Rose Quarter
In July, Mayor Adams announced the formation of a task force whose purpose is to make a recommendation on how to revitalize the Rose Quarter and what to do with the aging Memorial Coliseum. In August, the 32 member Rose Quarter Stakeholders Advisory Committee members were announced and Eliot Neighborhood was identified as a stakeholder.
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DRAFT–NOT YET APPROVED
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MultiCultural Integrated Kidney Education Program Mural
Dawson Park Concerts
Afrique Bistro Opens
New-Old Infill Housing
ECHO Echo echo
Why I Love Eliot
Alu Wine Bar Open Again
TriMet Service Changes
Eliot Neighborhood Tree Planting
Eliot News Vol 18 Num 2 (Fall 2009)
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Written by Lee Perlman
M.I.K.E Mural
In the past year the west wall of the Northeast Portland Renal Center on Northeast Seventh Avenue at Hancock Street has undergone a dramatic change, from solid white to an explosion of color. Its many images each convey a message, while the total enterprise, the work of many people, meets so many purposes.
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Written by Kirsten Jenkins
As a real estate agent focusing on Portland’s many “close-in” neighborhoods – some newer that are up and coming and others that are already established – I’m tasked with ongoing research about what each has to offer. It is important to show new Portlanders all of their neighborhood choices to help them make their big decision. My pitch when describing Eliot is that “I have lived here since 1994 and don’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon.” I am sold on our central location. I point out how we have such easy access to the freeways, 2 Max Lines, and many bus routes to choose from. Not to mention the bike corridor on Williams and Vancouver and plans for Street Car in Eliot one day as well! I fall more in love with our neighborhood every year. While walking through the neighborhood, I’m able to take in all of the new things that are going on, like home renovations, amazing gardens, and the new businesses.
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The Kinsman House moving along NE MLK
By winter Eliot will have new infill housing that is as old as the neighborhood. Let me explain.
The call came in mid-2007, “Want to move another house? I have a lot and we can go 50/50.” The Kinsman house was built in 1908 near NE 7th and Broadway and was recently used as an annex to the Mountain Shop. It is a large building – and tall. Unfortunately, the available lot in Eliot was 10 blocks away down tree-lined streets. So the first order of business was to find out what route had both the width and the fewest trees. Next we tried to discover what the City’s tree trimming/cutting policy was for house moves. Six months and a letter to the Mayor later, we finally got a response, “We won’t tell you until you have your building permit.” Thus began the first of many Catch-22 situations we had to resolve. Although the City’s building move process is better than is used to be, it is still poorly implemented.
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Ocean 503 playing in the Dawson Park Gazebo
I love our little Eliot neighborhood. I love the big old Portland houses with good sized lots and the proximity to downtown with easy access to TriMet. This is why my husband and I moved here in the first place 6 years ago. Within the last few years the list of reasons for loving our neighborhood keeps expanding. I love the ever-growing number of eateries and boutiques within walking distance, being a part of a diverse and eclectic population, and participating in block parties, Friends of Trees annual plantings, and neighborhood clean-up days. My favorite is the summer concert series in Dawson Park.
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The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency staff will present information and answer questions about air toxics monitoring at the Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women. This monitoring is part of a national initiative to understand whether outdoor toxic air pollution from industry, motor vehicles and other sources poses health concerns to schoolchildren. EPA is monitoring for air toxics at 62 schools nationwide.
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Alu Wine Bar on MLK
Have you noticed the silver or aluminum colored building on MLK near the corner of Graham? In the spring of 2008 it opened as Alu—named after the color of the building. About a year later Alu suddenly closed. For most of this past spring and summer Alu remained closed while it transferred owners and underwent a transformation of sorts.
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DRAFT–NOT YET APPROVED
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In partnership with Friends of Trees, Eliot Neighborhood is planning a tree planting project for Saturday February 13th! Join us to help plant trees and create a healthier community!
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This past spring year TriMet held a series public hearings and open houses regarding proposals to cut certain Max and Bus lines. Public feedback, ridership data, nearby service, transit equity issues and school/job access helped shape the final service cut plan. For Eliot Neighborhood bus line 33-Fremont and the Max Yellow Line will see some changes.
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During the month of August Belly Restaurant has been hosting free ice cream socials on Saturdays from 2 – 4 pm. It’s hard to believe the month of August is half over, but there are still 2 more opportunities to get some ice cream!
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Afrique Bistro
A couple of years ago a small building stood on the corner of Rodney and Russell. Though technically a remodel, the building on the same corner now in no way looks like the old Dad’s Oil office. The top floor has a couple of rental apartments and the bottom floor is now Afrique Bistro.
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Elks Lodge Renovators - 2009. Photo: Faye Burch
In Eliot there’s little left to see of the neighborhood’s complicated past. Once the vibrant, if sometimes dilapidated, center of Portland’s Black community, today almost all the landmarks are gone. The drugstore that anchored the busy intersection of Williams and Russell was beheaded and razed, its beautiful dome transplanted to Dawson Park. The Prince Hall Masonic lodge is now a tapas bar; the Cotton Club, flourishing in the sixties, sits abandoned behind a chain link fence; and the Black Panther medical clinic, which provided free health care to the community throughout the seventies, is long closed.
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Two white ladies, both remembered as “angels” in Portland’s Black community were, improbably, both named Collins—though unrelated.
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216 NE Tillamook
The Eliot neighborhood may soon be losing a historic home at 216 NE Tillamook. A demolition permit was filed by the company who purchased it two years ago but the city required a 120-day demolition delay on the house due to the fact that it is inside a historic zone and the age of the house. The delay is designed to provide some opportunity for someone to move the house to another location and restore it. Fortunately for the house, the owning firm who planned a condominium development on the site had financial problems and the property entered foreclosure recently.
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Speaking of poor design, how about that 12-lane bridge to nowhere; I mean Vancouver? The lone “neighborhood” voice in City Council was frozen out when she tried to raise environmental justice issues, since the congestion that will be “relieved” will be at the Columbia moving the current congestion further into inner N/NE including Eliot. This is an area that is already overloaded with toxic air emissions and poisoning adjacent schools and it will only get worse with the bridge.
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What makes a neighborhood? This is a recurring theme in this column. Typically it is about “imports” of low-income and special needs populations from the parts of the city who refuse to accommodate them in their own neighborhoods. At times it is about new construction that ignores the historic character of Eliot simply to express an architect’s ego or a developer’s greed. Almost always, it is preaching to a powerless choir because the City refuses to take the complaints of inner-N/NE seriously.
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