The plans to redevelop the Rose Quarter and Memorial Coliseum into a 24-hour entertainment district moved forward this afternoon, as Mayor Adams and the Council signed off on a set of non-binding guidelines that lay out the process of choosing a Rose Quarter redevelopment proposal. The guidelines (pdf) and today’s meeting revealed two important things: […]
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Subdivision Slated for Alberta Lot
The Portland Sentinel picks up the news that the builder of several row houses around town is planning to build a nine house subdivision at the vacant lot on NE 26th and Alberta. Via the Concordia Neighborhood Association: Guy Bryant of GPB Construction and Development has informed us that he will be building nine row […]
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Become a Rose Quarter “Stakeholder”
Want to keep this: Cordish development collage from Portland Spaces From happening to this? The city is now taking applications for a new Rose Quarter Stakeholder Advisory Committee, a 20-person group chaired by Mayor Adams that will “develop criteria for evaluating ideas and proposals for the renovation or adaptive reuse of the Coliseum.” If you […]
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Big Transit, Big Building, Big $$$
In this week’s paper, I reported on a fight between neighbors, the city and the developer who’s building the four-story Albert Apartment building on the old N. Williams House of Sound site. Neighbors are upset about a variety of things with the project — some lament the gentrification of the area, others that the building […]
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One is Silver, the Other Gold
Tough news for editorial boards who want to raze Memorial Coliseum. As reported on OPB, the 49-year-old building is headed for National Historic Register designation, which will mean any group looking to demolish the Coliseum will have to jump through a difficult new set of hoops. What’s not clear is whether the designation will cover […]
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Designers Rant About Rose Quarter Process
After Mayor Adams announced a stay of execution for Memorial Coliseum yesterday, I thought tonight’s planned rally to save the building would be sort of back-patting victory party. But instead, the 30 planners and preservationists who gathered downtown tonight had some harsh critiques of the Rose Quarter redevelopment process and say they’ll keep pressuring the […]
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Save Memorial Coliseum Rally Tomorrow Night!
In the wake of last week’s packed public meeting about the Rose Quarter redevelopment, Brian Libby and architect Stuart Emmons are planning a rally to oppose demolition of the “midcentury modern gem.” Memorial Coliseum is getting far more attention now than it has over the past two decades, when the structure slowly deteriorated from neglect. […]
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Fantasy Baseball Stadiums
Imagine: Portland constructing a AAA baseball stadium that doesn’t piss off hordes of architects by demolishing (sorry, “recycling”) Memorial Coliseum. At Tuesday’s packed public meeting about the Rose Quarter Mayor Adams said the city had studied alternate sites for a baseball stadium during the past two decades of redevelopment planning for the district. But a […]
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More Dirt on New Rose Quarter Developer
Remember the shiny shiny suburban images of entertainment districts built around the nation by proposed Rose Quarter redeveloper Cordish Company? In case you forgot: Bam! A Cordish “Live Block” is coming to Portland!Collage via Portland Spaces Well it’s not just their designs that have been bad in other cities – we blogged yesterday about complaints […]
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Input of Hundreds “Appreciated” at Rose Quarter Open House
The mood was tense as Mayor Sam Adams waded out into the crowd of neighbors, urban planners and Winterhawks fans with a microphone, searching for questions. There were a lot. A crowd of about 250 packed Leftbank tonight wanting answers about the proposed Rose Quarter redevelopment plan, which involves tearing down Memorial Coliseum to make […]
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Going Up!
A couple quick hits from the hot development news this week: Portland Spaces reports that the Department of Education awarded the lovely historic Custom House downtown to the International School, a private language immersion school currently immersing 400 pre-k through 5th graders. The International School was the only group that submitted a full application to […]
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Rose Quarter Redevelopment Vision: Like Kansas City With “Portland Flavor”
For the last two days, city planners from the Mayor’s office and PDC have been locked in a conference room with Trailblazers and Beavers representatives, developers, stadium designers and Portland neighborhood leaders, hashing out a new vision for redeveloping the Rose Quarter. That vision emerged today at a packed late-afternoon press conference. Memorial Coliseum? Gone. […]