When I was a teenager the Calaroga Terrace was being built. It was the first phase of an ambitious project called Coliseum Gardens. There was a large billboard on MLK (then Union Avenue) showing a 'microcity' of numerous high rises planned for the area. Sort of an Eastside answer to the Westside's South Auditorium urban renewal. I've been trying to find a copy of that sign but so far no luck. Has anyone out there ever come across it? I think most of you would be interested in seeing what 'might have been'. The Lloyd Center area would look a lot different now if it had been completed.
"Calaroga Terrace was built in 1967 by San Francisco industrialist Roy Hedgpeth. His original goal of creating a 10-block microcity called “Coliseum Gardens” met with a lack of funding, and Calaroga Terrace never got the matching high-rise that Hedgpeth envisioned"-from Portland Life.
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