All Things Portland

[ehizzy3]

doope

 

[MickZagger]

http://keepersoftheart.blogspot.com/2009/07/history-channels-gangland-everybody.html

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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A very rare sight indeed! The Willamette looks pristine in the right light/angle/reflection from the moon and the sun.​

 

[MickZagger]

I wouldn't eat shit out of the Willamette. Hell, I wouldn't even wakeboard in the Willamette.

 

[THE HCP]

Our rivers are amazingly clean compared to others across the country. We stay right on the river in Cleveland and Milwaukee and they are YELLOW!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The 100 y/o (PSU) Lincoln Hall looks great after a total renovation.

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Phase-ll includes a three-floor "glass tower".

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[video=youtube;XOVyGC3bYRc]​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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And so the PGE demolition begins...​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Thought I'd do something different and profile a famous Portland resident. I believe he lives in one of the high-rise loft buildings in the Pearl District.

Gus Van Sant is an independent filmmaker whose forays into mainstream movies have included Good Will Hunting (1997) and Finding Forrester (2000). He made a name for himself on the arthouse circuit with 1985's Mala Noche. For the next decade he specialized in gritty dramas about outsiders, usually starring young up-and-comers: Matt Dillon in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy; River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in 1991's My Own Private Idaho; Uma Thurman in 1993's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; and Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix in 1995's To Die For (based on the true-crime story of Pamela Smart). The success of Good Will Hunting made stars of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and Van Sant won heaps of praise for the film and his earlier work. Besides a 1998 color remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Sean Connery drama Finding Forrester, Van Sant has done mostly independent features from his home base in Portland, Oregon. His other films include Elephant (2003), Last Days (2005), Paranoid Park (2007) and Milk (2008, based on the life story of San Francisco selectman Harvey Milk).

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[MickZagger]

Danny Glover lives in the Dunthorpe area and came into my uncles bar once.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_4_96/ai_55114804/

Not sure what brought him to Oregon.

Also, Sally Struthers is from Portland. Her dad worked at the wool mill with my grandpa way back in the day and they were friends. Both dead now.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Btw, if I had the money Glover has I'd live in Dunthorpe as well. Awesome area.

Panoramic of Rip City

 

[Rodolfo]

Pretty sure Danny left Portland. Saw a news story on it a few years back.

 

[THE HCP]

Sally went to Grant FAMS! Did some work with Mr. Glover about 10 years ago editing and he was an absolute PRICK! Too bad, cause I loved him as an actor til then!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This guy is always by Pioneer courthouse square. So we now have an all-silver guy alongside an all-blue guy downtown? Nice.​

 

[Natebishop3]

This guy is always by Pioneer courthouse square. So we now have an all-silver guy alongside an all-blue guy downtown? Nice.​

I didn't know the Blazers hippie was a Boise State fan...

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This is where I want to retire. Living in Canon Beach would be the tits!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

do it!

 

[MickZagger]

Canon Beach and Mazanita are my favorite beach towns. Pacific City coming in 3rd.

 

[The Professional Fan]

Love the Oregon Coast. A lot. Would never live there.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

LINK

Portland's downtown real estate scene is about to get a lot more interesting, as multiple developers are suddenly pushing new projects to deal with a shortage -- yes, a shortage -- of large blocks of downtown office space.

"Because we've been in such a difficult economic environment for a couple years, people haven't wanted to play a lot of offense," said David Squire, managing director of the Grubb & Ellis commercial real estate office in Portland. "But if you look at the numbers, it's tight out there. If you're a large user needing 50,000 square feet or more, you're out of options."

I don't know the details of the new towers being proposed but the stalled/UC Park Avenue West and One Waterfront Place will finally be revived

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[OSUBlazerfan]

[video=youtube;B1B2_r6Azvg]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Photogenic Portland.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Dallas, Texas are using a streetcar loaned from Portland's United Streetcar and displaying it in their downtown to promote their lightrail project proposal.

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Phoenix did something similar, too. They are using Portland as the model for public transportation.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Construction has started on two big projects:

PSU College Station

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Wyatt Wendell Federall Building renovation/re-cladding

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The area by PSU has dramatically changed over the past few years. The Cyan Condo building, PSU Rec Center, College Station, and don't forget this awesome (net-zero) project that's slated to go directly across the street from the rec center:

 

[Rodolfo]

Didn't some super rich guy with connections to big oil donate a huge amount of money a few years back? Think he went to school there.

 

[THE HCP]

Those Cannon shots freaked me out. My in-laws have a place down there and the street looks identical. Realized it wasn't. Ironic that I have told my wife that I would love to retire at Cannon Beach. Favorite beach town.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Here's a pretty cool illustration of the construction boom of the mid-rise/high-rises just in the downtown area from 2004-2010. Most of which are in the Pearl and South Waterfront.The buildings outlined in red are proposed projects:

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

A café [literally] on the Hawthorne Bridge? I love this concept:

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I like the new sign!
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[RR7]

I like the new sign!
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Much better, in my opinion.