Portland Parks & Recreation News

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

I’ve watched that before and it’s great. The idea and execution was perfect. But the waterfront is far from fulfilling a better potential. There should at least be snack bars/food carts selling drinks and such in our parks and the waterfront. Is this outlawed here for some reason? Other than a few festivals in the summer the place is boring..

It's a park, do you not go to parks? You can literally buy food at a nearby food cart and walk over to the park, sit down, and eat your food. Or you can stop at any of the cafes or restaurants at Riverplace along the river.

[CorbinWarrick]

Originally Posted by urbanlife

It's a park, do you not go to parks? You can literally buy food at a nearby food cart and walk over to the park, sit down, and eat your food. Or you can stop at any of the cafes or restaurants at Riverplace along the river.

Then you must hate this “park” is getting a fun attraction

[uncommon.name]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

I’ve watched that before and it’s great. The idea and execution was perfect. But the waterfront is far from fulfilling a better potential. There should at least be snack bars/food carts selling drinks and such in our parks and the waterfront. Is this outlawed here for some reason? Other than a few festivals in the summer the place is boring..

Ya know, I used to find peace, quiet, nature and tranquility to be boring too. But then I grew up and out of my childhood and realized that it's exactly what you need to de-stress. That is the type of waterfront that this park is. It's not an amusement park or a tourist attraction. It's there for exactly the reasons I described. Sorry you haven't discovered that yet.

[2oh1]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

Then you must hate this “park” is getting a fun attraction

Stop trolling. Waterfront Park is huge.

Every single comment you post is either a complaint or like this, which is just plain trolling.

[MarkDaMan]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

Then you must hate this “park” is getting a fun attraction

I used to ride the Sunset Hwy 26 bus (before the MAX) as a teenager to come downtown. One of my favorite destinations has always been waterfront park. There's plenty to do on or near the park including Saturday Market, playing in the Salmon Spring fountain, throwing a frisbee or football, and taking my mom to lunch at Harborside when she'd visit me downtown while on her lunchbreak.

[2oh1]

Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

I used to ride the Sunset Hwy 26 bus (before the MAX) as a teenager to come downtown. One of my favorite destinations has always been waterfront park. There's plenty to do on or near the park including Saturday Market, playing in the Salmon Spring fountain, throwing a frisbee or football, and taking my mom to lunch at Harborside when she'd visit me downtown while on her lunchbreak.

Plus, the east side esplanade has been a wonderful addition, though I'm not sure if that's considered to be part of Waterfront Park, but it's definitely part of it all in my opinion... not to mention how it flows down to OMSI on the east side and Riverplace on the west side. The whole thing is such a huge multipurpose jewel & we, as a city, are so lucky to have it.

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

Then you must hate this “park” is getting a fun attraction

I'm actually all for this skate park because it will be built in an underutilized part. The waterfront park in Portland is huge and it has a lot of amenities along it, even if you don't want to admit that it does.

[CorbinWarrick]

Originally Posted by urbanlife

I'm actually all for this skate park because it will be built in an underutilized part. The waterfront park in Portland is huge and it has a lot of amenities along it, even if you don't want to admit that it does.

I’d take Vancouver’s new waterfront over ours. It’s why so many ppl laugh at ours

[2oh1]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

I’d take Vancouver’s new waterfront over ours. It’s why so many ppl laugh at ours

Just stop it. No one laughs at Portland's Waterfront Park. No one but you, and you're just a disgruntled kid living with his parents who is angry at the world and not even sure why. You're just a stereotypical spoiled angry kid, and you're in for a rude awakening when adulthood arrives & you finally realize no one cares about your whole boo hoo routine.

No one but you laughs at Portland's Waterfront Park, and you don't count because you're too juvenile to understand what you're complaining about. Waterfront Park is an absolute jewel that we're luck to have.

Tom McCall Waterfront Park literally shows up on recommendations from national travel guides when they write about the many things to see and do when visiting Portland.

Saturday Market.
Salmon Street Springs Fountain.
The Founders' Stone.
The Bill of Rights Memorial.
The Battleship Oregon Memorial
The engraved memorial stones.
Friendship Circle.
The Japanese American Historical Plaza.
The cherry trees that bloom every year. There's at least 100 of them.
The Oregon Maritime Museum in the Sternwheeler.
The grassy amphitheater bowl.
The huge grassy lawn that gets used in so many ways.
The paved path, which is constantly filled with walkers, joggers and cyclists.
The eastside esplanade.
OMSI.
Festivals, festivals, festivals. And concerts.
The ships docked for Fleet Week.
And hey, what a great spot to enjoy the Christmas Ships parade.

I'm sure I'm forgetting things.

Oh, but boo hoo, it doesn't have a freaking taco stand, so you throw an unending tantrum like a toddler whose mommy won't buy him a toy.

[sopdx]

Originally Posted by 2oh1

Just stop it. No one laughs at Portland's Waterfront Park. No one but you, and you're just a disgruntled kid living with his parents who is angry at the world and not even sure why. You're just a stereotypical spoiled angry kid, and you're in for a rude awakening when adulthood arrives & you finally realize no one cares about your whole boo hoo routine.

No one but you laughs at Portland's Waterfront Park, and you don't count because you're too juvenile to understand what you're complaining about. Waterfront Park is an absolute jewel that we're luck to have.

Tom McCall Waterfront Park literally shows up on recommendations from national travel guides when they write about the many things to see and do when visiting Portland.

Saturday Market.
Salmon Street Springs Fountain.
The Founders' Stone.
The Bill of Rights Memorial.
The Battleship Oregon Memorial
The engraved memorial stones.
Friendship Circle.
The Japanese American Historical Plaza.
The cherry trees that bloom every year. There's at least 100 of them.
The Oregon Maritime Museum in the Sternwheeler.
The grassy amphitheater bowl.
The huge grassy lawn that gets used in so many ways.
The paved path, which is constantly filled with walkers, joggers and cyclists.
The eastside esplanade.
OMSI.
Festivals, festivals, festivals. And concerts.
The ships docked for Fleet Week.
And hey, what a great spot to enjoy the Christmas Ships parade.

I'm sure I'm forgetting things.

Oh, but boo hoo, it doesn't have a freaking taco stand, so you throw an unending tantrum like a toddler whose mommy won't buy him a toy.

You can 'ignore' certain users so you don't have to read their comments. It doesn't block them from the forum only from your account.

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by CorbinWarrick

I’d take Vancouver’s new waterfront over ours. It’s why so many ppl laugh at ours

That's great, I don't ever go to Vancouver and Portland's waterfront I can access by bike. I don't really see the point to this whole "which waterfront is better" thing that you keep doing.

[eric cantona]

Preliminary Darcelle XV Plaza design released:

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...nt-square.html

[maccoinnich]

Proposed Fence Around Darcelle XV Plaza Draws Criticism from Portland Design Commission
The regulators can’t kill the idea because they lack authority, but they sure didn’t care for it.



Don’t fence me in.

That, very simply, was the recommendation from most members of the Portland Design Commission, the seven-member body that reviews major projects for the City Council, at a hearing on the proposed development of Darcelle XV Plaza yesterday.

Portland Parks & Recreation and its partner in the project, Downtown Portland Clean & Safe, want to turn the former O’Bryant Square, a blighted piece of downtown known at various times as “Needle Park” and “Paranoid Park,” into an event space, plaza and dog park.

They also want to surround the 100-foot by 200-foot property with a fence and close it at night, saying the moves are crucial to keeping people from using the space to take drugs and relieve their bowels, problems that have made the space uninviting to most Portlanders.

...continues at Willamette Week.

[maccoinnich]

North Park Blocks Open House #1 survey

[subterranean]

Source: https://www.oregonmetro.gov/news/met...re-nature-park

[uncommon.name]

Originally Posted by subterranean

Source: https://www.oregonmetro.gov/news/met...re-nature-park

That rendering gives me Oaks Bottom kind of vibes.

[maccoinnich]

North Park Blocks Extension Open House #2 boards. Includes three concepts.

[maccoinnich]

Parks reveals new concepts for North Park Blocks extension



The City of Portland hosted its second open house for the North Parks Blocks Extension project last night.

As we shared back in February, the Parks & Recreation bureau is looking to extend the existing linear park that exists between W Burnside and NW Glisan, north to Hoyt (behind Pacific Northwest College of Art, which is why some folks refer to this as the “PNCA Block). The project looks to design a new, 30,000 square foot park. It was spurred by the Broadway Corridor development and will also be a key piece of the future Green Loop.

Last night under tents in an outdoor plaza outside PNCA, design consultants and city staff unveiled three new design options. The designs were gleaned in large part from over 500 public comments received at the first open house on February 29th. The new renderings give us our clearest view yet of how we might some day pedal our bikes from the North Park Blocks, through the Broadway Corridor, and onto the western end of the Broadway Bridge at NW Lovejoy.

...continues at Bike Portland.