June 2009 - NW Examiner

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JUNE 09
VOLUME 23, ISSUE 10
Serving Por tland’s Nor thwest Neighborhoods since 1986
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A different kind of trendy
JULIE KEEFE
the
new
Thurman
Public life thrives around Food Front.
Northwest Thurman Street
is a mixed-use area that
works—for businesses and
residents—by focusing on
services neighbors need
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By Allan Classen
n the worst of economic times, Northwest
Thurman Street is blooming.
While closed storefronts on Northwest 23rd
Avenue make the headlines, Thurman Street
has quietly evolved into a vital hub of local commercial and social activity. Almost everything needed
for daily life is available on the 2300 block of Thurman,
and not a single retail space is empty.
The “T” intersection of 23rd Place and Thurman is
ground zero. From this vantage point, Dan Bair stands
behind his barbecue grill every weekday, occasionally
glancing up from his work to watch people come and
go, sign petitions at Food Front, snack and chat at the
sidewalk tables surrounding St. Honore bakery and
drop off laundry at T.S. Cleaners or videos at Trilogy.
Mothers push high-end strollers past his stand on their
way to the branch library at the eastern end of the
block.
To his left, Bair can see Dragonfly Coffee House, a
comforting slice of hominess where locals munch and
read. Dragonfly owner Erin Timmins feels the same
pressures that are dragging down so many small businesses in the district, but she hasn’t lost sight of the bigger picture. Last month she welcomed the district’s first
Democracy in a ‘company town’
Forest Heights residents seek way to say no
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By Allan Classen
F Margaret Rogers is fighting a proposed community center and pool that would partially surround Forest Heights’ Mill Pond.
orest Heights, the 1,800home subdivision in the West
Hills, is the largest planned
unit development in state
history. While not a private
community in every sense, it is in ways a
public/private hybrid operated by a homeowners association that has the power to
assess fees to maintain streets, landscaping,
hiking trails and other common areas.
The homeowners association is governed by an elected board of directors that
handles not only property-management
matters but organization of an annual community garage sale day, July 4
fireworks and other events. The Forest
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Editor’s Turn
By Allan Classen
Editor & Publisher
Air pollution astounding
Thank you for the excellent article about air quality in Northwest Portland [May
2009 Northwest Examiner]. I have been a Childpeace [Montessori School] parent
for three years, but even before that I was aware and concerned about ESCO emissions. You can smell those foundries all over Northwest Portland and even on the
east side of the river if the wind is blowing that direction. It’s astounding that ESCO
has been allowed to pollute a residential neighborhood for so long.
Couple this with their toxic dump on Sauvie Island, and it adds up to a company
that doesn’t care about its community, no matter how much money they donate to
local schools and community centers. Sattie Clark
N. Ainsworth St.
Who said ‘not trendy’?
Did I imagine it, or was there an element of gloating threaded between the lines
of your front-page story, “Businesses close one after another” [May 2009 Northwest
Examiner]?
You paraphrased The Oregonian story as reporting that the “no-longer-trendy
23rd Avenue is ‘fraying under the weight of the recession,’” but it wasn’t clear whether
that “no-longer-trendy” remark was yours or theirs. It wasn’t included in quotes, so I
must assume it was an editorial jab thrown in to provide a little extra gravitas.
Given your personal history of antipathy for business owners and developers
(who were, after all, responsible for turning 23rd Avenue “trendy” in the first place),
the tone of the article sounds a lot like Rush Limbaugh, sharpening his ax, hoping
against hope that President Obama will fail, just so he can say “I told you so.”
Perhaps a more productive use of The Examiner would be to do a story
on what developers and building owners are doing to help 23rd Avenue businesses survive the downturn (in anticipation of becoming trendy again). There’s
a pretty good story there if you’re interested in doing some investigation. It might
actually give you an opportunity to print something positive on the subject.
Ted Thomas
NW 23rd Ave.
Lynch remembered
As a 50-year friend of Douglas Lynch, I appreciated your recent story at his passing. But seeing his name listed again in the obits, I am moved to mention an aspect
of his work that may not be widely known. In 1955, my second year as conductor of
the Portland Junior Symphony, I invited Doug to have the students in his Museum
Commercial Arts class design programs for the orchestra’s concerts.
He and his students took up this idea with fervor and continued for 21 years,
until 1976. They produced a wonderful range of designs which I deposited at the
Library of Congress, the New York Lincoln Center, the British Arts Council and
the major libraries of this country, where they were welcomed and much admired.
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Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Going Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Community Events. . . . . . . . . . 21
Business & Real Estate. . . . . . . 24
In the ‘Hood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Too good to believe
The city finally has a preliminary traffic
study of the Northwest 23rd and Vaughn
area, five years after the state required
Portland to produce it. The Oregon Land
Use Board of Appeals ruled that the city
hadn’t provided evidence that its plan
to upzone industrial property along the
north side of Vaughn Street would not
overwhelm the intersection where the
I-405 freeway dumps onto Vaughn Street.
The city claimed it could cram 30 percent more traffic through the same streets
and intersections without anyone noticing,
but LUBA didn’t buy it. Satisfying LUBA
was difficult because the intersection at
the time of the 2003 decision had already
sunk to a “D” level of congestion, one
notch above a failing “F” grade.
Loosening restrictions on office buildings on Vaughn, as was proposed, combined with other growth in the area could
easily push the intersection into unacceptable gridlock. And when you think of
current complications, such as converting
10 acres of Con-way parking lots into
medium-to-high-density housing and
commercial structures, the possible congestion is mind-boggling.
Given this daunting homework assignment, the city bureaus of planning and
transportation did what any D student
does—they put things off. After finally
resolving to begin working on the study,
traffic planners got just far enough to hit
an insurmountable hurdle: They were
using a Metro regional traffic model based
only on major intersections, and it did not
break down projected traffic volumes at
the neighborhood level, as was necessary
here. For two years planners explained to
neighbors that the study was almost done
except for this one thorny problem. It
was as if they were trying to plug a threeprong electrical fixture into a two-prong
outlet. If they ever developed a strategy
for surmounting the dilemma, they never
shared it.
But suddenly this spring, the planners and engineers had the answer they
wanted. The intersection would hold up
under the increased traffic load if a couple
of cheap, easy fixes were applied; some
lane markings could be changed and the
traffic signal for vehicles exiting the freeway could be adjusted. Both modifications
go in the direction of letting traffic flow
off the freeway and into the neighborhood
more freely. In this way, freeway congestion can be relieved or at least managed at
something near current levels.
Of course, the extra traffic wouldn’t disappear. The congestion would be pushed
onto neighborhood streets. More cars
would pour onto Northwest 23rd, Vaughn
and the U-turn that leads to Thurman.
And drivers heading to the freeway via
23rd or Vaughn streets would also run into
greater congestion than they do today
because the signal would give them short
shrift so it could favor traffic leaving the
freeway.
The plan gives the city everything it
wants. The cost of $200,000 is miniscule.
When the rezoning was debated in 2003
as part of the Northwest District Plan, it
was contemplated that the cost of mitigating the traffic burden could run into
millions, a cost that would be offset by
surcharges on property owners proceeding
with development.
I’m not qualified to evaluate the traffic data and analysis contained in the
report, but I believe traffic engineers are
quite capable of starting with a desired
conclusion and filling in the numbers and
assumptions to back it up.
I am very suspicious about the way this
study was handled from the beginning.
There was no dialogue with the community on the multiple layers and complexities involved in reaching a result; just
endless delays using one tired excuse and
then, voila, an answer out of the blue that
seems a bit too perfect.
It’s as if the kid with the tough homework assignment had a bolt of insight—
the whole thing was just a trick question.
He didn’t have to work through the difficult problem after all but simply mark his
paper “finished.”
JUNE 2009
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Forest Heights
focus groups of selected residents who
will study options and make recommencontinued from page 1
dations. Presumably, the process would
Heights Homeowners Association and
produce such a clear consensus that homits nine subcommittees touch so many
eowners would vote in accord with its
areas of community life that the officially
conclusions.
chartered neighborhood association for
Rogers considers this approach folly.
the area has existed mainly on paper in
She can’t imagine three-quarters of the
recent years.
residents approving such an expensive and
While the homeowners association
ill-conceived project, and she’s offended
provides many of the functions of a
that the board is throwing so much time
neighborhood association, it may act
and resources at a doomed effort.
more like a local government body in at
“Why are we spending money on this
least one area: public dissent.
Tim Tees, president of the Forest when the odds of getting the 75-percent
The FHHOA board is testing the Heights Homeowners Association, threshold are next to impossible?” asked
limits of its credibility and democratic would not talk to the Examiner
Rogers.
processes with a proposal to build a about the $6 million community
Seven years ago, a different improvecommunity center and pool, a project center and swimming pool project
ment package that included a community
that could cost over $6 million, or about he’s pushing.
center was presented to the membership,
$3,500 per home. Major capital improveand it fell about 10 percentage points short of passage.
ments require approval by 75 percent of the members.
That proposal was to be largely underwritten by the
An opposition force has surfaced, led by Margaret Rog- developer, making the homeowners’ share only about
ers, a Forest Heights resident since 2001, who accuses the $250,000—roughly the amount Rogers has heard the
board of wasting money on a proposal that will surely be board is spending to prepare drawings, conduct the focus
voted down by homeowners. Rogers is distributing “Save groups and take the current proposal to a vote.
Mill Pond” flyers that challenge members to “take back
The burden on each homeowner was not a big factor in
your Forest Heights HOA.” She also called for the resig2002, but this time the cost per household would be about
nation of board President Tim Tees for conflict of interest,
25 times greater, and the economic climate, which is causabuse of funds and misconduct in his election campaign
ing hardship and foreclosures in Forest Heights just as in
(for placing campaign flyers in mailboxes).
the rest of the country, has to be considered.
Tees, who is pushing the proposal, has not responded
If that isn’t enough to make members leery, questionable
publicly nor has the board launched an educational camdealings by the homeowners association board of directors
paign to persuade residents that the new facilities are
may seal the deal. Beside the big-ticket items, FHHOA
worth the investment. In fact, Tees failed to even return
leaders want to contribute $15,000 to improve drainage at
messages from the Examiner for this story. The FHHOA
the Forest Park Elementary School soccer field.
general manager insisted that his remarks on the topic be
Tees is married to the vice president of the Forest Park
off the record.
Elementary School PTA, and a sore point with Rogers
So how does the association hope to sell the idea and
and other residents is spending FHHOA funds on school
gain the overwhelming backing it needs?
property.
Focus groups.
“The board often evokes Policy Resolution No. 8
The board intends to hire a consulting firm to organize [regarding fiduciary responsibility to members] when
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An Examiner survey of six homeowners during the
annual Forest Heights garage sale suggests winning support for major expenditures would be an uphill battle.
Only two of the six were familiar with the proposal; one
favored it, one opposed.
Of the other four, one was opposed due to inability to
pay any type of extra assessment. Two liked the idea of a
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donating money to the Forest Park Elementary School
under the argument, ‘We need to support the school
because it improves property values,’” said Rogers.
Rogers sees a conflict of interest in the cozy relationship between the school and homeowners association
board. (Six of the nine board members have children in
the school.)
“Does fixing the drainage system on the soccer field
improve property values, or does it fund a spouse’s pet
project?” she asked. She isn’t alone in her skepticism about
underwriting school improvements.
“That just doesn’t smell too good to me,” said Larry
Slobin, who lives in the Creekside section of Forest
Heights and serves on its homeowners association.
Creekside is one of 13 Forest Heights subareas with
their own homeowners associations.
Julie Peterson, a board member of the Brownstone
Homes HOA, said she was “really appalled” at the idea of
using homeowner funds on the soccer field.
After studying Forest Heights HOA documents and
discovering “unethical governance practices,” Rogers went
to the Forest Heights HOA board in March and asked
for Tees’ resignation. She also ran for the board this spring
but dropped out.
“I felt my values were in conflict with this board,” she
said, “and I would be more effective working with my
neighbors to stop this abuse.” 5
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Forest Heights continued from page 5
posal, said Forest Heights needs a community gathering
place, but she leaned against the current plan due primarily
to the loss of open space.
After Rogers talked to the Brownstone Homes Condominiums HOA last month, Peterson called the community center/pool proposal “way too expensive” and said she
was frustrated by the lack of information from the Forest
Heights HOA board.
“The only information we get is by reading the minutes,” she said, adding that the board minutes do not
contain sufficient detail, any record of discussion or a
breakdown of directors’ votes.
Another Brownstone HOA board member is Stewart
Roberts, who also sits on the Forest Heights HOA. He
thinks “a very small percentage” of the 140 Brownstone
members would support the community center and pool.
In fact, he said he hasn’t heard from anyone who does.
In 2004, a survey conducted by the FHHOA showed
that 73 percent of respondents wanted a swimming pool
and about half favored a community center building. But
not everyone favoring certain amenities was willing to pay
for them. When asked if they would support funding for
their preferred projects, 83 percent marked “yes.” By multiplying the percent of supporters for each project by the
overall percent also supporting funding, Rogers concluded
that only 60 percent would vote for a pool and around 40
percent would get behind a community center—well short
of the supermajority needed for approval.
The FHHOA report acknowledged that “since no
cost estimates were included in the survey, it should be
expected to see a decrease in this level of support as figures
become available.”
“Support for this expenditure appears to be strong,” the
report advised, “but it will be important to strengthen it
further before a vote occurs.”
Five years later, when approximate costs of the improvements are known, support appears to have plummeted.
Nine of the 10 sources contacted for this story are now in
the “no” column.
ing, the Forest Heights HOA board apparently intends to
build consensus by conducting focus groups with preselected individuals. Tees was ready to hire a private consultant to organize focus groups in May, but the board held
up the decision because its bylaws require two or more
bids for expenditures over $5,000.
In June, a decision could be made to move forward with
a particular consultant. There is no indication that the
board is considering another public participation process
other than focus groups.
HOA General Manager Herr said surveys of homeowners may not be representative and can be slanted
toward a particular result. Focus groups, however, can
select participants randomly to “get a true read.”
The focus groups would be conducted “by a neutral
third party that has no stake whatever in the results,” he
said.
Convincing Forest Heights residents that a focus group
process would be fair and neutral is another matter. Critics don’t trust a board that has been secretive and careless
with appearances of conflict of interest with running the
focus groups fairly.
“I have absolute concern that they will not pick a truly
random sample of the community,” said Roberts. “That
can definitely skew the results.”
Luxury house, bargain
community center?
Scottie Pippen’s former home in Forest Heights is
on the market for $2.7 million. It’s 18,700 square feet
on 2.3 acres, with a pool, sports courts and two libraries. Would it represent a better investment for the
HOA than building less gracious facilities for $6.2
million? An email circulating among Forest Heights
homeowners raises that question.
Focusing on success
The 2004 survey was used by a Portland State University class to create a Forest Heights Recreation Plan later
that year. It advised the association to use the FHHOA
newsletter and website, door hangers, mailings, public
meetings and other means to build support for recreational
projects. It concluded that “the key to successful openspace improvement is citizen involvement.”
Instead of a thorough and open campaign to persuade
homeowners to approve more than $6 million in spend-
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News & Views
Pearl neighbors find new Safeway hard to love
Kenneth Aaron
Safeway is the Pearl’s long-awaited mainstream supermarket. Now that it’s here, the store is finding it hard to be all things to all people.
By Allan Classen
P
earl District residents waited
a long time for a mainstream
supermarket. A Safeway store
was seen as completing the
neighborhood, providing a full
range of everyday grocery products in the
heart of the district, within walking distance for many.
But six months after Safeway opened
at Northwest 13th and Lovejoy, many local
residents have nothing good to say about
it. They don’t care for the national chain’s
products or approach. The store aisles are
often disturbingly empty, and the company
admits it is not off to a great start.
Despite the criticisms, 11 of 29 respondents to a Northwest Examiner email
questionnaire named Safeway as their primary grocery store, two more than picked
second-place Whole Foods.
But when asked whether the new store
has succeeded in becoming the main supermarket for the area, 16 gave negative
responses and only eight said it has.
The negatives were often heart-felt and
far-reaching.
“Nobody loves a Safeway,” said Rick
Barrett, a marketing professional who lives
and works in the Pearl. “It’s just a big monster chain. … You can love a New Seasons,
a Little Green Grocer or even Whole
Foods. But a Safeway? That’s just a chore.”
“If you are into packaged foods with
high sugar and salt content, then you will
like Safeway,” said John Hickox.
Bruce Kaplan likes Safeway’s house
“I’ve tried Safeway a couple times and it
brand “commodities,” but said the store
just
doesn’t work for us,” said a Pearl par“falls far short in meat, poultry, seafood
ent
who
requested anonymity. “There aren’t
and produce.”
enough organic and local items. And the
prices are O.K. but not great.” Too expensive
Julie Young found Safeway didn’t work
“Many things at Safeway are more for their household because “we’re spoiled
expensive than Freddies and Whole by the fresh seafood and range of organic
Foods,” said Elliott Trommald. “That veggies at Whole Foods.”
sends me around the bend.”
“They seem to have no security,” said
“Portland is a city that prides itself on Examiner columnist and Pearl resident
supporting small business,” said Lance Michaela Bancud, “or care about what hapPoehler, “yet Safeway seems to have missed pens on their doorstep, so they don’t feel
this entirely. Where’s the bulk? I have especially neighborly.”
never been to a grocery store with as little
“I can get ice cream bars or tin foil or a
in bulk as this Safeway. Almost all of their
box of Cheerios there,” Bancud continued,
organic is actually more expensive than
“but I am not going to feel inspired to cook
Whole Foods. And lastly, the self-checkor eat well, which is supposedly the Ameriout. Ugh.”
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Tamara Paulat said the new store doesn’t
work for her. “They do not have a good
organic or local selection,” she said. “They
have packaged prepared stuff—just like
any other big grocery store. Not really
going in a green direction or sustainable. Prices are not that great either.”
Taylor Nussbaum called Safeway prices
“outrageously high even compared to Fred
Meyer” and said this Safeway location
doesn’t carry all the products found in
its other stores. Finally, Nussbaum was
offended by Safeway’s laxity in letting
loosely defined “service” dogs into the store.
Ruth Ostrom, who lives across the street
from the new store, called Safeway a disappointment. “I prefer to walk to at least five
other food stores. … It’s half underground;
it feels like a burial place.” She said the
store layout is “crammed and confused.”
Some like it
prices.” She also cited “a good stock of miscellaneous household maintenance items
and a one-stop pharmacy.”
On balance, though, Safeway seems out
of sync with the values and lifestyles of the
Pearl. Some of the perceived faults are correctable, while others may be woven into its
corporate-suburban formula.
“The Pearl Safeway is never busy, nor
have I had to wait in line for checkout,”
said Taylor Nussbaum. “This is compared
to Whole Foods and Fred Meyer, which
are always much busier throughout the
day.”
Ron Jennings, a regular Safeway shopper, said, “they usually only have one or
sometimes two [non-self-service] checkstands open. I have never had to wait
behind more than two customers.”
The company concedes it hasn’t been an
immediate success.
“It’s been especially challenging because
of the economy, obviously, but we expected
that,” a Safeway spokesman told The Oregonian in April. “We’re really waiting for
more development around the Pearl.”
Implying that the company’s own
research put the Pearl Safeway behind
Whole Foods in market share, the spokesman suggested cost-conscious shoppers
might make the new store their backup.
“That might not necessarily mean they’re
picking Safeway over Whole Foods,” he
said, “but that they’ll make an extra trip
here to stretch that dollar.”
Others found Safeway a pure asset.
“It has very friendly people working
there,” said Joan Pendergast. “I do not go to
any other stores. I am not a fancy cook, so
that may be the main reason. It has fulfilled
all my expectations.”
“The store seems to be quite attractive, clean, well-stocked and professionally
managed by a very capable team of caring
employees who are also very pleasant and
courteous for my day-to-day dealings,” said
Bruce Levy.
“We are pleased with it and delighted
that it is so close and that it maintains good
hours,” said Charles Ryberg, also citing Wrong for Pearl?
convenience and friendly staff.
Several respondents thought a New
“Safeway carries full lines of product,” Seasons or more specialized type of grocery
said Jan Valentine. “It has quality pro- store would have been a better fit in this
duce (organic and otherwise), an excellent location.
deli and cafe-prepared meals at reasonable
“If only New Seasons had opened in the
Pearl,” said Rick Barrett. “New Seasons
is by far the best big-format local chain.”
“My ideal mix would be a New Seasons
and Little Green Grocer in the neighborhood,” said Ruth Feldman.
Where do you
buy most of your
groceries?
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Whole Foods 9
Fred Meyer 5
Little Green Grocer 5
Trader Joe’s 4
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daily basis for the same or lower prices than Whole Foods
and Safeway,” said Tamara Paulat, who lives in the Sitka
building, where the Little Green Grocer operates. “I don’t
stock up there, but I’m really impressed at their variety.
Plus they are a small family-owned business, local, sustainable, etc. They really listen to suggestions and are just
friendly and intimate.”
“They do quite well with a lot of seniors that live in
the area,” said Ron Jennings. “They are totally organic and
their veggies are fresh, so they are expensive. If I run out of
milk or eggs I get them there. Their milk is Sunshine and
the expiration date is longer than Safeway.”
“I like the people at Little Green Grocer and I like having a corner market,” said a Pearl mother. “I try to shop
there whenever I can. It’s a local family-owned business,
they do bike delivery and they have great products.”
ron
Pearl resident Jan Valentine uses
Kenneth Aa
While many Pearl
neighbors like Whole Foods, high prices are a
common complaint.
Kenneth Aa
ron
Little Green Grocer (left) represents the local, organic values
neighbors say they want, but owner Scott Lekovish doubts he has
the market share reflected in the Examiner survey.
Little Green Grocer for things she doesn’t buy
at Safeway. “I like their healthy take-away food
and great service too. I can walk there (always
a plus), and LGG is also community-minded.”
“If you want quality, great wine buys, convenience, personal service and very reasonable
prices, you want Little Green Grocer,” said
John Hickox. “As you might guess, it is my
favorite store.”
Little Green Grocer co-owner Scott
Lekovish wishes he had half the market
share of Safeway—as suggested by the
Examiner survey—but said it was “nowhere
near that number.”
Lekovish said his sales dropped in half
when Safeway opened and are only gradually recovering.
Still, he found it gratifying that so
many residents like what the store is
about. He attributed that loyalty to people who are “passionate about where
their food comes from” and who “have a
relationship with us.”
Whole Foods represents a compromise for
those concerned about the source of their food but still
seeking the benefits of a major supermarket. Most respondents add that Whole Foods’ prices are high.
“Whole Foods [has] a good philosophy about organic
and sustainable, so I know all the items there are philosophically good,” said the anonymous resident. “And, it’s
the main place that we buy meat and seafood.”
“When you want really good meat,” said Kenneth
Aaron, “they have it.”
“Whole Foods has a much better selection of fish and
meat [than Safeway],” said Ron Jennings. “It seems to be
a bigger store. Their prices can be higher, but if you really
take the time to shop, you can find prices on some items
cheaper than Safeway.”
Helen Jones described Whole Foods as a place costconscious shoppers consider “only when they have something special going on and want a particular item.”
Whole Foods trailed Safeway as the main store of
respondents to the questionnaire even though Whole
Foods apparently has far more customers. That suggests
many of the people seen at Whole Foods come from outside the Pearl. That makes sense given that Whole Foods
has only three stores in the city while Safeway has 20 in
the Portland area.
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Michaela Bancud
By Michaela Bancud
Fame often just
around corner
Box office dispatch from the gumshoe nephews: A
buddy and student at Metropolitan Learning Center in
Northwest Portland plays Stephen, a young confidence
man in “The Brothers Bloom,” a film now showing in
theaters. The same friend plays the role of Max in the
cinematic adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the
Wilds Are,” directed and co-written by Spike Jonze. See
the trailer on YouTube. It looks pretty incredible. It opens
in the fall.
A fountain cascades water between the towers of Waterfront Pearl, creating the sense of two ships at sea.
The “Grey Gardens” opening night at Portland Center Stage left many people gushing that it was betMichaela Bancud
ter than productions they’d seen in
kid. The odor persisted from Burnside painting studio on Northwest 10th Avenue last August.
New York. Janine DaVita, an equity
to Overton streets. It was muggy and It recently announced plans to move to a new space in
actress, plays Little Edie before the
there was no breeze to move it around. developer Ed McNamara’s planned family building in
crackup that leaves her morbidly
Who can say what’s behind such pol- the North Pearl, where Portland Public Schools will lease
entangled with her bedridden mothlution any given night, but it was bad classroom space for early grades. Isobel’s may expand its
er and many, many cats. The musical
enough to make my eyes sting. I’m no programs and become a full-service community center,
is based on the well-known docuErin Brockovich, but I seem to notice depending on how things evolve.
mentary about the Bouvier-Beales,
it more often in the early evening. A
Bumped into a neighbor on the way to the Starlight
a mother and daughter, who share
recent town hall meeting with a panel Parade who told me that actor Jason Lee is now staying
a squalorous 28-room mansion in
of five DEQ staffers at Chapman at the Wyatt, along with the cast and crew of “Leverage.”
the Hamptons. Nice touch in the
Elementary was cold comfort for those Lee starred in the TV show “My Name is Earl,” which was
Armory lobby: cans of Friskies cat
concerned about children’s exposure to recently cancelled by NBC.
food used for votive candles.
toxic airborne emissions, which means
Bargain bin: Craft Nights on the second Wednesday of
Waterfront Pearl has had its share
pretty much everyone.
Janine Divita, who plays Little Edie
the
month at Santa Fe Taqueria, hosted by Child’s Play toy
of trouble since the housing market
Environmental anxiety aside, five
in Portland Center Stage’s production
fell off the deep end. Now there’s
healthy-looking ducks arrived in Tan- store. Kids eat free every Wednesday at Santa Fe, located
rd
of “Grey Gardens,” attends the opening
some good news for the building.
ner Springs Park. So far, L.A. Fitness at Northwest 23 and Kearney.
night party in the Armory lobby after
Unfussy French: Fenouil restaurant has a summer onConstruction crews finished a cashasn’t claimed this park’s corners for
the play.
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cading water feature that laps around
gym membership sales as they have
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water feature isn’t intended as a kiddy splashing pool. Not L.A. in its name. In fact, I’m thinking of setting up a tent
that this ever stopped us before. How better to lend the myself and selling memberships to the Grande Ronde/ is “Divaville,” hosted by the infectious Krista, who spins
place some life than to get a lifeguard and announce open Spirit Mountain Casino Gambling Club I’m starting. My vocalists and jazz standards from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.
swim hours? For now, the cyclone fencing is down and tents will be tasteful but eye-catching. My dad’s been look- Think “Buttermilk Sky” and “What a Night for Love.”
pedestrians can get quite close to the river and the horses ing for a place to launch his freelance life-coach business. Singers like Eydie Gormé, Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald
on the south end of the stables.
You probably have a business you’d like to advertise, too. like you may not have heard them before.
On a recent warm night, the air had a creepy electrical Permit inquiries should be made to Portland Parks and
smell, like an overworked transformer. Some describe it as Recreation.
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history
Mike Ryerson
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Asked
Answering your questions about
Northwest Portland history
By Mike Ryerson
Question:
“For the past few years, we’ve been driving
by a house at Northwest 22nd and Glisan
with a small building on the corner that
looks like it was once a business. We never
see any activity there. Was it ever a store or
another type of business?”
—Marilyn Stone
The small building at Northwest 22nd and Glisan has been the home
of several businesses over the years.
This 1950s insurance map
shows the two houses that
were once the Rosegate Inn.
The attached restaurant was
added in the 1920s. The house
on the right was torn down to
make room for a parking lot.
Answer:
Yes, it has housed several businesses over
the years, but you won’t have seen much
activity unless you go back 40 years or more.
We were unable to find the exact year the
small addition was erected, but city directories first list the address in 1926 as part of
the Rosegate Inn, a residential hotel. The
inn was built in 1903 and is referred to as
the Joshua Roberts House.
Because there is no evidence of any
driveway curb cuts in the original sidewalk,
it’s highly unlikely that the addition was
ever a garage, as often rumored and indicated in some city records. It’s hard to explain
why a horse ring would still exist in the curb
where a driveway would have been.
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The Rosegate Inn was first
listed in the 1926 Portland
City Directory.
Most likely, the structure at the corner
was built as a restaurant for the residential
hotel that occupied the attached house
and another house that once stood on the
lot to the south. The two houses, which
were mirror images, shared 28 boarders
at the time of the 1930 U.S. Census. The
Rosegate Inn was only in business for
five or six years until both houses became
apartment buildings.
In 1933, the small corner building was
listed as a delicatessen owned by Ray P.
Stenning, who also lived in the residential
hotel. Stenning is also listed in 1936 as
the owner of a beer parlor at this location.
At sometime during WWII, the addition
became the Jolly Inn Beer Parlor.
The Jolly Inn was in business until
shortly after 1960. Owner Arne Johnson
died in September of 1958, and his wife,
Ethel, supposedly only ran it for a short
time before she closed it and it became
the M&R Doughnut Shop. The doughnut
shop was in business until about 1966, and
the building became vacant until 1969,
when it is listed as the home of a shortlived Fergy’s Barber Shop.
Briefly in the early 1970s, I remember,
the spot was a café run by the Jesuit Volunteer Corp, although there are no records
to that effect.
The house on the southern side of the
parcel was torn down in the 1950s, when
the space became a parking lot for the
remaining apartment building.
Jim Kennett, who now owns the entire
parcel, said two restrooms and a sink still
remain in the basement, indicating the tavern once occupied more than just the small
addition. Also, there’s still a window on the
inside of the Glisan-facing wall that’s been
cemented over.
Current city zoning does not allow for
the building to be used for retail purposes.
It’s currently used for storage.
Have a question about Northwest Portland
history? Email it to Mike Ryerson at
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going out
Restaurants & Theater
p. 15-20
NW Examiner 2009
Outdoor Food
& Beverage Guide
Decks, Patios, Gardens &
Sidewalk Seating
Warm weather is here and
the flocking of Northwest
Portlanders to outdoor cafes is
so predictable that migratory
birds set their clocks by it. (O.K.,
if they wore little-bitty wrist
watches, they might doublecheck them.) Our annual guide
includes the finest places in the
neighborhood to experience
this phenomenon (provided
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provided vital information).
Bay 13 Restaurant
701 NW 13th Ave. – 503-227-1133
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Modern seafood with a sushi and raw/
oyster bar. Sliding glass doors open to a
covered, heated, raised patio with sweeping views of the Pearl District. Outdoor
tables and couches. Happy hour daily.
Laurelwood Public House
Mike Ryerson
Besaw’s
2301 NW Savier St. – 503-228-2619
www.besaws.com
Covered patio and sidewalk seating. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Full bar. Now open
on Mondays.
Beau Thai
730 NW 21st Ave. – 503-223-2182
www.beauthai.com
Sidewalk seating along NW 21st Avenue.
Offering Northwest Portland’s finest Thai
food. Vegetarian dishes.
Fenouil
Mike Ryerson
Located on the north side of Jamison Square,
Fenouil’s chic patio is reminiscent of a Parisian
sidewalk café filled with leisurely business folk
and ladies who lunch. This French brasserie
offers a broad selection of fresh lunch options,
including the house favorite Croissant au Crabe.
For heartier appetites, choose the Seafood-filled
Paella Camarguaise au Chorizo. The service staff
is attentive and knowledgeable, which comes
in handy when you need help choosing from
over 200 wine options. A bottle here can add
from $32 to over $2,000 to your tab. Patio dinner
service is elegant, with traditional offerings of
roasted rabbit, filet mignon and grilled salmon.
Reservations recommended for these see-and-beseen outdoor tables.
As front porches go, Laurelwood Public House’s
takes the cake. Like a friendly neighbor, it
welcomes you with a drink, a smile and plenty
of conversation. When you’ve grown tired of
weaving through a sea of shoppers on Northwest
23rd Avenue, stop in and try one of Laurelwood’s
award-winning craft beers on tap and a delectable
handmade veggie burger. The food exceeds
standard pub fare, and their fresh-cut fries are
arguably the best in Northwest Portland. The
small bar boasts original organic beer, including
World Beer Cup gold medal-winner Free Range
Red. Space is at a premium on hot summer
evenings, so make reservations if you plan to
congregate with a large group of friends.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream &
Frozen Yogurt
39 NW 23rd Place – 503-295-3033
www.benjerry.com/uptowncenter.
Outdoor patio and deck seating in an open
setting.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream &
Frozen Yogurt
301 NW 10th Ave. – 503-796-3033
www.benjerry.com/pearldistrict.
Open stroefront with sidewalk seating
under an awning on the corner of NW 10th
and Everett.
Biscuits Café
103 NW 21st Ave. – 503-295-3729
www.biscuitscafe.com
Biscuits Café is a locally-owned breakfast
and lunch café that offers its customers
“fresh food” and large portions along with
a unique atmosphere. Give it a try, you
won’t be disappointed.
Blue Moon Tavern & Grill
432 NW 21st Ave. – 503-223-3184
www.mcmenamins.com
This popular NW 21st Avenue hangout offers sidewalk tables from which to watch
the goings-on and the passers-by, pairing
perfectly with McMenamins handcrafted
ales, wines, spirits and pub fare.
Bridgeport Brewpub + Bakery
1313 NW Marshall St. – 503-241-3612
www.bridgeportbrew.com
Outdoor deck with tables and rail seating overlooking the Pearl District. Serving
dinners nightly and lunch on the weekends.
Full bar with beer, wine and cocktail service available.
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Café Nell
1987 NW Kearney St. – 503-294-6487
www.cafenell.com
Lively neighborhood café, brasserie style,
serving American classics. Breakfast,
lunch, dinner, happy hour and weekend
brunch. Sidewalk seating for 40. NW 20th
and Kearney.
Cha! Cha! Cha! Mexican Taqueria
1208 NW Glisan St. – 503-221-2111
www.chaportland.com
Sustainable Mexican taqueria and cocktails. Serving tacos, burritos, quesadillas,
chimichangas, salads and more. Sidewalk
seating along busy Glisan Street in the
Pearl.
Cha Taqueria & Bar
305 NW 21st Ave – 503-295-4077
www.chaportland.com
Seating for up to 60 in a covered courtyard and second level deck. Authentic
Mexican Cuisine. Full bar, beer and wine.
Margaritas and 38 tequilas. The new place
at NW 21st and Everett.
Mangia Pizza
allan classen
Chow
505 NW 14th Ave. – 503-274-2469
www.cafechow.com
Breakfast burritos, housemade granola and
egg sandwiches served all day. Fabulous
salads and stacked sandwiches and fresh
baked bread and natural meats/cheese
for lunch. $5 breakfast meal. Off street
parking.
Crackerjacks
2788 NW Thurman St. – 503-222-9069
Beautiful garden patio with seating for
30 plus sidewalk tables. Classic American
cuisine: meatloaf, salmon, fish and chip,
homemade pizza and “pub food.” Fresh and
reasonably priced. Kid and dog friendly.
Full bar, Oregon Lottery and free pool.
Goose Hollow Inn
The prime location across from a MAX
stop makes this a perfect place for
a bite before a zoo concert or after
a game at PGE Park. (The kitchen’s
open until 11:30 p.m.) The covered
patio offers both sun protection and
fresh air. Try the “Best Reuben on
the Planet,” a hot turkey sandwich
or add a side of Bud Clark’s famous
Reuben sauce to any of a dozen other
sandwiches. There’s not a bad one
in the bunch. Chase it with a true
Imperial Pint (20 ounces), still a steal
at $4.50. Soup and several salads
round out the lighter side, but this
unpretentious place is really about
big sandwiches, cold beer and good
company.
allan classen
Sit under the stars while biting into a savory pizza
pie at the corner of 23rd Place and Northwest
Vaughn. Eight months ago, Mary Starr and Russ
Hubbard of the nearby Industrial Café and Saloon
turned the quaint house that was Filbert’s into
a charming gourmet pizzeria. Evergreens greet
you on the front porch, trellised pink rose bushes
bloom wildly out back. The hand-tossed pies
come in two sizes (12- and 16-inch) or by the
slice until 5 p.m. Simple but divine, the classic
Margherita topped with tomato sauce, wholemilk mozzarella and fresh basil will disappear
in minutes. For a heartier pie, try the beef pizza
made with grass-fed ground beef, caramelized
onions and gorgonzola.
Crackerjack’s
allan classen
This casual, dog-friendly pub is a
favorite of mountain-biking groups
after long rides in Forest Park.
It has a homey feel, decorated
with old advertising and Portland
memorabilia. Play a game of free pool
and have an afternoon beer on the
patio. The food is mostly typical bar
fare and the usual fried appetizers,
but Crackerjacks also offers nine
varieties of tasty pizza and—perfect
for summer—nine salads, including
Cobb, Cajun and Greek. Be prepared
to adjust your expectations of a bar
salad—these are nothing but good.
“Northwest Portland’s Favorite
Thai Restaurant”
Vegetarian Dishes Our Specialty
Try Our Fast Take Out Service
Open Monday-Friday for Lunch & Dinner
Weekends All Day
730 NW 21st Ave • 503-223-2182
WWW.BEAUTHAI.COM
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The Dragonfly Coffee House
2387 NW Thurman St. – 503-224-7888
A breezy little coffee house on the corner
of 24th and Thurman where skilled and
friendly baristas serve exquisite Caffe
D’arte Espresso and homemade pastries
form their own ovens. New summertime
smoothies!
Eat Pizza
2037 SW Morrision St. – 503-243-3663
www.eatpizzaportland.com
Home of Portland’s Best New York Pizza
and Pizza Alla Casalinga. Enjoy the phenomenal pizza, salads and sandwiches on
the outdoor patio along with a frosty beer
this summer. One block from PGE Park.
Elephants Delicatessen
115 NW 22nd Ave. – 503-299-6304
www.elephantsdeli.com
Portland’s premier specialy foods and
catering company serving local foods from
scratch since 1979. Patio and full bar.
Private Garden Room for meetings and
events. Take out and delivery.
On Deck Sports Bar & Grill
Mike Ryerson
Fehrenbacher Hof/The Hof
1225 SW 19th Ave. – 503-223-4493
Next door to the Goose Hollow Inn,
find the Clark Family “Hof.” Featuring:
handcrafted espresso and coffees from
Ristretto and Longbottom Roasters. Homemade pastries/soups, toothsome breakfast
sandwiches. Cobblestone pation. Open
everyday.
Fenouil in the Pearl
911 NW 11th Ave. – 503-525-2225
www.fenouilinthepearl.com
Located in the Pearl District, Fenouil com
bines classic French cuisine with flavors
and ingredients from nearby countries.
The dining room, patio and bar mix a highenergy vibe with European romance.
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New Old Lompoc
Mike Ryerson
Unwind at the pumpkin-hued
brewery near the corner of Northwest
23rd and Savier. Silver kegs bloom
with flowers at the door, and grape
vines tangle across a shed in the back.
Al fresco tables set to the side offer
the perfect spot to sit when the sun
shines with a chilled Lompoc-crafted
ale or lager. For food, try the crab and
roasted garlic dip or spicy buffalo
wings for a starter. Follow with a plate
of pure comfort food: a burger, fish
and chips, mac and cheese, or chicken
potpie.
Watch the sunset dance across Pearl lofts and
rooftops from the rooftop bar at On Deck. At dusk,
white lights twinkle in 30-year-old apples trees
that surround the sprawling patio, complemented
by stretches of lavender and pine. Sports fans can
track the score of their favorite team inside on
multiple plasma and flat-screen TVs. Starters to
share: cornmeal-crusted calamari with chipotlecitrus aioli or king-sized beer-battered onion
rings. Try the Gretzky Gobbler for a side of greens
or dive right into a sporty sandwich or burger.
Clever concoctions include Fenway’s Clubhouse
Sandwich (house-roasted turkey breast, black
forest ham, bacon, Swiss and cheddar). Order The
Italian Stallion and make your fellow diners smile.
Besaw’s
allan classen
What began in 1903 as a beer parlor
is now one of Portland’s model
eateries. And while times are tough
now, this Depression offers two
new blessings: No Prohibition and
Besaw’s Recession Specials. Fivedollar breakfast steals range from
the Dollar Stack of pancakes to the
Scram 23, two eggs scrambled with
asparagus, prosciutto and chevre
with roasted potatoes. The thick and
feathery French toast is a must. Sit at
tables along 23rd or in the covered
patio, which has overhead heaters
and side enclosures in case a cold or
wet day invades the summer.
Our backyard
patio and deck
are open!
Stop in and try
one of our
new menu items.
721 NW 21st Ave.
503-222-4121
Open 3pm weekdays
11am weekends
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Cha Taqueria
Mike Ryerson
Industrial Café
2572 NW Vaughn St. – 503-227-7002
Outside seating for 40. Full bar with 7
beers on tap. Enjoy their own grass-fed
beef. A great spot after hiking in Forest
Park. Dogs welcome. Mon-Fri 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Sat-Sun breakfast and lunch 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
The auto-body shop turned cantina
offers a tantalizing happy-hour menu
perfect for its sprawling courtyard.
Greet the sun with a margarita made
from cucumber or a jalapeno-infused
tequila. Lively homemade mole makes
its way into many dishes, especially
the hearty Carnitas Enchiladas. The
Carnavalito is an ideal sampler, with
surprisingly dense chicken and cheese
flautas and potato-stuffed tequitos
that are as homey as twice-baked
spuds. Choose from more than a
dozen tequilas of varying ages while
people-watching at Northwest 21st and
Everett.
Kettleman Bagel Company
2314 NW Lovejoy St. – 503-295-2314
www.kettlemanbagels.com
Outside patio seating along Lovejoy St.
near busy 23rd Ave. Kettle boiled bagels
proudly using Shepard’s Grain Sustainable
Wheat. Stumptown Coffee.
Kingston Sports Bar & Grill
2015 SW Morrison St. – 503-224-2115
www.kingstonsportsbar.com
Sidewalk seating for up to 24 on the sunny
side of the building. All-American breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Homemade
soups and salads. Burgers and sandwiches.
Portland’s Best Sports Bar.
Twenty-first Avenue Bar & Grill
Food Front Cooperative Grocery
2375 NW Thurman St. – 503-222-5658
www.foodfront.coop
Meet your neighbors; watch the world of
Thurman St. go by from the patio. Have a
delicious, healthy lunch from the deli or a
refreshing drink. Monthly events, second
Saturdays, April-October.
Goose Hollow Inn
1927 SW Jefferson St. – 503-228-7010
www.goosehollowinn.com
Former Mayor Bud Clark’s classic pub
featuring a huge relaxing deck with heat,
awnings and vine maple ambience. “Best
Reuben on the Planet.” 13 taps, nice wine
selection. Kids allowed. Take MAX. Parking
available.
Mike Ryerson
This place is, as the name suggests,
a bar first and a grill second. There’s
been a bar here since the 1920s,
and pictures of some of the regulars
tacked on the wall suggest it’s still
frequented by some of the same
people. What sets it apart from other
proletarian neighborhood bars is
the recently refinished patio out
back. Protected from street noise, it
is expansive, tree-filled and even has
a small koi pond. The beer is cold,
the staff is nice enough and the deck
alone is worth a visit.
mmm ... Beer
We’re just steps away
from the Beavers and Timbers
The
Recession Buster
Breakfast
Served Monday - Friday, 7am ‘til 11am
2 Hotcakes, 2 Eggs,
2 Bacon or 2 Sausage
$395
games at PGE Park!
- Happy Hour 3:30-6 pm & 10pm-12:30am
Artichoke Dip w/
Tri Colored Chips . . . . $1 .95
Ceasar Salad . . . . . . . . . . $1 .95
Potato Skins . . . . . . . . . . $2 .95
Pulled Pork Slider . . . . . $2 .95
Hot Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2 .95
Fish & Chips . . . . . . . . . . . $3 .25
Kingston Sliders . . . . . . . $2 .95
2021 SW Morrison St . | 503-224-2115 | Next to PGE Park
kingstonsportsbar .com
Serving Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner | Open 7am - 2:30am
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Kornblatt’s Delicatessen
628 NW 23rd Ave. – 503-242-0055
Picnic tables along NW 23rd Avenue with
seating for 16. Outdoor service for breakfast, lunch and dinner. NY Style Delicatessen serving fresh bagels.
Laurelwood NW Public House
2327 NW Kearney St. – 503-228-5553
www.laurelwoodbrewpub.com
Kid friendly (play area), 2 patios and
garden area. Lunch and dinner served daily,
bunch on Sat and Sun. Full bar, 8 taps
of award winning brews. All day Monday
“wings at the wood.”
The Leaky Roof
1538 SW Jefferson St. – 503-222-3745
www.theleakyroof.com
High-end casual meets neighborhood
comfortable. All new brunch Sat, 11-2 and
Sunday, 10-2. Great happy hour weekdays,
3:30-6. Outdoor seating and a full service
bar.
Lucky Labrador Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby St. – 503-517-4352
www.luckylab.com
Bring your dog to the cozy outdoor patio!
Serving pizza, sandwiches, soups, salads
and appetizers. Relaxed atmosphere,
steel-tipped darts, and handcrafted ales
brewed on site. Event space available.
Mangia Pizza
1937 NW 23rd Place – 503-222-2667
Traditional style hand-tossed thin crust
pies. Calzones, housemade soup, salad
dressings and desserts. Enjoy beer and
wine there or take out. Relax on the 2
great patios.
McMenamins Tavern & Pool
1716 NW 23rd Ave. – 503-227-0929
www.mcmenamins.com
This neighborhood pub at the north end
of NW 23rd is an ideal spot to sit outside
on cool summer evenings with a couple of
pitchers, a couple of friends and all the
time in the world.
Meriwether’s Restaurant
2601 NW Vaughn St. – 503-228-1250
www.meriwethersnw.com
The covered and heated patio, year-round
gardens and gazebo with firepit are a
memorable place to enjoy the outdoors.
The produce is grown on their very own
Meriwether’s Skyline Farm.
Mio Sushi
2271 NW Johnson St. – 503-221-1469
1317 NW Hoyt St. – 503-224-7905
www.miosushi.com
Reasonable prices in a casual friendly dining atmosphere. Sidewalk seating at both
NW Portland locations.
New Old Lompoc Brewery
1616 NW 23rd Ave. – 503-225-1855
www.newoldlompoc.com
Backyard patio and deck with seating for
100. Northwest comfort food featuring
great burgers and daily specials. Lunch
and dinner. Handcrafted ales brewed on
premises.
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DOWNTOWN
N.W. 22nd & W. Burnside
ringsidesteakhouse.com
503-223-1513
Nob Hill Bar & Grill
937 NW 23rd Ave. – 503-274-9616
Four sidewalk tables along NW 23rd Avenue. National Award Winning Hamburgers.
Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 day
a week. Monday night 50-cent tacos. Full
service bar and 12 beers on tap.
On Deck Sports Bar & Grill
910 NW 14th Ave. – 503-227-7020
www.ondecksportsbar.com
Portland’s Premier Sports Bar has it all!
Gourmet menu, beer, wine and premium
liquors. A huge outdoor deck is open for
dining, sipping and relaxing. All major
sports packages on TV.
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Park Kitchen
422 NW 8th Ave – 503-7275
www.parkkitchen.com
Seasonally driven menu. Internationally
acclaimed chef. Private dining available.
Outside seating overlooking the North
Park Blocks in the Pearl.
The Rams Head
2282 NW Hoyt St. – 503-221-0098
www.mcmenamins.com
Settle in at a sidewalk table following an
afternoon of shopping on busy NW 23rd.
Relax with handcrafted McMenamins ales,
wines and spirits paired with fresh salad,
burgers, sandwiches and more.
Serratto
2112 NW Kearney St. – 503-221-1195
www.serratto.com
Serving innovated dishes from Italy,
France and the greater Mediterranean
region. Outstanding wine list and full bar.
Sidewalk tables for outdoor dining on NW
21st and Kearney. Parking available in the
lot at NW 21st and Johnson.
Taco Del Mar
911 NW Hoyt St. – 503-274-4836
www.tacodelmar.com
Enjoy lunch or dinner on new patio furniture! Quality, fresh fast food without lard
or transfats. TDM has gone green with
bio-degradable utensils, plates and bags.
Beer coming soon! Free WiFi.
Tea Chai Te
734 NW 23rd Ave. – 503-228-0900
www.teachaite.com
Check out the amazing view of the West
Hills from a 2nd story outdoor balcony!
Offering a cozy vibe featuring over 100
teas including Portland’s Best Bubble Tea.
Free wi-fi.
REUBENS
TO GO!
Go with a
TRADITIONAL REUBEN
PASTRAMI REUBEN
COMBINATION REUBEN
TeaZone & Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. – 503-221-2130
www.teazone.com
Sidewalk seating along the Portland
Streetcar line. Best selection of organic
loose leaf teas. Hot and iced teas, freshbrewed chai and smoothies. Lounge open
offering a full bar featuring marTEAnis.
Typhoon! on Everett
2310 NW Everett St. – 503-243-7557
www.typhoonrestaurants.com
Outdoor patio seating on Northwest 23rd,
perfect for a day of shopping. Enjoy
Award Winning Thai cuisine at modest
prices. Serving lunch and dinner. Signature
cocktails and a full bar.
21st Avenue Bar & Grill
721 NW 21st Ave. – 503-222-4121
Deck, patio, garden and sidewalk seating
for 80. Casual atmosphere in one of the
neighborhood’s best gardens. Open 11a.m.
to 2:30 a.m. Sat and Sun. 3 p.m. to 2:30
a.m. Mon thru Fri.
Virgo & Pisces
500 NW 21st Ave. – 503-517-8855
www.virgoandpisces.com
Serving daily lunch, dinner and weekend
brunch. A variety of tasty appetizers,
sweet or savory crepes and gluten and soyfree pastas and pizzas. Plenty of sidewalk
seating. Full bar and local live music.
Wildwood Restaurant & Bar
1221 NW 21st Ave. – 503-248-9663
www.wildwoodrestaurant.com
Patio seating for up to 20 along 21st Avenue. Serving lunch, dinner and coctails.
World Cup Coffee & Tea Co.
1740 NW Glisan St. – 503-228-4152
www.worldcupcoffee.com
A locally-based coffee shop providing
fresh-roasted coffee, pastries, sandwiches and desserts. Free wi-fi and a meeting
room too.
Free Public Coffee Tastings • Meet The Roasters
Every Thursday 2-4 • 1740 NW Glisan
TURKEY PASTRAMI REUBEN
TURKEY REUBEN
SMOKED TURKEY REUBEN
VEGETARIAN REUBEN
Served with grilled rye, melted
swiss, Russian dressing and kraut.
Choice of potato salad, cole slaw,
macaroni salad or chips.
OPEN 7 DAYS FOR
BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER
628 NW 23rd Avenue
503-242-0055
Deli Fax: 503-242-1027
Pearl District: 301 NW 10th Ave., 503-796-3033
Uptown Shopping Center: 39 NW 23rd Place, 503-295-3033
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1740 NW Glisan St.
503-228-4151
Powell’s
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Community
Events
Teen Idol
history professor, Portland State University.
June 9: “Teddy vs. the Telegraph: How a
President and a Technology Competed to
Change the English Language,” Paul Collins,
assistant professor of English, Portland State
University.
June 16: Metro Update, David Bragdon,
president, Metro Council
June 23: Rotary Business Roundtables,
Cancer Survivors Day
Matt Mahaffy, coordinator.
National Cancer Survivors Day celebraJune 30: Club Transition Meeting. Speaktion will be Sunday, June 7, 2-4 p.m., at
ers
Don Barney and Don Smith.
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. Cancer survivor Devon Webster, M.D., from Bike classes
Northwest Cancer Specialists, will share
REI offers free classes on bicycling this
lessons she learned on surviving cancer. month at its Pearl store, Northwest 14th
Activities will include wellness walks, talks and Johnson streets.
by experts on nutrition and exercise, wellJune 10, 7 p.m.: Bike Maintenance 101
ness information, survivorship resources,
will cover the basics, such as changing a
wellness information, keepsake photos, art
tire, lubing the chain and simple adjustand garden activities, and refreshments. The
ments. Each participant will receive a free
event is free, but registration is required.
set of Novara tire levers for changing flats.
Visit www.legacyhealth.org/calendar.
June 17, 6:30 p.m.: Buying a New or
Used Bike will provide tips on identifying
Pearl Rotary meetings
Pearl Rotary hosts speakers every Tues- what type of bike you need. The program
day morning at 7:30 in the Ecotrust Build- is presented by REI, the city of Portland’s
ing, 721 NW Ninth Ave. A $10 charge Bureau of Transportation and the Comincludes a continental breakfast. For more munity Cycling Center’s Bike Shop direcinformation, contact George Wright at tor, Mychal Tetteh. All participants will
receive a Novara bike water bottle.
[email protected].
The finals of Portland Teen Idol, a singing
competition for students age 13-19 hosted
by Portland Parks & Recreation, will be held
Saturday, June 13, 7 p.m., at the Northwest
Children’s Theater, 1819 NW Everett St.
Two of the finalists, Ashley Fields and Ella
Carver, live in Northwest Portland.
20th anniversary with a 20-mile run in
Forest Park Saturday, June 20. Participants
must raise $500, which will go toward
maintaining trails in the park. To register, visit www.forestparkconservancy.org or
email andrea@forestparkconservancy.
Tuesday concerts
Northwest Portland International Hostel & Guesthouse presents performers and
a barbecue every Tuesday evening in June,
6-10 p.m., in its Secret Garden at 415 NW
18th Ave.
June 9: Dan Weber, Portland, www.myspace.com/highway142
June 16: Brad Creel, Portland,
www.bradcreel.com
June 22: Russell Thomas, Portland
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therussellthomasagenda
June 30: To be announced Visit www.nwportlandhostel.com or call
503-827-0405 for more information.
al programs for Portland-area youth. To
reserve tickets ($20), visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/67318, call 503-8270405, or email [email protected].
Visioning for patio Food Front will hold two design charettes on its patio as part of City Repair’s
Village Building Convergence Saturday,
June 6, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., and Tuesday, June
9, 1-3 p.m. The goal is to envision how to
make the Food Front patio a more dynamic
community space and a launch pad for
future VBC projects in the Northwest
neighborhood. For more information, call
Valerie or Tom at 503-222-5658, x133.
Photo exhibit
An opening reception for participants in
a photography class sponsored by Portland
Parks & Recreation and Friendly House
this spring will be held Wednesday, June
24, 5-7 p.m., at 1737 NW 26th Ave. Maggie Trimbach taught the class, which was
Hostel celebration
for 12- to 14-year-olds. The photos are of
The 100th anniversary of international scenes in the neighborhood and surroundhostelling will be celebrated Saturday, June ing parks and industrial areas.
13, at Northwest Portland International
Hostel & Guesthouse, 415 NW 18th Ave., Summer camp
with a day of family-oriented events. From
Summer Chaps, Friendly House’s sum1-5 p.m. there will be free activities, includ- mer day camp for school-age children,
ing games for children and live music. In presents free weekly performances demthe evening, 6:30-10 p.m., there will be a onstrating skills learned in the camp. The
benefit featuring music by Stephanie Sch- first two events are a battle of the bands,
neiderman, a silent auction, a traditional Friday, June 19, 4:30-5:30 p.m., and a pupGerman barbecue and an international pet show Friday, June 26, 4:45-5:30 p.m.
photo exhibit. Speakers include Portland Summer Chaps runs June 16-Aug. 21, and
City Council member Amanda Fritz and enrollment is $225 per week (scholarships
Altaira Hatton, who has traveled 29 coun- are available). For more information, call
June 2: “The Challenges: Israel/Palestine, Run 20! For 20!
tries in her wheelchair.
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Iraq and Afghanistan,” Jon E. Mandaville,
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Uptown EyeCare & Optical news
Zuzana B. Friberg, OD, FAAO Letters continued from page 3
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found online at www.portlandonline.com/
No other orchestra has had such a treasure, transportation; search for “NW 23rd.” For
and I want to express our gratitude for his additional information or to contact the
lasting contribution.
project team, I can be reached at 503-8237211.
Jacob Avshalomov
SW Fairview Blvd.
Jean Senechal Biggs
Paving involves noise
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June’s Upcoming Events
Monday-Friday, june 1-5
Book Fair
THURSDAY, JUNE 4 Field Day, 12:30 PM - All Grades
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10
Grading Period Ends
5th Grade Promotion, 10:00 AM
END OF SCHOOL YEAR
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Thanks for your coverage of the Northwest 23rd project in this month’s [May
2009] Examiner and keeping your readers
informed. I’m writing to offer some additional information for clarification regarding the noise variance we will be requesting
and the proposed workdays.
The project’s expedited schedule, which
allows the project to be completed in the
slower retail months of winter and spring,
will require that the contractor work six days
a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Business owners have requested that construction work take place Sunday through
Friday in order to avoid construction noise
on and around Northwest 23rd on Saturdays,
the busiest day on the street. The project’s
ability to work on Sundays—instead of Saturdays—will depend on the outcome of our
noise variance application. If the variance
is not approved, work would instead occur
Monday through Saturday in order to keep
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Environmental agency gets an earful from intense crowd
allan classen
By Allan Classen
About 100 neighbors attended a meeting last month to see what could be done
about air pollution in Northwest Portland.
The turnout amazed Department of
Environmental Quality officials, who were
invited to hear and respond to rising local
dissent. Concerns have escalated in 2009
due to publication of a USA Today report
identifying all seven schools in the Northwest and Pearl districts as having worse
industrial air pollution than 98 percent of
the schools in the nation.
“I’m really happy to see all you folks
here,” said DEQ’s Gregg Lande, one of five
employees of the agency sitting at the head
table. “This group is bigger than all of the
people I’ve seen in 20 years.”
Before the meeting was over, Lande,
a longtime Northwest Portland resident,
may not have been so happy with the
crowd or their sometimes harsh and skeptical judgments.
“Don’t ask DEQ for any help because
you won’t get it,” warned one man. “Their
job is to collect money so they can let companies continue polluting.”
His reference was to fees for pollution
discharge permits, which provide 70 percent of the agency’s funding. It was a point
repeated by several speakers before the
two-hour meeting ended.
“They study, they study, they study, but
they don’t do anything to stop pollution,”
charged Bob Davies.
Davies has worked for years on a neigh-
Members of the audience line up to ask questions of Oregon Department of Environmental
Quality officials.
borhood committee dedicated to reducing
emissions from ESCO, whose two steel
foundries were named by USA Today as
the primary source of industrial pollution
affecting neighborhood schools.
“I feel like we’ve done quite a bit of
monitoring,” said Lande, noting that DEQ
had a monitoring station at the Forest Park
Post Office for years. “We’ve never found
concentrations that are immediately harmful to human health.”
Lande said his wife taught at Chapman
and their two children went there.
“I was never worried specifically about
ESCO,” he said. “I know there are real pollutants causing real harm. ESCO probably
contributes some, but it’s not to a level that
would make me worry.”
His advice to the audience: “We want
you to be concerned, not alarmed.”
One audience member not ready to
accept that advice was Joan Rothlein, a
neurotoxicologist at Oregon Health & Science University who is also a neighbor and
acquaintance of Lande.
“We didn’t need USA Today to know
there were air issues,” said Rothlein. “It
stinks outside ESCO. I’m a scientist, and
we’re supposed to be objective, but when
you drive by ESCO on certain days it
stinks.
“It’s not rocket science,” she said. “When
you smell a pollutant, the pollutant is
there.”
Another audience member was Krag
Petterson, director of technology with
Cooper Environmental Services, whose
company was hired by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to monitor
air outside ESCO’s main plant.
“We found definitely that ESCO is
responsible for the manganese in the air,”
he said.
Mary Peveto, the founder of Neighbors
for Clean Air, used Petterson’s findings to
file a complaint with DEQ against Lande.
Peveto said Lande was given a copy of that
report in February, yet he told the audience
that it wasn’t possible to link particular
pollutants with their sources.
After Petterson spoke, Lande acknowledged that such a connection can be made
and that he had said so all along. His
defense drew guffaws from the audience,
which was not in a tolerant mood.
State Rep. Mitch Greenlick, who
attended the meeting, was asked for his
overall reaction.
“We need to figure out what the barrier
is to cleaning up the emissions in the area,”
he said. “I assume the technology is available to clean up the emissions, and then it
becomes a matter of economics.
“For the first time last night, I understood the possible value of cap-and-trade
proposals. I suppose it would be easier to
convince ESCO to spend money to get
well below standards if they could sell
some of that ‘excess reduction,’” he said.
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JULIE KEEFE
had the perfect new location for the bento
business. Bair wasn’t so sure at first, but his
predicament justified gambling on Thurman Street. He is not sorry.
“As soon as we opened the doors, we
were busy,” said Bair.
Many of his regular customers worked
at Montgomery Park and Con-way, he
discovered, and they could now walk to his
location rather than drive. He also drew on
a healthy number of Food Front shoppers
and patrons of other local businesses.
After a little more than a year on Thurman, he sells more bento boxes now than
he ever did on Westover.
JULIE KEEFE
Dan Bair tends his grill while keeping an eye on Thurman Street. Bair had been unfamiliar with the street
before he was forced to move his bento stand from its home of 20 years on Northwest Westover, but one year
later he said sales have already surpassed past levels.
bike corral in front of her shop, sacrificing
a vehicle parking space so the city could
install racks for 12 bikes.
Bair’s West Coast Bento is both a beneficiary and contributor to the festive atmosphere. As one of his patrons recently
remarked, “A neighborhood is always more
of a neighborhood when you can smell
something cooking.”
Two years ago, Bair’s busy bento stand
was on Northwest Westover across from
the Uptown Shopping Center, and he had
never even been to Thurman Street. In
October 2007, he suddenly lost his lease.
Loyal customer Brent Douglas was disturbed to go for lunch one day and find
only a “closed” sign and immediately called
Bair.
Douglas, who owns a row of commercial
buildings at 24th and Thurman, insisted he
Foot traffic is high on Thurman Street, especially around Northwest 23rd
Place, where St. Honore Boulangerie (background) and Food Front are main
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“I knew it would work,” said Douglas, a
neighborhood resident for most of the last
30 years.
“I really like the vibe on Thurman,”
Douglas said. “The vibe on Thurman is different from the rest of Northwest because
the businesses here cater to the people who
live in the neighborhood, and that’s a big
difference.”
Part of what makes Thurman a special
experience for him is recognizing many of
the faces he sees on the street every day,
even if he doesn’t know their names.
“That’s what makes Thurman so nice,”
he said.
He’s not the only one to feel that way.
“I love the whole café-society feel of the
street,” said Jim Lomasson, who shares a
photography studio at Northwest 24th and
Thurman with Stewart Harvey in a former
theater building they co-own. “On a nice
day, everybody’s out.”
Building blocks
There’s a general consensus about the
businesses that formed the building blocks
of Thurman’s renaissance.
Bill Welch, who came to the neighborhood in the 1970s, said the move of Food
Front from a small store at 27th and Thurman to its current corner at 2375 NW
Thurman in 1987 was pivotal.
“I’m dumbfounded by how many businesses came to nestle around Food Front,”
said Welch. “Food Front had a lot to do
with making it easy to live in Willamette
Heights and the flats.”
No hustle-bustle kind of place
By Carol Wells
Thurman Street is about people. On
weekday mornings, it’s about the regular
gang that assembles at the Dragonfly
Coffee House to solve the world’s problems before getting down to some paying
work. Today, over cups of dark roast coffee, the conversation turns to our shared
love affair with the tree-lined street that’s
visible through the café’s large windows.
Gunnar Forland, a manufacturers’
agent who lives nearby, begins by talking
about the personal relationship between
neighbors and the small-business owners
on the street. “Homer down here”—his
thumb indicates Twenty-third Avenue
Market, owned by Homer Medica—“if
one of his customers wants something,
he’ll bring it in. He stocks chili paste
for me.”
A customer comes in and owner Erin
Timmins starts a cappuccino for him
without asking. She’s behind the counter
every morning, chit-chatting with regulars about their families and jobs, and
greeting newcomers.
Photographer Sergio Ortiz says that
for him it’s about the feel of the street.
“It’s not a hustle-bustle kind of place.
There’s nothing pretentious about it,” he
says.
Contributing to the warmth of the
street is that many of the homes and
businesses are in older buildings, giving
them and the street a sense of place and
history, and a human scale that modern
glass-and-steel structures just don’t have.
For a couple of years, I ran a nonprofit
organization out of the Thurman Street
Building, a 19th-century former grocery
store whose inside is so pristinely preserved that a claw-foot tub still graces
one of its bathrooms.
The Northwest branch of the Multnomah County Library is housed in a
storybook brick building from 1928. St.
Honoré Boulangerie’s building is also of
’20s vintage and, reports owner Dominique Geulin, it has been home to a
Mustang repair shop and a gas station.
The street boasts other gathering
places, each with a character reflecting
that of the people behind the counter.
Toward the hills, the Clearing Café hosts
neighbors who enjoy its low-key pulse
and people on their way to a run in Forest Park. Although it is owned by Briana
and Peter Borten from The Dragontree
day spa next door, co-managers Alex
McGregor and Dallas Summers treat
customers with a proprietary cordiality.
St. Honoré’s Geulin comes in every
morning to supervise his team of bakers. He explains his decision to open his
European-style cafe at this location: “I
was looking for a neighborhood environment with people living on the street,
walking on the street, and being part of
that community. This is what I grew up
with in France, with my parents’ bakery
being part of the life of a neighborhood.”
Thurman Street is also about businesses that provide services people can
use.
“I get my hair cut here, my library is
here, my co-op [Food Front, a member-owned grocery store] is here,” says
Paul Bingman, owner of Edgewood.
net, a website development company,
who comes into the neighborhood from
Linnton.
When I ran my nonprofit on the
street, I could patronize a copy and print
shop, a dry cleaner and several restaurants, all with faces behind the counter
that stayed the same day after day.
Chain coffee shops, restaurants and
stores are not always bad. Anonymous,
quick service has its place in our rushed
and overworked lives. What a street like
Thurman, with its relatively stable population of neighbors and on-site business
owners, gives us is a web of relationships
which, taken in totality, form a community. That equals a richness of life for
everyone, residents and visitors alike.
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Bike parking has special place on Thurman
Allan Classen
by Allan Classen
You know you’re not on 23rd Avenue
when the city removes a parking space and
no one complains.
Of course, the elimination of auto parking along Northwest Thurman at 24th Avenue can be seen as a net increase of 11
parking spaces. That’s because the new bike
corral accommodates 12 bicycles instead of
one motor vehicle.
City workers installed the corral May 8 as
the first trial of this concept in the Northwest District. Two corrals were installed
last fall in the Pearl, and there are 11 others
across the city, according to Sarah Figliozzi,
coordinator of the program for the Portland
Bureau of Transportation.
“Terrific,” was the reaction of longtime
Northwest resident Bill Welch when he
learned of the bike parking facility.
“That sounds great,” said Jim Lomasson,
a photographer who owns a studio on the
other side of the intersection. The fact that
he hadn’t heard about the corral a few days
before its installation didn’t bother him. “I’m
totally pro-bike.”
“That’s going to be cool,” said Ed Carpenter, who as owner of the property adjacent to the corral had to give his blessing.
Kim Carlson, who lives a half-block away
and chairs the Northwest District Association Transportation Committee, could not
be more supportive.
“Bike corrals are an excellent addition
to our main streets,” Carlson said. “They
put bike parking in the street and not on
the pedestrian right-of-way. This removes
obstacles and improves pedestrian mobility,
leaves room for cafe seating and provides
better access to shops.
“A bike corral can accommodate eight
bikes where a single car can park,” she said.
“A car will typically bring one, maybe two,
shoppers. A well-placed bike corral will be a
huge benefit for the surrounding businesses.
Siting a bike corral in front of a restaurant
with cafe seating is particularly good, as it
provides a level of security for the parked
bikes.”
In interviews with about 20 neighbors,
property owners and business operators in
the vicinity, not one person spoke against it.
The only discouraging word was from Dan
Bair, who has Big Dan’s West Coast Bento
on the other side of Thurman. Bair doesn’t
like the removal of one auto parking spot
directly east of the corral.
The site was chosen by city and neighborhood representatives largely due to the
enthusiastic support of Erin Timmins, who
operates Dragonfly Coffee House next to
the corral.
“Is there anyone who thinks this is not a
good idea?” asked Timmins. “It’s kind of a
no-brainer.
“There are so many bikes here; to eliminate one parking space for this is just so
smart for everyone.”
Timmins doesn’t see the facility as hers
alone but as an asset for the entire community.
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Sarah Figliozzi (center), coordinator of the city’s bicycle parking program, chats with Northwest District Association Transportation Chair Kim Carlson (right) and a bicyclist at the
new bike corral in front of Dragonfly Coffee House at Northwest 24th and Thurman.
“This is for everybody,” she said. “Anything that’s good for the community is good
for us.”
Roger Gellar, manager of the city’s bicycle
program, said Portland has undergone a “sea
change” in regard to bike parking. He said
there is a backlog of businesses around the
city wanting corrals in front of their shops,
while a possible pushback against removing
vehicle parking has never surfaced.
Gellar said a bike corral “advertises a
business as a bike-friendly place,” improves
the pedestrian environment and leads to
cleaner sidewalks. Bike corrals also function
as “curb extensions” that make the vehicle path narrower at intersections, thereby
enhancing safety, he said.
Figliozzi is looking at other potential
sites along Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues,
including one by Laughing Planet/21st Avenue Bicycles and one on 23rd near Johnson.
Thurman continued from page 25
Photographer Roger Dorband, who collaborated with local author Ursula LeGuin
on Blue Moon Over Thurman Street, a
1993 book on an earlier transition period,
described Food Front as a “great, lasting
institution, a community base … that creates a wonderful sense of community.”
Phil Sellinger lives in an 1892 house he
rejuvenated at 2466 NW Irving St. Two
years ago, with the help of Food Front, he
organized a monthly litter pickup day in
the neighborhood. He saw it as a way to
get neighbors together and build neighborhood pride. While most of the volunteers
live within a few blocks, the event also
brings a handful of people from outside
the area.
Sellinger said the same pattern applies
to Food Front itself, which is so valuable to
the area because it serves neighbors while
drawing from the broader region.
“Food Front is doing something right,”
added Ed Carpenter, who since 1984 has
owned the mixed-use building that includes
the Dragonfly at 24th and Thurman.
“It’s obviously one of the anchors, along
with the library,” he said. “It both increases
the diversity of this neighborhood, and
increases the number of reasons people
have to come to this neighborhood.”
Another key element, in his estimation,
is the Dragonfly and its owner.
“A lot of credit goes to Erin Timmins
and the vivacious nature of her business,”
said Carpenter. “She has made a business
that is very popular, and the good vibes
radiate outward from that place.”
“She did a good job of transforming it,” said Stewart Harvey. “It is now a
business
true coffeehouse where
people feel comfortable
just hanging out.”
Credit for Thurman’s
success is also due to
Richard Singer, who converted the former Harris
Wine Cellar building at
23rd and Thurman into
a Multnomah County
branch library in 2002.
“The library has been
a great asset,” said Douglas. “It serves local people
and families.”
“Do thank Singer for the library,” Welch
advised.
The irony—lost on few Thurman Street
habitués—is that the library has done so
much to enhance this area while the developer’s retail properties that form the heart
of the southern half of 23rd Avenue could
have used the boost.
“ It’s been an interesting and organic process.
It seems real healthy; it doesn’t seem like gentrified
or artificial development.
No grand plan
While Singer carefully chose commercial tenants for his boutiques south of
Lovejoy, there has been no central guiding
force on Thurman Street.
Carpenter said Thurman’s diversity of
business types and sizes is largely due to
the range of building types existing on the
street.
The two-story wooden Thurman Street
Building, built in 1904 and owned by
Douglas, has funky, low-rent upstairs offices. One is rented by flute-maker Romy
Benton, who carves exquisite instruments
from bamboo.
St. Honore takes advantage of a former
”
—Jim Lomasson
auto repair shop built it 1923 with massive
beams that are now exposed to create an
impressive café space. The same building
houses Trilogy Video and Square Deal
Wines in modern storefronts.
West Coast Bento operates from the
basement of a modest 1901 house previously used as an industrial shop and offices
for nonprofits. A tattoo shop occupies the
main floor.
Carpenter’s two-story building dates to
1910, but it looks more new than old since
its 1980s remodeling.
Blue Moon Over Thurman Street presented Thurman as an ever-changing street
reflecting the great themes of American
life. From the time the book was conceived until its completion five years later,
Thurman was transformed by several rowhouse projects by developer Phil Morford.
Although villainized for his demolition of
historic houses in the process, his and later
row houses replaced ugly industrial buildings and a few dilapidated houses, creating
homes for more families and giving the
area a lift.
“When we first came there were abandoned houses where skinheads hung out,
the Beaver tavern and a factory next door,”
said Lomasson, who has been on the street
23 years.
“It’s been an interesting and organic
process,” he said. “It seems real healthy;
it doesn’t seem like gentrified or artificial
development.”
His partner, Stewart Harvey, called
Thurman’s rise “a succession of things, all
of which kept going in the right direction.”
Ultimately, Thurman became “the lowcost alternative to 23rd.”
Carpenter, who has patiently watched
for 25 years as the area gradually found its
way, shares the optimism.
“And nobody has orchestrated it,” he
said. “It just happened.”
And it keeps happening day after day,
especially when the sun is out and the deep
barbecue aroma fills the air. It may have
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23rd Avenue. He also operates Dang’s Thai Kitchen in Lake Oswego.
B usines S B R I E F S
Portland native Steve Smith, founder of Tazo Tea
Co., which he sold to Starbucks in 1999 for a reported $9 million, plans to open Smith Teamaker at
1626 NW Thurman St. in September. The company
will make, market and distribute products from a
1914 brick building that was once a blacksmith shop.
It will specialize in small-batch, loose and ready-todrink teas. ... After 10 years in Northwest Portland,
The Realty Network GMAC Real Estate has moved
from 1505 NW 23rd Ave. to John’s Landing. ... Seaplane women’s clothing design has moved from 827
NW 23rd Ave. to 2266 NW Lovejoy St. in the former
Luv ’n’ Stuff Flowers location. ... Olea Restaurant in
the Pearl closed last month. ... More liquor licenses
are sure sprouting up in the neighborhood. Nob Hill
Bar & Grill recently got one, as did Cha Cha Cha at
Northwest 12th and Glisan. Kenny & Zuke’s Sandwich Works on Northwest Thurman recently added
beer and wine. Chow, Taco Del Mar and World
Cup are also applying for alcohol licenses. ... Urbane
Zen closed its Pearl store but is keeping its Tigard
and Lake Oswego locations. Fez Studio will move
from 1125 NW Ninth Ave. into the old Urbane
Zen space at 205 NW 10th Ave. ... ESCO has laid
off 50 more employees and has cancelled its annual
employee picnic, said company spokesman Robert
Kenneth, who said ESCO “continues to feel the
effects of the global recession.” ... KeyBank plans
to open a new branch at 1001 NW 14th Ave. this
fall. ... Northwest Housing Alternatives is receiving an $830,000 grant to rehabilitate the Roselyn
Apartments, 424 NW 21st Ave., a 31-unit building
for low-income seniors and persons with disabilities.
... Signal Sports for Women, at 327 NW Kearney
St. under On Deck Sports Bar, closed last month.
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In the ’Hood
By Mike Ryerson
as far as I can tell never even existed.
“Many years ago, the Nob Hill Business Association
provided this content,” said D.C. Rahe of MapClicks.
“Before my time. I don’t know where they are located.”
Still, he makes a good point: shop local. Buy from
people who know their neighborhood.
Please be quiet when you leave
You can reach Mike Ryerson at 503-381-8050 or
[email protected]
In many ways, the last day of May was pretty much like
any other nice Sunday on Northwest 23rd Avenue.
It was a sunny afternoon, the bikers were hanging out
in front of the Santa Fe Taqueria, a street musician was
playing his guitar outside of Kornblatt’s and the sidewalk
tables at Papa Haydn and Jo Bar were full of chatting and
laughing diners.
Most people were unaware of a few not-so-normal
events that were taking place.
The owner of The Compleat Bed and Breakfast was
wheeling an upright vacuum cleaner out of her store while
a companion was loading a piece of furniture from the
store into a pickup truck. She had just closed the doors to
her shop for the last time. “Goodbye” read one of the small
signs in the window.
A few blocks away, Pierre Tronik was peddling the last
shoes from his family’s Nob Hill Shoe shop off of a couple
of folding tables in front of their former store. Several “for
sale” signs were posted on the building.
Across the street at Steel for Men clothing, a couple of
hand-written flyers on the A-frame sign read “last day”
and “everything must go.”
Earlier in the month, a large “Liquidation” banner had
hung on the front of the building. For some reason, it was
removed and the owner suddenly refused to acknowledge
her intention to close. For the rest of the month, a “for
lease” sign was propped in the corner of the front display
window. Signage announcing the store’s closing was pulled
from sight.
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A similar pattern occurred up the avenue at Elizabeth
Street women’s apparel. At first the window was painted
with an announcement that it was closing, but it was
soon changed to “consolidating.” Whatever it’s called, a
50-percent-off sale continues.
“Actually, we are closing,” said owner Libby Hartung,
“but we’ll be carrying some things we have here when we
open up next door,” referring to her Zelda’s Shoes, which
she plans to revive.
Sounds like someone has gotten sensitive about too
many “closed” signs getting on the local news.
I can imagine a note to commercial tenants: “If you’re
going to die, do it quietly, attracting as little attention as
possible. The rest of us still have an image to uphold.”
Oops!
I usually don’t have a reason to pick up a Nob Hill-NW
Portland Walking Map, but I recently scanned a copy. The
circular is put out by a company called MapClicks.com,
which also promotes a program for local merchants called
Choose Local.
The guide suggests a few nearby sites for visitors to
enjoy while they’re in the neighborhood shopping and
dining. It brags about two local historic houses you can
see in the area.
One is the Knapp House at Northwest 18th and Everett,
which was torn down in the early 1950s to make way for
a parking lot. The other is called the Mason House, which
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When this storefront at 808 NW 23rd Ave. became
vacant, a large banner advertised its availability. Today
a small sign has taken its place. Has word gone out to
tone down signs of business distress?
Snapshots
Four metal laser-cut panels representing scenes from the neighborhood were
installed at Downtown Self Storage at Northwest 14th and Davis streets
recently. The artist was Virginia Flynn, a longtime Northwest Portland
resident, and the project was coordinated by Patricia Gardner of Cheshir
Architecture.
Huge crowds attended National Train Day last month at Union Station,
lining up for blocks to tour the SP Daylight 4449 steam locomotive and vintage train cars. The event was sponsored by the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission and PSU Friends of History.
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A delivery truck double-parks by Papa Haydn Restaurant at Northwest 23rd
and Irving, blocking visibility of the parking lot exit immediately in front
of the truck. Developer Richard Singer, who overcame repeated neighborhood challenges to gain approval to build a parking structure on the site of
the parking lot, convinced City Council that safety issues at this site were
adequately addressed.
Ron Jennings
Volunteers paint over graffiti at a vacant garage in the Pearl as part of this
spring’s Polish the Pearl.
Mike Ryerson
Mike Ryerson
Shoppers took advantage of liquidation bargains at Urbane Zen, 205 NW
10th Ave., last month. The store had been in the Pearl for seven years after
starting on Northwest 23rd Avenue 10 years ago. Urbane Zen stores in
Tigard and Lake Oswego will remain open.
A diseased linden tree at 2343 NW Irving St. was removed last month on
orders of the Portland Urban Forester. The tree, believed to have been planted in 1892, was designated by the city as a Heritage Tree in 1996. Beth
Sorensen of the forester’s office said it was “rotted at the base” and “almost
completely dead.” Donald Town, who grew up on this block in the 1940s and
’50s, said it was known as the “hide-and-seek tree” where children would
close their eyes and count before searching for their playmates.
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