Author: John Chilson

Sited along the Orange Line, across from the Iron Fireman building (and Ruse Brewing), strategically located off of McLoughlin and SE 17th. The parcels are zoned for  IG-1 (General Industrial ) and CE (Commercial Employment). Approximately 2.53 acres. 

Price: $11,500,000

Check out the website for more information. 

What we think of today as Portland covers a broad swath of land on both sides of the Willamette River. In the late 19th century, that same area contained several mostly independent communities, including Albina, St. Johns, Sellwood—and East Portland, a small city on the eastern shore of the river roughly bounded by Division Street to the south, 12th Avenue to the east, and Sullivan’s Gulch to the north. While people had lived in this area for far longer than recorded history, East Portland only existed as an official city for two decades before merging with Portland and Albina in 1891.

The Architectural Heritage Center’s latest exhibition, East Portland: A Changing Landscape, a Forgotten City, focuses on the historic city of East Portland from the 1840s to the 1910s. It explores the people who lived there, the impact of the arrival of the railroad and industry, and the changing landscape that in the course of only a few decades turned a flood zone into a thriving city.

The exhibit runs through April 25, 2020.

A new article on Smithsonian.com unveiled that a research team at Portland State University has built a mapping tool, called the Trees and Health App. It overlays tree density with vulnerability and lets users see where poverty intersects with lack of vegetation. The tool also “lets urban planners, neighborhood groups, and local government find the most polluted neighborhoods in their city and then figure out how many trees they would have to plant, and where to put them, to improve air quality.” The article goes on:

The Trees and Health App is being put to use in Portland, where the city and Multnomah County just passed a climate action plan informed, in part, by Portland State University’s work on heat islands and tree cover. Neighborhood groups are using the tool to set agendas. The Johnson Creek Watershed Council, for instance, is working on a tree planting project in the diverse Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood in southeast Portland.

Read the whole thing here. 

CBRE Portland announced last week two leases totaling more than 27,000 square feet at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Portland. Campbell Global, a sustainable timberland and natural resource investment management firm, has signed a 17,520-sq.-ft. lease, and will move its corporate headquarters into Oregon’s tallest building; while the Portland branch of San Francisco-based law firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani will take 10,068 square feet.

If you spend any time in downtown Portland, you’ve seen the scaffolding and orange cones—Wells Fargo Center is wrapping up a major renovation.