Eliot Neighborhood

Building a Better Broadway Street

Posted on April 28, 2016September 20, 2021 by Allan Rudwick

Northeast Broadway and Weidler Streets between the Willamette River and Northeast 24th Avenue are streets that are looking for traffic. Currently, the number of cars on Broadway and Weidler do not, even during the busiest rush hours, meet even 70% of the designed capacity of the streets. That is to say that the streets are bigger than they need to be in terms of the number of lanes that are striped on them. What are the consequences of this? Cars can speed down Broadway and Weidler streets quickly all day and all night.

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Letter from the Board Chair

Posted on April 26, 2016September 20, 2021 by Eliot Neighborhood

In the midst of changes…

I gaze at the stream of traffic, the watch the bicycles zipping past, and smell the fresh aroma of the cafés nearby. New faces, new places, a mix with the old, and I wonder how do we maintain a balance to give us strength, maintain some tradition and expand through all this growth.

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LUTC Minutes 2016-04-11

Posted on April 24, 2016September 20, 2021 by Mike Warwick

Eliot Neighborhood Association
Land Use Committee
Minutes for April 11th, 2016

Submitted by Mike Warwick, Vice Chair

Meeting was called to order by Chair Allan Rudwick at 7:10 PM

Attendance was taken via sign-in sheet and a quorum of the Committee was present.

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Portland Play House

Posted on April 21, 2016September 20, 2021 by Sue Stringer

On a residential street corner in the old Mount Sinai Baptist Church in the middle of the King neighborhood lies a hidden gem. The Portland Playhouse theater is celebrating its eighth year but it hasn’t come with out challenges and subsequent victories. However, through it all, the theater has remained an important fixture of the King neighborhood in Northeast Portland and has continued the discussion of diversity and the issues that surround gentrification.

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The Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church

Posted on April 18, 2016September 20, 2021 by Eliot Neighborhood

Vancouver Baptist Church — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Vancouver Ave Baptist Church in 1961. Photo courtesy Portland Observer.

Overshadowed though it may be today by the Cook Street Lofts apartment complex currently under construction across the street, the Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church (3138 N Vancouver Avenue) is an institution of the Eliot neighborhood and of African American history in Portland . The Church appears similar to most others across Portland, with a brick facade, stained glass windows, and a mid-sized wooden steeple. However, it is one of the few remaining structures from Vancouver Avenue in the 1950s, and a link to the era when the area was known as “Black Broadway”: the hub of African American life and culture in Portland.

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General Membership Agenda 2016-04-18

Posted on April 15, 2016September 20, 2021 by Jere Fitterman

Eliot Neighborhood Association
General Membership Meeting
April 18, 2016
St Philips the Deacon
120 NE Knott St

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Land Use and Transportation Roundup

Posted on April 11, 2016September 20, 2021 by Allan Rudwick

On the transportation side, a few things are heating up. City staff hosted a meeting about a future NE 7th or 9th avenue bikeway. There was a strong preference to use 7th in Eliot’s section of the greenway due to it being cheaper and being able to address other safety concerns on 7th avenue at the same time. There is concern from the City’s perspective about diverting many of the cars from 7th to other routes although they have some tools to help this.

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LUTC Meeting Agenda 2016-04-11

Posted on April 8, 2016September 20, 2021 by Allan Rudwick

Eliot Land Use and Transportation Committee Agenda
April 11, 2016 7:00 pm
St Philip Deacon Episcopal Church
120 NE Knott Street
(parking in rear)

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Forgotten Realms Homeless Camp

Posted on April 3, 2016September 20, 2021 by Eliot Neighborhood

Forgotten Realms is just one of several legal homeless camps setting up throughout Portland with permission from the city as part of the homeless state of emergency.

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The Pocket Pub

Posted on March 31, 2016September 20, 2021 by Sue Stringer

It started as a conversation between friends and ended as the fulfillment of a dream that the residents of Eliot and Irvington get to benefit from.

Kara Lammerman and Jennifer Cale have been friends for over 15 years and have pooled their energy and enthusiasm to create the warm, inviting Pocket Pub that offers a reasonably priced menu and a creative list of cocktails in a great place to sit and catch up with old friends and also get to know new neighbors.

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Board Meeting Minutes 2016-03-21

Posted on March 29, 2016September 20, 2021 by Kristin Yates

DRAFT-NOT YET APPROVED

Meeting begins at 6:35 with introductions

Board Members Present: Angela Kremer, Jere Fitterman, Jeri Stein, Jim Hlava, Joan Ivan, Joe Entler, Johnny Engleheart-Noel, Kristin Yates, Patricia Montgomery, Ronnie Blocker, Sue Stringer

Visitors Present: Saint Hood, Janice Camfield, Anne Sanderson (running for Commissioner Fritz’s position on City Council), Grey Byrd, Nicholas Starkin, Shireen Hasan, Allan Rudwick, Jody Guth, Paul…(not sure about last name)

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Eliot School Then and Now

Posted on March 22, 2016September 20, 2021 by Clint Lundmark

Eliot School c1951

Eliot School corner of Knott and Rodney c 1951. Portland Archives A2001-030

The Eliot School, named after Thomas Lamb Eliot, was built in 1909 on NE Knott at the corner with Rodney. In the late 1940’s or early 50’s the school’s teachers and students were relocated. Portland Parks took over the building in the early 1950’s and it became the Knott Street Community Center.

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Reverend Nat’s Cidery

Posted on March 18, 2016September 20, 2021 by Sue Stringer

Reverend Nat West (yes, he really is a Reverend) started his Hard Cider journey from a friend’s apple trees with lots of extra apples. What started with 5 gallons of hard cider in his garage has turned into using 200 million of apples per year to create over 20,000 gallon of cider in inventory in a warehouse turned cidery in the Eliot neighborhood.