January 2016 - NW Examiner

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“Digging deep,
Shining a light”
INSIDE
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JANUARY 2016 / VOLUME 29, NO. 5/ FREE
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***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
Future of Centennial
Mills fades as city
blocks developer from
going public with
redevelopment ideas
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
J
ordan Schnitzer, president of
Harsch Investment Properties and head of the Jordan
Schnitzer Family Foundation,
was chosen by the Portland Development Commission in 2013 to
redevelop the Centennial Mills
property on the Willamette River.
Schnitzer feels he did his part.
He says he spent $800,000 assembling a team of 14 consultants to
create seven design options for
the assemblage of 11 buildings,
the last vestiges of the flour and
grain industries around which the
city grew up.
In October 2014, he presented
a 25-minute overview of those
plans to the commission. The
option he favored would require a
$38.5 million subsidy from PDC.
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While a big number, Schnitzer
explained that even doing nothing (i.e., demolishing the buildings to make the 5-acre parcel
shovel ready) would cost $18 million. If the commission favored a
different option, he was willing
to oblige.
Then-Commissioner Charles
Wilhoite expressed the essence of
the commission’s challenge when
he said, “We don’t know how
to set priorities without public
input.”
There was talk of a three- or fourhour work session involving the
commission and developer with
an eye toward signing a preliminary development agreement with
Schnitzer by the end of the year.
None of that happened.
Continued on page 20
Forum on saving Centennial Mills
A public forum to consider the case against total demolition of Centennial
Mills has been scheduled Thursday, Jan. 21, 6 p.m., at Pure Space, 1315 NW
Overton St.
The meeting is sponsored by the Pearl District Neighborhood Association and
Harsch Investment Properties President Jordan Schnitzer, whose opportunity
to redevelop the property was rescinded by the Portland Development Commission in November.
The flour mill (left) and feed mill (right rear) will soon be all that remains of the 11-building
complex known as Centennial Mills. The Portland Development Commission will act on a recommendation to also raze the flour and feed mills this spring or summer.
Photo by Allan Classen
PDNA President Patricia Gardner hopes it will attract people from throughout
the region to the forum.
Surprising Success
Despite troubles, delays, permit parking system
seems to be working in Northwest District
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
and workers) rolled out last February.
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But due to a series of compromises
to quell resistance from retailers and
business interests, the program is so
lax that nearly two passes have been
sold for every on-street parking space
in the district.
ittle has gone as expected with
the Northwest District parking
plan, which is still only partially
implemented four years after its adoption by City Council.
The main holdup has been the bribing of former Portland Parking Manager
Ellis McCoy by parking meter supplier
Cale Parking Systems USA. McCoy has
been sentenced to two years in prison,
but the Portland City Attorney’s office
has still not gotten to the bottom of the
scandal to see if culpable parties are
still associated with Cale.
McCoy may be a free man before
the 360 meters in storage are either
installed or returned to seek a new
supplier.
While the meters remained in cold
storage, the parking permit element of
the plan (giving preference to residents
Grant Morehead, who is managing
the Northwest District parking plan—
known as Zone M—for the Portland
Bureau of Transportation, said the city
“has issued far too many permits” for
the number of parking spaces in the
district.
When this happens, the same number of people search for the same parking spaces as before, and “the permit
essentially has no value.”
Beyond that, failing to hold a permit
is only slightly restrictive. Because
“visitors” are allowed to park up to
Northwest King Street resident Rita Szkaradek said parking has never been
easy on her street, but most residents and workers in the Zone M permit
parking district we talked to said it’s easier to find free spaces now.
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Editor’s Turn
Demolitions by the number
BY ALLAN CLASSEN | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
more protection than a Tuff Shed. Locally
designated landmarks can be delisted at
the discretion of the property owner, again
offering no protection.
W
hat is the right number of housing
demolitions in Portland?
Many of the demolitions involve small
and poorly maintained houses that seem
past their utility. Even so, there can be
notable trees that should limit the shape
of redevelopment. In other cases, the
proposed replacement building may
be drastically out of context for the
block, and if this issue were addressed
before ruling on the demolition permit,
the rationale for clearing the lot could
disappear.
When I heard City Commissioner Steve
Novick put such a question to historic
preservation advocates, I sensed a clever
polemic.
It didn’t surprise me that the witnesses
on the stand struggled to give a definitive
answer. Any numerical limit or norm
suggested would be hard to justify, or a
context could be concocted to show the
current pattern is acceptable.
The 300 or so demolitions per year in
2014 and ’15 were about twice the annual
average since the best available tabulation
began in 2004. But developers counter
that what appears to be an alarming spike
is merely a correction after an abnormally
depressed market period. Taking a page
from climate change deniers, one can
always pick a graph section to show that
what appears to some as a cataclysm is
just part of a normal cyclical pattern.
Furthermore, I contest the entire premise
that demolitions are OK as long as their
frequency remains within some realm.
We could just as well establish a level of
income needed per person and forbear
theft, extortion and robbery if such crime
didn’t push the culprit beyond the per
capita income average. Would we assume
that an individual tells, say, 10,000 lies in a
lifetime and tolerate direct acts of betrayal
because he had not yet passed his quota?
Things seemed perfectly aligned for certain developers in 2015.
This leap to the bottom line makes no
sense except to cloud an issue deserving
more depth and clarity.
Some demolitions should be allowed;
some should not. Deciding when the
public interest should prevail over the
desires of a private property owner
must to some degree be a subjective
process. No rules can adequately express
community, historic, cultural and
environmental values.
I don’t know what formulas or guidelines
should be enacted, and I don’t think we
can begin to form such policies until
we’ve had a comprehensive community
dialogue—a step that has hardly begun.
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Difficult situation
I was disappointed in
“Falling Apart [November
2015],” the Linnton Plywood Association article,
as it missed an opportunity to illuminate a very
complicated, difficult situation. By not including the
several deals to sell the site
that fell through, the city
politics involved and local
people intent on sabotaging
a sale if it didn’t suit them
(hence a need for secrecy
even beyond what negotiations usually call for), we’re
left with the impression
Jimmy Stahly and Gail Holter sat around doing nothing,
collecting their checks all
those years and withholding information because
they were up to no good. Because the article doesn’t
mention
the
various
attempts (at least four) that
were negotiated to sell the
place over more than a
decade, we never gain an
appreciation of how difficult making a successful
deal was. And surely there
is more involved in developer John Beardsley’s 2005
offer than his recriminations, given that the City
Council killed a housing
project plan for the site in
2006.
The blame game is sexy,
but sometimes learning
Instead of merely counting demolition
permits, policy makers and citizens
should educate themselves to the kinds
of buildings that are being demolished,
by whom, for what reason and to what
consequence. As a starting point, anyone
can get weekly reports from Portland
Chronicle (portlandchronicle.com)
with the basic facts of each application,
complete with photos of the doomed
structures and often renderings of the
replacement projects.
For those following actual cases, it
quickly becomes clear that many
historically significant buildings are not
certified landmarks and therefore have no
If every demolition application triggered
design review of the replacement
building, we wouldn’t be seeing a fourstory, walled compound as is planned at
Northwest 25th and Raleigh streets. A row
of grac0eful old houses with front yards
and porches is devalued when splintered
by structures like this, yet this concern
was essentially irrelevant. Outside of a
few designated design districts and the
central city, it doesn’t matter what the
new building will look like—it just has to
meet the code.
Reining in careless demolitions need not
thwart higher-density infill. Such infill
should not, however, take the place of
good houses, and I believe it should not
be obnoxious or ugly. That’s not a dictum,
but perhaps it can be a conversation
starter. n
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Rob Lee
NW Harborton Rd.
Stahly honest
I have no dog in the Linnton
mill fight. However, I have
known Jimmy Stahly for
more than 20 years. He is
one of the most honest and
upright individuals I’ve
ever known. To suggest that
he somehow has tried to
cheat the very people he’s
worked hard to save is simply disgusting.
I’m a former neighbor of
the Stahlys and I can attest
that Jimmy was at that mill
every single day during the
work week. Anyone driving by could see his truck
parked there. The comment
that the “for sale” sign was
hidden in the weeds is nonsense. There was a huge
sign on or close to the roof
of the mill that I could see
from my house. Over the
years, Jimmy worked tirelessly with a number of
potential buyers, only to be
shot down by the industrialist community of big
shots. I know this for a fact
as I attended many of the
Linnton meetings and city
council meetings as well. If
there is blame to be laid, my
suggestion is that you check
with the city of Portland,
which lied to the communi-
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ty about how it was going to
help the mill property and
the community of Linnton
by allowing zoning changes, etc. They spent millions
of dollars on “The Linnton
Plan” with fancy drawings
and plans that were never
used for anything except to
lie to the community. In the
end, they were bought off
by the industrialists who
wanted nothing done with
the mill site except filthier
heavy industrial. I cannot
speak about Holter, as I
don’t know him, but anyone calling Jimmy Stahly a
cheat or a thief is a liar.
Allan Classen, you were
front and center in these
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 Obituaries
Norris Ege
Norris Ege, a
Northwest Savier
resident
since 1987, died
Oct. 7 due to
complications
of heart surgery
at age 84. He
was born May
12, 1931, in
Shubert, Neb. After graduating from
high school in Tieton, Wash., he
served in the U.S. Air Force in
Europe. He drove a bus for Greyhound for 34 years. He was a member of the Mazamas. Ege completed
25 marathons and one ultramarathon. He is survived by his life partner, Liz Schilling; sons, David Ege
and Robin Sedgewick; mother, June
Ege; and five grandchildren.
Harry C. Clair III
Harry Cornelius
Clair III, a longtime resident of
Goose Hollow,
died Dec. 21 at
age 84. He was
born March 24,
1931, in Portland, a fifthgeneration
descendant of
Oregon pioneers. He attended Ainsworth Elementary and graduated
from Lincoln High School. He
attended the University of Oregon
and graduated from Lewis & Clark
College in 1957 after serving in the
Coast Guard. He worked for Aetna
Life Insurance and the Oregon Medical Association First National Bank
in the Trust Department. He was a
member of the Multnomah Athletic
Club and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. He was president of the Fruit &
Flower Child Care Center board. He
married Ione Scott in 1957. He is
survived by his wife; sons, Chick
and Mitchell; sister, Molly Krause;
brother, Thomas Clair; and two
grandchildren. A memorial service
will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan.
11, at Trinity Episcopal Church.
Ronald M. Paul
Ronald M. Paul,
the founding
executive director of the James
Beard Public
Market,
died
Dec. 21 from
complications
of cancer at age
65. He was born
Feb. 7, 1950, in Tucson, Ariz., and
graduated from Tucson High School.
He graduated from Northwestern
University and received a master’s
degree in educational counseling
from the University of Oregon. He
founded Ron Paul Catering & Charcuterie on Northwest 23rd Avenue
in 1983. The business grew to three
locations. He was chief of staff for
City Commissioner Charlie Hales
1999-2002. After Hales resigned,
Paul began working to establish a
public market featuring farm-fresh
goods and Oregon artisan foods. He
served as executive director of the
James Beard Public Market from
2006 until retiring for health reasons
in August. He was a longtime resident of Northwest Portland. He married Toni Cole in 1981. He is survived by his wife; sons, Jeremy and
Aaron; daughter, Jordanna; and two
grandchildren.
Evelyn S. Vetsch
Evelyn Susanne Vetsch, who lived
most of her life on Sauvie Island,
died Oct. 20 at age 89. Evelyn Bernet
was born Nov. 21, 1925, in Portland.
She was the first office manager of
Sauvie Island Water Conservation
District, which is now the West
Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District. She married Richard W. Vetsch. She is survived by
her husband; son, Robert; daughters,
Sherri Jacobson and Anita Eggertsen;
stepson, Joel Dietz; stepdaughter,
Allison Catt; three grandchildren;
and one great-grandchild.
Richard C. Easton
Richard Crittenden
Easton,
who grew up in
P o r t l a n d
Heights
and
became a wellknown youth
coach,
died
Nov. 30 at age
78. He was born
April 6, 1937, in Portland and
attended Ainsworth Elementary,
Lincoln High School and the University of Oregon. His career included senior officer positions with both
Standard Insurance Co. and Guarantee Life Insurance Co. He coached
his sons’ Goldenball basketball
teams, and in 1980 coached the Bridlemile Bullets to a city championship. After retiring to the Oregon
Coast in 2000, he was a volunteer
assistant coach at Warrenton High
School for 13 seasons. He was president of the United Way of Clatsop
County for several years. He married
Marilyn Poston in 1959. He is survived by his wife; daughter, Jan
Huffstutter; sons, Mike and John;
and seven grandchildren. There will
be a celebration of life at 5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Multnomah
Athletic Club.
Capron P. Meyers
Capron
Pratt
Meyers, owner
of The Triple
Lindy bar on
Northwest
Lovejoy Street,
died Dec. 12 at
age 38. He was
born March 2,
1977, and graduated from Palm Springs High
School. He was a music major at
Santa Clara University. He founded
Pause Kitchen and Bar in North
Portland in 2005 and operated it for
eight years. In 2013, he opened The
Triple Lindy. He was a member of
the Black Dragon Fighting Society
and earned a Black Sash in Tai Chi.
He is survived by his mother, Lynn
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sisters, Dr. Evelyn Lorents and Kelly
Gilliam; maternal grandmother, Sue
Pratt; and paternal grandmother,
Carolyn S. Meyers.
Michael Paolo
Michael Paolo,
owner of the
former Paolo’s
Fine Foods on
Northwest 21st
Avenue, died
Nov. 23 at age
89. He was born
Dec. 27, 1925,
in
Yamhill
County, and moved to Portland as a
child. He graduated from Benson
High School and enlisted at age 17
in the Marines, serving in the South
Pacific in World War II. He worked
as store manager for Safeway for
more than 20 years before opening
Paolo’s. He married Carrie Pulsinelli; she died in 2014. He is survived
by his daughters, Mary Lyn Glaser
and Michelle Christensen; and one
grandchild.
Death Notices
Bonnie Bennett, 73, Multnomah
Athletic Club member.
Harmony Breeden, 89, volunteer at
Good Samaritan Hospital.
Douglas Coghill, 86, employed at
ESCO.
Carroll ‘Chuck’ Harris, 84, teacher at
Lincoln High School.
Joseph Heinz, 96, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Kaliope Michos, 94, bookbinder for
Lane Miles Standish Printing.
Edward J. Peck, 88, Multnomah Athletic Club member.
Barbara (Grutze) Roessner,
attended Lincoln High School.
88,
Wilbur ‘Bill’ Willard Jr., 77, volunteered for William Temple House.
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fights with City Hall and the industrial community. You should know exactly what went on
through the many years that this was going on.
Shame on you for the attack on Jimmy Stahly that
is based completely on hearsay from disgruntled
mill workers.
Protection promised
Kristin Roberts
SW Rosewood Way
Voters have spent more than $400 million to
buy and protect wildlife in green spaces around
the city [“Tualatin Mountains wildlife may soon
have company,” December 2015]. We felt that it
was important to have some undeveloped areas
dedicated to wildlife. Metro got our money by
promising to “protect wildlife and restore habitat.” For years, Metro has had signs in these areas
that prohibited biking, horses and dogs because
of the impact to wildlife. Now they are taking the
money voters gave them for wildlife and building
a huge adventure park with trails through areas
that elk have used for years. I have no problem with mountain bikes, but if
Metro were going to use the money voters gave
them for mountain bike trails then they should
have said that, but that didn’t happen. The voters
pamphlet said “restore habitat and protect wildlife.” If Metro wants money for mountain bike
trails, let them try and pass a levy to buy land for
mountain bikes. This land was for wildlife.
Michael Wisdom of the U.S. Forest Service says
that when you include mountain bikes, your priority has changed from wildlife to recreation.
Save wild spaces
Rich Ovenburg
NW McNamee Rd.
The North Tualatin Mountains look to be the
next place where human activities will trump the
interests of those who want to save wild spaces.
Why is it that when these decisions are made, the
animals who live in these wild areas are always
the ones who have to make all the sacrifices?
I sat in on a Metro hearing a couple years ago
when Metro decided to expand the urban growth
boundary onto 9 acres of wetlands—for an indoor
tennis court in Lake Oswego. The room was
packed with pro tennis advocates, each carrying a
tennis racket as a prop to drive home their point.
Only one woman testified that she opposed the
expansion onto this wild area—she wanted to
protect the wildlife that made use of that wetlands as a migration area.
And now mountain bikers are poised to take over
500 acres of what we have been fortunate to have
here in Portland: wilderness in the city. I have
nothing against tennis or mountain biking. But if
we want to preserve our vaunted quality of life,
maybe we humans should be willing to make
some of the sacrifices and allow the wildlife that
lives in these areas to have a voice too.
Thanks to the activists mentioned in this article
for being their voice, for fighting this incursion
onto this public treasure and doing their part to
save the wild in the city.
Courtney Scott
NE Flanders St.
Flawed process
The city of Portland states it is committed to
public input and processes [“Auditor’s report
finds citizen advisers should have declared their
financial interests,” November 2015]. The West
Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory Committee portion of the 2035 Central City Plan (CC2035), however, does not support these words.
The WQSAC process was flawed, with a selected panel of stakeholders, many of whom were
developers or owners of property, having vested
interests in the outcome and the likelihood of
significant financial gains.
Having attended numerous SAC sessions, it was
clear that the committee ignored obvious conflicts of interests. At each meeting, a significant
number of residents from the West End testified
in the two minutes allotted to them, and their
input was disregarded in the final recommendations.
We were encouraged when the Ombudsman’s
finding found the same flawed SAC process that
we, as residents, observed firsthand. We were disheartened, however, with the suggested remedy
from the Ombudsman which is little more than a
slap on the wrist, and does not require a reopening and re-evaluation of the public process.
members. For the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability to select a committee in which 24 of the 33
members are property owners, developers, builders, architects and others with a financial stake in
development demonstrates a biased agenda.
As a member of the public, who attended almost
every SAC meeting (2013-15), as well as the preceding Concept Plan Steering Committee meetings (2011-12), I was shocked that quality of
life goals that had been prioritized by the Concept Plan Steering Committee (e.g., livability, a
hospitable public realm, protection of historic
buildings and affordable housing, neighborhood
identity and human scale), were ignored, or
even undermined, by the SAC’s push for purely
economic goals achieved through ever-greater
heights (benefiting a small minority).
The West Quadrant Plan should be revisited with
a newly created, “balanced” SAC, this time with
members without financial conflicts of interest.
All heights and zoning for the West Quadrant
need to be discussed thoroughly and revised,
with all voices being heard, and with the Steering Committee’s quality of life goals properly
represented.
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard
Co-founder and director
International Making Cities Livable
The West End is a unique area in Portland, with
a mix of high-density urban living and a significant number of midheight historic buildings.
The proposed increases in allowable density and
building heights as outlined in the West Quadrant
proposal will create wealth for developers but has
the potential of destroying the unique nature of
the West End.
Continued on page 6
Before CC2035 is adopted, it is not too late to
revisit the West Quadrant plan, by involving
additional stakeholders and citizens who do not
have vested financial interests in the outcome,
and by conducting a transparent process true to
the public process procedures the Ombudsman is
recommending.
Tom and Chris Neilsen
SW 10th Ave.
Ethics law violated
I find it completely unacceptable that Portland,
renowned for its past achievements in livability
and its reputation for citizen involvement, should
squander that reputation through corrupt cronyism in producing and adopting the current West
Quadrant Plan. The Oregon ethics laws were
clearly violated.
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Parking idea
The Oregonian is ending its printing operation near Providence Park.
Meanwhile, the Multnomah Athletic
Club is looking for more off-street
parking. Also, while I favor mass
transit, I note that some Timbers
fans will continue to drive to games
no matter what.
The Oregonian should sell its buildings to MAC, which has shown a
willingness to spend tens of millions
of dollars to create more parking.
The price shouldn’t be very high,
because the full-block printing plant
and the half-block paper warehouse
would be hard to convert to retail,
office or residential use. But their
construction is just right for parking.
Only the ramps need to be created. The Timbers fans who drive are currently parking in Northwest Portland, where the Bureau of Transportation has conveniently lengthened
visitor parking to four hours for
most of the neighborhood and three
hours for most of the rest. That’s
plenty of time to park and see the
game. Enforcement has faded away
anyway. What about TriMet losing
customers? These are people who
won’t take transit anyway; I’m just
trying to keep some spaces on the
street for us residents now that we
pay $60 per year for permits. The devil is in the details. This
won’t work unless 1. Visitor parking
is limited to two hours throughout
Northwest at all times, 2. No one
gets into the garage unless every seat
in their vehicle is occupied (the least
we can do is promote carpooling), 3.
A family of four pays $20 to ride TriMet to the game; charge a flat $20 fee
for any vehicle entering the garage
on game day, 4. Since everyone will
be leaving at about the same time,
stack the cars. You will accommodate several hundred that way.
Bruce Silverman
NW Irving St.
Fortress houses
I have not been able to get the notice
about the (what looks to be) enormous house that is being built on
Quimby out of my mind [Nov. 2015].
This is now the second such residence (that I know of) being built in
Northwest;, both having been reported in this paper. Huge, modern and,
most remarkable to me, disconnected from the surroundings. To me,
the residents are sending a strong
message that they are not interested
in neighbors or local community.
They seem to actually be fortifying
themselves against these things.
I don’t understand these kinds of
choices in a neighborhood like
Northwest Portland. I really don’t
want to be anti-change, or antiwealth, but I think these projects are
harbingers of societal/cultural shifts
that are not positive.
Koren Backstrand
NW Lovejoy St.
Change is good
My husband and I moved to Portland 20 years ago and chose to live
in the Northwest neighborhood. We
congratulate ourselves almost every
day on that choice. I’m writing about some of the letters
complaining about building “modern” architecture mixed in with the
old homes. We love the beautiful
old houses, but we also love the
apartment houses where our young
people can afford to live, the new
modern townhouses and even having the industrial area right next to
us. When nothing changes in a city,
or a neighborhood, it either dies or
becomes a museum. I understand that change can
hurt. Our wonderful view of Mount
Hood just disappeared behind the
28-story new condo building in the
Pearl. But that is part of a lively
growing city, just the same as the
fact that we are becoming a more
culturally diverse city. It just keeps
getting better and better.
As a resident of Northwest Roosevelt
Street for 27 years, I certainly don’t
feel like it’s the end of the neighborhood, perhaps just the beginning
[“There goes the neighborhood,”
December 2015]. Why is the closing of the mill a bad thing? Why the
gnashing of teeth over ESCO’s plan
to develop some property that is
sitting vacant and has been sitting
vacant for years?
Guess what? Part of this sanctuary is residential. There are five
houses on Roosevelt Street and three
around the corner on Northwest
23rd between Roosevelt and Wilson
streets. The changes that everyone
seems to fear have already happened
in many cases. What used to be blue
collar neighbors are now executives
with Nike and Adidas. We have an
assistant district attorney, a business
owner and entrepreneur, a surgeon,
a financial planner, etc. living on
our street. Closing old No. 1 at ESCO
will be a boon for everyone in the
neighborhood.
As the kicker quote most tellingly
says in the story, when it comes
down to rezoning, you have to side
with the property owner. I am proud
to be one of those property owners.
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Corrections
Our Page 1 story last month, “There goes the
neighborhood,” referred to monthly commercial lease rates of $25 a square foot and
industrial rates of $6 a square foot. The rates
are per year.
The current photo at Northwest 16th and
Raleigh (“General store bridged pioneer, modern era,” December 2015) did not show the
western side of the intersection, where the
former store was located.
Streetcar in Pearl District, February 2014. Photo by Steve Morgan.
Speed sells
that one hardly knows where to start.
Good analysis of the streetcar speed ... or lack
thereof [“Too many stops,” December 2015].
As a lifelong student—OK, rail fan—with an engineering and safety background, I think this analysis is incomplete.
The streetcar and MAX suffer from a city/county
policy that treats all vehicles equally. My SUV with
me driving solo and the streetcar with 75 passengers get the same traffic light sequencing. Worse,
I can impede the streetcar on Northwest 10th and
11th by simply being in the lane with the rail.
Real streetcar priority would temporarily reserve
the lane for the streetcar and assign traffic light
priority to assure fast, on-time progress. Moving
my SUV out of the way once every 13-15 minutes
is hardly a hardship or a gridlock-inducer.
Further, stop signs should be realigned to allow
the streetcar, safe, cruising speed between all
stops, even if it means investing in traffic lights.
Last week in the Czech Republic, I rode the identical Inekon car at almost 40 mph. The Streetcar
need not operate to this speed; just progress without slowing between stops at a safe 20-25 mph.
Same for MAX.
As to the stops: Two blocks equals 400 feet. Eliminating the Everett stop would necessitate a walk
of less than that to either stop. Even for an honored citizen like me, that is not an obstacle.
1. Portland Streetcar Inc. Executive Director Dan
Bower asserts that the public wants the streetcars
to go faster. Since when did streetcars or trolley
cars become rapid transit? One of their charms
is precisely that they are NOT rapid transit in a
speeded-up, constantly connected world.
2. Should some stops be eliminated, those who
paid an assessment for the streetcars and their
stops will not be getting what they paid for.
3. It would cost a great deal of money to remove
stops that are already there.
4. The Pearl District is constantly building more
hotels and tourist destinations. Do those tourists
really have a desire for the streetcars to be rapid
transit with fewer stops? Are tourists in San Francisco saying, “If only these streetcars and cable
cars were rapid transit with fewer stops?” I kind
of doubt it.
5. The majority of the committee is opposed to
the elimination of the stops. Is there to be no
public process or referendum about this? I would
hazard a guess that the vast majority of the public
would be against the elimination of any stops. 6. I smell a moneyed interest scheming as to how
they can squeeze out more money for themselves
at the expense of everyone else.
Richard Vidan
Orangevale, Calif.
While you are thinking of stops, why does the
MAX stop at Providence Park and 300 feet later at
the Goose Hollow Inn? Speed sells. Speed ‘em up!
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T
he Peculiarium, closed for
renovations over the summer,
reopened on Halloween. Part
Ripley’s Believe It or Not oddities
museum, part amusement park
spook house, The Peculiarium on
Northwest Thurman Street is an
homage to the roadside attractions
of proprietor Mike Wellins’ childhood. Bigfoot (back row, center) witnesses a wedding at the Peculiarium.
Left: Evidence of spontaneous human combustion is carefully preserved at the museum.
“When I was a kid, on family vacations my dad would never let us
stop at any of those places,” Wellins
said. “This place is a reaction to
that.”
So we have Wellins’ dad to thank
for this neighborhood landmark of
weirdness on the ground floor of an
vintage apartment building painted
a shade of old-bubblegum-on-thebedpost pink. It’s hard to drive by
without doing a double take on the
ghoulish guy out front. He sits in a
Norman Bates’ mom-style wheelchair. His name is Alfred. “Alfred is the reason a lot of people come in,” Wellins said. With renovations have come
changes. No more ice cream sundaes
sprinkled with freeze-dried scorpions and meal worms. Anyone who
wants to eat bugs and thus gain
membership in the exclusive Insec-
in the museum, are not for the
squeamish, though all in the name
of fun.
tatarian Club will find a variety of
frozen-in-amber-like lollipops and
chocolate-covered scorpions for sale
in the gift shop.
Two new exhibits have been
added. The first is called Buried
Alive. It’s an interactive coffin; you
can get in, close the lid and watch a
movie (made by Wellins, whose day
job is commercial filmmaking) that
simulates burial from the corpse’s
point of view.
The other is a tongue-in-cheek art
installation about illegal organ harvesting, blood and guts oozing from
a bathtub filled with fake ice. These
exhibits, like the rest of the objects
We’ve Moved!
Also new is the $5 admission
charge. It’s still free for those
who arrive in costume and for
dogs. (Now that the Peculiarium
no longer serves food, dogs are permitted and are welcomed with a
biscuit.) Wellins says the admission
charge hasn’t changed the volume of
visitors and is necessary to keep the
place running.
Just in time for the holidays, the
gift shop offers Santa Monsters gift
wrap and a variety of Krampusthemed objects, including a tree
ornament and stockings to be hung
by the chimney with care, for
according to Germanic folklore, the
horned creature is the one in charge
of dealing with naughty children
around Christmastime. The Peculiarium originally opened
in 2011, the brainchild of three local
artist/filmmaking friends: Wellins,
Lisa Freeman and Eric Bute.
“This place keeps me busy,” said
Wellins, citing the woes familiar to
anyone running a small business—
city permits, tax filings and the ebb
and flow of customers. Coming in the new year: an art
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river largely
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F
loodwaters from the
Columbia River backed
up the Willamette River in
the spring of 1948, creating
high-water scenes reminiscent of last month’s flooding.
A 1948 aerial photo may
have been taken for the novelty of seeing many blocks
underwater. But today,
it strikes interest for what
it reveals about an earlier
era long before there was
a Pearl District. The photo
shows the freight depots
of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle Railway’s North
Bank Station buildings ➊
at Northwest 11th Avenues,
Hoyt and Irving streets in
the right edge of the frame.
Those structures survive
today as two-story condominiums.
The SP&S roundhouse
(bottom center ➋) was at
Northwest Ninth, 10th and
Lovejoy next to the Lovejoy
viaduct, which was removed
in 1999. A 10th Avenue
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Aerial photo from 1948 shows severe flooding of the old railyards and warehouse area that became the Pearl District.
Donald R. Nelson collection
ramp connected to the main
viaduct.
At the center of the photo
is the Southern Pacific Railroad’s main freight house,
which became the site of
Portland’s main post office
in the early 1960s ➌.
Across Hoyt Street is the
old post office, sometimes
called the 511 Building ➍,
which is today the Pacific
Northwest College of Art.
Union Station (left of center ➎) served passengers of
Great Northern, Northern
Pacific, Southern Pacific,
Union Pacific and the SP&S
railways. The Yards at Union
Station apartments occupy
part of the former rail yards
that were removed along
Northwest Naito Parkway,
west of the Steel Bridge.
On the upper left is the
inundated McCormick Terminal ➏ at the river’s edge.
In the early 1980s, it became
the McCormick Pier Condos.
To the immediate right of
McCormick Terminal were
the Union Pacific freight
offices and depot ➐. Today,
a piece of the facade facing Naito Parkway is part
of McCormick Pier’s parking lot. McCormick Pier Grocery and Deli, Blum Floral
Design, and Rusty Nail Pizza
and Pub are among the businesses occupying the former
Freight Office.
The former Broadway Bridge ramp on Northwest 10th Avenue was impassable at Hoyt Street during the
1948 flood.
Donald R. Nelson collection
At left center edge, next
to the Broadway Bridge, is
the Albers Bros. Milling Co.
Cereal and Flour Mill ➑
and Dock No. 1, which was
renovated into offices and
is known as the Albers Mill
Building.
Below the building in
the flood photo are Albers
Docks No. 2 and No. 3, ➒
which were leased to Interstate Terminals. They no
longer exist.
The structure at the lower
left is the Mersey Dock &
Grain Warehouse ➓, which
was leased to the Balfour
Guthrie Co. That area is
occupied today in part by
the Waterfront Pearl’s Azure
and Mistral towers.
In the past 68 years, almost
all of the grain mills and associated warehouses have been
removed. The lone exception
is the deteriorating Crown
Mill complex now known as
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tion of the complex is underway, and the Portland Development Commission will
consider clearing the entire
site next this year. n
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"Surprising Success" cont'd from page 1
one vehicle during a 24-hour period.
four hours without a permit, and
enforcement ends at 7 p.m., anyone
arriving after 3 p.m. may park until
the following morning.
Rick Williams, a Portland parking consultant who administered
the Lloyd District On-street Parking
Program and has had clients across
the nation, said public resistance is
common when new parking regulations are proposed.
(A three-hour visitor grace period
remains in effect between Burnside
and Irving streets until meters are
installed.)
That was true of the Lloyd District system, Ventura, Calif., and
Tacoma, Wash., but once the rules
are in place, skepticism fades, Williams said.
No other Portland permit district
has such lenient parameters.
Under the circumstances, one
might assume the program has been
ineffective or worse.
Tacoma, the last Western city to
install meters, resisted paid parking
until 2010, but six years later “retailers love it,” he said.
To the contrary: Most people living or working in the district contacted by the NW Examiner say the
system has helped, making it easier
to find vacant parking spaces. Ten
of 14 residents report noticeable
improvement.
Williams thinks the Northwest
Parking Plan is producing benefits
largely because it has thwarted a
practice wherein about 700 commuters were “using the district as a
park and ride.”
Four of seven business operators/
managers said the parking squeeze
has lessened under the permit system.
Parking management measures
gain acceptance in time as turnover increases and fewer spaces are
claimed by people for whom the
district is not their destination.
City officials in charge of the program
find these responses encouraging.
“I think everybody’s a little surprised [at how well it’s gone],” said
Chris Armes, project manager for the
Portland Bureau of Transportation.
How can a program double-subscribing its services still provide
customer satisfaction?
First of all, the numbers aren’t
quite as lopsided as it may appear.
Of the 7,580 permits sold through
last August, 866 were short-term
guest permits that are not an ongoing burden on the area.
The city’s estimate of available
stalls is inexact because no count
was made of the actual permit area,
which stops west of 25th Avenue.
“They’re pretty tried and true systems,” he said.
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Armes said the actual number is less
than 5,000, though probably closer
to that figure than the 4,000 number
frequently thrown around.
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Business interests also dictated
an unprecedented provision giving all employees in the district
access to permits. Other permit
districts, such as Goose Hollow (which caps permits to 50
percent of the workforce), limit
employee permits to encourage
alternative transportation modes.
the number of permits based on the
available parking supply, charge
higher rates to owners of multiple
cars, increase the annual rate, extend
the period of enforcement later in
the evening and perhaps even deny
permits altogether to occupants of
new apartment buildings that do not
supply off-street parking.
•
The city’s enabling ordinance
created permit zones solely to discourage commuter parking in residential neighborhoods. Nothing
in the rules limited the number
of permits any household could
obtain, or increased the rates for
those parking two or more vehicles on the street. Annual permit
fees—now $60 per year—can only
cover the administrative costs of
the program.
The latter would be novel, but
members of the SAC expressed interest in the approach as a way to discourage apartment developers from
offloading the parking burden of
their tenants onto the neighborhood.
New city policies will allow fine
tuning in each permit district. The
Zone M Parking District is governed
by a citizen body known as the NW
Parking Stakeholders Advisory Committee. It has wide latitude in making rules and setting rates for the
program.
Pending updates of citywide parking rules will allow districts to limit
Proposed administrative rules
would also allow the general public to pay to use off-street parking
facilities associated with commercial
properties.
Some tweaking of the parking district has already been made.
In fact, residents of several small
residential pockets just west of 25th
Avenue have petitioned to be included, and these areas are being added if
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Permit system inches westward
The new Northwest District parking permit system is already expanding.
of Overton. “We want to go back to the
way it was [before the permit program].”
That’s in part because areas just west
of Northwest 25th Avenue, the western
boundary of Zone M, suffered from displacement of drivers no longer entitled
to park inside the permit zone.
Erdman said some of the new cars on
his block belong to commuters while
others seem to be parking there long
term for no apparent reason.
Carrie Milligan, one of six residents of
the 2500 block of Northwest Pettygrove
directly south of Wallace Park, said
there wasn’t a problem before Zone M
was created. That changed after the
program began, pushing commuters
onto this block. When three of the six
households that responded to a mailed
ballot voted to join the permit district,
the city added their block.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation likewise annexed the 2500 block
of Northwest Overton. Now the block
immediately west feels the impact.
“Our street is just packed now,” said Travis Erdman, who is collecting support
to extend the zone to the 2600 block
Zone M is also creeping up Northwest
Westover Road. Jon Kruse said parking
congestion was a problem on his street
even before Zone M, so he worked with
other Westover residents to extend the
zone as far north as Northwest Cumberland.
“We’re much better off now,” Kruse
said. “It’s relieved the pressure significantly.”
Jay Rogers of the city’s parking control
office said the spillover impact of permit
zones is predictable. Contiguous areas
can opt into a permit zone if more than
40 percent of the households return
mailed ballots from the city, and a majority of them respond affirmatively.
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ZONE M QUOTES
“Without the plan, I would have
expected on-street parking to have
gotten MUCH worse, with all the new
residents, ongoing construction (and
construction worker parking) and
the economy improving. Anecdotally,
I haven’t heard complaints about it
getting worse.” Ron Walters
Resident
“We [two employees and me] have
noticed more parking available since
the permit system went into place.
… The success of the permit system
can only accurately be evaluated if
we know the increase or decrease in
receipts at the local businesses.”
Pat Fiedler
Business owner
“Definitely, there has been a difference.
There are actually parking spaces
available during the day and up until
early evening, when the people in the
neighborhood return from work. It has
been a breath of fresh air and there is
actually hope in finding a space open
from time to time.”
Joan Amico
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“Parking is so much more
manageable now as compared to
before the permits. I rarely have to
circle, and cars are coming and going
on a regular basis as opposed to
cars that sit for days without being
moved. It is a huge improvement, and
I have never heard any complaints.” Burdean Bartlem
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“It got rid of the nurses who parked
here all day and walked to Good Sam.
There are more parking spaces.”
Jenny Duchene
Resident
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“I believe that Zone M implementation has brought about some improvement. It is difficult at times to find a
parking place, but turnover is more
frequent. I no longer see any obvious
commuters.” Page Stockwell
Resident
“We had a lot of commuters before
the zone was created. … I don’t see
them anymore. Parking for residents
became much easier immediately
after Zone M began. There are now
multiple spaces open on my block
after my neighbors drive to work and
before 21st Avenue customers (and
employees?) arrive, meaning 8-10
a.m. This wasn’t true before.”
Bruce Silverman
Resident
January 8-30, 2016
421 NE Cedar St, Camas, WA
“There are definitely fewer a.m.
parkers along 25th. It used to be
completely parked up, but now there
are only a couple of cars before 10.”
Jeanne Harrison
Resident
“There are definitely more available
parking spots in our part of the
neighborhood. The commuters may
have moved towards the other end of
the neighborhood.”
Britta Diettrich
Resident and business owner
“Before the permits went in, we could
never find a parking space during the
day at 19th and Northrup. Now, we
sometimes can.”
Rick Michaelson
Resident and business person
“I think parking on my block (Hoyt)
hasn’t really changed in the past
year. ... There are so many cars with
permits. As far as employees, I have
only two with cars, and they work
at night, and there isn’t a problem
at that time. I don’t really see any
benefits for meters on the side streets
with so many permits.”
Greg Hermens
Resident and business owner
“Daytime seems a bit worse since
permits. It is certainly no better.
Possibly that’s because of some
new residents. In the evening, when
permits are not required, there
seems to be more on-street parking
available on my street.”
Jay Margulies
Resident
“It hasn’t affected things much. It
seems to be the same as far as easy or
hard to park.”
Phil Geffner
Business owner
“Nothing noticeable to me has
changed, which given my ever more
distraught view of the government, is
a good thing.”
Roger Vrilakas
Resident
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land, calls Chapman “a fantastic school” and is
aware of its predicament.
K
nown for high-achieving students and
highly involved parents, Chapman Elementary School is one of the strongest
K-5 schools in the city. It may also be the most
overcrowded.
“They are quite literally packed to the gills down
there,” she said of the basement classes, “and that
has an effect on educational programming.”
Indeed, some families are jumping the packed
ship, moving within the Ainsworth School
boundaries or choosing private schools.
“We’re at the building’s limit,” said Jason Trombley, who chairs the 24-member, all-volunteer
District-wide Boundary Review Accountability
Committee (DBRAC). “There is clear and persistent overcrowding.
According to a chart in a PPS report, of the 796
elementary students in Chapman’s catchment,
622 (slightly more than 75 percent) attend their
neighborhood school. Trombley of the DBRAC
says overcrowding is one reason many of the
other 174 have gone elsewhere.
“Every space that I would have expected as
storage has been repurposed,” he said in an interview in Chapman’s entryway, at a child-size table
where students sit for reading assistance.
There is no shortage of ideas on how to address
the problem.
Furthermore, he sees a wave of housing development coming to long-vacant sections of Slabtown and the North Pearl.
“We can see the growth,” he said. “There are
[construction] cranes everywhere. … That’s what
makes this Chapman case a real sense of urgency
for us.”
According to Chapman PTA President Rosie
Platt, there is a “construction boom” involving
“4,454 units in 37 buildings proposed or currently being constructed in Chapman’s catchment.
DBRAC held about a dozen public comment
sessions last fall, and nearly 1,500 emails were
sent to the committee. Suggestions for Chapman
include:
Jason Trombley chairs the District-wide Boundary Review
Accountability Committee, which is evaluating Portland
Public Schools boundary and enrollment issues. He is a
Lincoln High School graduate. Photo by Jenn Knudsen
“PPS needs to understand that even though
these apartments and condos are predominantly
studios and one- and two-bedroom units, families
will continue to move into these small spaces
due to their affordability in an increasingly tight
housing market.”
The committee will recommend strategies to
deal with imbalances in enrollment and facilities to Portland Public Schools Superintendent
Carole Smith before the end of this month. The
school board could vote on a growth-management
plan as soon as February.
The 1923 Chapman building, considered “rightsized” for 550 students, now has nearly 700 in
kindergarten through fifth grade. The auditorium,
used as a theater, music class and regular classroom, reflects the cascading compromises triggered by the space crunch.
“We have converted building closets into staff
offices,” wrote Platt in a mid-November call to
action letter sent to PPS. “Reading groups and
tutoring take place in our hallways and wherever
there is available floor space. Our third-, fourthand fifth-graders now eat lunch in their classrooms because there is no room in the cafeteria.
“Our basement now houses a double classroom
with 56 fourth-graders,” Platt continued.
“My son is in the fourth-grade classroom in the
basement with 64 kids,” wrote Vikki Reade, using
a different class size calculation, in response to
Platt’s letter. “He feels completely lost in such
a large group. His patience and love of learning
is slowly evaporating. Chapman administration
and staff have totally exhausted creative ideas for
the expanding population. It is time for some real
assistance here.”
Amy Kohnstamm, PPS school board member
for Zone 3, which includes all of Northwest Port-
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oving Multnomah Learning Center programs,
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xpanding the PPS Early Learners and Head
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sing East Sylvan Middle School as an elementary school; and
• Building an additional elementary school.
The Pearl District relief valve is unlikely,
according to Christine Miles, PPS public information officer.
“PPS is not looking at renting space to relieve
overcrowding at Chapman,” Miles said in an
email. “It has been considered in the past. From
an operational standpoint there are transportation
and limited nutrition services accommodations.”
Chapman’s growth is part of a Westside pattern
also inundating West Sylvan Middle School and Lincoln High School. PPS projects there will be another
5,000 students in the school system by 2025.
Anna Dvortcsak, a Chapman parent who last
fall helped circulate Platt’s original letter and a
petition calling for construction of a new elementary school in Northwest Portland, now says she
is satisfied with progress.
“It is my understanding that [DBRAC and
the school board] have listened to these
concerns and are working toward finding another solution to address the
overcrowding at Chapman,” she wrote in an
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Know Your Chef:
An interview with
Irving Street Kitchen's
Sarah Schafer
BY CHAD WALSH
“I like Portland,” says Boston native Sarah
Schafer. It reminds her of her hometown,
especially the Pearl District, with its
cobbled streets. She calls it “a small town
within a big city.”
Schafer runs the show at Irving Street
Kitchen, and like many Portland chefs,
Schafer didn’t get her start here. She got
her start—like a lot of chefs—by picking
up what she could from her mother and
grandmother before taking a job in high
school at an East Coast cafe.
At the time, a sous chef she worked with
had just taken a course at the Culinary
Institute of America. After observing her
efforts in the kitchen, he suggested that she
further her pursuit of cooking—a pursuit
she wasn’t even aware of at the time—by
taking a few classes herself.
She did and after graduating from school
she worked in several coastal kitchens,
including San Francisco’s Anchor & Hope,
New York City’s Gramercy Tavern and
Eleven Madison Park, where she got to
work alongside chefs like Danny Meyer
and Daniel Patterson.
We recently spoke with Schafer as she
was gearing up for a frantic week of
Christmastime dining. Here’s what she had
to say.
How long have you worked in the
neighborhood?
I’ve worked in the neighborhood as long
as I’ve been in Portland—six years total.
I had been living in San Francisco when
I was asked to move up north to open up
Irving Street Kitchen.
Where in Portland do you live, and how
do you get to work—car, bus or bike?
I used to live in the Pearl District for four
years, but last year I bought a house on
the edge of University Park and St. Johns.
When I lived in the neighborhood, I’d
walk, but now I drive to work. Parking
can be difficult, but it’s easier to drive
from that far away than it is to bike. Plus
my hours are super sporadic. Sometimes
I have to be there really early, and
sometimes I have to stay really late.
When your shift is over for the day,
where in the neighborhood do you go to
unwind?
I like Hamlet. I love what [owner] Cathy
Whims is doing, and she did a great job
with the space.
What do you order when you drop by?
[Laughs] Well, ham.
We know that you’re famous in town
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for your buttermilk fried chicken,
but what else should folks in the
neighborhood expect when dining at
Irving Street Kitchen?
Right now, I’d recommend most of our
seasonal fish dishes, like the miso-grilled
monkfish [with celery root purée, hominy,
cipollini and mushroom konbudashi],
our Dungeness crab dirty rice or our
pork belly, which gets slow cooked and
served with Rancho Gordo beans, mustard
greens, chicharrones and a tasso ham
sauce that’s been slow-cooked for so long
that it’s like drinking a slice of ham. And
at brunch, people like our seared foie gras
cronuts. Basically, it’s a cronut filled with
quince butter and served with foie butter
mousse and a piece of seared foie gras.
It’s fatty, sweet, rich and buttery.
IRVING STREET KITCHEN
701 NW 13th Ave.,
503-343-9440
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Dinner hours: 5:30-10 p.m., Monday
through Thursday; 5:30-11 p.m., Friday
and Saturday; 5-9:30 p.m., Sundays
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The Fireside’s Milk-Braised Pork Stroganoff
BY CHAD WALSH
Without a doubt, beef Stroganoff is a
decidedly Russian dish of cold weather comfort food. But the stroganoff
you’re eating today? It’s a knock-off.
An imposter. A Yankee take on a preSoviet classic.
Before it caught on stateside, it
was little more than sautéed beef,
sour cream and some sort of sauce
(depending on who was doing the
cooking). There were no mushrooms,
and there probably weren’t noodles,
either.
As you can see by the recipe that follows—courtesy of The Fireside’s Chef
Ingredients 1½ pounds pork shoulder
32 ounces milk
1 bunch thyme
2 ounces butter
¼ cup flour
1 tablespoon canola oil
½ leek
½ cup milk
½ cup cream
½ cup sour cream
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon Champagne vinegar
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 pound egg noodles
3 medium garlic cloves, sliced
1 shallot, julienned
2 tablespoon chives, finely
chopped
1 cup chanterelle mushrooms
Joey Hart—you can do pretty much
anything you wish to what was once
a super simple dish. In fact, you don’t
even have to use beef; Hart opts for
pork shoulder, which he braises with
milk.
Naturally, you can add a pinch of this
or that to make this dish your own,
but cook it this winter and cook it
often, because there’s nothing more
comforting that a good stroganoff at a
rainy time of year when the sun sets
at 4:30 p.m.
THE FIRESIDE, 801 NW 23rd Ave.,
503-477-9505
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Prep and Cooking Instructions
Cut pork shoulder into four pieces and heavily
season. Place into deep pan to roast in oven, add milk
and thyme. Cover with foil and cook at 350 degrees for
1½ hours, or until tender. The pork should easily pull
apart. Set pork aside to cool. When the pork has cooled,
pull apart and discard undesired parts. Split the leek in half, wash the inside, and cut into
quarter-inch slices. Place into pot with canola oil and
sauté until tender. Add butter and melt. Sprinkle in
flour and stir to incorporate. Cook the flour-butter
mixture for a few minutes—you will see the color turn
slightly darker. Pour milk and cream into pot and stir to
incorporate the leek-roux mixture. Cook over medium
heat, stirring frequently. Once you see steam come from
the cream, mix in Worcestershire sauce and Champagne
vinegar. Blend well in food processor or blender until
smooth. With a whisk, mix in the sour cream to the
blended sauce and finish with freshly grated nutmeg.
Boil water that is heavily salted. Cook egg noodles,
drain and reserve.
Sauté garlic, shallots and chanterelles in two
tablespoons olive oil in a large pan. Once the garlic,
shallot and chanterelles are soft, add the pork and sauté
until crispy browning happens. Add stroganoff sauce
and noodles. Heat until bubbly and hot. Serve with a
dollop of sour cream and chives.
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Yes, it may indeed be hot toddy season (and eggnog season, and hot buttered rum season), but your
bartenders have been busy this winter dialing in the kinds of drinks most of us can’t make at home.
So the next time you belly up, consider skipping the kinds of drinks where one of the main ingredients
is hot water, and ask whoever’s behind the stick to make you something special to cold, dark nights.
Here are a few neighborhood places that are shaking and stirring up some interesting, and sometimes
bewildering, winter drinks.
Andina’s Batida de Lucuma
When you think of winter
drinks, you’re probably not
thinking of milkshakes.
They’re served ice cold. But
really, do you think drinking
a milkshake on a 90-degree
day is going to do anything
for you other than make
you want to take a nap? A
milkshake is indeed a good
winter drink, and the version
devised by Andina bartender
Eddie Johnson is even better,
because it’s spiked with
Xerex-Quina, a sherry-like
fortified wine, and Fundador
brandy. But the real star of
the show here is the drink’s
titular lucuma, an avocadoshaped fruit that comes from
the valleys along the coast of
Peru. It’s both maple-y and butterscotch-y, and it’s decidedly—
and pleasantly—not as rich as it sounds. Served in a tall glass
and topped with a tres leches whipped cream and a sprinkling of
roasted peanuts.
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THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS
Jed hoping for a
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A
nother successful, festive Festivus
celebration had just ended at the
Nob Hill Bar & Grill when Woody,
a regular, screamed like a little girl, “The
Festivus Pole is gone!!”
of a 20-foot-long smelt dipping net. Jed, a
loyal Nobby regular, drove all the way in
from the South Umpqua River to deliver
the smelt dipper handle/Festivus Pole. Jed
looked forward to it every year.
Sure enough the 8-foot-tall traditional
aluminum Festivus Pole was missing! The
centerpiece for many Festivus traditions,
it had stood witness too many “feats of
strength” and “airings of grievances,”
all mandatory to an authentic Festivus
celebration.
He returns to the South Umpqua this year
with half a dipper. A reward of a five-gallon
bucket of smoked smelt has been offered.
Eye witness reports describe an odd
looking thief in a goofy green elf hat. Be
on the lookout, and you could collect the
smoked smelt—crisp, delicious and perfect
for a Festivus smelt toss.
The pole itself was actually half the handle
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The Bent Brick’s Upstream
When it comes to cocktailing,
restriction and not necessity might
just be the better mother of invention.
At The Bent Brick, the bar program
is strictly domestic only—it sticks no
imported spirits. That means you can’t
get order a margarita or a vieux carre—
although the endlessly resourceful
bartender there, Michelle Ruocco, will
try to make you something that will hit
most of the notes you’re looking for.
But those limitations also give her
a chance to experiment, which she
does on a regular basis. Right now,
you can find her Upstream cocktail, a
drink made with lemon, simple syrup,
absinthe, muddled dill, black pepper
liqueur, Jacobsen Sea Salt and a vodka
infused with smoked salmon. Fishy? A
little, but not as much as you expect.
In fact, the lemon brightens the drink,
which the dill gently bites through.
This one also comes garnished with
a tiny bagel crescent schmeared with
cream cheese and sprinkled with dill.
THE BEN T BRIC K
1639 NW Marshall St., 503-688-1655
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most interesting seasonal cocktails
Teardrop Lounge’s Fallen Fruit
Teardrop’s Fallen Fruit cocktail, ginned
up by bartender Daniel Osborne, has
both obvious and hidden layers. When
finished, the drink is split in two, with a
frothy, foamy head like a Black and Tan
(or, if you’re Irish, a half and half). But
it’s in the drink’s hidden layers where the
magic happens. Made with Blackstrap
rum, lemon juice, soda water, egg whites
and a homemade quince-and-pistachio
shrub, the Fallen Fruit drinks with a
lemony top, a nutty finish and a big
round apple-like middle. Garnished with
pistachio crumbles.
TEARD ROP LOUN GE
1015 NW Everett St., 503-445-8109
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The Fireside’s Julenisse
By the time you read this, The Fireside will have discontinued its Decem
ber
holiday cocktail menu, but owner and bartender Sue Erickson promise
s that
you’ll still be able to order by name the bar’s Julenisse, authored by
bartender
Nick Spencer. It’s nothing fancy too look at—it’s served unadorned in
a rocks
glass with one single, large rock—but it tastes like it’s been given a
burnished
savoriness, with a subtle stab of tanginess at the end. Made with rye
whiskey,
Bonal All Spice liqueur, Chinese five-spice bitters and Krogstad Gamle
Aquavit,
the latter of which gives the drink its star anise and caraway notes.
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Coffeehouse Northwest
1951 W. Burnside St.
No website
This venerable institution (by modern coffee joint standards anyway) has
been around since 2006. The walls
are exposed brick. Weathered wood
floors and counter plus a handful of
tables commonly occupied by nearby apartment dwellers round out the
cozy scene. Coffeehouse Northwest is
owned by Adam McGovern, a latte art
champion, so be assured of a carefully- crafted macchiato, or whatever
your favorite happens to be. The coffee is from Sterling, which McGovern
also owns, and scrumptious pastries
are brought in from a citywide favorite,
Bakeshop.
JIM AND PATTY'S COFFEE
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DINING NEWS
Aria Gin, Bull in China and the Society Café open;
Besaw’s, Chk Chk!! and The Hairy Lobster are on the way
By Chad Walsh
spread on your sandwiches. There
will be the usual honey mustard
and barbecue sauces, of course, but
Gibson is working on a special sauce
that right now has about 20 ingredients. Oh, and for every dollar you
spend, five cents will got directly to
Portland’s Q center, which provides
a safe space and on-the-job training
for disadvantaged individuals of the
LGBTQ community.
Last month, Northwest Portland got its very own distillery and a new hotel cafe. But
many more places will open
their doors in early 2016.
Now Open
1305 NW 23rd Ave. • chkchk.com
ARIA GIN
It’s official. Now that Aria Gin (aka,
Martin Ryan Distilling Co.) has
opened at the corner of Northwest
Savier and 23rd, Northwest Portland
officially has a distillery district.
(Aria joins the neighborhood’s Clear
Creek and Bull Run distilleries.)
Founded in 2007 by Erik Martin and
former Wildwood bartender Ryan
Csanky, and distilling for local markets (and beyond) since 2012, Aria
specializes in producing a Londonstyle dry gin, Portland-style. In other
words, each bottle’s ingredient comes
straight from the Pacific Northwest,
all the way down to its Bull Run
Watershed water. Csanky says he and
Martin distill all of their gin on site,
but the distillery has a tasting room,
too, where Csanky will drop on you
all of the necessary science needed
to make a proper gin martini. (Please
note: A vodkatini is not a martini.)
Stop by for a taste, pick up a bottle
for your home bar, and take home
some bitters, barware or some locally
made stirring vessels, too, courtesy
of Bull in China. Hours: noon-6 p.m.,
Wednesday through Sunday.
2304 NW Savier St. • ariagin.com
BULL IN CHINA
Speaking of Bull in China: It, too, has
new subterranean digs in the Irving
Street Tower building along Northwest 21st Avenue. (Don’t let the
address fool you—you must enter
the store on 21st, not Irving.) You
won’t be able to buy food here,
although you might be able to taste
the occasional cocktail, because the
space is neither a restaurant or a bar.
Rather, it’s the space to get locally
made and handmade bar gear for
your own home bar. Prior to moving
into the permanent space, the business—run by bartenders Lucas Plant
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Aria Gin
and Daniel Osborne, and marketing
ace Katie Burnett—operated out of
Plant’s garage. The new space gives
Bull in China a showroom where
you can find stirring vessels, spoons,
cocktail sets, vintage glasses and,
for the very serious home bartender,
large wooden mallets you can use to
crush your own ice.
2109 NW Irving St., 971-888-4085
bullinchinapdx.com
THE SOCIETY CAFÉ
AND LOUNGE
There’s a new, painstakingly restored
hotel at Northwest Third and Burnside that features four stories, almost
40 rooms, two dozen bunks for hostel lodging and a rooftop deck. Naturally, since visitors (and the neighborhood’s business crowd) have to
eat, the hotel also has a 35-seat cafe
that serves soups, salads, panini,
Bowery Bagels, pastries courtesy of
Posie’s Bakery and coffee from the
folks behind Upper Left and Ristretto Roasters. A small selection of
beer, wine and signature cocktails
rounds the menu out. Hours are 7
a.m.-11 p.m., daily, with happy hour
each day from 4-6 p.m.
203 NW Third Ave., 503-445-0444
thesocietyhotel.com
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BESAW’S
Sad news—but not too sad—for those
of you waiting for the resurrection of
Besaw’s at the corner of Northwest
21st and Raleigh. Owner Cana Flug
has pushed back her opening by a
few weeks to Thursday, Jan. 14.
1565 NW 21st Ave., 503-228-2619
besaws.com
CHK CHK!!
If you’ve attended a concert at The
Schnitz in the last three years,
you’ve probably dropped in either
Picnic House or Barlow before or
after the show. They’re both owned
and operated by Jessica and Aaron
Grimmer, and now the couple is
bringing a fast-casual chicken concept to the space just vacated by
Subway at the corner of Northwest
23rd and Overton. Chk Chk!! will
open later this month or in early
February. To run the kitchen, they
brought on Picnic House and Barlow
executive chef Casey Gibson, who’s
still putting the menu together. This
is what we know: There will be at
least two sandwiches, one, a buttermilk fried chicken version, as well
as a chickpea version for vegans.
There will also be gluten-free bun
options, waffle fries, bottled craft
cocktails and taps for beer and wine,
and possibly Stumptown Cold Brew.
The secret weapon, Gibson told us,
will be the sauces you’ll be able to
David and Mellisa Root, a pair of
Boise, Idaho, natives with Michelin
star pedigrees, are taking over the
old Jamison (née Fenouil) space in
the Pearl District. Their new restaurant, The Hairy Lobster, will indeed
serve lobster in many forms—David
Root is considering lobster Cubanos
served on cornbread—but it will not
be a seafood spot. In fact, the menu,
consisting of numerous small plates,
will be designed to feature the many
cuisines the Roots have sampled
over many years of travel. The menu
is still in the works, as is the redesign
of this somewhat troubled space, but
Root says he expects that the doors
could open by mid-February.
900 NW 11th Ave.
In Progress
LE VIEUX / FILLMORE
TRATTORIA
In mid-December, a Bay Area man
named Jack Krietzman applied with
the Oregon Liquor Control Commission for a permit to sell alcohol
at a restaurant he plans on opening called Fillmore Trattoria. What
makes this interesting is that the
address where he intends to sell food
and booze is currently occupied by
Annette Yang and Brian Leitner’s Le
Vieux, 1937 NW 23rd Place. We contacted both parties, who say nothing
is set in stone. Yang says, “We had
a great December, and it’s business
as usual at Le Vieux.” Krietzman,
whose Jackson Fillmore Trattoria
just celebrated 30 years of business
in San Francisco, confirms that there
is no done deal. If not at this location, he says he plans to open a new
Fillmore somewhere in Portland.
“We love Portland!” he says. “We are
moving there regardless.”
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Community Events
Adult classes
Free classes on résumé help (Monday, Jan. 25, 5:30-7:30
p.m.), earthquake preparedness (Monday, Jan. 11, 6-7:30
p.m.) and introduction to computers (Sundays, 12:30-3
p.m.) will be held at the Northwest Library, 2300 NW
Thurman St., this month. To register, call 503-988-5234.
Family dance
Willamette Week’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
Nigel Jaquiss will speak at Pearl Rotary Jan. 12.
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Rotary programs
Portland Pearl Rotary Club meets Tuesdays at 7:25
a.m. in the Ecotrust Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave.,
second floor. The public is invited. A $10 charge
includes breakfast. For information, contact Randy Vogt,
vogt4me1@icloud.com or 503-228-9858.
Jan. 12: Willamette Week journalist Nigel Jaquiss.
Jan. 19: Bridge Meadows Executive Director Derenda
Schubert.
Jan. 26: Rotary International Monsoon Wedding,
Don Smith.
Peace choirs
“Singing for Our Lives,” a joint concert of Oregon peace
choirs, will be held Sunday, Feb. 14, 2 p.m., at the First
Congregational United Church of Christ, 1126 SW
Park Ave. The family friendly concert will be followed
by a bake sale. A donation of $5-15 is suggested.
Participating choirs include Eugene Peace Choir, In
Accord Community Choir, Portland Peace Choir
and Rogue Valley Peace Choir. For information, visit
portlandpeacechoir.org.
Children’s classes
Northwest Library, 2300 NW Thurman St., offers free
classes for families with children this month. Infant/
Toddler Sign Language Beginning Basics meets
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Sock
Snowman meets Thursday, Jan. 14, 3-4:30 p.m.; and
“Super Ana” is the featured book for Everybody Reads,
Thursday, Jan. 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
A family dance featuring a live performance by Red
Yarn and his local kiddie tunes will be held at Friendly
House, 1737 NW 26th Ave., Saturday, Jan. 23, 3:30-5:30
p.m. The cost is $20 per family (up to five) and $10 per
individual. Enjoy the music, snacks, face painter and
boogie-woogie fun. Call 503-228-4391 for information.
Dancing in Pearl
Friendly House in the Pearl, 1542 NW 14th Ave., hosts
Dancing with No Shoes On, featuring Chuck Cheesman,
Saturday, Jan. 16, 10 a.m. The event is free. Call 503228-4391 for information.
Healing for dogs
Workshops on how to create wellness, reduce stress and
enhance your pet’s life will be held Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March
15 and every third Tuesday through June, 7-8:30 p.m.,
at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. The cost is $7 for
members; $9 for nonmembers. A 30-minute presentation on
Pranic Healing will be followed by supervised practice with
your quiet, well-behaved dog. Bring a bed for your dog. For
information, call 503-228-4391.
Preventing falls
A free class on assessing and preventing falls by aging
adults will be offered Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1:30-2:30
p.m., at Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. Ariel
Salzman will discuss falls in older populations and their
implications. She will also identify fall risk factors and
how to minimize the chance of injury. Call 503-2284391 for information.
Liver health
A class on the liver and its relationship to hemorrhoids,
skin conditions and estrogen dominance will be held at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave., Wednesday, Jan.
BETTER BALANCE SEMINAR
13, 6-7 p.m. There will be a cooking demonstration and
information about foods that support liver function. The
cost is $7 for members; $9 for nonmembers. Call 503228-4391 for information.
Cleanup days
Neighborhood cleanup days in the Northwest District
are held the second and third Saturdays of each month.
Volunteers are asked to meet at Food Front Cooperative
Grocery, 2375 NW Thurman St., at 9 a.m., Jan. 9, and at
Elephant’s Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave., Jan. 16. Both events
will last 90 minutes.
Superfund forums
Public forums regarding the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s draft plans to clean up the
Willamette River will be held Tuesday, Jan. 26, at
the St. Johns Community Center, 8427 N. Central
St. and Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW St. Helens Rd. (Parking is available
for the February meeting at Linnton Feed & Seed, 10920
NW St. Helens Rd.)
Both forums, which are sponsored by the Portland
Harbor Community Advisory Group, will be from 7-9
p.m. EPA's Proposed Plan for the Willamette Superfund
will be released in late March, followed by a 60-day
public comment period, the final opportunity for citizens
to comment. For information, contact barbaraqnn718@
gmail.com or 503-954-3142.
Hunger banquet
A hunger banquet, an interactive event focused on
humanizing global hunger issues and empowering
attendees to make a difference, will be held in the
Linnton Community Center gym, 10614 NW St Helens
Rd., on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 18,
at 4 p.m. The event is underwritten by grants from
Metro and Clark Foundation. All proceeds go toward
the construction of the Linnton Community Center
Teaching Kitchen, where volunteers will prepare meals
for community cultural events and fundraisers. Tickets
for the hunger banquet can be purchased at Linnton
Community Center, Linnton Feed & Seed or PayPal.
Persons interested in helping with the banquet should
call LCC at 503-286-4990 or email dan@linnton.com.
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Schnitzer saw his overview last October as merely
a conversation starter. He
expected to be invited back
to flesh out options and
learn which elements would
fly and which might need to
be scrapped.
“We had all these experts
ready to tell them anything
they wanted to know,” he
said. “They never asked us
back.”
PDC Executive Director
Patrick Quinton said the
lack of ongoing communication was due to the absence
of anything to communicate.
Schnitzer said he was
restrained from advancing
the project by an agreement
giving the agency total control over public dissemination of information.
While champing at the bit
to go public, hold forums
with neighborhood groups
and find out what citizens
thought about his plans, he
was put on hold.
“We didn’t have all the
answers,” he said. “If we’d
had had those public meetings, we might have gotten
new ideas.”
Schnitzer wanted to talk
to Portland Parks & Recreation and the Portland Parks
Foundation about funding,
design and maintenance
STUDY OPTION B
issues.
“They told us they would
not allow us to meet with
the parks bureau and Parks
Foundation,” he said.
KEY POINTS
Flexible development allows
Live-Work-Play/complete
neighborhood
Two key historic buildings
retained as part of creative
workspace complex
Asked to respond, PDC
referred only to Quinton’s
November 2015 letter in
which he ended the relationship with Schnitzer.
All other structures removed
Pedestrian Bridge to Fields
Park
Mid-rise housing with
ground floor retail (2
buildings)
“Now that we have a better picture of the demolition costs, the plans for the
Mounted Police Unit site
and the size of the remaining
public resources available
for the project, the original
development concepts both
you and we had in 2013 are
no longer practical,” the letter stated.
Enhanced waterfront bank
with dock
STUDY OPTION B
Putting Centennial Mills’
future on a budgetary scale
is a mistake, Schnitzer
believes.
“The most disturbing
thing is this: PDC seemed to
be consumed with money.
What was this project
Improvements to Naito
KEY POINTS
Flexible development allows
Live-Work-Play/complete
neighborhood
Two key historic buildings
retained as part of creative
workspace complex
All other structures removed
Pedestrian Bridge to Fields
Park
Mid-rise housing with
ground floor retail (2
buildings)
Enhanced waterfront bank
with dock
Generous central green
space
PED BRIDGE
Improvements to Naito
NW NAITO PARKWAY
PED BRIDGE
NW NAITO PARKWAY
HOUSING/RETAIL
(5 OVER 1)
HOUSING/RETAIL
(5 OVER 1)
INTERNAL ARCADE
INTERNAL ARCADE
GREENWAY ZONE
EVENT
CENTER
PLAZA
SPACE
HOUSING/RETAIL
(5 OVER 1)
HOUSING/RETAIL
(5 OVER 1)
INTERNAL ARCADE
INTERNAL ARCADE
FRAMEWORK GOALS
FLOUR
MILL
PLAZA
SPACE
RETAIL AND
OFFICE
SUN DECK
To many observers, Centennial Mills redevelopment
took a back seat to acquiring
the main U.S. Post Office
site, which Mayor Charlie
Hales has made a priority
despite a $115 million price
tag that alone outstrips PDC’s
budget for the River District
Urban Renewal Area.
What’s the plan?
Generous central green
space
PREFERRED DEVELOPMENT
COMMERCIAL
FEED
MILL
EVENT
CENTER
FLOATING DOCK
RAMP
WILLAMETTE RIVER
SOUTH SITE
GREENWAY ZONE
PLAZA
SPACE
MIDDLE SITE
NORTH SITE
FRAMEWORK GOALS
FLOUR
MILL
PLAZA
SPACE
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Net GLA
Project Cost
SUN DECK
RETAIL AND
OFFICE
231,608
$115,757,275
PDC Investment
$38,500,000
Harsch Investment
$77,257,275
COMMERCIAL
FEED
MILL
FLOATING DOCK
RAMP
WILLAMETTE RIVER
going to cost?
SOUTH SITE
said he would have
been
NORTH SITE
able to knock on the door of
local foundations and corporations, some of which he
was confident would have
said yes.
MIDDLE SITE
“Cost is secondary to first
finding out what the right
plan is. When you get the
right plan, then you get
to work to find where the
money is.”
With a better idea of the
project’s scope, Schnitzer
While Schnitzer’s proposal gathered dust, supposedly unrelated events were
turning the table. The price
of the post office property
dropped substantially, and
PDC began a public process to solicit ideas for its
build-out. The city’s homeFINANCIAL SUMMARY
less problem
was deemed a
Net GLA
231,608
crisis, and in response the
Project Cost
$115,757,275
city raised the share of urban
Investment devoted
$38,500,000
renewal PDC
revenues
to
housing Harsch
fromInvestment
30 to $77,257,275
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The parallels to the current situation seem more than coincidence
to Schnitzer. LAB was told “at the
last minute to put in offices, and in
our case we learned that half the site
wouldn’t be there.”
Had PDC approached him with
its dilemma in moving the Mounted
Patrol Unit, he might have been able
to help.
“They should have called about
MPU move,” he said. “How do they
know we wouldn’t find a way to
raise money for the horses?”
Bing Sheldon
cent, further limiting funds for other
redevelopment projects.
Then, the city was unable to find a
new location for the Portland Police
Bureau’s Mounted Patrol Unit as
promised. This eliminated nearly
half of the developable land on the
Centennial Mills site and threw a
major kink into Schnitzer’s proposals.
Learning after the fact that the city
had given up on moving the horse
patrol is “what broke the camel’s
back,” Schnitzer said.
PDC had again unilaterally
changed a critical condition with
its Centennial Mills development
partner, just as in 2011, when it told
LAB Holding LLC that at least half
of its tenants would have to come
from industry sectors other than
food. Food was the central premise
of LAB’s proposal, which had been
selected after an exhaustive public
participation process.
LAB CEO Shaheen Sadeghi cried
foul and sued the agency, eventually
“They told us they would
not allow us to meet with
the parks bureau and Parks
Foundation.”
JORDAN SCHNITZER
“We’ve given away almost $140
million,” Schnitzer said of his foundation.
Pearl activists mobilize
Schnitzer’s outrage is shared by
Patricia Gardner, president of the
Pearl District Neighborhood Association. Gardner began advocating
for preserving Centennial Mills not
long after the city bought it in 2000.
“This is the last building on the
river that talks about the history of
Portland,” she said. “It’s not a Pearl
project; it’s a regional site.”
Gardner plans to call a public
meeting to mobilize opposition to
demolishing the remaining buildings and to hear development ideas
that have been so sequestered for
too long.
“They don’t get to decide behind
closed doors, which is what they’ve
done,” she said, noting that the
neighborhood association had no
input into critical policy decisions
concerning Centennial Mills.
PDC contracted last summer for
removal of all but the largest struc-
Jordan Schnitzer, second from left, toured the Centennial Mills complex in May 2013 soon after his selection as the developer.
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"High and Dry " cont'd from page 21
put in a position to be forced to tell
them no.”
tures on site—the feed and flour
mills—whose fate is to be decided
by this summer.
Sheldon agrees that PDC was
never enthusiastic about this site,
and the result, while sad, was
“totally predictable.
“It’s going away unless we fight
for it,” she said. “They’re almost
hell-bent to tear it down.”
“This was too risky a project and
never had the unanimous support at
council to justify the kind of money
that was going to be required.”
Peter Stark, president of the Westside coalition of 12 neighborhood
associations and a player in the
Central Eastside Industrial Council,
affirmed the worst opinions of the
development agency: “PDC plays
dirty, and it doesn’t understand
development.”
Irene Bowers, a project coordinator for PDC, gave credence to Sheldon’s interpretation that the agency
saw public support for preservation
as adamant but unrealistic.
“The community has a desire to
save these iconic buildings,” she
advised the commission in November. “They always have. That’s
the reason these buildings are still
standing.
The other side
While PDC often retreats from
controversy and would not comment on this story, Bing Sheldon,
who has been centrally involved in
Portland affairs since the Neil Goldschmidt era, offered a perspective
on what people in the agency might
have been thinking.
Sheldon, co-founder of SERA
Architects, and former chair of the
Portland Planning Commission,
was part of the professional team
that helped develop Schnitzer’s
Centennial Mills proposals.
Nevertheless, he thinks Schnitzer
was naïve to expect PDC would participate in shaping the project and
helping generate public support.
The 1929 grain elevator in the Northwest corner of the complex is comprised of full
height silos separated by planks stacked and nailed together. “The only floors are at the
basement, where the grain was collected by a conveyor system, and at the attic, where
grain was distributed by another conveyor system,” said Nathan Ingraffea, a principal
with KPFF Consulting Engineers. “Back 100 years ago, timber was cheap and plentiful
in the Northwest and labor (carpentry) was also much less expensive than it is today.
This probably worked out to be the least expensive way to build solid walls that were
about 80 feet high.”
a degree of responsibility for finding the additional funds required.
“Their modus operandi is to pick
a developer and let them develop
the project,” he said.
“PDC doesn’t like to be involved
in a development in the way that I
think Jordan expected them to be,”
Sheldon said.
PDC’s unwillingness to schedule
public meetings or allow Schnitzer
to approach neighborhood associations or agencies was also understandable.
Had they picked an option, he
surmised, they would have taken on
“It was his assumption that he
would get the public to weigh in,
and he expected that public participation would essentially force the
city and PDC to put more money
into the development. ... There’s an
ardent minority who want to save
everything.
“PDC could see that,” he continued, “and could predict that the
only people who would come out
[at public forums] would be advocates for preservation. I’m sure they
knew this and didn’t want to be
“I think the developers who were
on the [stakeholders advisory committee regarding demolition] were
a little more even keeled about it.
They understood what the conditions were.”
Gardner has lost faith that PDC
will do the right thing and at this
point would prefer that the agency
turn the property over to a private
developer and hope for the best.
That was her message to PDC staff
and advisers favoring razing the
entire site.
“My message was really clear,”
she said. “I told them, ‘You guys are
the problem here, can you get out of
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State reprimands Realtor who
bought house from elderly man
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
A real estate broker who purchased an 1892 house on Northwest Irving Street from its owner in
2014 has been reprimanded by the
Oregon Real Estate Agency.
Jean Marie Rychlik signed a stipulation order admitting that the
sale agreement with Robert Hoyt
omitted three required details:
Rychlik failed to identify herself
as a licensed real estate broker.
Rychlik failed to disclose if she was
representing herself as the buyer.
The agreement did not disclose
whether the property would transfer via a deed or land sales contract.
Dean Owens, deputy commissioner of the Real Estate Agency,
said a reprimand is the first rung
of disciplinary action. Reprimands
are published in the agency’s newsletter, and full reports are available
to the public.
Owens said reprimands typically
involve violations of real estate
rules or laws not reaching the level
of fraud or public harm. If the same
violations are repeated, however, a
suspension or revocation of license
is possible.
The case was the subject of Page
1 NW Examiner stories in March
and April 2015.
Rychlik purchased the house, valued for tax purposes at $433,000,
for $250,000. Hoyt told REA investigators and the Examiner he was
aware of higher estimates of the
property’s value but he considered
it fair given the house’s condition
and his need for assistance and
accommodation in removing many
books, magazines and other personal property.
Rychlik was a principal broker
with Summa Real Estate Associates
until last March. She then opened her
own brokerage, Portland-Property.
Rychlik told REA investigators
that renovation of the Irving Street
house has stalled due to repair
costs of $457,000 that “far exceed
what she had originally thought”
would be required.
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CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL
plans to open a restaurant at 1933
W. Burnside St., the former home
of Panda Express (photo above).
STROHECKER’S grocery store
on Southwest Patton Road will
close at the end of January. The
store was founded by Gottlieb
Strohecker in 1902 and remained
in his family until 1997, when
it was sold to Lamb’s Thriftway
and then to Bales Thriftway.
Strohecker’s Liquor Store is a
separate business, and it will
remain open until its lease expires
in July. Strohecker’s Pharmacy
will retain its name and move to
Southeast Portland.
The former CHEERS/QUIMBY’S at
19th building at Northwest 19th and
Quimby streets will be demolished
and replaced with a six-story
mixed-use building encompassing
the restaurant and adjacent food
cart pod. The building will have
90 apartments, ground floor retail
and 49 mechanized parking stalls.
GRAND CENTRAL BAKERY
opened its seventh Portland cafe at
Northwest Cornell and Saltzman
roads in Cedar Mill last month.
THE JANEY, a 112-unit luxury
apartment building at 1155 NW
Everett St. sold to a Singapore
investment firm recently for $647
a square foot, easily the highest
sales price for a Portland building,
according to Greg Frick of HFO
Investment Real Estate.
KEEN INC., the outdoor shoe and
apparel company headquartered
at 515 NW 13th Ave., has opened
separate offices at 1734 NW 15th
Ave. for its KEEN Utility footwear
division.
A six-story apartment building
with 21 units and no parking is
planned for a 35-foot-wide lot at
1024 NW 19th Ave. between two
major apartment buildings.
NORTH HOLLOW, a six-story,
121-unit apartment building with
65 underground parking spaces,
is planned for Southwest 15th
and Taylor streets. Twenty-four
of its units will be reserved for
households earning no more than
80 percent of Portland’s median
family income.
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its 2280 NW Glisan St. shop to
1710 W. Burnside St., a space last
occupied by Gaya Gaya Sushi. The
new store will open Jan. 14.
Sammy’s Flowers will take the place of the former Gaya Gaya Sushi at 17th and West Burnside Street.
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Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
Article by Georgia Peden
In 1905 the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition was held on
the shores of Guild’s Lake. The exposition saw over 2.5 million
people in four months, featuring exhibits from 21 countries, 16
U.S. states and various private businesses, it was Portland’s personalized World’s Fair. The Olmsted Brothers design firm, who
also designed Central Park, was hired to develop a plan for the exposition. The directors considered many locations on both sides
of the river before settling on the lake, it was a perfect location
for the exposition; accessible from the river and by two trolley
lines running within a block of the proposed entrance. The buildings were largely constructed of plaster over wooden frames, the
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which was said to be the world’s largest. It stood until completely destroyed by a fire in 1964 and was the inspiration for its replacement; Portland’s World Forestry Center. Almost all of the
buildings were torn down in 1906 to make way for the filling of the
lake. A few of the buildings still stand as a reminder of the grand
Lewis and Clark Exposition which brought people from all over
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Annual Elections
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The annual FPNA election of
members of the Board of Directors will be held February 16 to
fill four positions with expiring
terms. The four candidates will
be elected to 3-year terms.
NNCC 2016
Annual Meeting
The Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center (NNCC)
Annual Membership Meeting
Thursday, February 4, 7:00 pm
The Cultural Center, Looking Glass Hall (lower level)
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Directors for the term beginning in 2016 will be elected. The current NNCC Board proposes the following candidates: Elizabeth
Aaby, Ginger Burke and Alisha Hanks. NNCC members may
nominate candidates for Director positions by petition until January 25, 2016. Deliver petitions to the Secretary at least ten (10)
days prior to the Annual Meeting. The petition must be signed by
at least ten (10) members naming the nominee(s) and stating that
each nominee has agreed to serve if elected. At the Annual Meeting, the Secretary shall state the names and qualifications of those
nominated by petition.
Qualifying nominations submitted by members of the association will be accepted if
received by January 19, 2016.
Candidates must be members.
To submit nominations, join
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or accompanied by written
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Mail nominating petitions to the NNCC Secretary: words may be submitted with
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Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
BOARD RETREAT
Sat. Jan. 16, 9:00 am
O’Donnell Group Office
1221 NW Everett St.
Linnton Creek Trailhead
Restoration
Sat., Jan. 9 & Feb. 13, 9:00 am
NW St. Helens Rd. at 105th
Ma Olsen’s Garden Workparty
Sat., Jan. 23, 9:00 am
Ma Olsen Garden
NW St. Helens Rd. at 108th
www.pearldistrict.org
Executive Committee
Weds., Feb. 3, 9:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave.
www.nwindustrial.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Jan. 12 & Feb. 9, 7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St.
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., Feb. 3, 5:30 pm
Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave.
Planning & Transportation Cmte
Tues., Jan. 19 & Feb. 2, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Communications Committee
Tues., Jan. 26, 6:00 pm
LRS Architects, 720 NW Davis, Ste 300
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Mon., Jan. 11 & Feb. 8, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 907 NW Irving St.
Northwest
District
Association
www.oldtownchinatown.org
www.goosehollow.org
northwestdistrictassociation.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., Jan. 21, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St.
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Jan. 25, 6:00 pm
LGS Northrup
2282 NW Northrup St.
Planning & Zoning Committee
Tues., Feb. 2, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Executive Committee
Weds., Jan. 13, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Public Safety, Parking,
and Transportation Committee
Tues., Jan. 19, 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Bylaws Committee
Weds., Jan. 27, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave.
Air Quality Committee
Mon., Jan. 11, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St.
Planning Committee
Thurs., Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4 &
11, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
Public Safety & Livability Cmte
Tues., Jan. 12 & Feb. 9, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B
2211 NW Marshall St.
Transportation Committee
Weds., Feb. 3, 6:00pm
LGS, Wilcox B
2211 NW Marshall St.
www.hillsidena.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Jan. 12, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Terr.
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Jan. 9 & Feb. 13, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman St.
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Jan. 16, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave.
COMMUNITY MEETING
Weds., Feb. 3, 11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave.
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Jan. 13 & Feb. 10
11:30 am
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch St.
Art History and Culture Cmte
Weds., Jan. 27, 11:30 am
Non Profit Center
221 NW 2nd Ave.
Business Committee
Thurs., Jan. 28, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern
500 NW Davis St.
Hospitality Committee
Thurs., Jan. 21, 6:00 pm
Location TBA
Land Use Design & Review Cmte
Tues., Jan. 19, 11:30 am
70 NW Couch St.
Livability & Public Safety Cmte
Tues., Jan. 19, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St.
www.portlanddowntownna.com
BOARD & GENERAL MEETING
Tues., Jan. 26, 5:30 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St.
Special General Meeting with
Mayoral Candidate
Tues., Jan. 19, 5:00 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
Land Use & Transportation Cmte
Mon., Jan. 19, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th Ave.
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., Jan. 13, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave.
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Tues., Jan. 19, 5:45 pm &
Weds. Feb. 3, 5:30 pm
Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave.
Transportation & Mobility Cmte
Tues., Feb. 2, 4:00 pm
70 NW Couch St.
www.sylvanhighlands.org
Neighbors West-Northwest Coalition
www.nwnw.org
Nob Hill
Business Association
info@nwpdxnobhill.com
BOARD MEETING & ELECTIONS
Weds., Jan. 13, 5:30 pm
LGS, Wilcox A, 2211 NW Marshall St.
ANUAL MEETING
Weds., Jan. 20, 5:30 pm
Holiday Inn Express, 2333 NW Vaughn
Find calendar updates at: nwnw.org/Calendar
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MEMBERSHIP & BOARD MEETING
Tues., Jan. 12 & Feb. 9, 7:00 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
Emergency Preparedness Cmt
Mon., Jan. 18, 6:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station

Snapshots
BUSINESS
About 150 Santa’s helpers stripped down for the Santa Speedo Run in
Northwest Portland Dec. 19. The “keep Portland weird” event collected
used shoes for people in need in Ethiopia.
Photos by Guy Bodin
Floodwater inundated the
Northwest 13th and Quimby
intersection and much of
the Pearl District in early
December. Guy Bodin
Left: Timbers defender and captain Liam
Ridgewell (with trophy) during the team’s
championship rally at Providence Park last
month.
Below: Midfielder Diego Valeri, who scored the
first goal in the Portland Timbers’ 2-1 Major
League Soccer Cup victory last month, holds the
trophy at the Providence Park celebration.
Photos courtesy Portland Timbers
James Baldwin and David Carter,
who paid $665,000 for a 1904 house
at 2486 NW Raleigh St., only to tear
it down, have added another floor to
earlier plans for their new home. The
pair apparently intended to soften
neighborhood disapproval by posting
a large sign stating that building
materials would be salvaged.
Image courtesy Portland Chronicle
Students from Oregon Episcopal
School deliver gifts to William Temple
House for families in need. Donated
food, toys and clothing helped 87
households and fed 346 people.
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$353,400
54 Days
$530,257
37 Days
$565,000
Happy Valley
$529,900
Cedar Mill
$518,697
West Haven
$565,000
$515,000
Bonny Slope
Forest Heights
$565,000
Lost Park
Bauer Highlands
$513,000
Broadmoor
$560,300
Hartwood Hylands $510,000
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$610,000
$580,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
Forest Heights
$680,000
Hills Dale
$670,000
$647,000
Forest Heights
$645,000
$610,000
Summit View
$610,000
Willow Creek Heights $575,000
Banton Park Estates $575,000
Bridlemile
$509,995
$695,000
SO
LD
Maplewood
Hiteon Meadows $559,900
Springville
$741,000
Raleigh Park
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$585,000
Forest Hills
SO
LD
Cassel Heights
$590,000
$700,000
$558,000
SO
LD
West Linn
Vista Hills
SO
LD
Iron Ridge Estates $600,000
$647,500
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
$569,500
Bannister
Bauer Woods
SO
LD
SO
LD
$529,950
$600,000
SO
LD
Peterkort Village
SO
LD
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Bauer Woods
Bethany
SO
LD
Average Home Price:
Average Market Time:
$750,000
SO
LD
ELEETE
$685,000
$790,000
SO
LD
Portland RMLS
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$605,00
Fox Hollow
Forest Heights
SO
LD
2015
Call us today to learn why Our Corporate Business
Approach translates into Results for Our Clients!
$613,000
Wismer Ridge
Bauer Woods Estates $715,000
SO
LD
$650,000
Cedar Mill
Bauer Oaks
Taylor Crest
SO
LD
West Slope
Bauer Creek Estates $750,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
$690,000
SO
LD
$570,500
E S TAT E
Blue Pointe
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
$750,000
$795,000
Cedar Mill
$545,000
SO
LD
Thompson Park
SO
LD
Maplewood
Meridian Ridge
SO
LD
R E A L
$797,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
Morrison Estates
$800,000
$850,000
SO
LD
$751,000
Sargent
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Bauer Oaks
SO
LD
Cedar Mill
$880,000
SO
LD
$802,000
$999,265
SO
LD
Cedar Mill
SO
LD
$890,000
West Haven
SO
LD
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
Hartung Farms
SO
LD
Kaiser Ridge
$1,001,250
SO
LD
$765,000
Palisades Park
$1,110,000
SO
LD
Bauer Oaks
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
$890,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SO
LD
$805,000
Miller Crossing
$723,500
SO
LD
$608,000
SO
LD
SO
LD
$530,000
Raleigh Park
SO
LD
$622,500
Bethany
SO
LD
Palisades Park
Bonny Slope
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$655,00
Arbor Heights
Bauer Woods
Bauer Oaks
SO
LD
$694,000
Forest Heights
Cascadian Heights $575,000
$915,000
SO
LD
Forest Heights
SO
LD
$609,168
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Bonny Slope
$1,110,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$735,000
SO
LD
$635,000
SO
LD
Bauer Woods
$775,000
$825,000
Forest Heights
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Bauer Oaks
SO
LD
$659,900
SO
LD
Bethany
West Hills
SO
LD
SO
LD
$695,000
SO
LD
West Slope
Hillsboro
SO
LD
$780,500
SO
LD
$739,950
$839,900
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SO
LD
Thompson Park
Meridian Ridge
$1,150,000
Cresap Summit
SO
LD
Catlin Crest
$915,000
SO
LD
$785,000
Forest Heights
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SO
LD
$839,900
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Catlin Crest
West Haven
SO
LD
Bauer Oaks
SO
LD
$841,000
SO
LD
Bauer Oaks
$925,000
$1,335,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
Portland Heights
SO
LD
SO
LD
SO
LD
$1,750,000
SO
LD
SO
LD
Forest Heights
Burton
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$926,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
Forest Heights
Meadow Ridge $1,440,000
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
$2,047,500
SO
LD
Green Hills
SO
LD
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SOLD, SOLD, SOLD! CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR 2015 SALES
Bauer Crest
$502,000
Bonny Slope
$493,000
As a courtesy to our clients, prices stated on individual homes above were the published listing prices. For information on actual sales prices, please contact one of our brokers.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE!
$2,975,000
Forest Heights
$2,150,000
Forest Heights
$1,750,000
Northwest
$1,395,000
Northwest
$1,300,000
Northwest
$1,139,000
Northwest
$1,090,000
PE
ND
IN
G
Lakota
Call Lee Davies or Megan
$1,080,000
Call Lee Davies or Lynn
Portland Heights
$998,000
Call Lynn Marshall or Kathleen
Bauer Crest Estates $849,900
Forest Heights
$810,000
Call Dirk Hmura or Jessica
Hillsboro
$789,000
Vista Hills
$779,000
Bonny Slope
$719,000
PE
ND
IN
G
Northwest
$393,900
Call Coleen Jondahl or Jasmin
Quintet
$389,900
Call Trish Green or Scott
Call Morgan Cox or Tricia
Stonewater
$260,000
PE
ND
IN
G
PE
ND
IN
G
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Julie Williams or Tricia
West Haven
$575,000
Call Bob Harrington or Scott
Call Larry Burkett
Bauer Highlands
$569,900
Call Dirk, Jessica or Michele
Passage Parkway
$245,000
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Marla Baumann or Larry
Overlook/ArborLodge $439,900
Southeast
Call Renee Harper or Kristen
Remington
$499,999
Call Dirk, Michele or Jessica
Charbonneau
$447,500
Call Dirk, Jessica or Michele
Quintet
$179,900
Call Renee Harper or Jan
Call Marla Baumann or Larry
Ventura Park
$109,000
PE
ND
IN
G
$575,000
PE
ND
IN
G
Tigard
PE
ND
IN
G
$589,900
PE
ND
IN
G
Newberg
PE
ND
IN
G
$649,000
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Dirk Hmura or Trish
Bauer Woods
Call Bob Harrington or Scott
Call Jan Berger or Larry
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Lee Davies
Bob Harrington
Eric Johnson
Heather Holmgreen Jan Berger
503.445.1500
503.560.3061
503.913.1296
503.445.1500
Coleen Jondahl Dirk Hmura
503.318.3424
503.680.7799
503.740.0070
Jasmin Hausa
971.645.1751
Erin Vick
Julie Williams
Kristan Summers
Lawrence Burkett Lynn Marshall
503.680.3018
503.780.1890
Renée Harper
Scott Jenks
Suzanne Klang
Trish Greene
Jessica Corcoran
Marla Baumann
Kathleen Beaton
Kristen Bier
Megan Westphal
Michele Shea-han
Morgan Cox
Scott Tobin
Tricia Epping
503.806.5200
503.953.3947
503.705.5033
503.703.9052
503.680.7442
503.741.5534
503.734.7560
503.445.1500
503314.7691
503.969.6147
503.936.1026
503.349.7873
503.310.8901
503.459.7425
503.998.7207
503.890.1221
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