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Everyone gets a postcard!
Built in 1888 - love seeing new uses for old buildings + new ideas (win-win)!
Secret Portland - take a trip back to 2001!
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One of the last remaining cast-iron Victorian Italianate buildings in Portland.
New life as grocery store with low-cost affordable produce, large event space + incubator and co-working space entrepreneurs can rent out.👍
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"...when crews were tearing down the ceilings and walls of the Rite Aid store, they found massive wooden beams that revealed a surprisingly well-preserved timber interior..." Wha?!
www.kptv.com/2026/01/19/a...
Mummy’s in downtown Portland closed in 2022.
Sadly, I never went but it sounded like a great place to get food and a drink, listen to some jazz (says the 1980s Oregonian ad) and the owner’s stories.
The building itself is unusual and intriguing for sure.
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The Acrop is for sale?!
"...Allowable uses include: retail sales and services, office space, quick vehicle servicing, vehicle repair, self-service storage, household living, institutional uses, and limited manufacturing and other low-impact industrial uses..."
www.loopnet.com/Listing/8325...
I wrote this a million years (OK 15) ago, but it still works.
Support your local movie theaters! (Looking at you Netflix/WB merger...)
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The oldest homebrew shop in America is closing. FH Steinbart was not just a small business, though—it was a critical part of the connective tissue that helped make Portland Beervana.
"... many storefronts are in 'extreme need of renovation,' and landlords expected incoming tenants to cover nearly all the work, which is a lot of upfront money for something they were only renting and not owning..."
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Very cool!
And while you're at it, their wonderful magazine (published three times a year) is free of charge to Oregon residents.
I love a good lede!
A shift in demographics. Affordable apartments transformed into luxury condos. A coffee shop called something like “Brew Slut.”
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Building Portland’s Memorial Coliseum: a Mid-Century Political Firestorm will be published by @arcadiapublishing.bsky.social April 14, 2026!
Can’t wait to have this out in the world. I’ve been working on it since January 2014!
Hey holiday shoppers!
Extra-soft knit crew-neck sweater celebrating the iconic Portland Building by Michael Graves, Portland, Oregon, 1982
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From Reddit: A 3D map of downtown Portland. 😎
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Not Oregon related at all (unless Graves is mentioned I guess) but wanna see this one:
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The Gordon's Fireplace building has sold for $575k, and I'd be fascinated to know who'd want it even at that price. The building is in terrible condition and the site is extremely constrained. www.kgw.com/article/news...
Some Saturday morning coffee viewing - explains how it all went down in the clearest, entertaining way possible. (Found this while researching the history of 99W and 99E.)
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Next Portland is Relaunching, With Your Help www.nextportland.com/2025/09/25/n...
Screenshot from Portland Maps with Aerial view and text "SINGLE PDF: CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY FROM I-2 TO R-1 HOTEL USE. RENOVATE TOILET ROOMS AND SHOWERS FOR ACCESSIBILITY THROUGH SECOND TO FOURTH FLOOR, INCLUDES DEMO AND ADD WALLS AND DOORS. EXTERIOR WALL OPENING AND WALKWAYS FOR SKYBRIDGE LEVEL 2, ADD COFFE BAR AT LEVEL 4 no Point-of Sale at counter."
Photo of Taft Home
A building permit has been issued for the McMenamins Taft Hotel, adjacent to the Crystal Ballroom. Work includes renovations for accessibility on the upper floors. www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi...
The former Taft Home was bought by McMenamins last year. www.wweek.com/news/2024/08...
Starting bid: $225,000!
www.loopnet.com/Listing/3300...
Portland, 1970s, vampires? I’m in!
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friends, I wrote a book about the site selection process for Portland’s Memorial Coliseum in the 1950s. it’ll be out next year via The History Press. this is my second book, and I’ve been working on it since early 2014 (yes, really). I’m really pumped to finally have it out in the world.
Plans to redevelop the Centennial Mills site appear to be moving forward with a design review hearing scheduled for mid-September.
Redevelopment of the site would include three mixed-use buildings and an extension of the riverfront greenway trail. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
My latest for @newschoolbeer.bsky.social - The demolished site of a former funeral home in downtown Milwaukie is getting new life as the 1847 Food Park, helmed by Portland's Migration Brewing.
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THERE ARE TOURS!
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Built in 1894, and another great example of an (what's now called) Accessory Commercial Unit (ACU), or a "small, detached or attached commercial space on a residential property, designed to support small, local businesses."
A++ for the signage too!
📷 = Google.
Hard to tell from website but are the Mobile Workshops for the Mpact Transit + Community Conference standalone events? Anyone out there know?
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My favorite house in Milwaukie is for sale.
Henry Failing's home originally stood between 5th & 6th Streets on Taylor Street in downtown Portland. In 1890 it was shipped to Milwaukie by barge.
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Built in 1893 (or 1900, depending on the source); a rare Victorian in SE Portland. Now a triplex. #missingmiddle