January 2014 - NW Examiner

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JANUARY ’14 / VOLUME 27, ISSUE 5 / FREE
Centennial Mills
developer to ask
mayor for dough
Jordan Schnitzer promised
he’d have a plan for Centennial Mills by the end of
2013, and in some sense
he does.
SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
New York Industrial High-rise
building a first for Portland
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
A three-dimensional model sits in
his office, though he’s not ready to
show the public (or permit photographs).
Schnitzer’s company, Harsch
Investment Properties, was chosen
by the Portland Development Commission last April to redeem a site
acquired by the city in 2000 and
neglected ever since, despite studies
and failed redevelopment attempts.
Before sharing his vision for transforming the 4.5-acre site with 11 old
structures into a regional attraction,
he intends to have a talk with Mayor
Charlie Hales. The question for the
mayor will be simple: How much is
the city willing to spend to make this
a “legacy project” creating public benefit for generations?
Schnitzer won’t say how much he’ll
ask for, but the number won’t be small.
He compares his reaction to spiraling
cost estimates from his consultants to
the sticker shock a homeowner gets
when remodeling a kitchen.
“I’m surprised at how much the
public cost is,” he confessed.
The project was originally expected
to receive public funding through the
Portland Development Commission, but
Schnitzer now believes other city departments, such as the Bureau of Environmental Services and Portland Parks &
Recreation, may need to be tapped to
supply the necessary threshold. ▶
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It won’t be the tallest new building in the neighborhood,
or the most architecturally striking. Tucked in a corner of
the Northwest Industrial Area just east of I-405 that most
Northwest residents never visit, it will be easy to miss.
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
But a six-story industrial flex building
under construction at Northwest 22nd
and York may have greater consequence
in the city’s future than the nearby luxury condo towers and micro apartment
buildings grabbing all the headlines.
Grand ambitions are reflected in the
name chosen by its developers: New
York.
“It will probably be the first new highrise industrial building built in Portland
in 60 years,” said John L. Bowman, a
longtime industrial real estate broker
speaking for the developer, Rosan Inc.
Rosan, Inc., is a sister company to
Andersen Construction, a major builder of public infrastructure and private
buildings with offices in three states.
When the building is completed, likely this summer, Bowman said, Rosan
intends to build another one just like
it on the block immediately east. Each
building will have more than 100,000
square feet of floor space, which will
be subdivided into spaces as small as
1,075 square feet at the discretion of
future tenants, who will be responsible
for their own interior build-outs.
“We’re kind of breaking new ground,”
said Bowman. “No one’s building brand-
new high-rise industrial buildings.”
Steve Kuhns, who monitors industrial zoning for the Bureau of Planning
& Sustainability, admitted, “I was kind
of surprised to see the proposal. … I
haven’t seen six-story industrial buildings being built.”
The coming wave has been rising
since the downturn of 2007-08, he said,
as real estate values have risen steadily
ever since. Referring to a recent industrial parcel selling for $14 a square foot,
he said, “You can’t afford to put a singlestory building on that.”
The cube-shaped, full-block structure represents a substantial amount of
leasable industrial space near downtown and near freeway access, all highly
sought attributes.
“To get 100,000 square feet centrally
located is almost impossible,” said Bowman. ▶
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Santa’s helpers save the day
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
An epic tale unfolded in the
Pearl District last month,
thanks to a man who never
lost the Christmas spirit.
It all began with a 15-foot tall Trojan
horse built by James Mabry, a Pearl resident who has a small residential remodeling company. The horse once concealed six Chinese acrobats, who popped
out of a trap door under the belly at the
Portland Art Museum two years ago. The
show was put on by the Circus Project, a
nonprofit helping homeless youths.
Mabry later transformed the horse
into a unicorn and delivered it to a
friend, a quadriplegic woman in Vancouver, Wash., who never outgrew her
love of unicorns. She renamed it Godzillacorn. It remained in front of her house
until the city informed her that only cars
can park on the street.
Last month, the sculpture was remade
into a giant reindeer, complete with red
nose, antlers and red sleigh, and parked
at Northwest 11th and Northrup. Mabry
added a sign promising that if the ▶
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On Digital O disappointing
I worked for the "real" Oregonian
for nearly 40 years and I could not
agree more with your "digital disappointment" column.
The few veterans (with a couple of
Newhouse lap dogs excepted) who
have survived the purges loathe the
owners—literally. The Oregonian has
been destroyed by its distant owners
and nobody out here can figure out
why.
I have a Portland house in the
Northwest hills, but spend most of my
time outside the metro area, where I
get the paper delivered to my doorstep seven days a week. I never look at
it online. Go figure.
John Painter Jr.
NW Albemarle Ter.
My daughters and I miss, miss,
miss the daily printed Oregonian and
appreciated your recent editorial, "My
digital disappointment" [December
2013].
While I don't always agree with the
Examiner's point of view, I look forward to seeing the paper in my mailbox and can't wait to read it. Thank
you for your local reporting.
Elin Kordahl
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I agree completely with your excellent editorial "My Digital Disappointment." Dumbing down, down, down
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Thank you.
Ed Carpenter
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Thank you for the December article
regarding The Oregonian. I really miss
my morning visit to Via Delizia to
have good coffee and to read The
Oregonian. Online does not work for
many of us. Thank you again for your
fine paper.
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1125 NW Ninth Ave.
I love your little paper. Since I
moved to Portland, I have enjoyed
reading your writing, insights and
knowledge of the Northwest. Excellent!
That said, I have not been impressed
by The Oregonian, and now that it
is digital it is simply silly. Most folks
don't realize that the meaty articles
come from The New York Times,
Washington Post or AP services. As
you aptly pointed out in your editorial, OregonLive doesn't have the wire
service. Oh my!
Like you, I grew up reading the
newspaper at the breakfast table; it
was mandatory.
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I have been grumbling about the
new policy at The Oregonian since
it was announced. Luckily, I live in a
condo with a Starbucks on the ground
floor so I can walk downstairs three
times a week to get my paper newspaper. Or I should say, what is left of the
once-proud Oregonian.
When I read your recent editorial,
I thought it was the most cogent and
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Forming a more
perfect quota system
A strange idea persists at Portland’s grass roots. Call it a quota
system. It may have started with
government citizen participation
programs, and now neighborhood activists had adopted it as
the essence of democracy.
Instead of a free exchange of ideas in
which the best thoughts and the best
thinkers come out on top, it’s all about
arbitrary categories and strategies to
see that certain demographic subsectors are represented.
I was struck by this theory at a
Goose Hollow Foothills League meeting in which a nominating committee
explained how they developed a slate
of candidates. There was no mention of
picking the most capable candidates or
those expressing the interests of members. If anyone were to have an original approach to solving some organizational problem, I’m quite sure that
wouldn’t have registered either. Those
who believe an election should give an
organization signals as to which paths
constituents do or do not favor would
also be sorely disappointed.
fields of expertise sounds less personal
than comparing their insights or ability
to lead.
The quota system seems intended
to deflect criticism because its practitioners appear not to be making decisions at all, just mechanically applying immutable characteristics to reach
unassailable conclusions.
Opinion and bias permeate every
choice of category, of course, but that’s
not the hand put forward. To the eye, it
appears “even Steven.”
The plague behind this show of fairness is that by filtering out disagreements and competing views, there is
no functioning democratic process
to guide the organization one way or
another. It suggests that all is well and
there’s no reason to consider other
directions or programs.
I single out this board mainly because
they discussed their philosophy so
openly. I’m sure other associations follow at least some of these patterns.
If neighborhood boards fall for this
sterile form of democracy, the city of
Portland has perfected it. Every city
project or body seems to have a citizen advisory committee. Lately they’ve
taken to calling them stakeholder advisory groups, implying their members
have a common interest in
advancing
the
project. These
All of those factors take a distant
back seat to the central virtue: balance.
The nominating committee deemed that, since
Goose Hollow contains
residents, businesses and institutions,
about half of the
board should be residents and the other
half from either business or institutions.
(There was no explanation as to why it
Don’t worry, Mr. Hancock.
shouldn’t be a three-way split.)
We’re
inviting
the
British
to be stakeholders too.
Then geographic balance was
considered: Candidates should
bodies inevitably grow large because
come from different parts of the neighmany neighborhoods and special
borhood.
“communities” have to be represented.
In this way, it was possible to talk A room can be filled with obligatory
about candidates without weigh- assignees, leaving no space at the table
ing their personal qualities or ability for independent, civic-minded people
to serve. God forbid that anyone be of insight and expertise.
deemed more capable or valuable than
The quality of discussion coming
another. It’s about filling certain slots
from 35 people—half of whom may not
to ensure proper balance, all the while
even be interested in the topic—falls far
avoiding the appearance of picking
short of what it should be. Committees
favorites.
of this type wind up overloaded with
Walking this line grew dicey when individuals who won’t rock the boat.
two men from the same building To do that, a person has to first care
were pitted against each other for one enough to have an opinion, much less
remaining seat. Both became active in have the character and frame of referthe organization over the Block 7 issue ence to speak against the orthodoxy.
and were from the same camp. How
Whether they advise city policy makto decide? The nominating committee
ers or spring from the grass roots, quogave one the nod because his backta-based systems have a common trait:
ground was in history, while the other’s
They create the appearance but not
was in engineering, a field of less worth
the function of speaking for the people
to the neighborhood, supposedly. Not
while solidifying the status quo and
that the organization had any practice
playing along with those who benefit
or policy favoring historians over engifrom it. ■
neers, but in a pinch I suppose picking
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— Obituaries —
The Northwest Examiner publishes
obituaries of people who lived, worked
or had other substantial connections
to our readership area, which includes
Northwest Portland, Goose Hollow,
Sauvie Island and areas north of Highway 26. If you have information about
a death in our area, please contact us
at allan@nwexaminer.com. Photographs are also welcomed. There is no
charge for obituaries in the Examiner.
Marvin R. Davis
Marvin R. Davis, a graduate of Lincoln High School, died Dec. 5 at age
87. He was born in Alanreed, Texas.
He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in
WWII. He worked for NW Ironworks
on Northwest 29th Street and was a member of the
Boilermaker’s Union. He is survived by his daughters,
Ruth, Mary and Marva; eight grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; and sisters, Bernice Terry and Marie
Gott.
Martha ’Marti’ Gordon
Martha ‘Marti’ Melody Gordon, a
resident of Linnton, died Dec. 3 at age
68. She was born Dec. 9, 1944, in San
Diego. She is survived by her husband,
Glen; brother, John-David; son, Joel;
stepchildren, Jan, Wes and Jeff; and eight grandchildren.
Sharon Sargeant
Sharon Sargeant, owner of Tonseth
Flowers in Northwest Portland from
1977-80, died Dec. 13 at age 70. She
was born Aug. 18, 1943, and lived
in Portland since the age of 2. She
attended Gregory Heights Elementary School and
Madison High School and graduated from Wilson
High School. She was a floral designer and retired
from Beaverton Florist in 2000. She is survived by her
husband, Gary; son, Scott; daughters, Terri Eisenhauer, Tina Sargeant and Tiffany Henning; and two
grandchildren.
Nisa Shleifer
Nisa Jean Menashe Shleifer, a former
resident of Goose Hollow, died Dec. 15
at age 62. A native Oregonian, she was
born Sept. 18, 1951, and graduated
from Wilson High School. She worked
as a flight attendant, manicurist and an event planner.
She is survived by her mother, Ruth Menashe; daughter, Tiffany Shleifer; son, Zachary Shleifer; and brothThomas White Harvey, a Pearl resident
ers, Barry Menashe and Michael Menashe.
Richard “Dick” R. Carney, who grew up in Northwest
since 1995, died Dec. 13 at age 62. He
Portland’s Slabtown, died Nov. 28 at age 90. He was
was born Sept. 13, 1951, in Tupelo,
born Dec. 22, 1922, and attended St. Patrick, Chapman
Miss., and graduated from Tupelo
and Columbia Preparatory schools before graduating
High School in 1969. He received a
William Franklin Thomas, a Portfrom Lincoln High School in 1936. He graduated from bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from
land Heights resident, died Nov. 11
Harvard University, served in the Navy during World
Antioch College in 1974, a master’s in geography from
at age 86. He was born Dec. 19, 1926,
War II and then earned a law degree from the Univer- Pennsylvania State University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in
in Portland and grew up in Valsetz.
sity of Oregon in 1949. He joined the law firm of Tangeography from the University of Minnesota in 1990.
He attended Columbia Preparatory
ner and Clarke, specializing in labor law and personal He worked as a city planner for the city of St. Paul,
in
Portland,
Carroll
College in Montana, the Uniinjury cases, and later started his own firm. He taught Minn., and for the Minnesota Historical Society. More
versity
of
Washington
and the University of Oregon.
labor law at Lewis & Clark College for seven years. He recently, he was a professor of geography at Portland
He
graduated
from
George
Washington University
is survived by his wife, Mary; daughter, Helen Miller;
State University. He served on the board of the Pearl
Law
School
in
1952.
He
operated
a law practice in
brother, Robert; and two grandchildren.
District Neighborhood Association. He married Jean
Portland. He is survived by his brother, Frank; sons,
Ellen Spraker in 1974. He is survived by his wife; his
Chad and Peter; daughters, Thea Thomas, Martha
daughter, Caitlin Harvey; mother, Martha Chinnery;
Menchinger, Mary Thomas and Ann Thomas; and six
and brother, Andrew Harvey.
grandchildren.
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Lloyd E. Hickethier
Lloyd Eugene Hickethier, a lifelong
Cedar Mill resident, died Dec. 20,
2013, at the age of 83. He was born
Jan. 18, 1930, in Portland, and worked
on his parents' truck farm as a young
man. He worked as a landscaper for most of his life
and owned Cedar Mill Garage for many years. He
married Louise Reinholtz in 1953, and they lived in
the same house on Northwest 119th Avenue since
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daughters, Jeannie Miller and Cheryl Hickethier; six
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Muralist Larry Kangas leaves his mark on 23rd Avenue
art at the University of Massachusetts
and at Cornish College in Seattle. He
also travelled the world as a navigator
in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve.
“I’m probably the only guy that’s ever
painted a painting while flying over the
Mediterranean in a C141 Hercules,”
he told me. His tools and canvas were
arranged on the navigator desk meant
for laying out charts.
In the Vespa mural, he transformed
the Northwest Portland landscape into
an Italian village, with cobblestone
streets, a flower market and the Florentine dome of St. Patrick church visible in
the distance under a graceful, mythical,
arch. The sense of humor that Sandy so
loved is evident. The 65-foot work, in
front of which flower tributes are starting to appear, also features a Sasquatch
and aliens running through the streets.
Larry was a person who thought life
should be lived in bright colors, and
where he didn’t see them, he created
them.
“We had so much fun together,” said
Sandy. “It doesn’t get better than that I
don’t think.”
Larry is survived by Sandy; his daughter, Allison McClay; brothers, George
and Gary; and sisters, Esther Gonzales
and Nancy Kangas.
Larry Kangas got help from his daughter, Allison McClay, in finishing the mural.
When I interviewed the artist Larry Gordon Kangas last year about the large, colorful
mural he was then creating on the Vespa building at Northwest 23rd and Vaughn, he led
me to where he had painted himself and his wife Sandy into a scene.
BY CAROL WELLS
They are sitting together at an outside
table, and she is sporting the most luscious pair of candy-apple red high heels
this side of Fashion Week. That he never
actually saw his wife in such footwear
apparently was of no account to him.
My most recent interview with a
member of the Kangas family was with
Sandy after Larry died Nov. 25 at the
age of 65. She is a petite woman with a
gentle face—an artist in her own right—
and she smiled when I mentioned the
high heels.
“I would not be caught dead wearing
those,” she said. “I’ve never worn heels.
I can’t walk in them.”
It was the second marriage for both
of them, and it held the sort of joy that
came from the companionship of two
creative people and the knowledge that
their time together was limited. They
knew one another for 13 years, and they
also knew for seven of those years that
he had follicular lymphoma, a type of
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“You learn to seize the day,” she said.
“Especially if you’re with Larry.”
The cancer had recently become very
aggressive and ended his life sooner
than expected.
They were together as often as they
could be. She went on his jobs with him.
McClay worked with him when his
cancer made it difficult for him to work
alone on the Vespa mural.
“He felt that he was really able to train
“We’d have this great adventure,” she said.
He painted murals for businesses, private homes and
outdoor locations all over the
Pacific Northwest. His contribution to Oregon pioneer history can be found on the trail of
murals in historical downtown
Oregon City. In Cascade Locks, Sandy Kangas holds a portrait Larry Kangas in
he painted a beautiful, dreamy, front of the last mural he painted. Larry painted
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ciated with the Bridge of the Photo by Shan Gordon
Gods, directly onto one of the
huge cement supports of that structure. his daughter,” said Sandy.
In our neighborhood, he has an indoor
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Continued from page 1
What New York and its coming twin
tower also represent is a test of the
industrial sanctuary, a label underscoring the promise that industrially zoned
land in Portland is sacrosanct and will
not be converted to residential, commercial or other uses—all of which
would pay far higher prices.
In many places along the edge
between industrial zoning and Portland’s dense, mixed-use neighborhoods, property owners
and developers are finding
ways to take advantage of
the exceptionally low rents
available on the industrial
side. The Central Eastside
Industrial District, where
many warehouses have been
remodeled and divided into
spaces for creative industries
and light industry, has been
the local leader in this transformation.
Peter Stark, a board member and past
president of the Central Eastside Industrial Council, looked at the basic parameters of the Rosan project and made a
bold assertion: “It could end up with 100
percent office use.”
Stark is not an opponent of industrial
flex space. In fact, he thinks it’s a positive and necessary evolution to create
jobs for the future, but his experience
with the flex conversion of former warehouse space on the Eastside may be
ant, who competes with or is otherwise
offended by someone skirting the industrial requirement, might complain, “but
that is rare,” he said.
“It’s a smart model,” Stark said of the
New York concept. “It’s cheap to build
[because the interior improvements
are left to tenants]. The developer gets
increased rent per square foot, and the
cost to the tenant is low because they
don’t have to lease too much space.
the movement of trucks serving heavy
industry.
Patricia Gardner, president of the
Pearl District Neighborhood Association, is troubled by the ramifications of
non-industrial uses leaking into industrial zones.
“The desire for trendy industrial
space for office use threatens most of
our central industrial sanctuaries,” said
Gardner. “The erosion of NINA [Northwest Industrial Neighborhood Area] as a traditional industrial sanctuary
will accelerate under that
pressure. The reality is
that true industrial areas
are being pushed farther
into the suburbs.
“The parking/traffic
concern is not the real
issue because those are
solvable urban issues.
Fundamentally it’s a
larger question of what
kind of jobs does the city
of Portland want to have
within its boundaries.”
Flex buildings have
become a common form
of industrial development
across the country in recent
It bothers her that the
decades. Many are in camindustrial
sanctuary is
pus-like business parks havbeing
diluted
without a
ing landscaping, ample surfull
public
discussion.
face parking and open space.
The buildings are typically
“Whatever is happendivided for multiple tenants,
ing on the ground is not
which tend to be in light
by plan but by accident,”
manufacturing and smallershe said.
scale distribution. They are Ground has been broken at Northwest 22nd and York, where Andersen Construction’s development arm plans
Bowman, on the other
popular in high-technology to complete a six-story industrial flex space building by mid year.
hand, sees nothing but
industries, such as compositives in the project and the eco“The problem is, in time it’s hard to
puters, electronics and biotechnology instructive.
nomic trend it reflects. He calls it “a big
While the city can ensure that the first regulate,” he said. “In a subtle way, it
because they can provide office, manpositive thing for Northwest” and an
ufacturing and warehouse space in a tenants are truly industrial by reviewing becomes a gentrification model.”
upgrading of the industrial district.
their operations before issuing building
single location.
While potentially providing unfair
As for slipping into an office/indusThe Rosan building is different from permits for interior improvements, later competition to properly zoned office
trial hybrid form, he “doesn’t anticipate
tenants
may
take
over
the
space
“as
is”
buildings, higher-end flex buildings also
existing flex buildings in several ways.
that being a problem. This is not an
drive up property values in the indusBy devoting the entire ground floor to without seeking further permits.
office building. It’s not designed as an
“After the first tenant, they can easily trial district, making it harder for real
parking, it will not be ideal for either
office building.”
manufacturers and distributors to find
manufacturing or wholesaling. It will become something else,” he said.
He believes it will attract higher-end
have a two-stall loading dock and freight
Although the city retains the power to the low rents they need for their spaceindustries, software companies, printelevator, an inefficient arrangement for ban non-industrial tenants, the resourc- hungry operations.
ers and small manufacturers and disregular or high-volume shipments.
es and energy to do so have rarely been
The other problem posed by office
tributors. It also will be conducive to
The size of each unit will be deter- exercised in the Central Eastside Indus- uses hiding in flex industrial buildings
start-ups, which can expand in the same
is the disproportionate generation of
mined by the needs of as yet unknown trial District, said Stark.
building rather than having to make an
tenants. The emphasis on convenient
For one, the city will not inspect with- traffic and parking demand. Office uses expensive move.
parking—110 ground-level stalls—sug- out a complaint, and who would com- not only house more workers per square
“It reflects many of the changes going
gests the developer is preparing for a plain? Not the landlord, who wants to foot, they attract clients and customers
higher volume of workers and visitors retain tenants. Perhaps a nearby ten- in greater numbers than industry. The on in our economy,” he said. ■
extra cars clog up the streets, slowing
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Letters
continued from page 3
on what has become a local tragedy.
All the more sad when one realizes the
potential there, as despite the cutbacks,
the paper continues to have some great
reporting, such as the recent series on
the Oregon Lottery.
Stephen Kafoury
NW Couch St.
When The Oregonian was a firstrate newspaper, I didn't buy it, but only
because I had to throw away too much
of it unread. I hoped they would cut
back by printing different sections on
different days, or by selling them separately so we could buy only what we
intended to read. But instead, it lowered
its standards and even trashed the front
page with ads that have to be torn off
before reading it.
Sharon Joy
NW Upshur St.
I suppose I don't appreciate the article on The Oregonian more than others,
but your editorials so regularly please
me that I just need to select one to use as
a "thank you." I miss the old Oregonian
also. The online version is, as you say,
not nearly first rate.
Jim McGoodwin.
SW Terwilliger Blvd.
Micro apartments
I am skeptical about developer's
claims when it comes to estimates of
the percentage of car ownership among
potential tenants [“Micro units coming,”
December 2013]. I realize more people
choose not to own cars now than when I
was dealing with development, but I still
believe their estimates will prove low
and cynically wonder if this might have
been to make the development more
attractive to the city.
What turnover ratio do the developers predict for these units? Maybe the
rents are lower than other new apartments in the area, but I wonder how
long people will pay that much to live
in what amounts to (and is aesthetically
not much different than) a dorm room
in order to live in Northwest before they
move elsewhere in the city to live in full
apartments for the same or less money.
Doug Gentner
SW Canyon Dr.
MAC story [not] laughable
I would like to voice a counterpoint
to Seth Harris’s letter to the editor last
month in which he said that he does not
have any strong opinions or issues with
the Multnomah Athletic Club’s plans
for Block 7 in Goose Hollow. Yet he
strongly asserted that the comments of
the Northwest Examiner have been onesided and “laughable,” and he challenges the suggestion that the MAC project
is unpopular.
In contrast to Mr. Harris, who lives
some 20 blocks to the north of Goose
Hollow, I live immediately adjacent to
Block 7, and I am also a member of the
MAC. Being a joint stakeholder, I am
obliged to carefully balance my alle-
giances to the MAC, which I attend regularly for athletics and socializing, with
my loyalty to Goose Hollow residents
and friends, with whom I also socialize
in the immediate neighborhood.
Over the last six months or so, having
attended most of the meetings of the
Goose Hollow Foothills League board
and the GHFL Block 7 subcommittee, I can confirm that Mr. Classen has
attended all of these meetings. I can also
confirm that a considerable majority of
Goose Hollow neighbors present at subcommittee meetings have consistently
challenged the MAC/Mill Creek plan for
Block 7. Furthermore, at one meeting
of the subcommittee last summer I was
witness to a straw vote where the vast
majority present expressed their opposition to the project.
In other words, the Northwest Examiner’s reporting of the unpopularity of
the MAC/Mill Creek project in Goose
Hollow is accurate and is in no way
laughable.
Kal Toth
SW 19th Ave.
the most technical and innovative part
of the agreement, the agreement also
addresses access management, traffic
management, safety and security and
ongoing neighborhood communications. The article by omission suggests
that the GNA is only about clean diesel.
The article failed to represent the
team that put this agreement together
for the community. Kevin Downing was
indeed a very important support player,
but the bulk of the legwork was done
by the NWDA team led by Kathy Sharp,
who is not even mentioned in the article. Some mention of this group would
have been appropriate.
Sharon Genasci was indeed the driving force for the high standards achieved
through this agreement. If this article
was intended to focus on this one part
of the agreement, greater credit should
have been given to her.
Thank you for the coverage of several
important current neighborhood issues
and accomplishments. However, I have
some concerns with the “Clean Diesel”
[December 2013] article:
The $132,125 in pending Department
of Environmental Quality-administered grant funds is not being provided
through the Environmental Protection
Agency but from the Federal Highway
Administration. Those funds are being
matched with $13,570 in matching funds
from C.E. John. Those funds will not be
used for monitoring, but for equipment
retrofits only. NWDA applied to Penstemon Fund for monitoring funds, but
was turned down.
While the air-quality section of the
C.E. John and Northwest District Association Clean Diesel and Conduct of Construction Good Neighbor Agreement is
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to the finish line.
The article’s focus on Kevin Downing and C.E. John was appropriate—
they were instrumental in this effort—
but a bit more balance in telling this
story would have better informed the
neighborhood of this important milestone. While the NWDA board is indeed
pleased with the pending agreement
(as reflected in its unanimous approval), we know that much work remains
for its implementation.
I wish you had consulted the boardappointed team members to achieve
better balance in preparing this article.
Phil Selinger
NWDA president
Editor’s note:
Selinger is correct about the source
of the federal grant.
Monitoring has multiple meanings: The grant will be used to keep an
account of diesel equipment used on
site, but not to measure air quality in
the vicinity.
The article accurately described the
clean diesel element as an extension
of the larger good neighbor agreement.
This issue was the topic of many
contentious NWDA meetings, at times
dividing the board into factions. I
chose not to report the details of this
“sausage-making” process. While that
meant leaving out names of some who
contributed to the positive outcome,
it also omitted mention of individuals
some may have felt undermined the
agreement. In terms of NWDA’s image,
this could have been seen as a favor.
Local Choice
I was hoping someone would cover
the demise of Local Choice [“Market
closes as locals make other choices,”
December 2013]. The Oregonian did a
glowing report when they opened, but
just five sentences when they closed.
Your report hits all the reasons for the
failure.
I am concerned that Food Front may
go the same way, and for some of the
same reasons. Their decision last year
to enlarge the deli at the expense of
the kinds of groceries customers expect
from a natural food store was a bad idea.
With Whole Foods cutting into their
customer base and with New Seasons'
arrival imminent, they tried to emulate
those competitors. Selection in the rest
of the store decreased. The same brands
may be there, but there was a cut in flavors and package sizes. Instead, they
push trendy value-added meat and salads, except that their selection does
not—and never can—compare with
the others, and Food Front's prices will
always be higher, too. The management
at Food Front should acknowledge that
their store is different, and they should
play to its strengths.
Bruce Silverman
NW Irving St.
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Last November, former Multnomah Athletic Club president Lew Delo sent a two-page letter claiming our October
2013 cover story, “MAC Attack: A costly war over free parking,” was “incorrect, misleading and biased.”
The letter raised so many issues, we
divided it into three parts for publication and response.
The second part of Delo’s letter
began:
“Contrary to your implication that
the MAC does not have a traffic management plan, it has a robust one, one
that has been in place, improved upon
and approved by the neighborhood and
city for almost 30 years; a plan that
has included parking, bicycle, bus and
MAX components. Perhaps you have
forgotten your coverage of the MAC’s
partnership with the neighborhood
during the planning in the 1990s for the
Westside Light Rail.
…
“You are also wrong that “The MAC’s
solution [to parking] has always been
to build more parking.” One of the
most important light rail benefits for
the MAC and the neighborhood was
the Kings Hill station at Salmon Street
and Southwest 18th Avenue. The MAC
directly contributed almost $200,000
for the cost of the station.”
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of passes given out, as well as data on
what percent of visits are by transit, but
the club refused to share its data.
In 1994, the Examiner reported that
the MAC agreed to pay $150,000 toward
construction of the Salmon Street MAX
station in exchange for city approval to
expand the west end of its clubhouse.
“In exchange, the city and
GHFL[Goose Hollow Foothills League]
agree that the club now meets the traffic mitigation promises it made in its
10-year master plan,” the
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Rudolph began his life
as a Trojan horse.
sleigh were to be filled with blankets
donated for the homeless, Santa would
make an appearance on Christmas day.
Everyone was doing their part, but
hopes were nearly dashed when a
30-mile-an-hour windstorm on Dec. 19
knocked the well-traveled figure to the
ground, ripping loose its antlers and,
according to one report, possibly fracturing poor Rudolph’s neck.
“Rudolph may have met a tragic end!”
reported Guy Bodin, a Pearl photographer known for his neighborly good
works. “It appears that
he broke his neck in a fall
and also lost his red nose. …
SAD! ... It will take a MIRACLE
for him to rehab before Christmas Eve.
... I hope Santa has a backup plan!”
Bodin’s next report was over the top
with exultation.
“Rudolph is alive and undergoing emergency surgery
tonight,” he emailed neighbors. “Channel 6 News is on
the scene and covering the
tragic accident. ... Dr. James
Mabry was flown in to perform the surgery and will be working late in the
night to assure Rudolph's recovery. ...
Updates to follow.”
While the fate of Christmas 2013 hung
in the balance, Mabry found four nearby construction workers who helped
him lift the 1,500-pound reindeer back
to its feet. After securing the beast firmly
to a utility pole, Mabry reattached his
nose, put the antlers back on and found
there was nothing wrong with Rudolph’s
neck that a good hammer couldn’t fix.
People put more than 300 blankets in Rudolph’s sleigh.
Mabry said more than 300 blankets
were collected in the sleigh, and to keep
his promise, Santa sent an elf to handle
the photo op. For three hours, the elf
posed with families coming to record
the Christmas miracle.
Then Mabry took the blankets to
homeless people sleeping on sidewalks,
a practice he’s been quietly carrying out
for five years.■
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Residents show muscle in Goose Hollow elections
The Goose Hollow Foothills League board, which
retained control of the organization through five years
of controversies and reversals, at last suffered a membership revolt.
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
Four critics of the proposed Block 7
development were elected to the board
last month and two board mainstays
were unseated by write-in candidates at
an annual meeting attended by about 80
people last month.
The board has taken no official position on the Block 7 proposal, which
entails a rezoning of residential property
to accommodate an apartment building
with two levels of underground parking
for Multnomah Athletic Club members.
But neighbors of Block 7 have been
frustrated in their efforts to move the
organization to their side.
Some saw parallels in the board’s
refusal last March to oppose another
major apartment building by the same
developer, Mill Creek Residential, on
Southwest Jefferson Street. On that
issue, only one board member took the
side of adjacent neighbors.
This time, affected neighbors filled
GHFL meetings for months, then voted
in force for four candidates who shared
their perspective.
While the addition of four directors
does not create a new majority on the
14-seat board, it jeopardizes the near
unanimity behind several board missteps in recent years.
• Failure to rein in former board president Alan Beard, an architect who had
a contract with the city for the remodel
of Jeld-Wen Field at the same time as
he encouraged his board to support the
project.
• Refusal to release public documents, forcing a grievance hearing that
the board lost.
• Allowing former President Stuart
Smith to take actions, including defamatory tirades about individuals in the
neighborhood and the press, without
prior knowledge or discussion and without later review by the board.
The incumbents were re-elected, and
therein lies a message. Those incumbents, Scott Schaffer and Randy Wyzynsky, live in Goose Hollow. The incumbent unseated, Bill Reilly, and the other
unsuccessful candidate on the boardrecommended slate, Ken Puckett, do
not.
Among the new voting bloc, the word
seems to be: Don’t trust candidates who
live outside the neighborhood.
“The numbers appear emblematic of
a mandate to rebalance the residential
needs of our community,” said Connie
Kirk, resident of Legends, a condominium directly east of Block 7 that became
the center of opposition to the project.
GHFL ELECTION RESULTS
“Main Street has spoken,” Kirk continued. “The new make-up represents a
wide swath of voters' needs, from home
owners to renters, condo owners to Section 8 housing.”
Successful candidates Votes
Another Legends resident, Tom
Milne, also saw the election as a turning
point.
“It would appear that the neighborhood is sending a loud message to the
board that MAC-Mill Creek intentions,
at least as currently represented, are
not in the interests of the neighborhood,” said Milne. “We can all expect
the apologists for and supporters of the
MAC's efforts in the neighborhood to be
opposed if not silenced.”
GHFL President Leslie Johnson said,
“I think it's great to have a good-sized
crowd at the annual meeting, though
I could have wished for broader representation from the neighborhood as
whole. The several members coming
from the same building will be challenged to project … an interest in the
whole range of issues the neighborhood
faces.
“I am also sorry that we passed up on
the opportunity to have a board-level
representative from the largest, most
impactful landmark in the neighborhood,” Johnson added, referring to JeldWen Field.
Casey Milne
56
Timothy Moore 54
Scott Schaffer 38
Kal Toth
33
Jeff Schneider 31
Randy Wyszynski 30
Not elected
Ken Puckett 23
Bill Reilly 22
Jerry Powell, who has held several
positions with the neighborhood association since the 1970s, also bemoaned
the single-issue nature of the new activism.
“But that’s often what drives neighborhoods,” said Powell. “I’d like to see
a neighborhood jazzed about a new
transportation planning rule or about
the comprehensive plan or about local
politics … but I think that’s unlikely to
happen.
“But in general, I think the swing
back toward a majority residential is a
healthy one for purely experiential reasons: Residents are more likely to show
up for a monthly meeting.”■
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Physical therapists share
secrets of staying fit
Northwest Examiner readers live in a sea of exercise
options. Last year, we counted almost 30 gyms, yoga studios, Pilates places, martial arts schools, spinning facilities
and other sites of physical improvement in the Pearl and
Northwest District alone, and the count has only increased
in the past 12 months.
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
That doesn’t
include the ball
fields, outdoor
tennis and basketball courts or
public staircases
one may use without fee or memVincentBlaney
bership to stimulate the heart and tax the muscles. Or
spaces in homes where an exercise mat
can be rolled out on floor space where
someone might squat, jump or stretch.
Although Northwest Portland has
nothing to offer in this category, even a
jail cell provides all the space one needs
to work oneself into top condition. The
“jail cell workout” was suggested by
Todd Cruz, who manages Therapeutic
Associates in Montgomery Park. No one
need be deprived of the opportunity to
find fitness due to lack of space, equipment or civil liberty.
“You don’t need a lot of equipment,”
he said, noting that exercises based
on moving one’s own weight—such as
push-ups, sit-ups, burpees, jumping
jacks, lunges and squats—can provide
a full workout.
Instead of elaborate equipment, the
critical factor is using proper technique.
Many find the services of a trainer
essential in first learning a new exercise
or regimen and then monitoring performance to see that bad habits do not
emerge in time.
“Form is everything,”
said Cruz.
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Parking pay stations will be activated on January 10,
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FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE
• Expanded Park Ranger presence;
providing customer service and security
• Enhanced maintenance services
• Free, park-wide shuttle service
• Safety improvements for drivers, cyclists,
pedestrians, and visitors with disabilities
• A new park-wide master plan
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One cannot be too old,
too poor or too unhealthy
to exercise, but anyone can
benefit from the wisdom
of physical therapists like
Cruz and Vince Blaney,
who directs the North Lake
Physical Therapy clinic on
Northwest 15th Avenue.
When
overambitious,
careless technique or failure to flex at all take their
toll, people may wind up
Todd Cruz works with Amita Patel at Therapeutic Associates. / Photo Allan Classen
in physical therapy learning what they
wished they had taken in earlier.
We asked Cruz and Blaney what readers should know to get the most out of
their workouts and avoid injuries.
One point Blaney and Cruz emphasize is that there is no quick fix, and
seeking immediate results can be counterproductive. High-stress, aggressive
workout regimes invite injury.
Cross-fit and kettlebell gyms are
popular now, “which is fantastic,” said
Blaney, but some push it too hard.
The problem with maximum-intensity, rapid workouts focusing on the
large muscles of the chest, abdominals
and shoulders is that they may ignore
smaller muscles supporting proper posture. That can lead to injury, a forced
recovery period and then starting all
over again, “which can be more damaging over the long run,” he said.
“We tend to expect instant results,”
echoed Cruz. “We don’t allow tissues
time to adapt. When we overload tissues, we get tendonitis, strains and
sprains.”
Young athletes, especially girls, are
particularly vulnerable to knee injuries
due to lack of hip strength. When they
practice year round and compete in
high-stakes games and tournaments,
their cruciate ligaments often tear, said
Blaney. That’s why he advises youth
coaches to require hip-strengthening
exercises before workouts.
Cruz said active people in their ▶
THE PEARL
20s may be able to get away with less
than optimal flexibility or muscle imbalances, but when they reach 45, it’s a different story. People need to train harder
as they age to remain fit and active.
“Baby boomers have high expectations
of staying active,” he said, and he would
be the last person to say they should slow
down. They just need to be smarter and
more disciplined about it.
When something goes wrong, physical therapists see themselves as the first
line of defense. In Oregon, patients don’t
ordinarily need a referral from a physician to collect from their insurance
provider. By going to a physical therapist
first, patients can often avoid the pattern of pain prescriptions and tests that
typically follow a doctor’s visit. Going
to a medical doctor first may add delay
and extra costs while not addressing the
underlying cause of pain, weakness or
immobility.
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Therapists have a message aching athletes may not want to hear: keep moving.
Exercising when your body hurts seems
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the fastest and safest route to recovery.
Physical therapy “gets you to start
moving your body and see if that helps
first.”
If that prescription proves inadequate
or detrimental, it’s easy to back off without causing harm. The side effects, as
they say, are not an issue. So lift, step,
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HISTORY
Looking Back
BY DONALD R. NELSON
A four-story fortress of
cement, steel and glass
stands at the corner of
Northwest 14th Avenue
and Everett Street. Now
the shared home of Vestas,
Urban Airship and Gerding
Edlen Development Company, it was built as a warehouse and delivery depot
for Portland's home-grown
pioneer department store,
Meier & Frank, aka "Portland's own store.”
Construction of the Meier & Frank warehouse and delivery depot began in 1927. / Photo property of Donald R. Nelson
Gone with the wind
Although the last Meier & Frank store
became a Macy’s in 2006, the name
endures on lettering still attached to the
Everett Street entrance of the former
warehouse.
In 1927, the Meier & Frank empire
was growing. A Sunday Oregonian
article showcased growth plans, which
included the addition of two stories to
the downtown store and the construction of a delivery depot and warehouse
on Everett Street. The reinforced concrete structure was built by Waale-Shattuck Construction Company, completing work in early 1928.
Meier & Frank delivery depot becomes Vesta headquarters
1900, from a farmer in Tualatin, who
had purchased it in 1917. Two sorrel
horses were bought to pull the wagon,
and not just for show. The Oregonian
reported that the old wagon “would be
put back in service and will make deliveries on all local routes in Portland and
Salem in the next three months."
Later that year, it hosted the Portland
Auto Show, featuring the latest automobiles, motorboats and airplanes.
Jerry Risberg, who owned Risberg's
Truck Line, remembers that as a young
driver in the 1950s, he picked up merchandise from the warehouse on Everett. Risberg's provided delivery service
for Meier & Frank and other department
stores into the 1980s, hauling orders to
coastal communities, Central Oregon,
the Columbia River Gorge and small
towns that did not have furniture stores.
By 1940, The Sunday Oregonian
reported that the company's 83 delivery
trucks travelled 3,000 miles daily, delivering goods as far as Gresham, Oregon
City, Beaverton and Washougal, Wash.
The lower floor of the warehouse was
transformed in 1973 into a speakeasy
for “23 Skidoo,” a Junior Symphony fundraiser featuring musical act Monte Ballou and the Castle Jazz Band.
When Meier & Frank celebrated its
centennial in 1957, the company bought
back one of its delivery wagons, built in
Warehouse sales were held at the
delivery depot until the 1980s, when the
sales were transferred to another Meier
In 2010, the building was remodeled for a Vestas headquarters. / Photo Donald R. Nelson
& Frank warehouse three blocks north
that is now the Avenue Lofts.
In 1986, the Everett Street warehouse
was purchased by the Oregon Historical
Society to store artifacts. In 2000, after
dismissing the idea of redeveloping the
block for a new OHS museum and headquarters, the materials were moved to
the society's warehouse in Gresham.
Soon after, a development company
purchased both former Meier & Frank
warehouses for telecommunication
facilities.
"As recently as a year ago, The Oregonian reported in 2001, “investors lusted
after 80-year-old Northwest Portland
warehouses, finding their heavy floors,
thick walls and high ceilings ideal for
holding generators, servers and fiber
optic cable for internet, electronic storage and other communication operations for multiple tenants."
by PdxHistory.com
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While city officials and neighborhood representatives were leery of
“dead zones” that would not contribute
to community life, the “teleco hotels”
never got off the ground. The building
at 14th and Everett was admitted into
the National Register of Historic Places
in 2001.
The property sat vacant until 2010,
when work began to remodel it for the
North American headquarters of Vestas,
a Danish company touted as the world
leader in producing wind turbines.
The former Meier & Frank Delivery
Depot and warehouse was renovated by
Gerding Edlen Development Company, owner of the building, intending to
achieve LEED Platinum Certification for
the structure. Urban Airship, a mobile
technology company, has occupied
space in the Vestas building since the
middle of 2013.
The family owned Meier & Frank was
sold to the May Company in the mid1960s, which sold it to Macy’s parent
company in 2005.■
GOING OUT
Centennial Mills developer
prepares to ask mayor for dough
PDC forecasts spending $17.1 million on Centennial Mills through 2018,
but most of that money hasn’t been
approved. PDC spokesperson Shawn
Uhlman said it’s premature to speculate
on how much the agency might contribute to the project.
“There’s a lot ahead of us before we
can even commit the $17 million,” said
Uhlman.
Because the level of public subsidy ultimately available is unknown,
Schnitzer and his three teams of architects have prepared seven alternative
levels of redevelopment, each with its
own price tag. The list begins with clearing the land for a park and goes up to
the full Monty, complete with a dock
and glass-covered performance space
along the river, two underground parking garages, housing, offices and a major
sports retailer.
Even the minimalist approach of
demolishing the buildings and returning the property to open space was estimated in 2004 at about $12 million, and
Schnitzer indicated it would cost much
more now. If the city opts for the lowestcost option, he can live with that. But if
the project is to fulfill to adopted goals
of historic preservation and sustainability while creating community focal
points and strengthening connections,
the public costs will be greater.
In the past six months, a team of
consultants and other individuals have
held 15 meetings where raw ideas were
honed into tangible designs. That team
will complete the planning phase this
month.
Along the way, Schnitzer put aside
at least one of his original aversions. In
June, he had little interest in food, noting
that many Portland restaurants along
the river had failed.
“I feel much stronger about restaurants,” he said. “A restaurant or two could
be fabulous.”
If all goes well, plans could be presented to the public this spring and a
series of community meetings scheduled to receive input.
Schnitzer insists he didn’t take on the
project for financial reasons.
“We don’t have to make this work
commercially,” he said.
He said he feels no pressure to complete something by a certain date, or to
build anything at all if that’s the course
the city chooses.
“We’re not shoving anything down
anyone’s throat,” he said. “Just the opposite.
“We’re not selling anything other than
[this should be] a legacy project.”
That will involve obtaining a large
public subsidy, but to him, that’s the
easy part.
“The most difficult thing is not the
money,” he said. “It’s doing the right
thing. What will be right for the long
term?”■
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BY WENDY GORDON
I reviewed Café Nell when it
opened five and a half years
ago, noting its “sophisticated but neighborly mood”
and its appeal as a “gregarious extension of one’s own
kitchen.”
Over the years, Café Nell has established itself as a friendly gathering spot
tucked away on a residential street,
where a lively cast of regulars feels at
home.
In the winter, curtains protect against
the wet wind, holiday wreaths line the
walls and the red fireplace casts a welcome glow. In the summer, outdoor
tables line the sidewalks, creating a festive party atmosphere. The crowd is
eclectic and urbane; lots of groups of
friends dine together.
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day management of the restaurant last
year, she decided to extend its reach.
She brought in chef Ethan Flom (formerly of Broder) to jazz up the dinner
menu, adding finesse and creativity to
the comfort food theme. He expanded
the dinner offerings, splitting them into
more conventional divisions of starters, salads and entrées. More sauces
appeared and more imaginative vegetable preparations were used. Turn to
the last page of the menu, though, and
all the old favorites are still there.
And the mood remains the same. As
always, the ingredients are seasonal and
locally sourced. While some of the dishes may be more complex, they are still
comforting and generously enhanced
with butter and cream.
On a recent visit, I sampled cobia,
a sustainably farmed, firm-textured
fish gaining popularity as overfishing
decimates better-known species. My
impression was positive, but I’m sure
that was influenced by its creamy lobster sauce and accompanying cauliflower purée. Grated carrot on top added a
touch of crispness.
tional requirements with a kale Caesar
salad. I often feel like I’m overdosing on
kale these days, but this is an excellent,
understated preparation, substituting
fresh, roasted kale for the conventional
romaine in a light, subtle salad. A daily
flatbread, perhaps topped with arugula
and parmesan, or the somewhat richer
brussels sprout salad with bacon, are
other good starters.
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
The dessert menu is limited. The
best option may be the chocolate chip
brownie topped with a thin dab of peanut butter mousse and a more ample
scoop of strawberry ice cream.
Lunch features a wider range of salads and sandwiches, plus a few entrées,
such as the chanterelle risotto and
chicken paillard (pounded chicken
breast in a white wine sauce, topped
with a frisee and tomato salad).
The brunch menu is huge and hedonistic, including lots of savories, such
as burgers, shrimp, oysters and grits, as
well as a variety of eggs benedict.
The steamed manila clams, small and
tender, came in a creamy, peppery broth
topped with a pile of their signature
twice-fried hand-cut potatoes. A double
dose of mushroom—both infusing the
sauce and as individual nuggets—made
the chanterelle risotto woodsy, dense
and satisfying. The lamb ragu, contrasting herbs and tomato with—yes—more
cream, is another popular entrée this
time of year.
In keeping with their sociable
approach, Café Nell offers a raft of special days for those in the know. On Mondays, one of their four beers on tap sells
for $2 a pint all day. On Tuesdays, every
bottle of wine on their list sells for half
price. On Wednesdays, happy hour lasts
all night long in the bar. Thursdays are
Date Night, when two people can share
one starter, two entrées and a bottle of
wine—all off a limited menu—for $45.
Saturday night brings “Bottomless Bubbles”—unlimited sparkling wine from
6-10 p.m. for $10 a person.
Before settling into one of these comfort plates, you might satisfy your nutri-
“Café Nell looks like a survivor,” I
noted in my 2008 review. I was right.■
A true jewel on Northwest 23rd Avenue
is the bright smile of Tiffany, who bartends
mornings at the Nob Hill Bar and Grill. The
breakfast crowd has grown since the arrival
of her cheerful service and pleasing personality. “Mornings are nicer now that we keep
Greg the breakfast cook back in the kitchen
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Community Events
Local Food Panel
A panel discussion on local food,
featuring local farmers and chefs, will
be held at Congregation Shaarie Torah,
920 NW 25th Ave., Sunday, Jan. 26, 11
a.m. The event is sponsored by the Milt
& Cissi Carl Parent-Child Preschool,
and the cost is $10. The panel includes
Scott Dolich, owner and chef of Park
Kitchen and The Bent Brick; Shari Sirkin, owner of Dancing Roots Farm;
Amy Love of Love Farm Organics; and
Ed Casey of Veggie Grill. For more
information, call 503-226-6131.
Handwriting workshop
A free handwriting improvement
workshop will be offered Jan. 25, 10
a.m.-1 p.m., at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Kempton Hall, 147 NW 19th Ave.
The instructors are Portland authors
and handwriting experts Inga Dubay
and Barbara Getty. All materials will
be provided. Donations to the Trinity
Food Pantry are requested.
Rotary programs
Portland Pearl Rotary Club meets
every Tuesday 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.
This month’s programs are:
Jan. 7: Pearl Rotary midyear review,
Marc Hillman, club president.
Jan. 14: In-bound Student Exchange
presentation, Eda Baysak (Turkey),
Lincoln High School student.
Jan. 21: “The Oregonian, post-Oct.
1, 2013—Death of print or life of online
journalism?” Peter Bhatia, The Oregonian.
Feb. 5: Wellness
presentation, Roger
Meyer, M.D., Mary
Ward, David Holliday,
Jim Bowman, D.C.
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A British documentary, “Project
Wild Thing,” about one man’s mission
to market nature to children and get
them to play outdoors, will be shown
Jan. 15, 7 p.m., at Mission Theater,
1624 NW Glisan St. At 6:45 p.m., former Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder
will give a brief talk. A $5 donation
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Screening.
Town hall
Rep. Mitch Greenlick and Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward will hold a town
hall meeting to discuss the upcoming
legislative session Tuesday, Jan. 28, 6
p.m., at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital Auditorium, 1040 NW 22nd Ave.
Ainsworth open house
Ainsworth Elementary School, 2425
SW Vista Ave., will hold a Connect
to Kindergarten open house Jan. 30,
6:30 p.m. Call 503-916-6288 to inquire
about transfer opportunities in all
grades.
Senior Trips
The Friendly House Senior Trips
this month include:
Jan. 9: Historic Deepwood Estate, 11
a.m.- 3 p.m.Jan. 16: Rose City Classic
Dog Show, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Jan. 23: Lan Su Chinese Garden,
noon-2 p.m.
All trips are on Thursdays and transportation is provided by Ride Connection. Many of our trips have a waiting
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Jon Duclos
Matt Krueger
Umpqua Bank
Eli Lamb
Garvey Schubert Barer
Sally Lawrence
Jane Glazer
Jeff Boly
Frank & Frances Lolich
Timothy Ely
Dave Carter
Bill Karow
Megan Ross
John Bradley
Sandra Diedrich
Chuck Palahniuk
Taj Wilson
Julie Fale
Mike Sublett
Marty Birkenthal
Joleen Classen
Greg Hermens
Carlos Camus
Ashley Linder
Doug Lynch
Lynn Reid Miller
Nili Schiffman
Hal Hart
Greg Hermens
John Grigsby
Robert Liberty
Dawn Urban
Arnie Rochlin
Fred Dewolfe
Hazel Hall Poetry Park
Portland Brewing Taproom
Zefiro
John Callahan
John Monteverde
Philip Krohn
Portland Rockies
Peg Henwood
Chuck Martin
Arthur Spencer
Howard Glazer
Paul Koberstein
Phil Geffner
Quinn Rohlf
Frank Weigel
Jan Valentine
Elaine Mann
Thomas Manley
Don Kruger Mary Peveto
Juliet Hyams
Laura Russo
Donna Matrazzo
Jeff Joslin
Bill Welch
Greg Hermens
Carter Case
Rachel Bachman
Anna & Jeff Phelps
Caroline Fenn
Sherri Nee
Becca Kavel
Phil Selinger
Kelly Walston
Michael Hall
Charlotte & Ogden Beeman
Perry Westbrook
Bill Aylward
Marti & Glen Gordon
Homestreet Bank
Roz Babener
Joe Moreau
David August
Hugh Ackroyd
Gayle Hammond
John & Tom Becic
Csaba Mera
Amy Colville
Vera Katz
Mary Edmeades
Matt Engen
Walter Cole
Joseph Scott
Mike McGrath
Lee Rosenau
Greg Crawford
Berta Delman
Gwen Farnham Hyland
Vaune Albanese
June Schumann
David & Josephine Cameron
Jackie Mathys
Arthur Spencer
Carol Smith-Larson
Bob Lustberg
Russell Kaye
Stacey Mattraw
Kitsy Brown Mahoney
Kara Magee-Arick
Jane Netboy
Al Moulton
Katie Harper
Michael Harrison
Sichel House
Uptown Hardware
Junior & Georgia Baldwin
Nicole Mones
Canon John Strege
Owen Carey
John Bradley
Cody Hill
David Steinberg
Jason Reynolds Father Richard Berg
Helen Gurganus
Frances Durrell
Ike Bay
Joy Lawrence
Barbara Stross
Duane Cook
Christine Lolich
John Sherman
Frank Dixon
Steve Fosler
St. Patrick's Church
Eric Ladd
Singer Properties
Delfina's
Ursula Leguin
Leo Winslow
Lucinda Parker
Christine Lacie-Krietz
Erik Steinfeld
Selwyn Bingham
Vincent Paveskovich
Jean Waldo
Gerald Palmrose
Susan Anderson
Marion Grassley
Al Solheim
Bob Shores
Ryan Grossenbacher
Karl Wetzel
Sharon Genasci
Dan Anderson
Rick Michaelson
John & Betty Gega
Bing Sheldon
Harris Wine Cellar
Cantores in Ecclesia
Joe Bianco
Art in the Pearl
Frank Dixon
Steve McCarthy
Homer Medica
Michele Russo
NW Examiner Community Award night
WHO WILL JOIN THE LIST IN 2014?
To nominate someone in any category, please fill out this form and send it to:
Northwest Examiner
2825 NW Upshur St., Suite C
Portland, OR 97210
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Why they should be honored
Deadline: Jan. 14, 2014
Person making nomination
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Nominator’s phone or email address
Nominations may also be made by answering above questions and emailing
to allan@nwexaminer.com
2014 Northwest Examiner Community Award night is Saturday, May 10
Business
Finance & Real Estate
Developer of Con-way area to speak Jan. 14
HW
Y 30
NW THURMAN
Con-way Main Building
DiChiara will narrate a PowerPoint
presentation on general plans, locations
and the schedule for buildings, parking
and open spaces.
Locally Owned
NW SAVIER
NW RALEIGH
Future
New
Seasons
Market
Apartments
The
Square
The Park
NW 21ST
NW QUIMBY
NW 21ST
He also intends to share his thoughts
on the former Consolidated Freightways
truck repair garage at Northwest 21st
and Pettygrove. Although the master
plan calls for a park and square on
this block, DiChiara believes it may be
advantageous to save and remodel the
structure.
“Maybe there is a way to re-purpose
that building into something really wonderful,” he told the Examiner, “and use
the open spaces outside on the block
on the south and north sides as public
plaza space for community events, a
farmers’ market and green space; things
like sunken gardens or amphitheater
spaces perhaps.”
Tom DiChiara
CONWAY RETAINED PARCELS
Pending
Existing
Apartments
Tom DiChiara is development manager for C.E. John Co., which Con-way
recently named master developer of the
area, which is centered on Northwest
C.E. JOHN PARCELS
Pending
In Progress/Completed
21st and Raleigh streets. A master plan
approved by the city sets height and
density limits and provides for parking
structures and a public square and park.
A separate good neighbor agreement
with the Northwest District Association
sets additional goals, including the use
of clean diesel equipment that will substantially reduce exhaust emissions.
NW 22ND
A key figure in the redevelopment of the 17.5-acre
Con-way area will speak at
the January meeting of the
Slabtown Community Association. The meeting, which
is open to the public, will
be held Jan. 14, 6:30 p.m.,
at Dragonfly Coffee House,
2387 NW Thurman St.
NW PETTYGROVE
The Con-way master plan area covers 17.5 acres. C.E. John will be responsible for
building the blocks shown in red.
The Slabtown Community Association is a recently incorporated nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of
the neighborhood between Northwest
Lovejoy, Vaughn, I-405 and 29th. Membership is $25 per year. Information is
available at slabtownpdx.org.■
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BUSINESS
Business Beat
BY DENNY SHLEIFER
Development outlook bright
for Northwest Portland
After six years of recession
and shaky recovery, the
economy of Northwest Portland looks poised to regain
some glow this year. Several
major building projects
are being completed, and
others are about to break
ground.
It is in times like these when business
people, who are by habit optimistic,
sometimes admit how bad things were.
“The world turned upside down in
2008,” said Robert Scanlan, president
of Scanlan Kemper Bard Companies, a
real estate merchant banking firm headquartered in the Pearl. SKB has been
acquiring developing and managing
office, retail, industrial, mixed-use and
hotel properties in the Western United
States for more than 20 years.
“In December 2007, Scanlan Bard
Kemper employed 47 people,” said
Scanlan. “By December 2010, we were
down to 16. Now we are back to 39.
“Our business model is working
again. The future is bright. I’m thrilled,”
he said. “For the first time since 2008,
I feel truly confident about the future.”
Evidence that the optimism is
spreading will soon be seen on Block
15 (between Northwest 10th, 11th,
Northrup and Overton), where Hoyt
Street Properties expects to break
ground this summer on a 28-story, 350foot condominium point tower called
Park Central.
“It will be our biggest project to date,”
said Tiffany Sweitzer, president of Hoyt
Street Properties.
“We are listening to our customer
base and see the opportunity to build a
high-end luxury tower that many here
in the Pearl have been waiting for for
a long time,” said Sweitzer. “The Park
Central is going to be a very exciting
project.”
And that’s not all.
“We are breaking ground shortly on
Block 17 (Northwest 11th, 12th, Overton
and Pettygrove),” said Sweitzer of the tobe-named building, a partnership with
a Seattle development company.
The Abigail, at Northwest 13th and
Raleigh (Block 27), will also begin construction this year. It’s a six-story, 142unit affordable apartment project being
developed by a San Francisco-based
company, Bridge Housing.
Another major Pearl developer, Robert Ball, expects to complete a 177-unit,
high-end apartment building at Northwest 12th, 13th, Pettygrove and Quimby
streets, by mid year.
“It’s very exciting to see the north end
of the Pearl coming to fruition,” said
Ball, who is credited with coining the
name NOLO (North of Lovejoy) for this
area. “There are several fantastic building projects that will be under construction when our project, The Parker, is
completed early this summer.
“If Portland civic and political leaders
focus on creating jobs, we are poised
to finally realize the potential to fill the
bookends that our neighbor to the north,
Seattle, and our neighbor to south, San
Francisco, have already accomplished,”
he added. “We are poised for greatness.”
Denny Shleifer can be reached at
denny@nwexaminer.com 503-894-9646.
Construction on the full-block mega-gym, Planet Granite, has begun at Northwest
14th and Pettygrove. In the background, The Parker, a 177-unit apartment building
facing Northwest 13th Avenue, has reached its full height.
Business Briefs
Following the Northwest Examiner’s cover story last November, an independent campaign to save the Gas Building on Northwest St. Helens Road has
been launched. A website can be reached at facebook.com/SaveThePortlandHistory. An online petition drive has collected about 1,700 signatures.
Seams to Fit Clothing has moved across the street to 2239 NW Raleigh and
Seams to Fit Home Furnishings has moved three doors east to an adjoining
space at 2237 NW Raleigh. Owner Sherry Linder said the move is an expansion
and allows her to operated both businesses under one roof.
Krown Lab, a manufacturer of hardware for sliding glass doors in Southeast
Portland, has purchased a 40,000-square-foot industrial building at 2337 NW
York St.
A nine-story office building with three levels of underground parking and
ground-floor retail is planned at Northwest 14th and Irving streets.
Relish Home + Interior Design is moving from 1715 NW Lovejoy St. to the
Honeyman Lofts building at Northwest Ninth and Glisan in February.
A Mexican restaurant, Uno Mas Taquiza, is replacing Portland Urban Bistro
in the Civic Condominiums building at 1914 W. Burnside St. Owner Waldo
Bibiano has another Uno Mas on Northeast Glisan Street.
Michael Skogg has moved Skogg Kettlebell from the Pearl District to Northwest 26th Avenue in the Industrial District.
Karen DaVanzo Bowler and Eric Bowler have purchased Tube, a nightclub
at 18 NW Third Ave. They plan to remodel the interior and cater to an older
more affluent crowd.
After nine years at 512 NW 17th Ave., Divine Designs Bridal Boutique has
moved to 2325 NW Westover Rd., the old French Quarter space.
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BUSINESS
New Businesses
Co-owners Sarah Curtis Fawley
& Chris Powell
Pacific Pie Company
Ovation Coffee & Tea
1668 NW 23rd Ave.
503-894-9482
pacificpie.com
941 NW Overton St.
971-282-6565
ovationpdx.com
Husband-wife team Sarah CurtisFawley and Chris Powell launched the
business in 2009 because, as Sarah says,
“Chris was homesick for all things from
his homeland Australia.” So she started
baking meat pies, and since then the
company has become a quick-service
bakery and a full-service restaurant and
bar in Southeast Portland, and has now
opened its second location at Northwest
23rd and Savier.
Look/See
Co-owners Dee Carter
and Carter Elhabbassi
Mi Mero Molo
539 NW 13th Ave.
503-928-8271
lookseegoods.com
32 NW Fifth Ave.
971-266-8575
Mmmtacospdx.com
Kyle and Shu-Chu Yamaguchi recently
opened Look/See, a prescription lenses
and frames showroom in the Pearl, at
539 NW 13th Ave. on the second floor
just above Barista. “We sell prescription
glasses starting at $99,” said Kyle Yamaguchi. Frames come in more than 200
different styles. Shu-Chu Yamaguchi is a
licensed optician.
Co-owners Kyle & Shu-Chu Yamaguchi
Nick Zukin is opening his second Mi
Mero Mole location, featuring Mexican
guisado and house-made tortillas. It will
be open for lunch only at first, with
dinner and perhaps breakfast take-out
coming later. The original Mi Mero Molo
has been on Southeast Division Street
Pablo Portilla (right), manager, with
for two years.
owner Nick Zukin.
Triple Lindy
Ultra Chiropractic &
Rehab
1000 NW 17th Ave.
971-570-5945
Cap Meyers (left) and Mike Miller.
Brothers Carter and Zack Elhabbassi,
and their mother Dee Carter, opened
their “new concept” coffee shop in the
Encore Building recently. They feature
Moroccan mint tea, spiced Moroccan
coffee and espresso. Their menu of pastries and side orders includes baklava,
croissants and gyros. They also sell sandwiches. They have gluten-free products
and a kids’ menu. Winter hours for Ovation are 6 a.m.-6 p.m.
Cap Meyers and Mike Miller opened
the Triple Lindy in the former Caps
and Corks location. The name comes
from a high-board dive made famous
by a Rodney Dangerfield movie. Meyers combined his experience as a former owner of Pause Kitchen and Bar
on North Interstate with Miller’s East
Coast Italian roots to create a menu that
includes mozzarella focaccia, braised
pork on rigatoni pasta, antipasto salad,
meatballs, Italian sausage, cheese ravioli and sandwiches. They make their
own sauces and ricotta and mozzarella
cheeses. Their goal is to create a neighborhood place with good food and a full
bar. Hours are 3 p.m. to about midnight.
1977 NW Overton St., Suite C
503-208-5084
ultrachiropracticandrehab.com
Megan Zetter
Megan Zetter, a chiropractor for two
years, moved her office to Northwest
Portland in October. She was drawn to
the profession after experiencing a knee
injury as an ultra runner and finding a
chiropractor who helped her recover.
She works on the entire body, not just
back and spine, and specializes in rehabilitation. She spends the first 30 minutes of an appointment consulting with
the patient to be sure she understands
the problem.
St. Jack
1610 NW 23rd Ave.
stjackpdx.com
Chef Aaron Barnett, who gained critical
acclaim with his St. Jack on Southeast Clinton
Street, is opening a second location at Northwest
23rd and Raleigh in mid-January. The name
comes from the classic French dish, Coquilles
Saint-Jacques, and his grandfather Jack. Barnett
believes in non-pretentious French cooking that
is old school and authentic. He plans to open the
restaurant and bar first, with a patisserie to be
added later. The Westside St. Jack will have some
new offerings, including a flambé cart and a
cheese cart that will be brought to diners’ tables.
Absinthe cocktails will also be prepared table
side. The escargot are free-range snails flown in
from Burgundy, France. Restaurant hours will
be 5-10 p.m., and the bar will be open 4 p.m.midnight.
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BUSINESS
ADDCO Electric Fireplaces
Flores Chiropractic
McMenamins Pubs
Selco Community Credit Union
Albina Community Bank
Food Front
Meriwether’s Restaurant
Shleifer Marketing Communications
Amalgamated Transit Union
Forest Heights Veterinary Clinic
Albert Menashe
Mike Skillman
Albert Menashe
Friendly House
Metro
Slabtown Festival
Antoinette
Great Vancouver Luxury Homes
Will Meysing
St. Mark’s Parish
Apple Music
Hala’s Lebanese Grill
Mission Theater History Night
St. Patricks Church
Ashiyu Foot Spa
Jeff Houghtaling
Monkey King
Steven R. Smucker, Attorney at Law
Audio Geeks
Hoyt Realty Group
Neighbors West / Northwest
Storage Therapy
BASCO
IMPAC Mortgage
Mark Niebur
Streetcar Bistro
Beau Thai
Industrial Café & Saloon
Sustainable Planet
Besaw’s
Inn @ Northrup Station
Northlake Physical Therapy
Synergy Women’s Health
Blitz 21
InTone
Northwest Dermatology
Tesla Electric
Bonnet Hats & Accessories
The Amico Group
Northwest Neighborhood Vet
Tom Leach Roofing
Bureau of Planning & Sustainability
Julie Lawrence Yoga Center
Northwest Postal/Yeon Mini Storage
Trinity Episcopal
C.Z. Becker
Katayama Framing
O’Neal Moving and Storage
Tropical Salvage
Cha Taqueria
Kells Brewpub
Pacific Hypnotherapy
Twist Frozen Yogurt
Chapman School
Neil Kelly
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Uptown EyeCare
Class Academy
Kingston Bar & Grill
Parklane Mattresses
WDC Properties
Columbia Recycling
Sharon Kitzhaber
Pearl District Business Assoc.
(W) here Realty
Daniels Construction
Kiva Spa & Tea
Pitman Family Dentistry
A Woman’s Time
Derrin Amico
Kurilo General Contracting
Pomarius Nursery
World Cup
Director’s Mortgage
Lawyers Title
Portland Community College
Yoga Space
Downtown Self Storage
Lee Davies Team
Portland Farmer’s Market
Zion Lutheran Church
Dustin Posner
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital
Portland Girl’s Choir
Elephants Deli
Legacy Preservation Law
Pro Photo Supply
Encore Club
Le Happy
Portland Parks & Recreation
Escape from NY Pizza
Linnton Feed & Seed
Postal Annex
ESCO
Linnton Community Center
Pressure Wash
Europa Antiques
Lloyd Center Ice Skating rink
Pumpkin Patch
Evergreen Fair Trade
Local Choice
Rae’s Lakeside Lounge
Everett Street Auto Works
Lompoc Tavern
Ringside Restaurant
Scott Fernandez
Marrakesh
Louis Sargent
First Immanuel Lutheran Church
Marshall Union Manor
Scuola Italia
Pirouette Powerrise
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January
2014
Sylvan-Highlands Planning &
Volunteer Celebration
Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Sylvan Fire Station, 1715 SW Skyline Boulevard
Sylvan-Highlands residents, join your neighbors in January for a discussion
about the future of the Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhood Association (SHNA) and
to honor good deeds in the neighborhood. Come celebrate the many volunteers
who have coordinated local events, advocated to support community livability,
and much more – and consider how you might help.
Happy New Year from
NW District Association!
Happy new year from your neighborhood association.
We live in a great neighborhood, and together we can
make it better!
The Northwest District Association has been dedicated
to creating a great community since 1973! This year,
give your neighbors the gift of participation. Help shape
our community! Identify a problem, suggest a solution
and get involved! There is a lot going on – from parking
and development to concerts and clean-ups. Choose transportation, development,
air quality, parks, parking, public safety or your own topic. Committees meet
regularly and welcome new members. Membership is free and open to all.
The SHNA board is currently seeking interested neighbors to participate on the
board and to help with neighborhood communication. What’s your
interest? Dog parks, zoo parking, traffic, native vegetation, neighborhood
Visit www.northwestdistrictassociation.org to identify a concern, become
cleanups, ZooLights or something else? Contact the board to express your
a
member, subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter, learn about current
interest or to recommend a neighbor – email
projects, view our schedule and more!
board@sylvanhighlands.org. Visit the SHNA
Connect
with
us
via
social
media
–
website at www.sylvanhighlands.org for more
Scan the QR code to follow us on Facebook.
Facebook, forums, e-news & more.
information about the neighborhood.
Anticipate Spring:
Plan Your Clean Up!
For more information, visit:
www.nwnw.org/get-involved/social-media
While it may still feel cold and rainy, spring is just around the corner and it’s
time to start thinking about how to make your neighborhood shine! Why not
partner with your neighbors and organize a clean up? Last spring, Neighbors
West-Northwest neighborhoods, including Forest Park, Goose Hollow, the
Northwest District, Northwest Heights, the Pearl District, and Sylvan-Highlands
removed over four tons of mixed waste materials from neighborhood streets!
Limited funds are available to help neighborhood associations host cleanups
through May 2014. Litter cleanups, recycling/reuse events, and bulky waste
cleanups are eligible. To learn more about the neighborhood cleanup program
requirements or to get in touch with your neighborhood association to suggest
a project, visit www.nwnw.org/get-involved/neighborhood-clean-ups or contact
Jen (503 823-4265 or jen@nwnw.org).
All neighborhood cleanups must be registered by early March to receive
funding. Additional information will be sent directly to neighborhood board
chairs/presidents in early February. Funding provided by:
Help Capture
N’hood History!
Are you a local historian? Writer? Passionate local community member?
Neighbors West-Northwest (NWNW) is looking for several new volunteers
familiar with the local community and interested in history and writing. Volunteers
will serve on a review committee supporting a coalition-wide storytelling
project. NWNW will be soliciting stories from community members focused
on community, grassroots democracy and activism, livability, sustainability and/
or equity. This project will encompass all of our twelve member neighborhood
associations.
We expect that committee members will spend approximately 5 hours per month
providing guidance to staff, discussing submissions, and attending meetings
from February to June 2014. The project will culminate in a short anthology and
will provide content for neighborhood walking tours. To express your interest,
please email angela@nwnw.org with your name, phone number, neighborhood,
and a short 200-word statement describing your background and why you would
like to participate. Please submit by January 31, 2014. Emails will be reviewed
as they arrive. For more information about Neighbors West-Northwest, visit
www.nwnw.org.
Annual Meetings & Elections
Goose Hollow FootHills leaGue
The results are in! In December 2013,
Goose Hollow Foothills League members elected
the following people to fill out their 14-person board.
• Casey Milne
• Jeffrey Schneider
• Timothy Moore
• Kal Toth
• Scott Schaffer
• Randy Wyszynski
The Goose Hollow Foothills League board meets
at 7:00 PM on the third Thursday of the month at
the Multnomah Athletic Center. Some committees
meet monthly as well, including Communications
and Planning. For a meeting schedule, visit
www.goosehollow.org/calendar.
Nw NeiGHborHood Cultural CeNter
The Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center (NNCC) annual membership meeting is at 7:00 PM on
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at the Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett, in Looking Glass Hall (lower level).
Directors for the term beginning in 2014 will be elected. The current NNCC Board proposes the
following candidates: Bill Welch and Mark Desbrow. NNCC members may nominate candidates for
Director positions by petition until January 26, 2014. 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.
Deliver nominating petitions to the NNCC Secretary: NWNeighhorhoodCC@gmail.com or NNCC,
P.O. Box 96116, Portland, OR 97296-6002. The bylaws limit the maximum number of Directors to
eleven (11) and two (2) of the eleven (11) positions need to be filled. See www.1819everett.org for more
information on NNCC and membership.
Forest Park NeiGHborHood assoCiatioN
The annual FPNA election of members of the Board of Directors will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 to fill four positions with expiring
terms. The four candidates receiving the most votes will be elected to 3-year terms. If necessary, a tie will be resolved by lots or agreement of the
subject candidates.
Qualifying nominations submitted by members of the association will be accepted if received on or before January 17, 2014. Candidates must be
members of the association. To submit nominations, join the association, or for additional information, contact Neighbors West-Northwest, 2257 NW
Raleigh, Portland, OR 97210; 503 823-4288, coalition@nwnw.org
Nominations must be submitted by the person nominated, or accompanied by written consent of that person. Each candidate’s name, home address, phone
number and any other preferred means of contact must be included. It is customary (but not required) to provide a candidate’s statement of up to 20 words with
each nomination. Names, statements, and the time and place of voting will be published in the February, 2014 edition of the Northwest Examiner.
If fewer than four nominations are received by January 17, 2014, the President may nominate additional candidates.
Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest
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Northwest District
Association
Arlington Heights
Neighborhood Association
www.arlingtonheightspdx.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., January 13th
5:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
northwestdistrictassociation.org
BOARD MEETING
Monday, January 27th
6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan
Wilcox ACR 102
1015 NW 22nd Ave
Forest Park
Air Quality Committee
www.portlandair.org
Monday, January 13th
7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St
Contact: Jerry Grossnickle
503 289-3046
www.forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., January 21st
7:00 pm
Willis Community Center
360 NW Greenleaf
Executive Committee
Wed., January 15th
8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh
Goose Hollow
Foothills League
Planning Committee
Thursday, January 9th, 16th,
23rd, 30th & Feb. 6th
8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh
Call to Confirm: 503 823-4212
www.goosehollow.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., January 16th
7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St
2nd Saturday Clean Up
Saturday
Jan. 11th & Feb. 8th
9:00 am
Food Front
2375 NW Thurman
Planning Committee
Tues., Jan. 7th & Feb. 4th
7:00 pm
First United Methodist
1838 SW Jefferson
3rd Saturday Clean Up
Saturday, January 18th
9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd
Check www.nwnw.org/calendar
to confirm.
Neighborhood Vision
Realization Committee
TBA
Goosehollow.org/calendar for
updates
Safety & Livability Committee
Tuesday, January 14th
6:00 pm
Location TBD
for updates
Communications Committee
Wed., Jan. 8th & Feb. 5th
8:00 am
Artists Repertory Theater
1515 SW Morrison
Block 7 Planning Subcommittee
Wed., January 8th
7:00 pm
First United Methodist
Room 202
1838 SW Jefferson
To confirm, email:
ghfl.block7@gmail.com
Hillside
www.hillsidena.org
BOARD MEETING
7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper
Transportation Committee
6:15 pm
Wilcox ACR 102
1015 NW 22nd Ave
Northwest Industrial
www.ninapdx.org
NINA MEETING
7:00 a.m. - Meet and greet
7:30 a.m. - Meeting
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St
Linnton Neighborhood
Association
www.linnton.com
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday
January 8th
7:00 pm
Linnton Community
Center
10614 NW St Helens Rd
Northwest Heights
Contact: Charlie Clark,
503 459-3610
BOARD MEETING
Monday, Jan 6th &
Feb. 3rd
12:30 pm
FHHOA Offices
2033 NW Miller Rd
Call to confirm:
503 823-4212
Old Town Chinatown
Community Association
www.oldtownchinatown.org
for committee contacts & updates
COMMUNITY MEETING
11:30 am
BOARD MEETING
1:00 pm
Meetings held at:
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch
Portland Downtown Continued...
Land Use & Transportation
Committee
Mon., January 27th
5:30 pm
Eliot Tower, 3rd Fl. Meeting
Room, 1221 SW 10th Ave
Public Safety Action Committee
Wednesday, January 8th
12:00 pm
Portland Building
Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave
Marketing & Communications
Committee
Thurs., January 16th, 3:30 pm
One Pacific Square
220 NW 2nd, 11th floor
Land Use & Design Review
Committee
Tues., January 21st, 11:30 am
Location TBA
Check with committee chairs
See above
Streetscape Improvement
Committee
Tues., January 21st, 3:30 pm
Location TBA
Check with committee chair
See above
Pearl District
www.pearldistrict.org
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., January 9th, 6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Executive Committee
Thurs., February 6th, 8:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave
Livability & Safety Committee
Monday, Jan. 6th & Feb. 3rd
6:00 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Planning & Transportation
Committee
Tues., Jan. 7th, 21st & Feb. 4th
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Communications Committee
Monday, January 20th, 6:00 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Emergency Prep Cmte
Ecotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor
907 NW Irving
Portland Downtown
www.portlanddowntownna.com
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tuesday, January 28th, 6:00 pm
NEXT BOARD MEETING
Both meetings held at:
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main
Sylvan-Highlands
www.sylvanhighlands.org
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tuesday
January 14th
7:00 pm
BOARD MTG
Meetings held at:
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Cornell Road
Sustainability Coalition
www.cornellroad.org
Peter Stark, ptstark@gmail.com
NWNW Office
2257 NW Raleigh
for updates
Neighbors WestNorthwest Coalition
www.nwnw.org
NEXT BOARD MEETING
Wed., February 12th, 5:30 pm
Northrup Building
First Floor Conference Room
2282 NW Northrup St.
NWNW Office Closed
Monday, January 20th in
observance of Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
Skyline Ridge Neighbors
www.srnpdx.org/
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., Jan. 9th, 7:00 pm
11539 NW Skyline Blvd
(Church across from
Skyline School)
Nob Hill
Business Association
Contact:
info@nwpdxnobhill.com
GENERAL MEETING
Wed., January 15th
8:30 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar
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Snapshots
NW Natural donated a van stocked with food to the Linnton Food Pantry in
November. State Sen. Betsy Johnson and State Rep. Brad Witt organized the collection of food, which was supplied by Safeway and the Oregon Food Bank. The
pantry, which fed 8,006 people last year, is operated by Linnton Community Center.
“This new van will be an enormous helping our areas most vulnerable families,”
said LCC Executive Director Daniel Faccinetti.
Linnton Community Center Executive Director Daniel Faccinetti unloads a bag of
carrots to the pantry.
The city stepped in to remove graffiti and clean the premises at the Slabtown Bar, 1033 NW 16th Ave., last
month after the property owner failed to heed city citations. Bryant Gloria of Vancouver, Wash., was fined
and assessed for the cleanup charges. Last August, Slabtown Bar owner Doug Rogers said he didn’t mind
the graffiti and considered it less of a threat to the neighborhood than gentrification.
Portland Bureau of Environmental Services is offering free street trees to properties in the Northwest District
and Goose Hollow neighborhoods. The program is based on evidence that street trees capture stormwater,
clean the air, reduce urban heat island effect and calm traffic. The deadline for signing up is Jan. 10. For
information, call 503-823-8733 or visit itreepdx@portlandoregon.gov.
Meters have been installed for a paid parking system throughout Washington Park that goes into effect on Jan. 10. Revenues
from the meters will be used for park improvements and to
update the park’s master plan for the first time since 1981.
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WATERHOUSE
IRONWOOD
799,900
729,900
539,900
R E A L
BANNISTER HEIGHTS 449,900
West Portland
DEER CREEK EST.
429,900
ORENCO STATION
292.1500
425,000
E S T A T E
Downtown
445.1500
SO
LD
SO
LD
SO
LD
BAUER WOODS
545,900
MEREWOOD
499,900
BETHANY
493,900
BAUER CREST
ALLENBACH ACRES 429,900
THE PEARL
409,900
545,000
BONNY SLOPE
PETERKORT VILLAGE 449,000
REMINGTON
599,900
SO
LD
DEER CREEK EST.
479,900
649,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
HEDGES PARK
565,000
699,900
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SO
LD
SO
LD
BURTON MEADOWS 609,900
609,900
BANNISTER HEIGHTS 529,900
HARTUNG VILLAS
BAUER OAKS
SO
LD
485,000
714,000
OAKRIDGE ESTATES 679,900
SO
LD
WISMER RIDGE
OAKRIDGE EST.
ARBOR OAKS
SO
LD
RALEIGH HILLS
BAUER WOODS
SO
LD
573,500
789,900
509,900
SO
LD
CEDAR MILL
BAUER CREST EST.
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
619,900
699,999
659,900
SO
LD
574,900
BALD PEAK
SO
LD
COUNCIL CREST
729,900
699,000
SO
LD
574,995
TAYLOR CREST
SO
LD
440,000
HEDGES PARK
SO
LD
619,900
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
BAUER CREST EST.
SO
LD
COOPER MTN.
635,000
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SO
LD
BAUER OAKS
THOMPSON HGLNDS. 585,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
BAUER CREST
SO
LD
FOREST HEIGHTS
SO
LD
473,500
SO
LD
429,000
599,000
639,900
FOREST HEIGHTS
SO
LD
REMINGTON
459,900
BONNY SLOPE
BAUER OAKS
870,000
SO
LD
540,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
489,000
643,900
1,024,000
E S T A T E
$571,693
56 Days
SO
LD
BONNY GLEN
SO
LD
543,900
FOREST PARK
SO
LD
599,900
$309,100
83 Days
LYNNRIDGE
SO
LD
HARTUNG FARMS
SO
LD
HARTUNG FARMS
R E A L
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
ARBOR HEIGHTS
1,275,000
SO
LD
SO
LD
CATLIN CREST
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
1,295,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
849,900
SO
LD
749,000
SO
LD
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SO
LD
SO
LD
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
CASSEL HEIGHTS
Portland RMLS
SO
LD
SO
LD
SO
LD
659,999
SO
LD
599,000
SO
LD
ARBOR CREEK
919,900
KINGS HEIGHTS
Call us today to learn why Our Corporate Business
Approach translates into Results for Our Clients!
SO
LD
VISTA HILLS
SO
LD
ARBOR CREEK
739,900
Average Home Price:
Average Market Time:
SO
LD
699,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
SO
LD
659,900
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
CHOBIN DOWNS
TAYLOR CREST
FOREST HEIGHTS
1,350,000
LAKE OSWEGO
OAKRIDGE ESTATES 675,000
SO
LD
CEDAR MILL
949,800
CANYON CREEK
SO
LD
759,900
LAKE OSWEGO
2013
FOREST HEIGHTS
SO
LD
BONNY SLOPE
989,900
SO
LD
SO
LD
699,000
MULTNOMAH VLG. 679,000
BAUER OAKS
BAUER OAKS EST.
HARTUNG/BURTON 1,380,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
BAUER WOODS
1,685,000
MONTREUX PLACE 699,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
MILLER CROSSING
HELVETIA
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
998,000
SO
LD
710,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
FOREST HEIGHTS
BAUER OAKS EST. 1,725,000
SO
LD
BENSON TOWER
SO
LD
SO
LD
2,250,000
SO
LD
1,149,900
BURTON COUNTRY EST. 789,900
789,000
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SO
LD
BRIDLEMILE
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
BAUER CREST EST.
BURTON ESTATES
SO
LD
1,050,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
GERMANTOWN
2,300,000
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
HELVETIA
SO
LD
RE
PR
BU ESE
YE NT
R ED
HARTUNG/BURTON 2,500,000
SO
LD
BU REP
YE RE
R SE
& N
SE TED
LL
ER
SOLD, SOLD, SOLD! CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR 2013 SALES
COOPER MTN.
424,900
469,900
429,900
ARBOR GLEN
359,900
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!
For more details and to take a full screen virtual tour of these homes, visit LeeDavies.com
Lee Davies
Call Andrew Misk or Trish
Call Lawrence Burkett or Suzanne
449,900 Portland Heights
Call Kristan Summers or Julie
Call Dirk Hmura or Rachel
322,000 Mowhawk Meadows 217,500 The Quintet
415,000
Call Coleen Jondahl or Jasmin
174,000 Orenco Station
164,500
C
O
M
IN
G
Call Andrew Misk or Chris
Call Heather Holmgreen or Kristan
Call Trish Greene or Coleen
Call Bob Harrington or Dustin
Call Suzanne Klang or Linda
Angie Arnett
503.320.1988
Bob Harrington
503.913.1296
Chris Caffee
503.869.9568
Coleen Jondahl
503.318.3424
503.740.0070
Dirk Hmura
Kristan Summers
503.680.7442
503.997.1118
503.936.1026
Scott Jenks
Suzanne Klang
503.310.8901
Cindy Prestrelski
503.969.9182
Dustin Slack
503.776.0546
Heather Holmgreen
503.858.5141
Jasmin Hausa
971.645.1751
Julie Williams
503.705.5033
Lawrence Burkett
503.680.3018
Linda Nyman
503.267.7320
Lisa Migchelbrink
503.970.1200
Megan Westphal
971.998.3071
Rachel Schaden
503.502.8910
Trish Greene
503.998.7207
Broker Teams Serve Every Client
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Call Angie Arnett or Megan
439,000 Bonny Slope
SO
O
N
349,000 Arbor Lane
469,900 Bull Mountain
619,900
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
639,900 Sherwood
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Trish Greene or Bob
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Andrew Misk
503.880.6400
Call Kristan Summers or Dustin
485,000 Deer Park
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Fox Hollow
415,000 Eliot Tower
Call Angie Arnett or Trish
Bauer Oaks
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
539,900
Lake Oswego
840,000 Thompson Highlands 679,900
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Call Lee Davies or Julie
Findley
860,000 Raleigh Hills
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
949,000 Hartung Farms
SA
LE
PE
ND
IN
G
Bronson Creek

January 2014 - NW Examiner

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