Construction, members
of the pile-drivers union and Hoyt
Street Properties. None of their objections are valid.
“DeWitt has maintained that due to
soil conditions the quieter auger drill
method is not viable in some areas
of Portland like the Pearl District.
In the last two years, more than 10
projects have successfully set foundation piles using the auger drill in
the Pearl District. What more proof
do you need that the soil conditions
do not always prohibit the use of the
auger drill?
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pile driving has not been used in the
last two years in the Pearl District is
because citizens have taken it upon
themselves to convince developers
to use the new, quieter auger drill,
not because of anything the Noise
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you,” said board member Kerrie
Standlee. “We heard you.”
convened the Noise Task Force and
we discussed many things. The NRB
chose to pass on making any recommendations of any kind.
Standlee insisted his objection to
the variance proposal was not influenced by DeWitt or laborers but rather
the inefficacy of the proposed rules.
He said builders would hire engineers
to defend use of impact-hammer pile
driving, and the board, lacking expertise to question the recommendations,
would have to go along.
“I do not believe she has abandoned
us or given up the fight,” Sipe added.
“She has left the door open, and I
think we need to choose the opportune time to re-enter.”
Penkin is more critical of the commissioner, who turned down requests
to meet with him to explain her
course.
“I didn’t see any different outcomes,” Standlee said. “We would
just charge [the builders] some money
to do what they started out to do.”
“Amanda’s lack of response to
meeting directly is indicative of a
leader who is not listening, regardless of what she said in her letter to
appease us,” he said.
members were on the defensive.
Van Orden questioned whether
New York’s stringent rules are being
enforced and promised to visit the
city to investigate. In phone calls to
New York’s noise office, he found that
staff were unable to direct citizens on
how to lodge complaints.
“I don’t want to pass something we
can’t enforce,” he said.
As for Portland regulators kneeling to industry pressure, “I don’t feel
actually that we were affected by
DeWitt at all,” he said.
Reflecting later, Kincaid did not
blame Commissioner Fritz for the
inaction. She is convinced Fritz did
not take the proposal to City Council
because “without the NRB support, it
would have been defeated.
“We all need to recognize,” she
advised co-activists, “that had if not
for Commissioner Fritz’s initiative
and her staff … there would not be
this discussion. Commissioner Fritz
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behavior.”
Van Orden sees limited staffing in
the Noise Control Program as the root
problem.
The Pearl District Neighborhood
Association voted to join a lawsuit
filed April 20 by a business dominated coalition citing the mayor for
crafting policies without regard to
existing anti-camping ordinances
or rules of governance.
“I’m amazed that no one in the press
has noted our staffing limitations,” he
said. “We’re the oldest noise office in
the United States. Does it make sense
to have only 3.5 people?”
Before the month ended, however, PDNA President Patricia Gardner notified her board that it was
all a mistake and that the association is not part of the suit after all.
The program had four employees
when it was established in 1976,
and given the population growth
and greater demands today, he said,
“We’re just putting out fires.”
“There is some confusion about
the PDNA in the news today,
which is entirely my fault,” Gardner wrote May 2 in an email to
the board. “The official position
of the Pearl District Neighborhood
Association at this time is that we
are investigating becoming part of
the Safe and Livable injunction
lawsuit.”
To rectify that problem, the board
has proposed higher fees for noise
variances that would approximately double total revenues from that
source. Adoption of the new fee
schedule by City Council could happen as soon as this summer. n
The confusion is well-founded.
Gardner laid out the rationale
for the suit at an April 14 board
meeting, which was moved to a
larger room to accommodate peo-
“It’s time for the PDNA to take
action on the subject,” Gardner
said.
She asked for a motion to “investigate legal options,” and the resulting motion passed unanimously
and without dissenting comments.
The suit was filed the following
week with PDNA listed among the
seven plaintiffs.
But this month, Gardner emailed
the NW Examiner advising that
“we have not yet joined the lawsuit.
“The miscommunication was
between me and BOMA [Building Owners and Managers Association, a plaintiff in the suit] and is
entirely my fault,” she said. “It was
a misunderstanding that has been
rectified by all parties. The misunderstanding should not detract
from their lawsuit or the much
larger issue of the legalization of
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Developer takes credit for Pearl turnaround
Bowen’s BPM team as
rushing “to take advantage of one of the hottest
markets for office space
in the country.”
Plaque near Pearl West entry testifies
to Walter Bowen’s bold achievement
BY THACHER SCHMID
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A veteran city planner believes the
truth to be more nuanced.
hen the future of the Pearl
District was in doubt and
others were too timid to
act, Walter Bowen moved boldly and
turned the tide by building Pearl West,
a just completed nine-story office
building at 1455 NW Irving St.
Lest anyone doubt Bowen’s rightful
claim to this interpretation of history,
he had it engraved on a plaque at the
building’s entrance. The lettering may
well outlive the memory of Pearl residents who were around when he supposedly made history.
The 236,000-square-foot Class A
office building opened its doors to
tenants last month, notably the Americas headquarters of interactive pen
company Wacom, which moved from
Vancouver, Wash.
Developed by BPM Real Estate, of
which Bowen is president, it is now
almost fully leased. It will house 650
employees inside a dark-gray Endicott
brick facade, erasing memories of the
surface parking lot it replaced.
The plaque in question features
Bowen’s engraved likeness and a
quote that begins:
“While others waited, Walter Bowen
moved forward. In 2014, Walter led the
Pearl District out of the Great Recession of 2009 when he broke ground on
Pearl West; the first new office building to be built in the Central City in
The “fundamentals of
the office market look
good,” Njus wrote at the
time.
“It might be [the first office building]
in that little area, but it’s not the first
office building since the recession,”
said Troy Doss, a 16-year veteran at the
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.
“I wouldn’t say that’s a 100-percent
accurate statement.
The plaque violates no
local codes. It’s considered signage by the city,
which gives building
owners wide latitude on
the subject.
“I looked at the design
review and the building
permits, and I didn’t see
the plaque in that,” said
Bureau of Development
Services
spokesman
Ross Caron. “Our regulation of signage is content
neutral,” he said. “Our
city vision doesn’t get to
the level of plaques.”
“I think anyone weighing into speculative office development or any
development in 2009 took a risk, but
luckily there were many who did,”
Doss wrote in an email, including a list
of seven other similar developments.
“It’s hard to say who went first, but
we’re grateful to all those who did.”
Doss is unaware of other Portland
developers posting similar tributes to
themselves.
Self tribute
We asked passersby
and neighbors living at
the Avenue Lofts to the
Recession of 2009 when he broke ground on Pearl West; south for their takes on
the first new office building to be built in the Central City in the plaque, which also
lauds “Walter’s positive
many years. Walter created Pearl West for organizations
that will lead and build our economy locally, regionally and vision for the future” and
“unparalleled drive for
globally.
success.”
Neither has Kate Washington, who “While others waited, Walter Bowen moved forward.
co-chairs the Pearl District Neighbor“In 2014, Walter led the Pearl District out of the Great
hood Association planning committee.
“I’ve never seen something like this,
especially where the person is still
alive, but I do recognize the value of
Pearl West in attracting employment
to the Central City,” she wrote in an
email.
What got into Bowen to turn press
release puffery into permanent architecture?
Bowen spokesman Pat Walsh said
Bowen was traveling and not available for an interview. He described the
“Pearl West is home to leaders and companies that
share Walter’s positive vision for the future, that thrive
on creativity, innovation, and have an unparalleled drive
for success.”
plaque as honoring Bowen’s vision
and hard work on the building.
“The stakeholders elected to provide this tribute to Mr. Bowen out of
sincere thanks for all his efforts on
their behalf,” Walsh wrote.
“In my experience, it is not uncommon for the developer of a project of
the size and scope of Pearl West to
be memorialized on site via exterior
recognition,” Walsh gushed. “This
recognition is well deserved.”
live
work
love
Others not in Bowen’s employ see
it differently.
The plaque’s assertion of reviving
a stalled market contradicts a 2014
story in The Oregonian by Elliot
Njus that describes Bowen’s BPM
team as rushing “to take advantage of
one of the hottest markets for office
space in the country.”
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Tenants of the building apparently
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still vacant, but office tenants include
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health, and the environment.
“I think it’s a little bit self-centered,”
said Dominique, who declined to give
a last name, as she left the Avenue
Lofts. She’s excited about an increase
in foot traffic, but “I kind of wish
they’d done, like on other buildings, a
historical plaque.”
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“Weird,” said Arielle Moore, visiting
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he trying to do, publicize himself?”
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of sewer pipes are
“The Pearl was built off an artistic
community,” passerby Alex Wilson
said, while staring at the plaque. “But
that artistic community can’t afford
to be here anymore. It’s kind of funny
because people move here for that, but
then they push artists out.”
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of Portland’s 2,500 miles
The plaque’s assertion of reviving a stalled market contradicts a
2014 story in The Oregonian story
by Elliot Njus which that describes
“I’m not a big fan,”
New York-to-Portland
transplant Craig Loftin said with a bemused
expression.
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Pearl joins historic preservation
cause
Washington
said developers of the
firehouse
and
adjacent properties
could
save
the
1913 structure and still
have a quarThe Euro- ter block to
car building is one
of the single-story industrial build upon.
buildings doomed by redevelopment. Although the
Wesley Mahan photo c o m m i t t e e
has not taken
a stand on the issue, she invited
members to personally write letters
to save the firehouse.
Series of proposed demolitions spur
neighborhood to consider its smaller,
older buildings
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
T
he Pearl District Neighborhood Association has never
made historic preservation
a high priority, but the proposed
demolition of a 103-year-old former
fire station and several less notable
old structures has nudged the organization to pay more attention to its
architectural heritage.
PDNA planning co-chair Kate
Washington called for creation of
a task force “to explore options for
keeping our historic buildings.”
Washington hopes to marshal policies and incentives to make smaller
buildings worth saving instead of
inevitably giving way to new structures that maximize height and density limits.
“This is in response to the proposed demolition of four small buildings on Northwest 10th, as well as
one of Portland’s remaining historic
firehouses,” Washington said. “Not
all of [the four are] necessarily historic, but it’s certainly a loss in scale
to have a whole block go at once.”
Outside the Northwest 13th Avenue Historic District, the only protection afforded historic Pearl buildings comes from the possibility of
selling density bonus rights to nearby properties. Washington said the
transfer of “air rights” hasn’t proved
sufficient.
David Dysert, who will serve on
the task force, said economic factors,
including the lowest interest rates in
history, have spurred a development
“orgasm.”
“There has never been a better
time to develop,” he said. “There
is no balance now. The doors are
open.”
Dysert predicted the north Pearl
will become sterile with nothing but
new architecture, and warned that
“we’re losing our diversity in the
south Pearl.”
Market pressures and loose regulations feed this trend. Laws allowing
owners of city ranked historic buildings to remove them from the list at
their discretion “make no sense,” he
said.
Washington and Dysert also
acknowledged that historic preservation has a bad reputation in some
circles. Over the years, PDNA has
consistently embraced high-density
development, which its former planning chair and current president,
Patricia Gardner, sees as a bulwark
against urban sprawl.
Planning committee member
David August spoke against the
preservation initiative, referring to
the former Eurocar building at 229
NW 10th Ave., a single-story car
repair garage used for parking since
Eurocar moved out “close to 19
years” ago. It may soon be replaced
by a 12-story residential tower.
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A seven-story office building closely matching
traditional brick buildings around it will replace a
parking lot at Northwest 13th and Glisan. It will
be the first new structure in the Thirteenth Avenue Historic District since the historic district was
created in 1996. The property is owned by Roxy
Rapp, a former footwear retailer and founder of a
development company based in Palo Alto, Calif.
NW 5th Ave.
MODERA DAVIS
Four older commercial
buildings, including the
former home of Eurocar
at Northwest 10th and Everett streets, will be razed
for a 12-story apartment
building. It will have about
200 apartment units,
ground-floor retail and
four levels of underground
parking for 145 vehicles.
The developer is Mill
Creek Residential Trust.
NW 6th Ave.
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A new headquarters
for Multnomah County
Health Department is going in at Northwest Sixth
and Hoyt on the eastern
half of the block occupied
by Bud Clark Commons.
The nine-story building will consolidate health department
operations now spread across several downtown locations. A
pharmacy and gallery will be on the first floor, clinic offices on
Floors 2-4 and office space above that. There will be no parking. City Council increased the height limit on this parcel from
75 to 150 feet last year to accommodate this structure.
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Clear Creek Distillery, Oregon’s Oldest Artisanal
Distiller, Celebrates the Big Three-Oh
BY CHAD WALSH
and eight years, respectively); an eau de vie
of Douglas fir, which is
made with and infused
with new Douglas fir
shoots; a line of seven
different fruit cordials;
and McCarthy’s, the distillery’s award-winning
single-malt Scotch.
L
ast month, the folks behind
Clear Creak Distillery celebrated 30 years in business with a
huge bash at their Slabtown headquarters, where spirits representatives, bartenders and media members
mooned over the company’s new
logo, mingled over cocktails and conversed about the state of the spirits
industry.
If you wanted to know
what any of these taste
like, swing by the tasting room at 2389 NW
Wilson St. and give one
or two or more a try. It’s
open daily from noon to
6 p.m.
In 1986, Clear Creek put Portland
on the artisanal distillers’ map,
inspiring scores of other local aficionados to start their own distilling
practices.
According to Rachel Inman, Clear
Creek’s brand ambassador, it seems
to have happened by chance.
Lifelong Northwest Portland resident Steve McCarthy found himself
returning over and over again to
Europe in the 1980s as he sold parts
to European rifle manufacturers.
McCarthy fell in love with the
German, Swiss and French digestifs
that were served to him after rich,
lavish meals. One day, he was served
a small glass of the eau de vie Poire
Williams.
After trying it—and the pears used
to make it—he decided that the Poire
Williams was basically what the
French called a Bartlett pear, a fruit
that McCarthy knew well, having
worked at his parents’ orchard in the
Hood River valley.
McCarthy decided to put those
Bartlett pears to work in what would
be Oregon’s first artisanal distillery.
But before he could begin, he
“News You Can’t Always Believe”
A FRIEND IS GONE
MAY, 2016
eau, a most beloved and loyal
regular of the Nob Hill Bar &
Grill, has left his earthly leash.
Set adrift 15 years ago by a group of
street people who could no longer
feed him, Beau and Joe ran into each
other on 23rd Avenue, and an enduring
friendship was born.
B
During the winter, Beau could be seen in
his official-looking companion dog vest
lying at Joe’s feet inside the Nob Hill Bar
and Grill. Beau became a beloved and
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they were the only ones doing so. It was
even rumored that the owner of Nobbys
reserved two Nobby Burger patties a day
for Beau.
A good friend is gone, but Beau has taken
his place in the history and lore of the
Nob Hill Bar and Grill.
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needed a still, so he imported a
very steampunk-looking contraption
from Germany, one of the oldest
of its kind. The trouble was, even
though his German was passable,
he had trouble reading such specific
instructions in another language.
It didn’t matter. McCarthy hired a
plumber and an electrician, and the
three of them got it in working order
by winging it. In 1986, he started his
first batch on the corner of Northwest 23rd Avenue at Quimby Street
where The Matador stands now.
Once he dialed in his pear brandy—with pears harvested from his
family’s orchard—McCarthy began
to explore other flavors, eventually
expanding his line to include plum
brandy; kirschwasser (with cherries
sourced from The Dalles); apple
brandies (including two that have
been aged in French oak for two
Joe, a retired seaman, knew he must
rescue the starving hound, although
some think Beau rescued Joe. They
became inseparable. Whether strolling
the neighborhood or sitting at Nobbys,
wherever you saw Joe, you’d see
Beau.
Beau would occasionally let slip his
hound dog lineage and howl, drawing
a loud shout of “quiet” from Joe. This
would cause Beau to stare back at Joe in
utter incomprehension, the same quizzical
look that could be seen in Joe’s eyes when
the opinionated gent was occasionally
told to “pipe down.”
The distillery uses
half a million pounds of
pears, plus an additional 1.3 million pounds
of other local fruits, to
make about 120,000
bottles of spirits a year.
Each bottle is filled and
labeled by hand.
Right: The distillery on Northwest Wilson
Street produces about 120,000 bottles of
spirits a year, each one filled and labeled
by hand. Chad Walsh photos
NOBBY NEWS
Vol. 22, No. 5
Clear Creek Distillery, by the numbers
and at a glance
Above: Steve McCarthy was the lone
distiller in Oregon when he started Clear
Creek Distillery.
Photo courtesy DrinkUpNY
Ever wanted to know
how they got those full
grown pears into their
regular-sized bottles for
its small-batch pearin-a-bottle
signature
brandy line? Easy (sort
of): In May, Clear Creek employees
and contractors “bottle” trees in the
Hood River Valley by attaching bottles to fruit-bearing trees and burying small, unripened fruit in each
bottle. By August, the pears grow to
full size, and the bottles with fruit in
them are clipped from the trees and
filled with pear brandy.
The pear-in bottles are a little
spendy, though. They cost $80,
opposed to $45 for your standard
pear brandy. Inman says she sees no
need buying more than one pear-in
bottle, though. Since they’re more
gift-worthy, she suggests just refilling it with a regular bottle.
In 2014, Hood River Distillers
bought the business from McCarthy.
However, the operation is still a
small, employing five full-time producers and five other employees. n
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Aria Gin’s Gin Old Fashioned
BY CHAD WALSH
Nearly 10 years ago, Ryan Csanky found
himself in a little bit of a pickle: As the thenbartender of the now-shuttered Wildwood,
he often found himself making martinis for
that restaurant’s discerning clientele. Trouble
was, he—like lots of Portlanders working in
the food and beverage industry—wanted to
shake his martinis with a locally produced gin,
specifically a London dry gin.
When he realized there weren’t any, he started
the long process of figuring out how to make his
own. With the help of his friend, Erik Martin, he
put in five years of research and development
before launching Aria Gin in 2014.
Aria, he says, complements the most
sophisticated of cocktails, but it can also be used
for other means, including putting a twist on the
3 ounces Aria Portland Dry Gin*
granddaddy of all cocktails: the Old Fashioned.
INGREDIENTS
¼ ounce Pierre Ferrand Dry
We recently caught up with Csanky at his new
distillery and tasting room at the north end of the Orange Curacao**
23rd Avenue, where he ran us through the proper
5-6 dashes of Scrappy’s Orleans
steps for building a gin-based Old Fashioned.
Bitters*** Once you have all the necessary ingredients,
they’re a cinch to make, as you can see by the
recipe printed here. Just be careful. These things
can sneak up on you and make your head a little
swimmy.
2 wide pieces (1 inch by 2½
inch) of lemon peel cut with a
vegetable peeler
Aria Gin: 2304 NW Savier St.
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Ryan Csanky couldn’t
rest until finding the right
locally made London dry
gin—his own.
Chad Walsh photo
INSTRUCTIONS
In a mixing glass:
Pinching lengthwise, squeeze
and twist each piece of peel
over glass to express oils into
glass.
Carefully measure remaining
ingredients. Balance is important
here.
Add ice.
Stir about 40 times, or about 30
seconds.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Enjoy.
(From the cocktail’s author)
* Substituting ANY other gin may
lead to a fiery explosion resulting
in permanent injury of death. (Not
worth the risk.)
** Available at Uptown Liquor and
Pearl Specialty Spirits.
*** Orleans Bitters have a flavor
slightly reminiscent of absinthe
and are available in the Aria
Gin Tasting Room.
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NORTHWEST PORTLAND
Pastries, lawsuits and demolitions
BY CHAD WALSH
FILLMORE TRATTORIA
The neighborhood picked up two
spots—one that does pasta and one
that bakes pastries—while another
pizza by the slice and whole pie
place is on the way. The biggest
news, though, is what will happen
to Touché if the city approves
a proposal to build a 12-story
apartment complex to replace the
old firehouse it calls home.
WHAT’S OPEN
It’s official. Le Vieux, the Mediterranean
restaurant run by Bay Area natives Annette
Yang and Brian Leitner up on Northwest
23rd Place, is gone. Taking its place is
Fillmore Trattoria, the Pacific Northwest
offshoot of Jackson Fillmore Trattoria,
the San Francisco-based family-owned
restaurant that’s been run and operated for
more than 30 years by recent transplant,
Jack Krietzman. We spoke with Krietzman,
two months ago, who said he was eager to
share with Portland what he’s long done in
California: Italian food simply done with
basic ingredients. Expect plenty of pasta
dishes, antipasti starters and a range of
seafood mains. The space will serve dinner
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Come visit our
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GRAND OPENING FRI APRIL 22ND
Think global ...
There’s a new pasta joint in the
neighborhood. Rick Gencarelli’s Grassa
now lives where the old Pastini Pastaria
once stood. The menu has 10 different
kinds of handmade pasta, including
bucatini carbonara, barbecue pork
belly mac and cheese with jalapeños
and red onions, and squid ink chitarra
which gets tossed with clams, fennel,
pancetta, Calabrian chiles and a green
garlic puree. Vegetable sides, meatballs,
calamari, cheese boards, antipasti, beer,
wine and a handful of Italian cocktails
round the menu out. The 80-seat space
is open daily, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Grassa has put its own mark on the former Pastini
Pastaria space.
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WHAT’S NEW
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LITTLE RED’S BAKESHOP
Jenni Welliver started baking as a child, and
this simple hobby soon became her passion—
enough of one to lead her out of the tech world
and into classes at the San Francisco Baking
Institute. When she returned to Portland, she
started an online special order bakery. Now
it has a Goose Hollow shop that was recently
home to Palace Cakes. Welliver says Little
Red’s focus is best summed up by her motto:
“Simple local ingredients done right.” There
are two pastry cases, one for savory treats
(savory brioche, quiche and biscuits) and one
for sweet (brioche, cookies, coffee cakes and
brownies). She hopes to soon take special
orders for cakes, pies and other baked goods.
Little Red’s is open Tuesday through Sunday,
from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
1401 SW Yamhill St., 503-706-8748
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WHAT’S COMING
PIZZICATO PIZZA PEARL
Tracy and Marc Frankel will open another
pizza place in the coming months, their 15th
metro area location and their second in the
Northwest District.
Last month, Boxer Ramen and Blue Star
Donuts owners Micah Camden and Katie
Poppe agreed to pay a $675,000 settlement
brought by Little Big Burger workers who
claimed the couple failed to compensate them
for their overtime pay. Camden and Poppe
opened the first Little Big Burger in the Pearl
District in 2010. Last year, they sold the chain
to Chanticleer Holdings (the company behind
the Hooters franchise) for $6.1 million.
ARIA GIN
Thanks to a recent change in OLCC rules,
liquor tasting rooms can now charge small fees
for sips at distilleries, a privilege long enjoyed
by brewery and winery owners. To take
advantage of the change, distiller and longtime
bartender Ryan Csanky is introducing a $5
cocktail flight. The flight includes five drinks:
straight-up gin, gin old fashioned, gin gimlet,
gin Collins and a very tasty gin and tonic made
with Bradley’s Kina tonic. All of the mini
cocktails are made with ingredients that you
can purchase in the tasting room.
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HAMLET
Hamlet, cocktail lounge and defacto Oven and Shaker waiting
room owned by Cathy Whims and
Ryan Magarian, now has a longer
happy hour and a new executive
chef. Devon Chase, who has put in
kitchen time at Oven and Shaker and
Smallwares, will be adding freshmade mozzarella to Hamlet’s diverse
ham menu. He will soon start
smoking seafood in the restaurant’s
own smoker. Hamlet’s happy hour
now runs from 4 to 7 p.m.
232 NW 12th Ave., 503-241-4009
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HENRY’S TAVERN
According to an OLCC permit,
it looks like Henry’s Tavern is
changing hands. The tavern is
in the Henry Weinhard Brewery
complex, where they started
brewing beer about 150 years ago.
chicken-fried steak and grilled
pork chops round out the menu.
The Waiting Room: 2327 NW
Kearney St., 503-477-4380
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WHAT’S ON HOLD
LING GARDEN, the Chinese
restaurant at 915 NW 21st Ave.,
closed temporarily last month in
preparation for 21 Astor, a 27-unit
apartment building at the corner
of 21st and Kearney that will wipe
out Ling Garden’s former home
and a smaller building at the
corner. The restaurant hopes to
reopen in the new building when
it’s completed next year.
WHAT’S UP IN THE AIR
TOUCHÉ
Last month, Portland Chronicle,
the anonymous blog that
documents pending demolitions,
reported that property owners
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THE WAITING ROOM
Last month, we reported that
The Waiting Room, the new fried
chicken, oysters and champagne
spot, opened in the old
Huckleberry Pub space. And as of
this month, they’re serving brunch
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday
mornings. You can still get that
chicken, now with biscuits. The
oysters will get a makeover, too,
showing up fried in a breakfast
hash. Cornmeal hushpuppies,
duck fat omelets, ginger barbecue
shrimp, pork cheek grillades,
CORRECTION
Last month, we erroneously reported
that the kitchen in Brian Carrick’s
upcoming Slabtown Pizza Bar
would be run by “Scott Lawrence,
formerly of Breakside Brewing.”
Thing is, Lawrence isn’t a chef, and
he’s not leaving Breakside. Rather,
he’s a partner in the pizza bar. Brian
Lamback (a former Wildwood sous
chef) will be Slabtown’s chef.
Robert Ames and James Puckett
were making arrangements to
sell off a city block at the edge of
the Pearl district to Mill Creek
Residential Trust, a national
Texas-based developer, which
plans to raze the lot in order
to build a 12-story, 150-unit
apartment complex.
bartender), he told us that it’s
now in the hands of the Bureau of
Development Services.
Late last month, he attended
a preliminary application
procedure that he says answered
a lot of questions, while raising
even more. If the city nixed the
demolition, Touché stays. Feasibly
it could stay if the developer
wants to preserve it. But if the
demolition is approved, Burmaster
says Touché will likely be reborn
somewhere else with the same
spirit and ambiance, but under a
different name.
However, the developers would
need permission to tear down
Touché, which has operated
for over 20 years in a 103-yearold building that was originally
used as a fire hall. When we
spoke with Thomas Burmaster,
the restaurant’s general manager
(who got his start there as a
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Community Events
been active in Westside neighborhood
associations: Tracy Prince, Michael
Mehaffy and Steve Pinger.
Community Awards
The 22nd annual NW Examiner
Community Awards will be held
Saturday, May 21, 7 p.m., at Friendly
House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. Ten
individuals will be honored for their
contributions to the community (see Page
1 for their names). City Commissioner
Nick Fish will make introductory
remarks. Doors open at 6 p.m. Beverages
and light refreshments will be served.
Pancake breakfast
A pancake breakfast benefit for summer
scholarships to Friendly House summer
programs will be held Saturday, May 21,
8:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Legacy Lions Club
and Chapman Elementary are co-hosting
the event to help low-income students.
Registration is requested: contact
Melinda Rhodes at [email protected]
or 503-413-8055.
Showcase Concert
Portland Symphonic Girlchoir’s Prelude
Singers will present, “Spero (hope),” a
showcase concert Saturday, May 14, 2
p.m., at Zion Lutheran Church, 1015 SW
18th Ave. It will feature “A Song to End
All War, Spero,” by PSG alum Amy C.
Burgess. For tickets, call 503-226-6162.
Memorial Day BBQ
Hostel International Portland Northwest
invites neighbors to spend the holiday
with international and domestic guests at
a Memorial Day BBQ Saturday, May
28, 2 p.m., in the Secret Garden, 425 NW
18th Ave. There will be live music and a
fire pit. For information, contact Meghan
Keener at community@nwportlandhostel.
com.
Mother’s Day Walk
A 5K benefit walk for Rose Haven
shelter for women and children will be
held Sunday, May 8, beginning at 10
a.m. at Castaway Portland, 1900 NW
18th Ave. There is no minimum fee, but
each participant is asked to give or raise
$189, the cost to serve a woman in the
Northwest Portland shelter for one year.
The walk begins at 11 a.m. and prizes will
be awarded 12:30-1 p.m. For information,
visit rosehaven.org.
Pacific Lady
Portland Symphonic Girlchoir’s Prelude Singers will perform at Zion Lutheran Church
May 14.
Rotary programs
Portland Pearl Rotary Club meets
Tuesdays at 7:25 a.m. in the Ecotrust
Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave., second
floor. The public is invited. A $10 charge
includes breakfast. For information,
contact Randy Vogt, vogt4me1@icloud.
com or 503-228-9858.
May 10: “Yo! Ghana,” Elizabeth FoslerJones, former Pearl Rotary International
exchange student.
May 17: “The Role of National Tradition
in Brewing Styles,” Jeff Alworth, author
of “The Beer Bible.”
May 24: “Culturally Sensitive Media
Engagement,” Victoria Lara, Lara Media
Services LLC.
June 7: “Piano Push Play,” Megan
McGeorge, founder, Piano Push Play.
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Mitch Greenlick is releasing “Capitol
Letters,” a collection of reports on
his 14 years as a state legislator for
Northwest Portland. Pulitzer Prize
winner Jack Ohman has contributed
political cartoons to the book. Oregon
Historical Society Director Kerry
Tymchuk will host a book release
event at OHS, 1200 SW Park Ave.,
Thursday, May 19, 6 p.m. To
attend, RSVP to [email protected].
For information, visit IdeasByACS.
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Portland’s future
“Has Portland Lost Its Way?” a
forum on the issues of growth,
density, urbanism, gentrification
and social equity underlying
the Central City 2025 Plan, will be
held Wednesday, May 25, 5:30 p.m., in
Room 338 of Smith Memorial Student
Union at Portland State University. The
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Facing demolition, Firehouse No. 3 held to standard of uniqueness
the firehouse—designed and built to
accommodate the firefighters who
occupied them, who had to quickly
exit and respond to fire-related calls
in an earlier era. Of the three remaining of this particular type, the 14th
and Glisan station is now proposed
for demolition.
“The station on Northwest Third
Avenue is owned by PDC [the
Portland Development Commission], and is not being maintained,
looking more and more like ‘demolition-by-neglect.’ That leaves the
Northwest 24th Avenue firehouse
building that has long been restored
and adaptively reused. Each of these
buildings has a commanding presence and context in their particular
locations, and ultimately saving one
is not like saving the other.”
The cultural history of Firehouse
No. 3 also came up at the Design
Commission meeting last month.
Pink Martini member Phil Baker
said that the cultural significance
of the building when it housed Delevan’s, an epicenter of jazz in the
1980s, makes the building worth
saving.
In 1950, Firehouse No. 3 was part
of an industrial neighborhood uninterrupted by a freeway. Portland Archives
Does existence of other old firehouses
make home of Touché less significant?
BY TANYA MARCH
T
he future of 103-year-old Firehouse No. 3 at Northwest 14th
and Glisan will come down
to a matter of design. The Portland
Design Commission must weigh the
historic merit of the structure and
whether similar-era surviving firehouses in the area provide sufficient
reference to the earlier period.
At a Bureau of Development Services design advice review meeting April 20, public comments
were made about the doppelganger
facades of three Northwest Portland
firehouses: those at 425 NW Glisan
St.; 824 NW 24th Ave.; and 529 NW
Third Ave.
The 24th Avenue structure, converted into a residence 31 years ago,
was offered to demonstrate that a
nearly identical structure has economic viability and need not be
razed.
Cathy Galbraith, the recently
retired director of the Architectural
Heritage Center, said that although
the firehouses are similar, each
structure is unique and worthy of
preservation.
“These are surviving examples of
a particular public-use building—
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"Firehouse No. 3" cont'd from page 25
According to Lynn Darroch’s afterword to “Jumptown: The Golden
Years of Portland Jazz (1942-1957),”
by Robert Dietsche (Oregon State
University Press, 2006), “Delevan’s,
a popular supper club located in
a former firehouse on Northwest
Glisan Street. Known for its food and
ambiance, Delevan’s hosted national
names such as Sonny Stitt and Eddie
Harris. Accompanying many of these
performers was the house trio: drummer Ron Steen, bassist Phil Baker
and pianist Peter Boe.”
CALL TO ACTION
The best hope for saving the
firehouse surrounds recognition of its historic significance.
The fact that this evaluation
must be debated at the figurative point of a gun—an active
redevelopment proposal—suggests that the city of Portland
is failing its state-mandated
requirement to inventory and
rank its historic resources. The
Portland Historic Resources
Inventory was conducted in
1984, and there has been no
ensuing city program to protect
buildings judged to have high
value.
The building is listed on the Historic Resource Inventory, but that listing
offers no protection. Construction of
the Interstate-405 freeway isolated
the firehouse from the community it
once protected. Designed in 1913 for
horse drawn fire engines, the building was adapted for firetrucks.
Another aspect of design review
considers compatibility of the
replacement buildings. Senior Planner Tim Heron of the Bureau of
Development Services described the
site as a gateway to the Northwest
Thirteenth Avenue Historic District and suggested setbacks may be
required of new construction along
14th Avenue.
Firehouse No. 17 at 824 NW 24th Ave. was converting into a home in 1985.
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Built to last, Northwest Portland's four long-retired firehouses
BY TANYA MARCH
I
n the 1910s, Portland replaced its
wooden firehouses with masonry
buildings.
“It was not prudent for the Fire
Bureau to preach that businesses
should build fireproof buildings and
then reside in wood themselves,”
wrote Brian Johnson, co-author of
“Portland Fire and Rescue.,” “and
as the wooden versions aged, they
replaced them with fireproof versions.”
Johnson accepts the narrative that
Lee Gray Holden designed at least 24
of Portland’s firehouses, 16 of which
remain in place. Four of them are in
Northwest Portland.
Holden’s association with Portland’s firefighter history began in
1887, when he began a five-year
stint as a volunteer member of Grant
Engine Company No. 2. In 1891, he
became the first paid employee of
the Portland Fire Department on the
east side. A turbulent career, owing
to the political nature of the fire
bureau, eventually led to Holden’s
retirement in 1908.
Only then did his design talent
emerge, and his understanding of
the daily life and needs of firefighters propelled him to rejoin the fire
bureau in 1911. As battalion chief,
he designed numerous buildings for
the department, according to the
1991 inventory work
which served as the
backbone of the creation of the historic
Alphabet District.
Firehouses No. 3 and No. 2 (above) were built for horse-drawn fire engines.
at 510 NW Third Ave, This charming 20th century Italian renaissance
structure has been stripped of historic fabric by its owners, the Portland
Development Commission. Large
decorative cornice elements covered
in guano detach themselves from
this once comely 1913
firehouse.
Purchasers of
the surplus
building
wanted out of
the contract
because the
brass sliding
pole was
missing.
“Holden, a battalion assistant and big
chief, is described
as the architect of
these and our bungalow style houses,”
Johnson reflected. “I
think that is overblown. The set of
drawings [the Portland City Archives
and Records Center has] for a bungalow station are
done by an architect. I think the
bureau considered him the “architect,” but in reality he was a designer who worked with and had the
plans drawn by a (some) licensed
architect(s). He was actually a farmer by trade.”
The Holden structure in the worst
state of repair is Engine House No. 2
The least known of
Holden’s
Northwest
neighborhood firehouses
is the Twentieth Century Georgian/Colonial
style firehouse at 2401
NW 23rd Ave. This hiproofed 1924 structure
looks far more residential
than his earlier designs.
This hidden treasure was
converted in 1958 into
Supercargoes and Clerks
Union Local 40 Hall. It
is identified in the environmental impact work for the abandoned Interstate-505 highway project as a property of cultural interest,
and also listed on the city Historic
Resources Inventory.
It strongly resembles the firehouses
on Northwest Third Avenue and
on Glisan Street. Engine No. 17 has
been attractively restored, and the
decorative brickwork has skillfully
contrasted tonal variations of pale
brick and dark brick on the facade.
The ground floor, like other fire stations of the era, served as a barn for
the horses. It was converted to hous-
Portland Archives
ing in 1985.
The 14th Avenue Fire Station No.
3, home to Touché restaurant since
1995, is in a precarious position
between the Alphabet Historic District and the Thirteenth Avenue Historic District.
Built in 1912, the 824 NW 24th
Ave. firehouse is protected from
demolition due to being listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
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"Retired fireouse" cont'd from page 27
In 1860, one of the city’s earliest firehouses, staffed by the
Couch Volunteer Fire Company
Engine No. 6, was at this site. That
wooden structure was replaced in
1912 with the current masonry
building.
After the building was decommissioned in the 1960s, things got
bizarre. The firehouse was put up
for auction in 1968. Two articles
in The Oregonian detailed how
the purchasers at auction of the
surplus building wanted out of
the contract with the city because
the brass sliding pole, a standard
piece of equipment, was missing.
Stan Terry and G.F. Simmons
were unwilling to close on the
$75,000 deal sans pole, dragging
Fire Commissioner Stanley W.
Earl to the site to deal with the
“misrepresentation.”
Oddly enough, Simmons was
a sibling of the city purchasing
agent who conducted the auction.
Mayor Terry D. Schrunk had to
call off the sale as the business
partners squabbled, and during
the next five years, the building
was used as a warehouse. G.F.
Simmons finally signed a deed
for the property on May 2, 1973,
for $75,000.
When Simmons sold it to Rob-
@
ert Ames in 1978 for $125,000,
there were some noteworthy contract details. The oddest stipulation was that the Texaco service
station next door at 505 NW 14th
Ave. remain in operation “for a
period of not less than two years
from the date of this contract
unless petroleum products sold
therein become unavailable.”
Though fuel shortages in that era
frequently led to waiting lines at
the pumps, the clause was not
triggered.
Fear of demolition is evident in
property lien records for this period, although those contractual
obligations expired decades ago.
The 1944 firehouse at 4465 NW
Yeon Ave. is the last remaining
structure from the Guild’s Lake
Courts housing complex where
10,000 people lived during World
War II. Many African American teenagers from the complex
served on the Guild’s Lake Fire
Brigade.
This building was closed in
1985. Staff at Restore Oregon
believed it had cultural significance, but it was sold to Brian D.
Mendez for $445,000 on March 8.
An application to transform the
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Business Briefs
FREE
PEOPLE, an eclectic
apparel chain, opened a
6,000- square-foot store
at 1102 NW Davis St. in
the Brewery Blocks last
month.
HERON HAUS bed
and breakfast at 2545
NW Westover Rd.
closed March 31. Julie
Keppeler opened it in
about 1986, selling in
2008 to Pamela and Carl
Walker, who are retiring.
KOBOS COFFEE,
founded by Dave and
Susan Kobos in 1973,
was purchased by
Groundwork Coffee
Co., a Californiabased organic roasting
company. The deal
includes the Kobos
headquarters, roasting
plant and retail store
at 2355 NW Vaughn
St. The Vaughn Street
building is to be
remodeled and reopened
this summer.
KAISER
PERMANENTE will
be opening a clinic in the
Pearl District in the new
Cosmopolitan on the
Park tower.
JOY’S UPTOWN
STYLE, a women’s
clothing shop founded
in the Uptown Shopping
Center but operating at
1627 NW Glisan St. in
recent years, has closed.
The former WILL
VINTON film
production building
at 1400 NW 22nd Ave.
will be remodeled and
converted into office use.
LIVING ROOM
REALTY is opening
an office at 1636 NW
Lovejoy St. The grand
opening is planned
Thursday, May 26, 4-6
p.m.
A HARLEY
DAVIDSON store is
opening at 1313 NW
Kearney St.
REGUS, a
Luxembourg-based
flexible workspace
company, has leased
space in the new
Pearl West building
at Northwest 14th and
Irving.
LE BOUCHON, a
French restaurant at
517 NW 14th Ave.,
has closed, and the
parcel, which includes
the historic firehouse
home of Touché, is
being prepared for
redevelopment.
KOBOS
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Another Successful
Polish the Pearl
NINA
By Stan Penkin
Linnton NA urges
support for
Option G+ for Superfund cleanup
By Brian Hoop
The impending EPA decision
on which option to pursue for
the Willamette River cleanup
from the Fremont Bridge to the
Columbia River, some 2,000
acres, will leave a lasting legacy
on Portland’s commitment to a
cleaner environment.
The Linnton Neighborhood Association voted in January to
support Option G+ and urges
you to join us in making public
comments to the EPA during
the 60 day public comment period likely to begin in May.
While Option G+ will not officiallyPhoto
appear
inAvila
the EPA’s reby Dina
port it is the alternative most
tribal, environmental, community organizations and the
Portland Harbor Community
Advisory Group (PHCAG) are
rallying around to hold the
EPA and some 150 potentially responsible companies and
government agencies accountable to do what’s right for the
river. Alternative G+ results in
a higher level of clean-up than
the EPA’s best option, G.
To learn more and submit comments: While there is currently
no information for submitting
public comments the site to
eventually go to will be yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/
sites/ptldharbor. The Portland
Harbor Community Advisory
Group’s website will post updates at portlandharborcag.
info.
For ongoing news
throughout the month
see NWNW.org/
category/News
Scores of enthusiastic neighbors turned out to clean up the streets
of the Pearl District in the semi-annual Polish the Pearl event
on April 23rd. Led by street captains and donning their colorful
orange and green vests, the volunteers walked through the Pearl
streets picking up trash.
Thursday, May 19th, 11:30 am
Portland Brewing Company
2730 NW 31st Ave.
Cost: $20
The group gathered early in the morning at Peet’s Coffee to pick
up equipment, receive instructions and chat with friends and
neighbors. Finishing up several hours later, volunteers assembled
at Rogue Ales to enjoy pizza, salad and beverages, and to celebrate
a successful team effort.
We have many exciting topics to
share with you this year:
• Review the accomplishments and
highlights of 2015
• Social Media training presented
by Venture Portland
• Announce plans for a membership
drive and new mission statement
• Debut our member/community
feedback survey - be among the
first to voice your opinion!
Leader of the event, Jennifer Posivak of the Pearl District
Neighborhood Association (PDNA) Livability Committee,
reported the following results:
•
81 Total participants
•
51 free coffee tickets were turned in to Peet’s coffee (equivalent
of nearly $100 donation)
•
57 raffle tickets were turned in for gift cards from various
businesses valued at $150
•
84 garbage bags weighing in at an estimated 1500 pounds
•
Rogue Ales provided dining room space, food and beverages
for 60 people (equivalent of nearly $500 donation)
Polish the Pearl is sponsored by the PDNA with support from
Metro, SOLVE, and BPS, held in the fall and spring every year.
Please join NINA for our 2016 Annual Meeting!
Payments can be made online www.
nwindustrial.org or by check/card
at the event.
We look forward to seeing you,
helping you grow your business and
getting your valued feedback.
Portland Downtown
Tuesday, May 31st, 5:30 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court, 1032
SW Main St. (entrance on 12th)
An annual update on everything
happening in downtown: public
safety, land use, transportation,
emergency preparedness, and
upcoming summer events.
NWDA
M a k e A D i f f e r e n c e i n Yo u r
Neighborhood - NWDA is Seeking
Candidates
Monday, June 20th, 2016
Chapman PTA Seeks Restoration of Historic WPA Mural
Did you know that our school houses a historically significant
piece of artwork? Our front entrance features a large wood mural by WPA artist Aimee Gorham. Chapman PTA has secured
an Oregon Heritage Grant of $10,000 to restore this beautiful
piece and we are fundraising the additional $10,150 for the full
restoration of the mural by June 2016. We are working hard and
hope to secure funding from grants and private donations from
our greater community. Any size donation will be appreciated,
but donors at the $1,000 level will have their name on an informational brass plaque that will accompany the mural in the
front entrance of the school!
Visit this link for information about this project, including a
direct link to donate: https://chaps.ejoinme.org/MyPages/
WoodMural/tabid/764127/Default.aspx
Candidates must be members of
the NWDA which is free and open
to all residents, property owners
and representatives of a business or
non-profit in the district. To join:
www.northwestdistrictassociation.
org/?page_id=354
To be on the ballot, members must
declare candidacy for Director or
for President by 5:00 pm, Monday
May 23rd. There are 8 open director
positions, plus the presidency.
Send declarations of candidacy to:
NWDA Elections Committee, 2257
NW Raleigh Street, Portland, OR
97210 or email to [email protected]
(Mark Sieber 503.823.4212)
The Elections Committee will meet
at 1:00 pm, May 26, 2016 at the
NWNW office, 2257 NW Raleigh to
verify the slate of candidates and
post notice of the annual meeting
and election.
Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest
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May
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Forest Park
Neighborhood
Association
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BOARD MEETING
Mon., May 9, 6:00 pm
Hoyt Arboretum, Visitors Center
4000 SW Fairview Blvd.
Linnton
Neighborhood
Association
linnton.com
TOWN MEETING &
BOARD MEETING
Weds., July 6
7:00 pm
Linnton Community Center
10614 NW St. Helens Rd.
Ma Olsen’s Garden Work Party
Sat., May 28, 9:00 am
Ma Olsen Garden
NW St. Helens Rd. at 108th
Goose Hollow
Foothills
League
forestparkneighbors.org
goosehollow.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., May 17, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Willis Community Building
360 NW Greenleaf Rd.
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., May 19, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St.
Northwest
District
Association
northwestdistrictassociation.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., May 16, 6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan (LGS)
Wilcox ACR 102
2211 NW Marshall St.
Executive Committee
Weds., June 8, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Elections Committee
NWNW, 257 NW Raleigh St.
Public Safety, Parking,
and Transportation Committee
Tues., May 17, 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Ad hoc Membership Registry Cmte
Weds., May 18, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave.
BOARD MEETING
Tues., May 19, 11:30 am
Portland Brewing
2730 NW 31st Ave.
Public Safety & Livability Cmte
LGS, Wilcox B, 2211 NW Marshall St.
Transportation Committee
Weds., June 1, 6:00pm
LGS, Wilcox B
2211 NW Marshall St.
1st Saturday Clean-up
Sat., June 4, 9:00 am
New Seasons Market
2170 NW Raleigh St
portlanddowntownna.com
ANNUAL ELECTIONS & BOARD
MEETING
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St.
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., May 14 & June 11, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman St.
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., May 21, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave.
Land Use & Transportation Cmte
Mon., May 16, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th Ave.
pearldistrict.org
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., May 12 & June 9, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Executive Committee
Weds., June 1, 9:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave.
oldtownchinatown.org
COMMUNITY MEETING
Weds., June 1, 6:00 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St.
BOARD MEETING
Weds., May 11 & June 8, 11:30 am
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch St.
Art History and Culture Cmte
Weds., May 25, 11:30 am
Non Profit Center
221 NW 2nd Ave.
Business Committee
Thurs., May 26, 10:00 am
Society Hotel, 203 NW 3rd Ave.
Livability & Safety Committee
Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave.
Planning & Transportation Cmte
Tues., May 17 & June 7, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Communications Committee
LRS Architects, 720 NW Davis, Ste 300
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Ecotrust Bldg, 907 NW Irving St.
Pearl Party/Finance Committee
Mon., June 6, 6:00 pm
Paragon Restaurant & Bar
1309 NW Hoyt St.
Hospitality Committee
Location TBA
Land Use Design & Review Cmte
Tues., May 17, 11:30 am
70 NW Couch St.
sylvanhighlands.org
MEMBERSHIP & BOARD MEETING
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd.
Transportation & Mobility Cmte
Tues., June 7, 4:00 pm
70 NW Couch St.
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BOARD MEETING
FH HOA Office, 2061 NW Miller Rd
Livability & Public Safety Cmte
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St.
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., May 11, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave.
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Meels on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St.
Contact: Charlie Clark, 503.459.3610
Ad hoc Bylaws Committee
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave.
Parks Committee
Fri., May 13 & June 10, 9:00 am
Coffee Time, 712 NW 21st Ave.
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BOARD MEETING
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Terr.
Planning & Zoning Committee
Tues., June 7, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Air Quality Committee
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St.
Planning Committee
Thurs., May 12, 19, 26, June 2 & 9
8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
hillsidena.org
www.nwnw.org
BOARD MEETING
Weds., May 11 & June 8, 5:30 pm
LGS, Northrup Building
2282 NW Northrup St.
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Snapshots
BUSINESS
Scott Choate is retiring after
nine years as principal
of Chapman Elementary
School. He intends to devote
his energies to family, gardening, skiing, fishing and
traveling.
Twenty-four volunteers picked up about
1,000 pounds of litter
last month, continuing a second Saturday
of the month tradition in the northern
end of the Northwest
District. Last month’s
crew included Noah
Kyser (L-R), Sterling
Kyser, Bob Rineer,
Judy Richmond,
Jean Hogan, Gabriel
Wihtol, Steven Villanueva, Daniel
Rothschilds, Hunter
McGuire, Jumel Villacarlos, Eric Domek
and Brayden Byrne.
A fire at a homeless camp
under the Interstate-405
bridge at Northwest 19th
and Thurman streets got
out of control last month
and Portland Fire & Rescue had to respond. Phil
Selinger, who leads volunteers on monthly litter
pickup duty, said, “I walk
this route regularly … and
the encampments are out of
control at this location.”
Pearl Rotary’s David
Price presents Lincoln
High School senior
Caroline Fenty with the club’s student of the month award
for April. Her original play, “Bearing the Blaze,” will be produced this spring at Lincoln, where she is president of the
Drama Cabinet and founder of the Drama Mentors Program.
She is also a member of the Lincoln Glee Club and Lincoln
Cardinal Choir.
Longtime Northwest Portland resident and former
NW Examiner restaurant
reviewer Wendy Gordon
has published her debut
novel, “Wrong Highway,” about two sisters
on Long Island whose
domestic lives hit the
skids in the 1980s.
Powell’s City of Books,
1005 W. Burnside St.,
has scheduled her to
read Wednesday, June
15, 7:30 p.m.
Juliette Muise, 27, was arrested last
month after fleeing officers near
the Crystal Ballroom and tossing
a toy pistol from an Interstate-405
overpass. Portland police said
she ignored commands and was
shocked with a Taser gun before her
arrest. Only after retrieving the item
from the freeway shoulder did officers realize it was a toy. She had an
outstanding warrant for assaulting
a public safety officer.
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Mt. Hood View • Guest Qtrs • New Roof
Call Jan Berger or Larry Burkett
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503.445.1500
Bob Harrington
503.913.1296
Keri Geers
503.701.9851
Brian Budke
503.310.5252
Kristan Summers
503.680.7442
503.998.7207
503.734.7560
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$2,100,000
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5,092 SF • 3 BD • 5+ BA • .5 Acre
Amazing Views • Private Gated Property
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Call Lee Davies or Megan Westphal
7. Forest Heights
8. Ironwood
$1,439,900
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1000 Bottle Wine Room • Spa • Deck
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28,000+ SF Lot • Cul-De-Sac
Call Dixie Elliott or Brian Budke
10. Hillsboro
11. Garden Home
$789,000
$689,900
$1,350,000
Immaculate 6 BD with Spectacular
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12. Garden Home
$689,900
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$575,000
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New Construction • Great Room Plan
2,900 SF • 4 BD • 3 BA • .34 Acre
2 Car Garage • Level Lot • Deck w/ Views
Call Renée Harper or Michelle Yoon
2,116 SF • 3 BD • 2.5 B • Loft (Up)
2 Car Garage • Fenced Yard
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19. Quintet Condo
20. Rocky Butte
$447,000
Coleen Jondahl Dirk Hmura
503.318.3424
503.740.0070
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503.320.6779
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503.703.9052
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Chris Kuehl
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Recreation Room • Media Room • Library
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503.545.4945
Jan Berger
503.680.7799
Michele Shea-han Michelle Yoon
503.969.6147
503.737.4940
Jasmin Hausa
971.645.1751
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503.314.7691
$319,900
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Call Jenny Johnson or Scott Tobin
Jenny Johnson
503.267.3412
Scott Tobin
503.459.7425
Jessica Corcoran
503.953.3947
Suzanne Klang
503.310.8901
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503.705.5033
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503.890.1221
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503.741.5534
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