The NW Examiner reported that the the Master Plan for Montgomery Park could include a trailhead lodge and a bridge over NW Wardway St, connecting the district to Forest Park.
Previous plans for a hotel at 550 SE MLK have been replaced with a seven story residential building with 120 units*, reports the Daily Journal of Commerce.
Portland will build new homes, apartments and business incubator designed to benefit Black Portlanders at Williams & Russell, reports the Oregonian.
BikePortland reports that the Albina Vision Trust, working with Edlen & Company, will develop an affordable housing and community theater project on a site currently used for parking at 253 N Broadway.
A ruptured sprinkler flooded multiple floors, causing ‘extensive damage’ at new the Multnomah County Central Courthouse.
The Portland City Council approved funding that will go towards 110 units of affordable housing at Cathedral Village in St Johns, according to the Oregonian.
Old Navy is closing is Lloyd Center store, reports the Oregonian, making it the latest retailer to pull out of the mall.
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My Dad used to work at the Lloyd Center Meier & Frank when the mall was still open-air, and I have many fond memories of the place; but, it’s time to let it go. I know the current owners put a lot of resources into redeveloping the mall; but it was dying when they bought it, and all they did was prolong the agony. It’s time to reimagine how 20 blocks of prime, central city real estate, with quick freeway access and excellent mass transit connections can be best returned to productive use for the entire community.
I agree with you entirely, Ian. For over thirty years I lived within walking distance of Lloyd Center but never found it a welcoming neighbor. From the first, it was designed as a region-wide destination for people traveling by car, with pedestrian vitality confined to a center that is surrounded by asphalt and concrete surfaces devoted to parked automobiles. Longer and wider than the world’s largest supertankers, the Center obliterated Portland’s traditional small city block scheme, which is walker friendly, cutting off north-south traffic along 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Avenues and east-west traffic along Clackamas and Wasco. Far better things could be built upon its cleared rubble.
You touch on what I have long believed should happen when the Lloyd Center site is finally redeveloped. The historic 200-foot street grid should be extended from the south blocks of Irvington through all of the Lloyd blocks. This was also a requirement of the Pearl District north of Hoyt and of South Waterfront when both areas were master-planned for development.
Seriously with no Macy’s, no Nordstorm, no Marshall’s and now no old navy how does lloyd center seriously survive? Is that even still possible at this point? I don’t see how the owners can spin this
You touch on what I have long believed should happen when the Lloyd Center site is finally redeveloped. The historic 200-foot street grid should be extended from the south blocks of Irvington through all of the Lloyd blocks. This was also a requirement of the Pearl District north of Hoyt and of South Waterfront when both areas were master-planned for development.
Maybe they could re-purpose the Lloyd Center to give vaccine shots this year before closing it down.
I agree about bringing the street grid back through the area to re-connect it to the city, even if it’s every other street.
While we’re thinking about big ideas, they should also run more streets and over 84 to re-stitch the grid down to inner SE also.
Perhaps an affordable way of re-stitching the parts of the city cut by I-5 and I-84 would be to plan to install one pedestrian/bike bridge in each of the three areas (I-84 E, I-5 SW, I-5 NE) each year for the next decade. That would be 30 new connections. Maybe a bulk order construction and installation contracts would save costs. And perhaps there could be a few design touches (lighting, plants, color) for each bridge to differentiate it and reinforce the identity of the adjoining neighborhoods.
Re: Montgomery Park, what exactly is a “trailhead lodge”?
I think this about sums up where Portland and all this great? architecture being produced in town is headed 20 years from now.
https://m.youtube.com/watchv=uvU5dmu4sl8