March 2013 - NW Examiner

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MARCH ’13
VOLUME 26, ISSUe 7
Serving Portland’s Northwest Neighborhoods since 1986
Living Small
julie keefe
Locals find room in 280 SF
micro apartments
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Rental
Building
Boom
Developers gear up to
fulfill pent-up demand
for new apartments
By Allan Classen
ments, and a Seattle developer, Footprint Investments,
has proposed 150-square-foot rooms without kitchens on
Northwest Thurman Street, but competition in the micro
housing market remains thin.
Hanselman only knows that “young people want to be
in the city where a lot of things are going on, and that
lifestyle doesn’t involve a big apartment.”
He considered sharing a larger apartment, but decided
he’d prefer living alone this year. Now he thinks he’ll stay
here through another school year.
It’s not that he hasn’t had to make adjustments.
“The small kitchen affects what I can cook in the
apartment and how many guests I can have,” he said.
To make his room seem larger, he built a loft for his
bed. He also didn’t want to sleep on a futon, the standard
piece of convertible furniture at Freedom Center.
While some may use their micro apartments primarily
as a crash pad to sleep and clean up, Hanselman said, “I
spend a decent amount of time at home. I usually do my
work at the apartment, and my weekends are pretty free.”
He makes most of his meals at home to save money,
and he doesn’t have a car. He carpools to school.
Slabtown and the North Pearl are looking ever
more like one continuous construction site these
days, and the apartment building boom may have
only begun.
If the sight of new buildings rising side by side at
Northwest 23rd and Savier the past year has seemed
novel, get used to it. Developers say the rental market is far from saturated, and the empty parcels in
Northwest Portland are prime sites.
“The market is still very tight,” said Sam Rodriguez of Mill Creek Residential, whose 179-unit
Savier Flats complex may take in its first tenants next
month. He said apartment occupancy rates are above
96 percent in the central city, touching the practical
limit.
“Rents are still going up,” Rodriguez said, noting
that metropolitan area rates have been rising 5-6
percent annually in recent years.
Park 19, completed at the east end of Couch Park
in 2009, was the first large new Northwest District
rental building in many years. New residential construction was happening all around, but they were all
condominiums or subsidized rentals. The housing
bubble burst during construction of Park 19, bankrupting its builder and forcing its repackaging into a
rental building.
Three years passed before the next major rental
building, the 90-unit 1984 Pettygrove, was com-
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Though it took getting used to, Erik Hanselman can no longer imagine living in a larger space.
By Allan Classen
Lewis & Clark law student Erik Hanselman is happy
with his 280-square-foot Pearl District apartment.
When he moved into the 150-unit Freedom Center
complex at Northwest 14th and Pettygrove last September,
he had misgivings.
“I was a little apprehensive about the [amount of ]
space,” Hanselman admitted, “but now I find it works
perfectly for me. I really can’t see living in a larger space.”
The Freedom Center, named in part for providing
young, financially-strapped urbanites an alternative to
living with parents, is a breakthrough project on several scores. It’s the first major inner Westside apartment
building in decades to provide no off-street parking, and
no other new apartment project in the city has such tiny
units.
He’s so far ahead of the curve, developer Mark Madden
has no followers, at least in the metropolitan area. Singlehandedly, he’s trying to make good on his 2009 claim that
“This product “will be commonplace in the next five
years.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has given
special zoning dispensation for 325-square-foot apart-
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Campaign launched to stop leaps from Vista Bridge
The Goose Hollow Foothills League adopted a resolution
supporting “architecturally appropriate barriers” on Vista Bridge
to reduce suicides.
The issue was raised by Kenneth and Bonnie Kahn, who have
witnessed many suicides from their offices, which are directly
below the bridge.
Kenneth Kahn shared photos of modifications to a historic
bridge of similar design in Madrid, Spain. He said the 8-foot-tall
clear panels along the railings have all but eliminated leaps from
that bridge.
GHFL board member Mary Valeant said aesthetic concerns
needn’t be a problem and could be addressed through a design
competition.
“That’s a relatively easy sell,” said Valeant.
“All of us feel the same way, that something should be done
about this problem,” said board President Leslie Johnson.
The Kahns intend to create a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation
called Friends of the Vista Bridge and to lead a public campaign
to gain the necessary approvals and funding.
The transparent 8-foot-tall barriers inside the rails of the 1874
Viaducto de Segovia in Madrid, Spain, are hardly visible from the
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Editor’s Turn
By Allan Classen
Editor & Publisher
Anti-bicycle tirade
It appears we have been treated to another Allan Classen tirade against bikers. This type of “article” belongs on the Editor’s Turn page, not in the body of
the paper. One would be hard pressed to find a more one-sided presentation of
biking in Forest Park.
The only single track trail mentioned in the article is a new one to be built
paralleling Fire Lane 5. Nowhere in the article is there any mention made of
mountain bikers storming down existing hiking-only trails like Wildwood. Mr.
Classen is sure to present a couple of photos of mountain bike tracks on offlimits trails to try and stoke the fire, but these are completely irrelevant to the
argument at hand. There are more than 5,000 acres in Forest Park, certainly
enough for some cyclists to share with hikers and horses. Portland is a bit of a
biking town if you haven’t noticed.
Thilo Weissflog
NW 23rd Ave.
Cyclists don’t share
Thanks for keeping the public informed on the continuing battle to limit
bikes in Forest Park.
As a long time hiker in the park, I’ve observed the following: Bikers do not
“share” the trail. If you’re walking, you have to stand off the trail as they pass.
The trails are degraded with deep mud ruts due to the weight and narrowness
of their tires, making it difficult if not impossible to hike the trail. Again, not
“sharing.”
When riding a bike—I know from experience, I did it once—you are forced
to look down at the trail. Looking down keeps you from seeing what’s around
you. This includes trees, birds, flowers, plants and hikers on the trail. You may
as well be on a road.
The hope is that Forest Park is not allowed to turn into a California-style
thrill ride for bicycles.
John Rogers
NW Mill Rd.
Bicycle centric
Your article regarding potential trail bicycle use of Forest Park reminds us
again how “bicycle centric” our city has become. I have fond memories of my
neighbor Thorton Munger from my childhood as he would kibitz with me as I
planted ground cover for my dad across the street from his house.
I feel confident saying bicycles were not what he had in mind in 1947. But it
would be wrong to ignore this eventually becoming the case and not planning
for it. Since these vehicles cause damage to the trails let them help maintain our
mutual resource. Why not mandate a $200 two-year trail-use bicycle license tag
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Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Going Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Community Events. . . . . . . . . . 18
Business & Real Estate. . . . . . . 20
Sick leave not too much to ask
After listening to a business association
discussion on the city’s proposed sick leave
ordinance, I’ve begun thinking about this
issue more deeply.
Several small business operators in
the Northwest Industrial Neighborhood
Association lampooned City Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s plan to require paid
sick leave for companies employing six or
more people. They were full of skepticism
and deeply suspicious that healthy workers
would sit home just because they could.
These bosses were confident they
could determine which of their employees
should be entitled to time off and which
were chronic malingerers not deserving the benefit of the doubt. Certainly,
they were not shy about scrutinizing the
motives and conduct of others.
Yet these same people were viscerally offended at the thought of their own
motives or conduct being scrutinized by
a higher authority (though they would
certainly never refer to government as a
higher authority). The employers speaking out at the meeting seemed to feel they
didn’t have to explain themselves to anyone, and government should butt out of
their business.
Freedom to them means the right to
operate their businesses as they please,
extracting as much labor for the dollar as
the market allows. They do not see their
low-wage underlings as equals.
Yet we live in a society dedicated to the
principle that all people are equal. At the
very least, that concept encompasses the
right to vote, and why wouldn’t low-paid
workers vote for candidates and policies
promising to give them a better chance at
economic happiness?
The political and economic spheres
inevitably overlap. When economic inequities or abuses become too great and
too visible, the will of the people may be
brought into play.
I believe this is such a case.
Workers not receiving sick leave benefits are mostly the lower paid. Many can’t
readily cope with even a day or two of lost
pay, and the fear of losing their jobs drives
many to show up even if sick or injured.
Yes, having to pay workers who aren’t
on the job raises the cost of production for
their companies. Arguments placing the
profitability of employers over the welfare
of workers have prevailed since the dawn
of paid labor, but modern societies recognize limits to how much pain or penalty
should be extracted from a worker just
because the boss wants to.
I have no ethical problem with penalizing middle or upper class workers for time
not worked, but people in such dire straits
that they can’t stay home when they’re
sick are by my definition exploited. They
deserve some protection from the state.
Economic inequality is growing in
America. Those raised in poverty are
having a harder time improving their station. The last thing we should be doing is
knocking down people trying to get a foot
on the first rung of the ladder.
The freedom to run one’s enterprise
as one chooses was once seen by half the
country as including the right to own
other people. We now see slavery as a
moral outrage.
How will our descendants characterize
an era when workers still didn’t have the
right to be sick?
VOL. 26, NO. 7march, 2013
EDITOR/PUBLISHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALLAN CLASSEN
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— obituaries —
Olive G. Pomeroy
Olive G. Pomeroy, a cofounder of the Goose Hollow Family Shelter located
at the First United Methodist Church, where she
was a member, died Jan. 25
at age 83. She was born in Starbuck, Minn.,
Aug. 31, 1928. She married Richard Pomery, and they co-founded the shelter. She is
survived by her husband; sons Jeff, Jim, John
and Joe; and two grandchildren.
Emily Gottfried
Emily Gottfried, a former Northwest Portland resident, died Jan. 27 at age 57. Emily
was born in Portland and graduated from
Wilson High School. She earned bachelors’
degrees in religion from Pomona College in
Claremont, Calif., and music education from
the University of Oregon, and a master’s
degree in vocal performance from the University of New Mexico. She was a member
of Congregation Havurah Shalom in Northwest Portland and served as cantor for several
Jewish congregations in the Portland area.
She was a publicity director at Mittleman
Jewish Community Center from 1988-99
and director of the American Jewish Committee, Oregon Chapter, from 1999-2009.
She chaired the Inter-Religious Action Network of Washington County. Her husband
Jeffery and daughter Miriam survive her.
Dorothy E. Strohecker
Dorothy Elizabeth Strohecker, a resident of
Goose Hollow, died Feb. 2 at age 94. Dorothy Wetmore was born in Portland Sept.
26, 1918. She attended Chapman Grade
School, Lincoln High School, St. Helens
Hall and Parson School of Design in New
York City. She was a member of Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral. She is survived by
her daughters, Jacqueline Yule and Cynthia
Egan; son Daniel Shafer; one grandchild;
and two great-grandchildren.
Nicolas Colescott
Mary A. Tooze
Nicolas Colescott, who grew up in Willamette Heights, died Dec. 14, 2012, at
age 59. He was born Nov. 20, 1953. More
recently, he lived in Southeast Portland and
worked for many years at Moreland Ace
Hardware.
Mary Austlund Tooze, who lived on Cornell Road as a child, died Jan. 24 at age
89. Mary was born in Portland in 1923.
She graduated from Lincoln High School
in 1940 and majored in music at Mills
College. For more than 50 years, she supported many of Oregon’s major arts groups,
including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet
Theatre, Artist Repertory Theatre and
Portland Piano International. She married
Lamar Tooze Jr.; he died in 1985. She is
survived by her daughter, Kristen Kern;
two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Wesley G. Strohecker
Wesley G. Strohecker, grandson of the
founder of Strohecker’s grocery store, died
Feb. 9 at age 83. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary, Cathedral Grade School,
Columbia Prep, Lincoln High School and
the University of Oregon. He started working at Strohecker’s as a delivery boy and
Delbert Saman
retired in 1992 as president. He was also a
partner in the Sports Unlimited ski shop
Delbert Saman, a Linnton
in Goose Hollow. He was a member of the
resident and organist at
Multnomah Athletic Club and served on
St. Patrick’s Church, died
the board of Northwest Pilot Project. He
Feb. 10 at age 72. He was
is survived by his wife, Marcia; sons, Dale
born April 14, 1940, in
and John; daughters, Tamara Florer, Nancy
Myrtle, Minn., and graduBurke, Mollyanna Rios-Nogales and Kristin ated from Austin High School in AusMarks Roslund; and 12 grandchildren.
tin, Minn. He studied music at Oberlin
Conservatory, the Salzberg Mozarteum
Phyllis C. Towne
and the University of Oregon. In 1966,
Phyllis Claire Towne, a he moved to Portland, where he married
30-year volunteer at Good Helen Carter. They lived in Linnton the
Samaritan Hospital, died past seven years. He was an organist at
Jan. 14 at age 84. Phyllis Fremont Methodist Church, Rose City
was born in Tacoma, Wash., Methodist Church, Trinity Lutheran in
July 14, 1928. She moved Gresham, First Congregational Church,
with her husband and daughter to Portland. St. Mary’s Cathedral and at St. Patrick,
She volunteered more than 7,500 hours at where he was organist for Cantores in
Good Samaritan Hospital, where she was Ecclesia for 25 years. He is survived by his
president of the Good Samaritan Founda- wife, Helen; and sisters, Victoria Bjortant
tion 2004-06. She was awarded the Wistar and Susan Woodle. A memorial service
Morris Society Treasure of Good Samaritan will be held Saturday March 2, 11:30 a.m.,
in 2006 in recognition of her volunteer St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.
service. She was an avid hiker who earned
Larry D. Hill
a 2,000-mile certificate and the Hardest
Cup Leadership Award from the Mazamas. Larry Dean Hill, the longtime owner of
She is survived by her husband Robert; and Franklin Printing on Northwest Thurdaughter, Nancy Town-Smith.
man Street, died Feb. 6 of complications
of kidney disease at age 66. He was born
Aug. 6, 1946, in Pendleton, and grew up in
Heppner. His family moved to Cedar Mill
and he graduated from Sunset High School
in 1964. He served in the Naval Intelligence
Alaska and Japan. Later, he worked in
Washington, D.C., for RCA World Communications and the Central Intelligence
Agency. He returned to Portland, where he
bought the printing company in 1970 and
operated it until retiring in 2009 due to
illness. He is survived by his partner of 40
years, Lowell Stuck; and two sisters, June
Evans and Joan Jarvis. His brother, Edwin
L., predeceased him.
Peryl Gottesman
Peryl Gottesman, a promoter of the Nob
Hill business district, died Feb. 14 at age
89. Peryl was born in Portland July 12,
1923. She graduated from Lincoln High
School in 1941 and attended Reed College. She began working in the women’s
sportswear department at Meier & Frank,
eventually becoming an assistant buyer in
women’s apparel. In the 1980s, she gave
Northwest 23rd Avenue walking tours on
behalf of property owners and the business
association. She is survived by two nephews
and three nieces.
John Phillip Stimac
John Phillip Stimac, coowner of Firebrand Sports,
died Jan. 31 at age 67. He
was born Oct. 18, 1945, in
Crosby, Minn., and earned
his master’s degree from
Bemidji State University. His career included coaching positions in baseball, basketball
and football and management positions
with fitness organizations in Germany and
Brainerd, Minn. He developed an online
learning and assessment business, RainmakerDNA, with his wife, Linda, whom
he married in 1971. Last fall, the couple
and their daughter, Sara, founded Firebrand
Sports, a fitness studio at Northwest 14th
and Glisan. He is survived by his wife;
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daughter; brothers, Tom and Matt; and sister, Ann. The Tour de Heart foundation has
been created in his honor.
Death Notices
Herbert K. Chin, 89, restored the Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Association in
Old Town/Chinatown.
Janet Lewis, 90, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Timothy F. Maginnis, 99, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Joan Currie Poppe, 86, nurse at St.
Vincent Hospital.
Frances Leona Sharpe, 98, surgery nurse
at St. Vincent Hospital.
Arthur David Rotter, 83, former ESCO
employee.
Edna L. Aanderud, 94, employee of
Montgomery Ward.
Rev. George Charlan, 78, pastor at the
Anglican Parish of St. Mark.
Marianne B. Sconce, 69, attended West
Sylvan Grade School.
James G. Senders, 97, graduate of Lincoln
High School and member of Temple Beth
Israel.
Elizabeth J. Netcher, 94, graduate of
Lincoln High School.
The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of
people who lived, worked or had other substantial connections to our readership area, which includes Northwest Portland, Goose Hollow, Sauvie Island and areas
north of Highway 26. If you have information about a
death in our area, please contact us at [email protected]. Photographs are also welcomed. There is no
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Northwest singer at online awards
By Wendy Gordon
Travis Royce, a 24-year-old producer/
songwriter/performing artist who grew up
and still lives in Northwest Portland, performed at the Artists in Music Awards in
Los Angeles last month.
Royce was a top four finalist for artist of
the year in the electronica and urban hiphop categories.
“One of the highlights of the 2013
Artist in Music Awards was having Travis Royce on stage at the ceremony,” said
Mikey Jayy, executive producer of the competition. “The crowd loved him.
“Travis certainly gives the Artist in
Music Awards a diversity that we certainly
value as part of our program. Music speaks
one language and it has no boundary.” Artists in Music Awards is an online
competition for emerging musicians whose
mission is, according to their website, “to
take artists from obscurity to high visibility.”
Always musical, Travis began studying
classical piano in third grade. But his love
affair with electronic music began at age
12, when his parents gave him a computer
with music software.
“I always wanted to play all the parts,
and this gave me the opportunity,” he said.
He took online courses to learn the
music program.
“If I could do it over again, I would have
gone to classes instead of just trying to
figure it out,” he said. “Once I recorded a
whole album and then found out the way I
recorded it was wrong.”
Still, he figures all that trial and error
led to an intuitive musical understanding.
He also credits his classical piano training.
“A lot of people in electronic music don’t
have this,” he said.
Royce attended Chapman, Winterhaven (a science and math magnet) and
Lincoln schools, but can’t say that Portland
Public Schools contributed in any way to
his musical education.
“My parents were the ones who really
helped,” he said.
He released his first EPs (mini-albums)
while at Lincoln. After attending the University of Oregon for two years, he left to
concentrate on his music.
Devon Jackson, a music writer who has
written for Rolling Stone, describes his
music as “gooey hypnotic electronica-driven hip-hop from a wunderkind-savant.”
The price of musical software has come
way down since Travis got his first computer. What used to require $10,000 of
electronic equipment can now be accomplished by a $300 laptop. This opens up
the field to many contenders and creates a
noisy background where it’s difficult to get
your own sound heard. Websites and social
media are a common means of promoting
electronic music, but because of downloading, performers rarely sell songs for money.
Licensing for TV shows, movies and other
commercial use is much more profitable.
Live performance is also really important. Shy by nature, Travis started perform-
Travis Royce performs at Artists in Music
Awards in Los Angeles.
ing live only about a year and a half ago at
Portland venues such as the Alberta Rose
Theatre and Hawthorne Theatre.
Most electronica shows are “spectacles,”
with DJs, lights, dancers, etc., supplementing the live performers. Travis is “not
really into the spectacle part” but finds
performing “still somewhat uncomfortable
but awesome.” He plans to do more.
Travis currently performs with two
friends who also grew up in Portland: singer Ryan Elizabeth and rapper Jordan Mayo.
This spring he is moving to San Francisco
to continue his education in music theory.
His website—tmcroyce.com—includes
some quotes that reveal his attitude and
sense of humor.
“I play music because it’s cheaper than
doing drugs, although I hear the long-term
effects are about the same.”
“I write it, produce it, mix it and (usually) perform it, so if you don’t like it, there
is no one to blame but me.” Open Letter to Our TriMet
Passengers and Community
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part and negotiate a labor contract that is good for both our community and our families. But, our
willingness to sacrifice will be for nothing unless someone starts to control management’s spending.
Transit worker retirees: good neighbors active in our community
OUR PASSENGERS ARE THE PEOPLE WE SEE NEARLY
EVERY DAY. We look forward to their kind words, great stories and
being a small part of their lives. They need transportation to work, school,
day care, medical appointments, grocery stores, family and friends. It is
just not acceptable for management to spend millions on new furniture,
downtown offices, unnecessary remodels, ever-growing train tracks, mirror-less train cars, dangerous buses, snoopy surveillance systems, razzle-dazzle electronic gadgets and wasteful rail service while, at the same
time, threatening to leave our passengers stranded.
FINALLY, TRIMET RETIREES DESERVE OUR RESPECT AND
GRATITUDE. Many of them worked many years and yet their pension
checks total less than $1000 per month. These retirees gave their passengers loyal, faithful and caring service. Today, that same love of people has
turned many of them into excellent community volunteers. It is unbelievable that a manager–someone who earns twice what our Governor earns,
who received a $6,450 raise, whose widow is promised lifetime health insurance and who is guaranteed a fat severance paycheck–thinks he has a
moral right to criticize the very men and women who built TriMet.
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with revenues earmarked for trail and park
maintenance? People riding without their
tags fined the same $200, one time only,
which then gets them their tag. Repeat
offenders could have bikes confiscated
until the fine is paid.
I know an argument will be made that
bicycle riders already pay for the park
through taxes but the impact of their
park use far outweighs that of hikers and
makes it moot. The phrase “if you want
to play, you have to pay” is apt here.
Doug Gentner
SW Canyon Ln.
Single track works
in an abandoned iron mine with first- and
second-generation growth. While being
25 miles of preferred-use trails (mountain
bikes have right-of-way), we have never
had a biker/hiker incident, including on
long down hills.
3. As part of the design considerations
of a mountain bike trail, you avoid areas
with pooling water, environmentally sensitive areas, and attempt to minimize wildlife
disturbances. The ruts as shown in your
article would be unlikely on a trail meeting
IMBA guidelines.
4. Unlike Oregon, Minnesota has a long
history with urban parks that have mountain biking trails. As an example, the city
of Duluth, Minn. just green-lighted a 100mile long multi-use trail system to connect all the mountain trails in and around
the city together into a single system.
These parks would not have or continue to
expand mountain biking if it was creating
negative impacts to users or to the parks.
I would suggest to those who have
concerns about mountain biking in Forest
Park: Do some real research. I would also
suggest that you visit Minnesota and see
how their counties and cities are handling
mountain biking in urban and suburban
parks. I would dare to suggest it might
alter negative views of mountain biking in
Forest Park.
I would like to correct some of the assertions regarding mountain biking [“Bikes vs.
Nature,” February 2013]. I would also like
to inform you of the experience of urban
parks with mountain biking access in my
adopted state of Minnesota.
1. Single track as designed for mountain
bikes follows the International Mountain
Bike Association’s (IMBA) guidelines as
laid out in their book “Trail Solutions,”
published in 2004. Those guidelines are
rigorous enough that they were adopted by
the United States Forest Service for trail
building in 2007.
Joshua Rebennack
2. Single track is approximately 3’-6’
Pine River, Minn.
wide in cleared area (that tends to revegetate to about 3’ wide) and 18” wide at
the tread. It’s possible to have multiple uses Trains here first
on trails this wide with adequate sightThose of you who complain about the
lines. The trail system I work on, the Cuyu- train sounds remind me of the people who
na Lakes Mountain Bike Trails, is located build their house on the end of a runway
and then complain about the sound of the
airplanes. Who was here first? The railroad
has been here for 100 years. Did you not
know there was a railroad and major train
terminus in Northwest Portland?
The quiet zones with quad gates and
median barriers may stop cars and lessen
train sounds, but increase injuries and
deaths for pedestrians and bicyclists
because they can still go around the barriers and do not hear train horns. This is
especially true when there is more than one
track. A person sees the first train pass and
then goes across the tracks not realizing a
second train is coming.
Also trains are required by the Federal Railroad Administration to blow their
horns for many reasons other than crossings. They must blow their horn to signal
direction when starting and stopping as
well as switching. They blow their horns
for non-quiet-zone crossings and emergencies (even in quiet zones). Many of you
erroneously thought the quiet zones would
eliminate all train horns.
How come nobody complains about the
young people driving around the Pearl at 3
a.m. with their car windows open and stereos blasting? How about the people walking down the street talking so loudly that I
can hear them in my sixth-floor apartment
with the windows closed as though they
were sitting in my living room?
I like the train sounds. It reminds me of
the industrial past of the Pearl.
Raymond Becich
1001 NW Lovejoy St.
Missed the point
The Northwest Examiner’s story
“Neighbors fight proposed hotel” in the
February issue presented the remote
periphery of the topic at the expense of its
core. While you did report about the Pearl
Neighborhood Committee meeting correctly, the latter half of the story was about
me and a peripheral subject that I had not
even broached in our exchanges about the
hotel, and only commented on because you
solicited my relative response.
The core of the story is outside of what
the Examiner covered. It’s in the issues
treated in the petition, a copy of which
the Examiner has received. The petition
does not mention a word about blocked
views, simply because there are a dozen far
more adverse consequences of the proposed
Hampton Inn on the entire neighborhood
and on the Pearl District, and not just
on the few people whose views would be
blocked. The Examiner did a disservice
to the neighborhood and to its readers
by slanting the story in such a way that it
reads as though our main concern is the
blocked views.
The other part of the core that the story
omitted is the Portland Design Commission meeting about this hotel that took
place Jan. 24. It was lively, productive and
even better attended than the meeting
mentioned in your story. There were five
presentations from said “neighbors”—one
of which did broach the subject of reduced
equity, but none mentioned views. As my
particular concern is the hotel’s adverse
impact on traffic and street parking in the
Southeast Pearl, that’s what I spoke about.
However, the commissioners’ comments
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NW Ninth Ave.
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decrease as the provisions of the AffordThanks for article
able Care Act are implemented. We probMonday evening I returned from my
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volunteer shift as a doctor at the Wallace
insured by Oregon Health Plan. I miss
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seeing the kiddies in the clinic, but they
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Rents range from $800-$850, not including utilities,
not the lowest around but a cut below other new apartments.
What justifies the Spartan lifestyle?
“For me, what works is the location,” said Hanselman,
noting that this is where he wants to spend his weekends
and free time.
Madden wasn’t surprised by his answer. That’s the reason almost all of his approximately 100 tenants give.
Khatera Sahak, an Oregon College of Oriental Medicine student and one of the first Freedom Center tenants,
told The Oregonian that she could have found larger,
cheaper apartments elsewhere, but “it was perfect in terms
of location. The fact that it was brand new and clean, all
these things were more important than the size.” After living there two months, she was convinced she
had made the right decision: “You really could live here
forever. It shows how little you can get and still be functional.”
Madden doesn’t claim micro apartments are for everyone, but he’s banking on them becoming a growing niche
in the city. Freedom Center, which opened last September,
is just one of his 10 Eko Haus projects in central Portland
neighborhoods; six of them are built and four set for completion this year. While some have one- and two-bedroom
units—even townhouses—all are well below the norm in
square footage. The largest unit noted on the website is
725 square feet.
If the Freedom Center has more room than you need,
his Norm apartment building at Northwest 19th and Quimby, the only other Eko Haus in Northwest Portland, has
units as cozy at 260 square feet.
That may not be the “new norm,” but Madden still
believes his 2009 prediction about micro apartments
becoming commonplace was based on sound assumptions.
The fact that his concept has not spawned imitators owes
primarily to the unforeseen difficulty developers have had
getting financing in the past four years, he said.
The Freedom Center took 26
months to finance through a special federal loan guarantee program
because HUD had no comparable
projects. Madden said the building has
leased five times faster and at higher
rents than HUD projected.
Why is that?
“There is a whole group of people
who don’t want the materialism any
more,” he said.
“There is more of a mixed community than we anticipated. We thought
it would be young people just out of
school. There are lots of career people.
We have a lot in their 30s and several
Law student Erik Hanselman does most of his studying at home within a
in their 40s.”
step of his kitchen and his bathroom.
Ten units have two occupants.
While no off-street parking is provided on-site, tenants have the option of renting stalls
under the freeway.
“There are not a whole lot of takers,” he said. “If they
have a car, they park on the street. Only a handful rent
spaces.”
While Hanselman and Sahak found downsizing easy,
we asked Freedom Center Business Manager Danya Feltzin if others couldn’t handle the transition.
“We have had two people move out,” said Feltzin. “Neither was because of their dislike of our property. One came
out for school and decided to transfer to another school
in the Midwest. The other was moved here for work,
and shortly after he moved up here he was reassigned to
another project in Bend.”
Madden has asked Mayor Charlie Hales for a break on
building permit fees for micro apartment projects, which
now pay the same $30-$40 per square foot as other housing developments.
The typical Freedom Center apartment has about 280
“This is potentially the product that will solve the
square feet. Some with balconies, while others have faux
affordability problem in Portland,” said Madden, noting
balconies with no exterior floor space.
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Patricia Gardner, an architect and president of the Pearl
District Neighborhood Association, finds nothing too
shocking about Freedom Center’s approach.
“A dorm is typically 250 square feet, and you have to
share it,” said Gardner. “But here you get it all to yourself.
The rent seems a little high, but they will figure that out.
If the units don’t rent, they will have to lower the rent.”
Other local developers are still scratching their heads at
the thought of a 280-square-foot apartment. Steve Pinger
owns a 480-square-foot apartment that seems near the
“This is potentially the product
that will solve the affordability problem
in Portland.”
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Freedom Center developer
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Erik Hanselman stretches out in his micro apartment. Lofting his bed gives him a greater sense of roominess.
limit of minimalism to him. Sam Rodriguez of Mill Creek
Residential, whose almost completed 179-unit Savier
Flats has no unit smaller than 580 square feet, believes 350
square feet is the threshold that “begins to make things
work.”
“Those types of projects are more ‘crash pads’ than real
apartment units,” said Tom DiChiara, vice president of
development for C.E. John, which has four Northwest
District apartment buildings in the pipeline with typical
unit sizes of 600-700 square feet.
“I suppose there may be a market niche for that type,
but I’d question how deep it is and who really is that renter.
I can see a student population being drawn to it, but I’m
not so sure about your average renter or couple. Could
anyone share a 150 square foot or 280 square foot unit
with their significant other and stay sane?”
Roger Vrilakas, a member of the Northwest District
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“Cramming people into tiny, ugly, cheap apartments—
the likes of which no developer of same would ever willingly live in—200 feet from a freeway” strikes him as
“profit getting the better of common sense.”
Madden has heard it all before, and he has an incontrovertible answer: “It’s not for everybody.”
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into their own hands last summer, hiring
a private security firm to remove illegal
campers from two blocks under the I-405
overpass and rid the area of filth and garbage.
But soon after the successful cleanup,
campers returned to the south side of
Northwest Johnson Street, just beyond the
two-block area targeted by the campaign.
That was no accident. Campers soon recognized that Pacific Patrol Services had
no authority to roust them from that area.
This is because the south side of the
street is controlled by the Oregon Department of Transportation, an agency that
moves to its own tune. Whether its failure
to accommodate local public safety concerns is skillful obstruction, a breakdown
in communication or simply bureaucratic
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evidence for each of the above.
A delegation of neighborhood activists,
social agency staff, city and county law
enforcement officials and business people
met with four ODOT representatives last
August. Many came away from the meeting feeling they had turned a corner and
that some progress would be forthcoming.
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ODOT spokesperson Kimberly Dinwiddie followed up with an email outlining steps the department was to take,
including ensuring proper trespass signage and obtaining trespass agreements.
ODOT officials also indicated allowing
private patrols on their property would be
acceptable.
Despite the promises, the answers came
back later as no, no and no.
Josh Haynes of the Deering Management Group, which manages the leased
parking lots under the freeway in the two
blocks directly north of Johnson, reported
ODOT’s response.
“Ryan Sexton [permit specialist in
Guy Budin
BEFORE: Pedestrian on Northwest
Johnson walks around syringes, human
waste and refuse.
ODOT’s maintenance department]…
reiterated that ODOT cannot allow us to
pay for private security on ODOT property. ODOT’s stance is that they would be
receiving free services from a private party,
and that would violate the law.
“I told them we were doing it for the
community, not ODOT, but that did not
sway them. I had a long talk with Ryan
and tried to get him to think outside the
box on this one, but his main goal seems
to be to get me to stop bothering ODOT.”
The Northwest Examiner followed up
last month to better understand the highway department’s position.
ODOT directed all communication
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Two regular Johnson Street campers were too drunk to care about making a
good impression.
Guy Budin
AFTER: The underpass was clean for a few hours after Portland police removed trespassers
and their belongings January 13.
through public information officer Don
Hamilton, who said, “ODOT is not a law
enforcement agency” and cannot hire or
allow others to hire a private security firm
to exclude people from its property.
Hamilton said ODOT’s authority is
limited to issuing exclusion notices giving
trespassers 10 days to leave. He conceded
that the process has been ineffective in
removing illegal campers, but nevertheless
it represents their only tool.
Hamilton, who was not at the illegal
camping “summit” meeting in August, said
he was unaware of requests that ODOT
sign “no trespass agreements” giving local
law enforcement the right to instantly
exclude or arrest people camping under
the freeway. Without such an agreement,
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the Portland Police Bureau must contact ODOT when
campers are seen in order to confirm that they do not
have the agency’s permission to be there.
“No trespassing” signs are posted at several points
in the vicinity, but Portland Police and neighborhood
activists told ODOT that they are inadequate because
they are not under the freeway on the south side of
Johnson where the campers congregate.
Officer Mike Bledsoe of the police bureau’s Neighborhood Response Team was asked if current signs are
sufficient.
“They are not because the owner, PBOT [Portland
Bureau of Transportation] or ODOT (I’ve forgotten
which) won’t sign a trespass agreement. This problem
has come up over and over. It gets brought up ODOT/
PBOT’s chain of command and ultimately they choose
not to have folks arrested,” said Bledsoe.
Presented with this statement last month, Hamilton
produced ODOT trespass agreements covering the past
two years.
“I’m stunned,” said Pearl resident Jan Valentine, when
learning of the agreement. “This is new information.”
As chair of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association Livability Committee, she has launched and
administered several volunteer programs to remove
litter, pet waste and graffiti in the district. The most
inscrutable of her challenges has been the freeway, and
specifically the south side of Johnson.
“I am beyond flummoxed,” said Valentine. “Why,
were we not told of the “PIC Trespass Enforcement”
agreement, and that ‘similar agreements have been in
place for many years’? How is it that I sat next to Ted
Miller (ODOT Region 1 Maintenance & Operations
Manager and a signee on the agreement) at the August
2012 meeting, who did not acknowledge the agreement
to those present? “Why did the post-meeting follow-up memo from
Dinwiddie/Romero [state under] ‘ODOT processes
and next steps for illegal camp cleanup’ that ‘Portland
police and the District Attorney's office will work on
Portland's process for trespass agreements on ODOT's
behalf ’ when the ‘agreement’ was already in place?
“To date, we have received zero communication
regarding ODOT's commitment on signage review,
nor have new signs have been posted. We still need No
Trespass signs posted on the ODOT pillars.
“When I think of the hundreds of hours my colleague-volunteers and I have spent trying to find a solution to the health and safety issues and illicit behaviors
being practiced at Northwest 15th/16th and Johnson,
well, it knocks the wind out of me to know the tools
were there all along.”
The Examiner asked Hamilton why ODOT kept the
signing of a trespass agreement in January private rather
than notifying the stakeholders.
“I understand what you mean regarding the signing
of the document,” answered Hamilton. “But saying it
was done privately suggests secrecy, suggests an effort
to hide it from the public and suggests an inappropriate
effort to keep this from legal public scrutiny.”
He then asked for the names of the stakeholders,
information contained in the email issued by his assistant and sent to three other ODOT officials.
“Who are the members, and what was the forum in
which they should have been informed of this in January 2012?”
This type of deflection and obfuscation is nothing
new to Valentine, who considered more spirited terms
before summarizing flatly, “Every step of the way, dealing with ODOT has been very difficult.”
Portland Police Sergeant Craig Dobson, who supervises Neighborhood Response Teams, said, “It gets very
political,” and there are so many organizations involved
that no one seems to have the whole picture.
Dobson said he believed ODOT’s trespass agreement
lapsed for part of 2012.
But removing trespassers temporarily “is not the
problem,” he said. “It’s removing the stuff they’ve
brought with them. Who’s going to pay for removal of
that property?”
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history Looking Back
by Donald R. Nelson
The building went up in 1888 and was in
operation at this site until 1931. It was used
as a warehouse for years. BridgePort Brewing Company has occupied the building
since the mid-1980s.
At the corner of Northwest 11th and
Northrup was the 10th and N Street
Exchange (old address), built in about
1890. To the north was a long wooden
bridge that spanned, according to Sanborn
cent’s was part of the name. The north Insurance Maps, low ground that turned
wing addition to the hospital, constructed into a pond in the winter.
in the late 1880s, can be seen in the photo
Across Northrup Street today (where
below. The old hospital building was used the pond was) is the Streetcar Bistro &
for overflow after the hospital relocated to Taproom, located in the Sitka Apartments
Westover Road in 1895; they continued Building. In the distance along the waterto utilize it in this capacity into the early front at the center of the circa-1890 photo
1900s.
is the Willamette Steam Mill Lumbering
The building was later used as the & Manufacturing Company. It occupied
Hotel Northern and the Beaver Apart- both sides of Front Street, today’s Naito
ments before being replaced in 1938 by a Parkway. On the right is a storage building
combined office/garage and warehouse for and a saloon near the site of today’s The
the Rudy Wilhelm Warehouse Company. Fields Neighborhood Park.
The last occupant of the building was the
donald r. nelson
Cronin Company before it and the rest of
the structures on the block were torn down
in 2005 for construction of The Wyatt.
At 13th and Northrup was the Portland
Cordage Company, a manufacturer of rope.
Early Northrup Street center of commerce, industry
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In 1890, an era before zoning restrictions, Northwest Northrup Street between
11th and 13th avenues had an odd mix of
businesses, including a rope factory, a hospital and a cigar store. There was also the
Northwest 11th and Northrup circa 1890, looking north.
10th & N Street Exchange, though research
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was an exchange for.
Northwest 11th was then known as 10th
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of the North Park Blocks were adjusted
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of the cities of Portland, East Portland and
Albina. N Street became Northrup, named
after hardware dealer Edward J. Northrup,
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To the east was a cigar store along a
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The guacamole is especially good, featuring ripe avocado chunks that haven’t been
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“A customer who works in an advertising
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Owner Noe Garnica draws on Portland’s
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The grainy scent of fresh tortillas wafts
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All the meat and fish are local, the beef
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laid by heirloom chickens. Organic quinoa
and locally made Ota tofu made frequent
appearances on the menu. Sauces never
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subtle, some might think overly so.
together.
The chilaquiles followed a similar pattern.
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potatoes, locally made chorizo sausage and
those great sautéed veggies, marred only by
slightly overdone over-easy eggs.
Brunch—served on weekends—offers a
big dose of egg dishes plus a few other
choices, like the Verde Bowl and tofu mole.
The lunch menu retains a few egg dishes
plus salads, quesadillas, mole and some
heartier selections, like chile relleno (stuffed
with quinoa, vegetables and fruit) and a
roast chicken.
Dinner is a good time to order seafood
specialties, like grilled salmon or paella.
Verde Cocina’s other great feature is
its ambitious “agave bar” including many
unusual tequilas and mescals, both products
of the agave plant (a type of lily). Unlike
most items served at the restaurant, tequilas, which are specific to their subtropical
region, cannot be distilled locally.
Prices (around $11-$13 for a lunch
entrée; topping out at $20 for dinner) are
high for this genre, though not when considering the quality of ingredients and care
of preparation.
Service is prompt and friendly.
Noe Garnica, who worked at New Seasons and local restaurants before honing
his skills at the Portland Farmers Market,
is building quite an empire. He still is a
mainstay at the Portland State University
and Pioneer Square markets and is working on expanding his presence in other area
markets.
He opened his first restaurant in Hillsdale last year, and he sells prepared foods at
hospital cafeterias. His initiation into the
Pearl District has been rough. One of his
managers was mugged walking to her car
last month, and the windows of the restaurant were smashed. But Garnica remains
undaunted, relishing the location’s “urban
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going out
Tale of AA founders makes powerful drama
Gary Norman
Alcoholics Anonymous founders Bill W., played by Kevin Martin (left), and Gary Powell as
Dr. Bob Smith.
NOBBY NEWS
Vol. 19, No. 5
“News You Can’t Always Believe”
By Carol Wells
A story as much about American optimism, Yankee persistence and just plain
love as it is about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, “Bill W. & Dr. Bob,” now
playing at the CoHo Theater, is worth
seeing if only to watch its two principals,
each a veteran local talent, act. For those
whose lives have been changed by a 12-step
program, this should be on your “not to be
missed” list.
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith meet in
the 1930s in Akron, Ohio. Both originally
upper crust Vermonters, Smith is a surgeon
in the town. He has spent years struggling
with alcoholism, and lives with the possibility that the townspeople will discover
his addiction and leave him and his family without a livelihood. His hands shake
from drinking, and he fears doing harm to
a patient.
Bill Wilson, a New York stockbroker,
has achieved a short stretch of sobriety following a spiritual experience. On a business
trip to Akron, he is close to taking a drink,
and so—in a scene that is simultaneously
whimsical and tense with despair—calls
a randomly selected minister out of the
phone book, asking for the names of some
of the local drunks. It has begun to occur
to Wilson that the only ones who can help
keep him sober are those who can understand his struggle and his shame: that is,
other alcoholics.
He is eventually guided to Smith and
immediately goes about getting the doctor
to join him in sobriety. In a pivotal and
comic scene, we watch him spoon-feed
Karo syrup and tomatoes, apparently a
contemporary cure for a hangover, into an
uncooperative Smith in order to get him
up to snuff for a day of surgery.
This is when the love between these
two pragmatic, hat-wearing, hard-bitten
drunks becomes manifest. Each has much
to live for, with remarkable wives and a
future full of possibilities. Each knows he
needs the other for his own sobriety.
With his eager, lean-forward bearing,
air of unquestioned confidence and jutting jaw, Kevin Martin brings to his role
of Bill W. that American can-do attitude
shared by the inventors, explorers and
captains of industry of his time. He seems
built of the same stuff as men like Admiral
Byrd, heading into the frozen unknown,
or Joseph Strauss, whose chief qualification for engineering a large span across the
Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay was
sheer moxie.
Like them, Bill Wilson was making it
up as he went along, and he had the courage—and perhaps the overweening arrogance—to believe he could do it.
Actor Gary Powell as Dr. Bob seems
to radiate the character outward from the
marrow of his bones. Watching this man
work is like eating something delicious.
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Nobbys Bowled Over by Trophy
Nobby’s owner Greg Hermens grew up in the
tavern business. Running a bar comes so naturally
to him, they say he could do it in his sleep. That
may just be the problem.
When the Ducks won the Fiesta Bowl
this year, no one expected the trophy to be
on display at Nob Hill Tavern. So when the
bejeweled symbol of victory sat on a table
in the middle of the dining area, not a soul
could ﬁgure out how it got there. Greg himself
was bafﬂed. “In my wildest dreams, I never
expected something like this,” he told anyone
who would listen.
While many Duck fans were thrilled at the
appearance of the trophy, lining up all night to
have their picture taken with it, Greg’s wife
Barbara was a little worried. “He woke up
cranky in the morning and complained about
being tired, as if he’d been running around
town all night. When I opened Nobby’s, there
sat the trophy in all its’ glory!
“The last time he didn’t sleep well, the
three big metal pigs showed up outside on
the sidewalk,” she said. “I’m just glad the
Portlandia statue is bolted down.”
As mysteriously as it had appeared, the
next morning the trophy just vanished. Greg
wondered if it had all been a dream.
Nobbys’ statistician Ron Marriott, who
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going out It is at once totally absorbing and deeply
satisfying. As Bob Smith, his sharp, intelligent features lie in a face worn down by too
much life; his self-contained bearing and
dapper, well-cut suit (thanks to costumer
Jamie Meinecke) speak of a gentleman
who takes for granted the esteem of his
fellows.
Dr. Bob is the complement to Bill W.,
tempering Wilson’s flights of fancy with
Yankee pragmatism and keeping him on a
steady march onward.
Director Robert Holden focuses on the
relationship between the characters. The
story is told in vignettes that generally consist of conversations. People pull up chairs
and sit close to one another. The creeping
sense that they have stumbled upon something larger than themselves is everywhere
present.
While most of the play is about healing
and hope, there are also scenes of drunken
behavior, of fed-up wives, of despair in hospital beds. Another Holden success is that
these scenes are handled with sensitivity
and respect for the characters and without
melodrama.
The only feature of the play that might
ask too much of the audience is the sometimes too-long wait between vignettes
when the stage grows dark and the actors
move the furniture around. The exception—a nifty fully-loaded bookshelf that
converts into a bed—is worth the wait.
This production showcases the talents
of Alan Hakim, who does nice work as several supporting male characters. Melanie
Moseley likewise gets the chance to strut
her stuff in smaller roles.
As Dr. Bob’s wife Anne, Sarah Dresser,
deceptively ordinary in a pert hat and
sensible cardigan, beautifully portrays the
strength required first to keep a family together when living with an alcoholic,
and then, to support her husband in his
recovery. And we witness Kay Ethen as
Lois Wilson in her own journey of selfdiscovery from despair to acceptance.
There is no background music, so when
the characters speak, they speak into
silence. This play is about the power of
people sitting around talking. Conversation
is the basic unit of everything: of building
friendship and love, of revealing oneself,
of speaking into a void and hoping God is
listening. It is about the way these conversations become the tiny, quiet miracles that
add up to lives saved.
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Pre-K Through Grade 8!
New Student Open House April 2nd at 7pm
going out
Community
Events
Child trafficking forum
Nestled in Northwest Portland, right across
from Montgomery Park, CLASS Academy
is a unique and extraordinary private school.
CLASS Academy achieves excellence in education through low student to teacher ratios,
year-round learning, and multi-sensory and
hands-on curriculum.
CLASS Academy students can begin PreKindergarten as young as 2 ½ and continue
all the way through eighth grade. In the
younger grades, CLASS Academy curriculum
strongly emphasizes phonemic understanding,
which benefits struggling and skilled readers/pre-readers alike. Students experience
activities through visual, auditory, tactile, and
kinesthetic exploration. Fine-motor skills and
gross motor skills are definitive pieces of this
learning environment. Art, gym, science,
and music are included every day. Field trips
include ice skating and swimming lessons, the
Children’s Museum, the Oregon Zoo, and attending musicals at the Northwest Children’s
Theater.
Starting at 4th grade, CLASS Academy’s
program expands even further to include
I.C.T. classes. Students learn the basics of
keyboarding, Microsoft Office, Photoshop,
and iMovie. Curriculum for the older grades
also includes an interactive History program
and public speaking classes. A strong emphasis on writing improves students’ metacognition. As well as the field trips to Portland City
Hall, Multnomah County Courthouse, the
Central Library, OMSI, and Newell House
Museum.
CLASS Academy advocates good citizenship, respect, and safety for all students. Children participate in a Green program which
promotes recycling and composting. We also
use Tri-Met for the majority of our field trips.
Every classroom participates in a service
learning project throughout the year. Positive
reinforcement allows for students to excel in a
warm and caring environment.
For more information about CLASS Academy, please visit our website- www.classacademy.com. View the calendar, teacher bios,
and weekly classroom blogs.
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A forum entitled “Child Trafficking
in Portland” will be presented Sunday,
March 3, 10 a.m., in the Schnitzer Family Center, 1972 NW Flanders St. Guest
speakers will include U.S. Rep. Suzanne
Bonamici and Deputy Keith Bickford of
Oregonians Against Human Trafficking.
The free event is sponsored by the Women
of Reform Judaism/Beth Israel Sisterhood.
For information, contact Jemi Kostiner
Mansfield, congregational affairs director,
at 503-222-1069.
Rotary programs
Portland Pearl Rotary will host four
speakers in March. The club meets every
Tuesday in the EcoTrust Building, 721
NW Ninth Ave., second floor. The meetings are open to the public. A $10 fee
includes breakfast. Contact George Wright
at [email protected] or 503-2230268.
March 5: “A Short Straight Line,” Don
Sader, president and co-founder, Local
Choice Produce Market.
March 12: “Challenging the Rhetoric
of Women’s Victimization,” Sally McWilliams, chair, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Department, Portland State University.
March 19: “pFriem Family Brewers—
Building A Brand From A Product Idea,”
Randall Schoonver, creative director, The
Great Society Advertising.
March 26: “Power to Nepal,” Jordan
Weisman, owner, Future City Solar.
Senior trips
Friendly House Senior Recreational
Trips in March include Mt. Angel Abbey,
March 14; Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
March 21; and Washington County Historical Museum, March 28. Transportation
is provided by Ride Connection. To sign
up, call Alberta or Carol at Friendly House
at 503-224-2640.
Remodeling workshops
Free remodeling workshops for homeowners will be offered Saturday, March 9,
10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Forest Park Elementary
School, 9935 NW Durrett St. Sessions
include Living Comfortably Throughout
the Year (10 a.m.), Beautiful & Functional
Kitchens (11:30 a.m.), Making a Splash in
the Bath (1 p.m.) and Multi-Generational
Living—All Under One Roof (2:30 p.m.).
The event is sponsored by Neil Kelly.
Walk-ins are welcome, but RSVPs are
recommended; visit NeilKelly.com or call
503-288-7461.
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Free parking in Coldwell Banker lot next door.
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Experts will answer your questions about:
• financing
• home inspections and
remodeling
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going out Dinner at St. Patrick’s
Lifelong Learning
PNCA lecture
April Fool’s
Lifelong Learning programs at Friendly
House include Art Restoration 101, lunch
and a gallery tour, March 14, 11:15 a.m.;
and a lecture by Mary Clare, author of “100
Voices: Americans Talk About Change,”
March 15, 1:30 p.m. There will also be an
overnight trip to Seattle in April. Visit the
Friendly House website for more inforHistory Night
mation: friendlyhouseinc.org/programs/
Oregon Encyclopedia History Night adults/lifelong-learning.
features “Houses without Names: The
Common, Everyday Houses of Portland’s
Neighborhoods,” by Thomas C. Hubka, Health class
Mind and Body Coordination for
professor emeritus of architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukie. The free Health and Well-Being, a five-week course
event is Monday, March 4, 7 p.m., at at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave.,
McMenamins Mission Theater, 1624 NW meets every Saturday March 23-April 20,
Glisan St. Minors will be admitted with a 10-11 a.m. The exercises are simple, done
parent. The History Lecture series is co- either sitting or standing, and accessible to
people of all physical abilities.
sponsored by the Northwest Examiner.
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church hosts a
corned beef and cabbage dinner on St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday, March 17, 11:30 a.m.-6
p.m., at 1623 NW 19th Ave. There will be
beer, wine, Irish coffee and a raffle. Admission is $15; $5 for children under 10.
A Senior Program April Fool’s Party at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave., will
be held Monday, April 1, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
The event includes entertainment, a silly
hat contest, songs, jokes, raffle prizes and
light refreshments. Call 503-224-2640 to
RSVP.
Family Music Circle
People of all ages are invited to sing
your favorite songs with Ted Kaye, Friendly
House music circle leader extraordinaire.
The free session with be held March 15,
5:30-6:30 p.m., at 1737 NW 26th Ave.
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Courses and workshops
for ages 4–99.
Art, Craft, Design
and Entrepreneurship.
Find your enrichment
and professional
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Lori Damiano,The Gleaner, 2012
James Adams, a professor emeritus at
Stanford University who worked at the
Jet Propulsion Lab during the early days
of space exploration, will speak at Pacific Northwest College of Art Thursday,
March 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m., in the Swigert
Commons on the main campus, 1241
NW Johnson St. Adams has written a
bestselling guide to creativity and innovation, “Conceptual Blockbusting.” His latest book, “Good Products, Bad Products,”
sums up his approach to design and craft.
The event is free and open to the public.
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business
Finance & Real Estate Apartment boom continued from page 1
structed. So right now, we are in a ‘catch
up’ phase.
“It may seem like a lot of units right
now, but when you look at the actual data
and development cycle of the last decade,
it’s really not out of whack (at least not
yet).”
That’s also the way it looks to Bob Ball,
who has just begun work on The Parker, a
177-unit apartment building on the block
bounded by Northwest 12th, 13th, Pettygrove and Quimby streets.
A few years ago, his research led him to
an inescapable conclusion: “We’re going to
run out of places.
“It’s fairly simple math,” he explained,
noting that people were moving to Portland, an increasing number of them were
headed to the central city, and most would
need to rent. “I started my planning process
[for The Parker] feeling pretty confident.”
Those were the trends he saw in 2011,
and nothing since then has changed his
mind.
Rick Gustafson, president of Portland
Streetcar Inc., has had a hand in local
transportation and planning issues for 40
years as an elected official, consultant and
developer. He said the number of oneperson households in America will exceed
the number of households with children in
the next 10 years, according to the Brookings Institution. As a result, the number of
homes needed to supply even a modestly
increasing population will compound the
demand for urban housing.
The shift is massive that the Brookings
Institution predicts that in 20 years, the
Major ‘post bubble’ apartment buildings
Savier Flats, a two-building complex straddling Northwest Savier Street at 23rd Avenue, should
be done by May 1. Directly to the south, the Benevento is only slightly behind that schedule.
pleted. The 16-unit D16 at Northwest 16th
and Davis also came online in 2012.
This year, two new apartment buildings
are expected to open their doors, beginning with the Savier Flats and then the
Benevento next door. Five others, three in
the 100-unit range, have broken ground or
are in the planning stages.
Completion of the Con-way master
plan will open nine blocks in the heart of
the Slabtown area to perhaps 1,500 new
homes in the next 10-15 years, and could
attract an equivalent number in the immediately surrounding blocks.
A similar pattern is well underway in
the Pearl District, where neighborhood
association President Patty Gardner says
a wave of proposals is on the horizon, and
in Goose Hollow, a relatively quiet development area in recent times, where Mill
Creek is working on two major projects
only a block apart.
C.E. John, the other leading Slabtown
developer, has four apartment buildings in
construction or early design stages. Its vice
president of development, Tom DiChiara,
said there are sound reasons to invest in
20
apartment buildings now.
“The aftermath of the housing crash
and recession is ‘correcting’ the unprecedented high levels of home ownership that
we saw during the run up of the housing
bubble,” said DiChiara. “We are returning
to a more normalized historical home ownership level, which is creating demand for
rental housing after a period of very little
new apartment construction.
“On top of that are low interest rates and
pent-up demand … for relatively low-risk
investment opportunities. The multifamily asset class is seen by the institutional
investor world as a safe haven to place
money, and Portland is more and more on
investors’ radar as they have been priced
out of more expensive and frothy markets
like Seattle and San Francisco. All of these
factors are combining to drive new apartment supply.
“It is true that the pipeline of proposed
apartment projects is getting quite large
from a historical prospective, but you have
to keep in mind that we went through a
period of three to four years where very
little new apartment product was con-
Building
LocationUnitsBuilt
Northwest District
Park 19
1984 Pettygrove
Benevento
Franklin Ide
Savier Flats
Sawyer’s Row
19th Avenue Lofts
Slabtown Marketplace “Lake Union Partners”
“Footprint Investments”
550 NW 19th Ave.
1984 NW Pettygrove St.
NW 23rd / Raleigh St.
2240 NW Lovejoy St.
NW 23rd / Savier St.
NW 20th / Raleigh St.
NW 19th / Johnson St.
NW 21st / Raleigh St.
NW 19th / Northrup St.
NW 22nd / Thurman St.
101
90
24
92
179
40 134
110
105
55
2009
2011
2013
2013
2013
2013-14
2013-14
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Pearl
The Wyatt
ASA Flats
Enso RamonaApartments
The Janey
Freedom Center
The Parker
The Abigail
“Block 17”
1125 NW 12th Ave.
1200 NW Marshall St.
1400 NW Marshall St.
1550 NW 14th Ave.
1155 NW Everett St.
1430 NW Pettygrove St.
NW 12th / Pettygrove St.
NW 13th / Raleigh St.
NW 11th / Overton St.
245
231
152
138
50
150
177
142
280
2008
2008
2009
2011
2012
2012
2013-14
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Goose Hollow
Jefferson Street Flats
“Block 7”
SW 20th / Jefferson St.
SW 20th / Main St.
134
200
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Key:
Full addresses are given to completed buildings; cross streets denoted planned or
not completed projects.
Projects not yet named are identified by their developer.
Completed projects are assigned the year of completion; those under construction have the ground-breaking date and projected year of completion; others have
question marks.
p. 20-24
United States will have a glut of 16 million
surplus suburban homes as people flock to
walkable urban neighborhoods.
“Prepare for a housing crisis!” said Gustafson.
The smaller households will be able to
live more compactly, a reality that needn’t
translate into harsh conditions.
“The key to living smaller is the neighborhood design and the available public
spaces,” said Gustafson. “If you notice, the
designs for Pearl and South Waterfront
include public spaces, such as the plazas
and parks. These shared outdoor spaces
enhance the living environment.
“The other key is the walkability. If
you compare the urban design of Pearl and
Lloyd District, you can see the walkability
is more enjoyable (not surface parking lots
and walls). It is reflected in the value of
space, as a Pearl apartment will rent at $2
per square foot and $1.60 per square foot in
the Lloyd District.”
His comparisons were based on newer
apartments built by the same developer,
Trammell Crow.
“We’re seeing a shift,” said Patrick Kessi,
co-developer of the 937 condominium
building in the Pearl.
Younger people moving to Portland are
choosing smaller units, and it’s not just
economics.
“It’s a person that doesn’t put a lot of
value on materialism,” said Kessi. “They
live on the ‘simple is more’ mentality. They
want to recycle, be a steward of the environment; even if they could afford a car,
they’d rather bike or walk.
“They’re young professionals who really
want to make a difference.”
They’re choosing to live near shops and
public transportation, and spending more
time in public places, he said. They’re also
at a stage where they don’t have job security
and are more likely to rent than buy.
At the same time, people in their 50s
and 60s are moving into the central city,
and they’re also rejecting the sprawling
lifestyle.
What does this shift in values and
lifestyle mean for Northwest Portland?
How will the community arising from the
current apartment construction boom be
different from what it is now?
The developers involved, understandably, see the positive side.
“It’s great that there’s an enormous
demand for apartments in the city,” said
Rodriguez. “That’s a great sign that the city
is healthy.”
He noted that restaurants and local
shops will get a boost, and the city taps into
new property taxes—as high as $500,000 a
year—from large buildings.
“All in all, it makes for a more vibrant,
international city,” he said.
DiChiara thinks concerns about drastic
demographic changes may be unfounded.
“I don’t think that small unit size is
really going to have much impact on the
character of the area,” he said. “Most apartment units historically are studios and
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business
Employers oppose sick leave
By Allan Classen
Mandatory sick leave was all but tarred
and feathered by the Northwest Industrial
Neighborhood Association, which joined
a chorus of business groups opposing the
ordinance proposed by City Commissioner
Amanda Fritz.
The topic was the dominant item at the
association’s March meeting.
“Once employees find out City Council
is on their side, they will abuse it,” said Tim
Anderson of CTL Corporation. “Who legislatures who’s truly sick?”
Anderson said “it’s always the bad
employees” who take advantage of sick leave.
“I think this is really just a first step into
more intrusion into our businesses,” said
John Savory, president of Southwest Office
Supply. “I don’t need to have Amanda Fritz
sticking her big fat nose into my business.”
Past NINA President Pamela Ake called
it “feel good legislation.”
“The benefit for employees is almost
nonexistent,” she said, “[but] when you
oppose it, you look like the big bad guy.”
She said Fritz has been unable to answer
90 percent of the questions raised by employers about specifics of application.
Ake believes workers should have a year
of tenure before becoming eligible for paid
sick leave instead of the six-week threshold
in the ordinance.
Ake, who owns a clerical staffing company, Accounting Connections, said the
workers she places with employers are typically on her payroll for about three months
before they are permanently hired by the
client business.
“This paid sick leave would add additional costs of doing business,” she said. “In
some cases, I would be paying the person
that is sick and paying an additional day
(or days) of pay for another to fill in for the
sick person.”
She is also worried that undocumented
aliens will be eligible for sick leave benefits,
as is the case in Seattle.
“It’s bad policy,” said Ake. “It’s just being
pushed through without knowing how it’s
going to affect not only businesses but the
city of Portland.”
While not supporting the ordinance,
NINA President Dave Harvey said, “to be
fair,” there is a case to be made for the sick
leave protections.
“An employee shouldn’t be fired for being
sick,” said Harvey. “There is a certain appeal
to being fair with people.”
He had heard that similar legislation in
San Francisco has been “popular all the way
around.”
Harvey, who works for Gunderson, said
large companies are already covered by
the federal Family & Medical Leave Act
(although FMLA does not require that
workers be paid for time off ).
After the discussion, a motion to draft a
letter opposing the ordinance passed by a
voice vote without dissent.
City Council will hear the issue Thursday, March 7, at 3 p.m.
Apartment boom continued from page 21
one-bedroom units. … This really hasn’t
changed.”
Some neighborhood activists have
more blended views.
“The dynamic of the Pearl, with mostly
condos, will be different from a neighborhood that is primarily apartments occupied by renters,” said Northwest District
Association President Ron Walters. “It
could be great: a nice, relatively young
neighborhood with lots of energy, activity, etc. “However, I expect some residents and
homeowners will be concerned about
the neighborhood turning into one giant
Daytona Beach, full of late-night bars
full of spring-breakers who don’t treat
the neighborhood with the same sense
of pride and respect as homeowners and
long-term residents. I don’t share that
concern, but I think it is a fair question.
“Similarly, ‘living small’ without cars
could be great. It’s the basic idea of a
dense, sustainable, 20-minute neighborhood. However, what if they have cars,
as the research suggests, at the same rate
as other developments in the city? Then,
barring a sensible transportation and
parking plan, we double-down on our
parking and traffic mess that already
exists further south in the neighborhood.
I do have that concern.”
Historian and longtime neighborhood
resident Chet Orloff outlined some predictable outcomes, such as more young
people and added patrons at restaurants
and shops. He also expects “lots of people
without a strong sense of neighborhood”
or personal connection to this particular
neighborhood.
Phil Selinger, another longtime Northwest resident and chair of the NWDA
Transportation Committee, thinks “a
move to smaller studio rentals would
draw in more of Portland’s ‘creative
class’—younger, entrepreneurial types,
which I think would be a good thing. The
Eastside has been home to that group, but
with PNCA (Pacific Northwest College
of Art) and PSU (Portland State University) being so convenient to Northwest,
one would think this would be an attractive place to be—if they can afford our
upscale rents for albeit small units.”
But Selinger worries that the decline
in transit service will undermine many of
the social benefits associated with density.
“This demographic indeed might be
more inclined to use transit, cycling and
walking,” he said.
In fact, however, “It seems to me, the
increasing affluence of the Northwest
over the past 20 years has made it a more
auto-by-choice community. Car ownership, I’d guess, is much higher today than
when it was a Bohemian rental community.
“This in part explains how TriMet
has cut transit service on what were once
crowded bus lines … [while there has
been] a 10 percent drop in ridership over
the past year.”
In short, the promise of a more exciting, more livable neighborhood may be a
few stops ahead of its fulfillment, rolling
as it must on the rails of reality.
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business Calen Kennett
Ben Thompson, a children’s music artist also known as Mr. Ben, performed at Couch Park last year for the Summer Concerts
series. The 2013 season begins with concerts July 11, 18 and 25 at Wallace Park and Aug. 8 and 15 at Couch Park. For the
first time, individuals may go online to make contributions to the free public concert series at give2parks.org/ concerts. People
who give online will receive a 30 percent discount on their next shopping trip to Columbia Sportswear.
Slabtown association schedules meeting March 19
The first public gathering of the fledgling Slabtown
community/business association will be Tuesday, March
19, 8 a.m., at Holiday Inn Express, West Hills Room, 2333
NW Vaughn St.
Interested business owners and other citizens are invited to attend and hear general goals and possible directions
for the organization.
A steering committee was formed after 17 people met
last November and resolved to create the organization.
The thrust has been toward a broad-based group that will
look to improve the Slabtown area (generally defined as
the Northwest District north of Lovejoy Street) in many
ways and not merely through business promotion.
The steering committee includes Brian Bressler of
Oxalis, Jim Carey of Selco Community Credit Union,
Allan Classen of Northwest Examiner, Brie Holland of
Food Front, Jamie Macsisak of Northwest Postal and
Duncan McDonnell of Rainier Pacific.
— business briefs —
A winery named Bo Grumpus has applied for a
liquor license to operate at 2034 NW 27th Ave.,
the former Freeman Implement building directly
east of Montgomery Park. The owner, Benjamin
Platt, has also operated a vineyard in Milton
Freewater. Bo Grumpus is the nonsense name of
a 1960s band from Boston. ... Virtolier, a body
lotions shop, plans to open at 412 NW 13th Ave.
... Zoom Room, a nationwide dog agility training
franchise, plans to open in the Pinnacle building
in April. ... Sura Korean Restaurant is the new
name for Dr. Sushi and BBQ at 333 NW 23rd Ave.
... Schnitzer Steel Industries is moving its headquarters from 3200 NW Yeon Ave. to the KOIN
Center. ... Childpeace Montessori School has
acquired the former Landfair building at Northwest Savier and 15th for its Metro Montessori
Middleschool, which is to open in the fall. The
new space will allow the middle school to double
enrollment to about 45 students while providing
a storefront for entrepreneurial projects. ... The
city gave final approval to the remodeling work for
The Fireside Restaurant and Bar, 801 NW 23rd
Ave., in January, but there is no word from owner
Sue Erickson on when it will open. ... Renaissance School of Arts has moved from Northwest
20th Place by Fred Meyer and is renting space in
the Northwest Cultural Center until remodeling
of its new building in Southwest Portland is completed this spring. ... The Bitter End at 1981 W.
Burnside St. closed in December.
Correction: We failed to use the full name of
Portland Urban Bistro last month and misstated
its type of liquor license, which is for a full bar.
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business
New
Businesses
Story and photos
by Karen Harter
Union Salon
2328 NW Westover Rd., Unit B,
503-206-6895
unionhairandskin.com
Continuing her seven-year-old
Serenity Skincare service, Jaime Bauman’s new spa is a union of skin care
and hair styling. Rachel Vanderford
and Candice Layton provide custom
Jaime Bauman at cuts and color, and Amber Prehn
Adams adds human hair extensions.
Union Salon.
Bauman offers anti-aging treatments,
facials, eyelash dipping, waxing, makeup for sensitive skin
and custom tanning application in a tranquil setting on
the second floor of a repurposed house. Dolce Vita and Shannon Guirl at Caravan Pacific.
Cupcake Salon were in this space previously.
Caravan Pacific
DVS Underground
Jose Martinez with sons Kevin (left) and Martin at Orox
Leather.
Orox Leather Company
1720 NW Lovejoy St., Suite 120
814 NW 23rd Ave., 971-302-7628
caravan-pacific.com
dvsunderground.com
Shannon Guirl, who arrived in Portland two years ago
from Brooklyn, N.Y., where she worked as a television
editor, has long dreamed of opening a business where
she could connect local manufacturers and craftspeople
while contributing to a community. Collaborating with
a ceramist and a woodworker, Guirl assembles turn-ofthe-century style lamps in the back room of a tiny gallery
using local woods, such as sustainably-sourced cherry and
walnut. She turns wood for candlesticks, and she pours
slick to make elegant vases. She features a different product maker each First Thursday.
Graphic designer Scott Grady persuaded his mother
Vickye Arama to move her marketing and fashion talents
from Las Vegas to Portland. She’s joining him and his
brother Sean to create a store designed to look like a walk-in
closet. Colorful dresses, jewelry and bags brighten the space,
and there’s a corner for men’s tee shirts and accessories.
DVS aims to be elegant and affordable, and “look devious”
is the motto. They will carry shoes for men and women
soon. Arama studied at the Fashion Institute in New York
and has owned several boutiques since. Honoring her cofounder and late husband Dennis Grady, the business name
combines his initial with hers, with an S for their sons.
Elements Therapeutic
Massage
450 NW Couch St., 503-954-2593
1229 NW Marshall St.,
503-841-5984
oroxleather.com
Having learned from his grandfather and father, cobbler Jose Martinez founded Orox in l969 and has taught
craftsmanship to his three sons, Martin, Kevin and Levi.
Their handcrafted-in-Portland trademark first landed on
sandals. Surrounded by giant needles, leather pieces, sturdy
waxed canvas, hammers, awls, cutters and heavy-duty sewing machines, they strive to create high quality, practical,
vintage-style bags, belts, panniers, wallets and pouches.
They use sustainable practices, including water-based glue,
and local materials, such as cotton thread. Most of the
leather is from the Midwest and Northwest. They are also
at Portland Saturday Market.
Scott Grady and Vickye Arama at DVS Underground.
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A former technologist, Andrew
Kardas recently opened one of the
100-plus franchises in this nationAndrew Kardas wide massage chain. He’s hired
11 therapists and five front-desk
at Elements
Therapeutic Massage. employees. A full range of massage is
available, from relaxing and toning to
deep tissue work. The studio focuses
on massage, with none of the other services of spas and no
products for sale. It’s located in the Wyatt Building.
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Snapshots
A crosswalk enforcement action includes a pedestrian decoy
positioned at marked or unmarked crosswalks. Drivers who
fail to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk and pedestrians
who jaywalk may be issued a warning or citation by the
Portland Police Bureau.
Northwest Portland’s Graham P. Conroy (left), the model for
artist Henk Pander’s painting of 17th century mathematician/
astronomer Johann Kepler, poses with Pander at Laura Russo
Gallery, where a Pander exhibit closed March 2. When complemented on his graceful gait, Graham, a retired professor and
still energetic philosopher, replied, “It isn’t easy when you are
over 400 years old.”
Childpeace Montessori School is expanding its middle school next year with the
lease of an adjacent building at Northwest 15th and Savier streets. The new
facility will include storefront space for entrepreneurial projects, such as a bicycle
repair service and dog biscuit venture.
A delegation of Portlanders, including Northwest District resident Kathy Sharp
(far left), testified in Salem last month in support of House Bill 2336, which
would reduce toxic industrial air emissions, was supported by District 33 Rep.
Mitch Greenlick
The Nob Hill Business Association elected directors last month. They are Nicole
Nadal (L-R), Pat Fiedler, Elizabeth Aaby, Peggy Anderson, Jenny Bunce, Kay
Wolfe, Alicia Katopodis and Andy Jamison.
Firebrand founders Linda (left) and Sara Stimac cut the ribbon for the grand
opening for their fitness studio at Northwest 14th and Glisan last month. The
founder, Linda’s husband and Sara’s father John Stimac, died Jan. 31.
Chevron Corporation donated $5,000 to the Linnton Community Center last month as preschool staff, children and their parents
celebrated. The center’s executive director, Daniel Faccinetti, is at right in front of preschool teacher Collete Robles and teacher assistant Yvonne George is at far left, next to Chevron representative.
Plaster feet and roses were placed on the Vista
Bridge railing where a 19-year-old woman
recently leaped to her death. (See story Page 1.)
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639,000
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Burton
640,000
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619,900
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699,900
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599,000
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