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Demolition on hold as city balks at replacement
building Page 5
Neighbors fight nighttime construction Page 8
MARCH 2015 / VOLUME 28, NO. 7 / FREE
Le Vieux aims high, fires low Page 14
Food Front board runs thin Page 22
Finding something to buy in Pearl
isn’t easy Page 12
Parking permits required in most of
Northwest District this month.
Old post office reborn as art college
Page 20
NW Examiner Community
Awards May 9
***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
The house at 2343 NW Irving St. had a retail value of $467,000 according to the city tax assessor,
even in its derelict condition.
Finders Keepers
How good a deal is too good, and did a real estate
agent take advantage of an elderly recluse?
Real estate broker Jean Rychlik bought the vacant house at 2343 NW
Irving St. for $250,000 last summer, then began fixing it up. Photo by
Allan Classen
ALLAN CLASSEN
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or 20 years or so, prospective buyers tried to buy the
vacant, derelict house at
2343 NW Irving St. It was no
turnkey affair, but its fully intact
turret and distinctive features
stamped it as the design of
Edgar Lazarus, a leading early
Portland architect.
Those who asked neighbors
about the possible availability
of the house learned that the
owner was a reclusive Lake
Oswego man who ignored
attempts to reach him.
Jean Rychlik, the managing
broker at Summa Real Estate
Associates on Northeast Sandy
Boulevard, went further. Last
summer she knocked on his
door and found him ready to
sell.
That’s the sterilized version
of the story.
To put myself in her shoes, I
took the gently curving, shaded
Goodall Road near Lake Oswego High School, passing homes
that could be called mansions.
The house isn’t visible from
the street, but taking the long,
thickly foliaged driveway led
me past a Jaguar and then to
the house itself.
This is where all normalcy
stops. The house takes the term
derelict a step beyond. Years of
trash, neglect and overgrowth
make habitation unthinkable.
No one answered my knock on
the door. Inside the darkened
house, newspapers and other
materials are stacked to chest
height, leaving a path only
1-foot wide to the door.
Northwest Portland real estate
market differ.
“The price was fair because I
“You can’t get near any-
About that Jaguar. It’s almost
entombed in wild vines. It
hasn’t gone anywhere in years,
perhaps decades.
Rychlik made the same trip
last summer, found Robert
Hoyt home and in a frame of
mind to conduct a real estate
deal.
Asked by the Examiner if
something about the surroundings suggested that he may not
be qualified to represent his
interests, Rychlik replied, “He
is highly competent. You can’t
tell how competent a person is
by the way they live.”
With or without his full facul-
Height of controversy
Minority report
stands up to plans
for taller buildings in
central city.
ALLAN CLASSEN
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Illustration from Building Height Policy Minority Report
ties, Robert Hoyt sold his Irving
Street property for $250,000.
s Portland’s City Council prepares to ratify a
20-year plan for the central city, a cadre of activists
and professionals warns that
the official public involvement
process has been more about
Robert Hoyt lived in this Lake Oswego house when Rychlik
knocked on his door to make him an offer. Photo by Allan Classen
had to replace every system in
the house,” said Rychlik.
Others knowledgeable in the
thing in Northwest Portland
for $250,000,” said Joan Amico
of The Amico Real Estate ▶
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speed than deliberation.
The most obvious consequence of this rush to completion, from their perspective, is
enshrinement of simplistic
assumptions about building
height and how it shapes urban
economics and livability.
While unable to persuade the
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability that oversaw the drafting
of the West Quadrant Plan or a
33-member Stakeholders Advisory Committee that went along
with the direction proposed by
city staff, the dissidents’ main
achievement is reflected in a
powerfully reasoned Building
Height Policy Minority Report.
BPS didn’t include the document in its report to City Coun-
cil, but its backers went directly
to their elected officials, where
they gained an audience in commissioners’ offices.
The minority report suggests
that wholesale increases in proposed building heights—up to
460 feet—in and near Downtown are excessive, too broadly
dispersed and likely to undermine affordability and other
policy goals.
City orthodoxy anticipates
population growth in coming
years — 23,000 more people in
the Central City by 2035 — and
aims to add sufficient housing
density and jobs to meet that
need. An assumption, repeated by city planners and council members alike, is that an ▶
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 Readers Reply
Editor’s Turn
Letters can be sent to
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Letters should be 300 words or fewer; include a name and a street of residence.
Deadline third Saturday of the month.
Demolition on 25th
I was terribly sad to read about
the planned demolition of a home at
Northwest 25th and Raleigh [January
2015].
I remember going on a "Save These
Old Houses" field trip in 1988-89
in Mrs. Denny's class at Chapman
Elementary. Even then, this was an
important issue, and one we were
willing to fight for.
I since grew up next door to the
home in question during high school
and have loved both my home and the
identical one next to it my whole life.
They are beautiful relics in a continuously changing landscape. (What with
all of the condo/apt development in
NW/Slabtown, and the incoming New
Seasons...)
I'm disappointed that the new owners don't see the value in preserving
such historic beauty and truly such a
fine house. The new plan looks misplaced, like it should be in a desert
landscape, not our Northwest rain forest.
February 2015], it’s always nice to see
a journalist saying that government
should exist. Thank you!
Steve Novick
Portland City Commissioner
Freedom over security
Thanks for your thoughtful comments in Editor’s Turn [February
2015] regarding the importance of
government. Permit me a few comments.
The size of government is a continuum from none to communism. Many
of us still think more like Thomas
Jefferson than Karl Marx and prefer
small government because we value
freedom over security. To alter your
example, would you prefer to live in
the former communist Soviet Union
with no freedom (including freedom
of press)?
Government should exist
Second, you fail to discuss holistically government’s functions but
rather focus on sewers--an old liberal
ruse. Government’s function is to provide basic services like sewer, water,
police and fire protection. You fail to
describe the innumerable non-basic
governmental services many of us,
including those in East Multnomah
County, prefer not to pay for. Local
arts taxes, taxes for bicycle lanes and
massive redistribution of wealth laws
on the federal level are just a few. You
fail to distinguish between essential
services and all services.
Although I think East Portlanders
have legitimate gripes [Editor’s Turn,
Third, it may be true that advocates
of limited government can cause▶
It must be nice to have had the
fortune to live in wondrous and lush
seclusion near the Arboretum, only
to create an obscene, and ultimately
selfish, home in our perfectly Portland
neighborhood.
Cerissa Linder
NW Raleigh St.
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BY ALLAN CLASSEN
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
The height of density
O
n my first day of college economics, the professor asked us students
what determines the price of a
product or service. Hands shot up.
“Supply and demand,” was the confident answer from the student called
upon.
We knew he was right. We had all
passed high school civics, after all.
“What about sales?” asked the professor.
Welcome to higher learning, where
much of what you thought you knew
turns out to be wrong.
Merchants frequently discount items
as part of a marketing strategy unrelated to the quantity of goods on hand.
We all knew this on some level, but
the supply and demand theory was so
poetic and well packaged, we ignored
our real-life experience.
The same kind of mass mental numbing seems to have overtaken the people guiding the city’s comprehensive
cludes, “Humph. Must have froze to
death.”
You think that’s dumb, the Portland
planning intelligentsia keeps ordering
larger buildings and greater density
in the central city as the path toward
affordable housing. They’ve pursued
this policy aggressively, multiplying the
number of housing units in and near
Downtown.
How is that working?
As City Commissioner Nick Fish
reported, “In 1978, there were 5,200
affordable units downtown. In 2014,
there are 3,200.”
Clearly, supply and demand cannot
explain this phenomenon.
Real estate has characteristics far
more complex than the nostrum. A
home’s value depends significantly on
the value of homes in the vicinity. When
a luxury high-rise goes up, surrounding
real estate prices catapult with it. When
other developers see $1 million condos
selling, they make plans to build more
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plan update. Experts, elected officials,
developers and citizens alike repeat
the assumption that a greater supply of
housing will reduce the cost of housing
overall. We have to build higher, wider
and tighter to create enough housing
units for all the people moving to Portland. Otherwise, the cost of housing
will soar as people chase after the limited available units.
I understand the theory perfectly. It
contains a simple logic that even callow
youths can memorize and repeat with
aplomb. But knowledge sometimes
begins when a rule of thumb fails.
To illustrate, I’ll repeat a joke about
two cowboys riding hard across the
desert. The younger one suggests they
stop and rest their horses to let them
cool down. His cocksure partner says
no, “The faster you go, the cooler you
get.” So they galloped on until the tenderfoot’s horse keels over, whereupon
the kid stumbles to his feet and con-
nearby in the same price range.
Of course, some draw other conclusions. They see central city housing
prices skyrocket and they assume the
problem is, we aren’t building enough
of them. Higher and higher, denser and
denser they go, building the most unaffordable cities on the planet. Towering Vancouver, B.C., the model in the
eyes of Portland’s planners, is generally
considered to have the second-highest
housing costs on the world. Hong Kong
is first.
The most affordable housing in Portland’s central city is in its older, modestsized apartment buildings—the same
ones our planning strategy will eliminate to build high-end high-rises in the
name of affordability.
The horse is dead. The question is:
Did it burn out or freeze to death? And do
we have the means to know difference?■
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 Obituaries
Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett, who lived
in the Acropolis
Hotel at 1717
W. Burnside St.,
died Jan. 31 of
heart disease
at age 77. He was born March
3, 1937, in Omaha, Neb. He
served in the U.S. Air Force and
worked most of his life as a chef.
For the past 15 years, he volunteered at Meals on Wheels sites
on Northwest Irving Street and
in Downtown.
Maria R. Brenan
Maria Rosa Brenan, a Cedar
Hills resident,
died Feb. 14 at
age 90. She was
born Oct. 29,
1924, in Vienna,
Austria, where she grew up and
witnessed the city’s destruction during World War II. She
married Thomas Brennan in
1947. In 1950, they moved to
the United States, where they
were among the first residents of Cedar Hills. She was
a member of St. Cecilia Parish
in Beaverton. She is survived
by her husband; sons, Patrick,
Emmett and Kevin; daughters,
Monica, Maureen and Lori;
brother, Adolph Mares; and five
grandchildren.
Margaret A. Duggan
Margaret Ann
Duggan, who
grew up in
Northwest Portland, died Jan.
30 at age 86.
She was born
in Portland Nov. 29, 1928. She
attended St. Patrick School and
graduated from Immaculata
Academy. Her career included
positions in banking and insurance before retiring from Pacific Power & Light. She received
the Al Riley Award for her volunteer work at Blanchet House.
She is survived by her sister,
Julia Melcher.
Francesca
M. Lolich
Francesca M.
Lolich, a long-
time resident of Northwest
Portland, died Feb. 6 at age
93. Francesca Frassone was
born Nov. 7, 1921, in Atlantic City, where she attended
St. Michael’s Elementary and
Atlantic City High School. She
married Frank Lolich in 1943,
and they moved to Portland
after he was discharged from
the army in 1945. He died in
2013. She worked as a cook at
Chapman Elementary School.
She was a member of St. Patrick
Catholic Church. She helped
found a group of Slabtown
women who socialized monthly
for 50 years, and she supported
many Little League teams that
played in Wallace Park. She is
survived by her sons, Frank Jr.
and Ron; daughters, Barbara
and Patricia Lolich-Beyer; eight
grandchildren; and six great
grandchildren. The funeral will
be Friday, March 6, 10:30 a.m.,
at St. Patrick Catholic Church,
1623 NW 19th Ave.
Colleen Petrina
Colleen Constance Petrina,
who grew up
in Northwest
Portland, died
Feb. 25 at age
90.
Colleen
Ellsworth was born May 21,
1924, and attended St. Patrick
Grade School and graduated
from Lincoln High School. She
married George Petrina in
1943. She worked in the shipyards, American Can and as a
bookkeeper for her husband’s
meat-cutting business. After
his death in 1976, she attended
beautician school and worked
as a beautician for more than a
decade. She is survived by her
sons, George Alice Ferguson,
Jack Petrina, Jeffrey Petrina and
Joe Petrina; daughters, Susan
Unger, Nancy Petrina and Leni
Longfellow; 18 grandchildren;
20 great-grandchildren and
one great-great-granddaughter.
Greg Wentworth
Greg
Wentworth, a resident of Arlington
Heights, died
Jan. 26 at age
66. He was born
Oct. 10, 1948,
in Portland. After graduating
from Oregon State University
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in 1970, he joined the family
business, the fourth generation
working at Wentworth Chevrolet and Wilsonville Chevrolet. He became manager of
Wentworth Chevrolet in 1977
with his brothers, and since
1999 managed the Wilsonville
Chevrolet. He received the 2005
Time magazine Quality Dealer
Award, one of the automobile
industry’s most prestigious
awards. He served on numerous community boards and
was active in Portland’s Central
Eastside Industrial Council. He
is survived by his wife, Kelly;
daughters, Megan and Hilary;
son, Grant; sisters, Caro Riede
and Ann Wentworth; brothers
Scott and Bob; mother, Virginia
“Holly” Wentworth; and two
grandchildren.;
Death Notices
Betty S. (Henry) Amundson,
99, graduate of Lincoln High
School.
Norman C. Danielson, 99,
member of Zion Lutheran
Church.
Dr. William E. Coit, 60, neuroradiologist at Good Samaritan
Hospital for 28 years.
Ruth F. Gervasio, 97, graduate
of Good Samaritan School of
Nursing.
Hannah Gage Haselton May,
103, volunteered as a guide for
Hoyt Arboretum.
Wayne Kingsley, 72, member
of Multnomah Athletic Club.
Mary “Maryjo” Adelaide
(Henderson) Lay, 93, secretary for Gunderson Bros. Engineering Corp.
Rev. James G. Leovy, 99, former director of pastoral services at Legacy Good Samaritan
Medical Center.
Gerald “Mack” C. McElhaney,
84, attended Lincoln High
School.
Genesee “Jenny” Murfitt, 72,
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center employee.
Nancy E. Packard, 61, 1971
Lincoln High School graduate.
Trudy L. Schidleman, 83, lifelong member of Zion Lutheran
Church.
Eugene
“Bud” H. Webb,
94, graduate of Lincoln High
School.
 Readers Reply
Continued from page 3
their own calamities, but so
can advocates of big government. Here you fail to discern
between imposing calamity on
oneself or others. John Locke
wrote we are free until we harm
another. Or colloquially, you
are free to swing your fist until
it meets my face.
Certainly, if my sewage makes you sick and I am
unwilling to correct it, government action is necessary—as it
is in east Portland. But if I am
prepared to defend myself due
to a reduced police force or find
my own sources of literature
without a library, that ought to
be my choice and not government’s or yours.
I prefer not to use “conservative” and “liberal” because
they have lost their meaning. Debating universals like
freedom, justice and political
equality rather than particulars
tells us much more about how
we ought to think and act.
John Bowman
SW Ridgeway Dr.
Food Front GM
deserves respect
It’s disheartening to read
of the tribulations of Food
Front pertaining to differences
of opinion about: cash flow,
declining profits, conflicts
within the board, staff morale,
and maintaining integrity in
the face of increasing competition.
I recall another time in Food
Front’s history when this precisely described Food Front’s
state of affairs. It was the early
1990s. I was president of the
board at that time. A national search was undertaken to
find a manager with the skills,
experience and temperament
suitable to that challenge. The
hands-down result: Holly Jarvis.
Holly brought her honed
skills to bear on the challenges of that era with aplomb
and vision. Under that early
new leadership, the store
was acquired, expanded and
modernized. Declines in sales
from the influx of competition
were overcome with innovation and creativity. The quality
and range of the store’s products and enhanced customer
service resulted from this era
of highly competent management. The second store and
ongoing improvements have
maintained the store’s competitiveness in increasingly challenging times.
I’m not suggesting that all
eras are created equal or that
I’ve knowledge of what’s been
going on behind the scenes
today (the second store carries Coke?!). But Holly deserves
respect for much that she’s
brought to the store and the
local community over 20 years
of service.
I also disagree with the criticism of the co-op’s structure.
Customer and staff review of
the manager by the board during annual performance evaluations by the board is the proper assessment mechanism.
Hurling accusations when
management cannot respond
in this forum without violating
personnel protocol is not fitting
to the respect that Holly—or
the Food Front community—
deserve. It’s time to allow the
collective commitment to Food
Front’s mission and purpose—
rather than ganged innuendo—
guide the dialogue necessary to
bring these issues to rest.
Jeff Joslin
San Francisco
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CORRECTION
The February Examiner incorrectly stated that Carey MacNaughton of Hanu Pilates created her own form of the discipline. In fact, she teaches the classical Pilates method.
Tom Leach Roofing
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NEWS
Demolition on hold—city doesn’t
like plans for replacement house
Parking at hospital for interlopers ends
In an effort to protect our
parking resources for patients
and visitors once the Northwest Parking Plan is fully
implemented, Legacy Good
Samaritan Medical Center
will activate a gated parking
system at all of our parking
structures and surface lots on
Monday, March 9.
Legacy Good Samaritan
is working hard with the city
of Portland to make the necessary changes to city code
that will allow our neighbors
as well as employees and
patrons of local businesses to
continue parking in our lots
after hours and on weekends.
exit of the gates. There will
be clear signage at all parking
structure entry points.
With the support of the
Northwest District Association, Nob Hill Business Association and the Northwest
Parking Stakeholder Advisory
Committee, we have proposed
the following to the city:
Long-term parking
Residents of the Northwest
District and employees of
local businesses will be able
to apply for an annual permit
that would be consistent with
the price of city permits. Permit
purposes such as shopping or
dining to utilize Legacy Good
Samaritan’s parking resources.
Adjustment Committee critical of reductions in
setbacks, no driveway at 2486 NW Raleigh.
We are advocating for
City Council to expedite the
lengthy code change process
to allow Legacy Good Samaritan to implement the two
parking components listed
above. Once we are able to
secure a code change, we will
proactively communicate to
ensure all interested neighbors know how to register for
the annual resident parking
permit and that the short-term
hourly pay-to-park option is
available.
and reconstruction, however,
would end that privilege.
ALLAN CLASSEN
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he men who bought a 1904
house at Northwest 25th
and Raleigh with the intent
of replacing it with a modern
three-story house got some bad
news from the Portland Adjustment Committee March 3.
Four of the five committee
members expressed reluctance to grant the project all of
the side-yard setbacks reductions requested. The applicants
agreed to postpone a committee
decision until March 31 rather
than push for an immediate vote.
Jamie Baldwin and David
Carter, who now live near Hoyt
Arboretum, paid $665,000 last
June for the property, cited by the
Portland Chronicle website as the
highest price paid in Portland for
a house to be replaced by another
single-family dwelling.
The Bureau of Development Services favored all of
the adjustments requested, but
immediate neighbors and the
Northwest District Association
appealed to the Adjustment
Committee, which had a radically different take on the matter.
Gates will be in place at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center parking facilities as of March 9,
and those without a validation will be fined $65.
Until the city makes a formal
code change to allow a shortterm pay-to-park option and
long-term parking arrangements for residents, the public
will not have access to Legacy
Good Samaritan’s parking
resources. This process could
take anywhere from a few
months to a year, depending
on City Council’s decisions.
In the interim, those who
attempt to take a ticket,
park and leave Legacy Good
Samaritan’s parking garages
without proper validation will
be issued a $65 penalty upon
holders would have access to
Legacy Good Samaritan’s parking structures and surface lots
after hours and on weekends
(Monday-Thursday, 6 p.m.-7
a.m. and from 6 p.m. Friday
through 7 a.m. on Monday).
Thank you for your patience
and understanding as we,
alongside the rest of the community, adapt to the new
parking landscape in Northwest Portland.
Northwest Examiner Sincerely,
|
run
Short-term parking
A short-term hourly pay-topark model after hours and on
weekends (hours
same as above)
would allow those
who enter the
neighborhood for
Jonathan Avery
Chief Administrative Officer
Legacy Good Samaritan
Medical Center
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The committee’s strongest objections were against
reducing the minimum driveway length from 18 to 4 feet.
Although the current house
has a garage in the same locadate:
MARCH, 2015
tion as the one proposed, the
existing configuration was built
long before a city zoning code
was enacted and was therefore
allowed to remain. Demolition
Committee Chair Roger
Alfred said it was hard to get
around the standard for granting adjustments—that doing so
would equally or better achieve
the purposes of the code. He
said the intent of the 18-foot
setback was to provide room
for a car to park in front of the
garage door, thereby providing
visibility to drivers and pedestrians when that car backs into
the street.
“I’m troubled by the garage
setback issue,” he said.
Committee Co-chair Suzanne
Zuniga, an architect, was even
more critical of the proposal.
Zuniga wasn’t impressed by
the argument raised by project
architects who said a taller, less
compatible building could be
built by right, and the adjustments would serve to reduce the
scale and impact on neighbors.
Drawings of a 40-foot tall
building were presented for
comparison, but Zuniga doubted the hypothetical images
would have passed muster.
She also objected to not
counting enclosed courtyards
as building space and therefore
not subject to density and setback requirements.
A 6-foot wall along the frontyard sidewalk also drew scorn
from several committee members as unwelcoming and out
of character for the area.■
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The kitchen was stacked high with papers when Rychlik bought it.
jean-rychlik->-summa-real-estate-assoc
Finders Keepers
contact information for Hoyt. The
Examiner could
not reach him by
phone, and he was
not at the Goodall
Road house, which
she said is no longer his residence.
Remodeling of the Irving house is completed today, and it has appraised value of
$810,000. jean-rychlik->-summa-real-estate-assoc
Continued from page 1
Group. “I’m surprised that her
company would let her do that.”
“Ouch!” was the reaction of
veteran real estate agent Dan
Volkmer who heads the Dan
Volkmer Team. Like Amico,
he’s a Northwest Portland resident, and he led the campaign
to establish the Alphabet Historic District. “That feels pretty
low to me.”
“Portland Maps lists an
RMV (retail market value) of
$466,870 [in 2014], so I think
$250,000 is extremely low, even
with a lot of work needed,” said
Rick Michaelson.
Last year, Michaelson headed a group of more than 20
people who bought another
Lazarus-designed house also
needing all systems replaced,
the Goldsmith House at North-
west 24th and Quimby, for
$2.25 million.
A licensed appraisal of 2343
NW Irving St. conducted five
months after the sale estimated
the land value alone at $250,000
and described the purchase
price as “well below market.”
Rychlik acknowledged that
an investigation of the transaction is being conducted by
the Oregon Real Estate Agency, which she is confident will
exonerate her.
A staff person involved with
the case “told me I have nothing to worry about,” she said.
“It’s a joke that I have been put
through this.”
Separately, Adult and Protective Services of Multnomah
County investigated a complaint on this case and concluded it was unsubstantiated.
Rychlik declined to provide
“I don’t want
him
hassled,”
she said. “He’s a
friend.”
Portland couple who sold their
land to a real estate agent for a
tenth of its value last year. Realtor/buyer Sandra Bittler did not
report the deal to her brokerage, Oregon First terminated
her, citing the legal breach.
Estate Agency,” said Hafez
Daraee of Luby/Daraee Law
Group, PC.
Although Rychlik stopped
talking to the Examiner, an
attorney for Summa Realty, Inc.
has been forthcoming.
Asked if Summa had enough
information to question the
transaction, given that one
Daraee reviewed the case
and found nothing disturbing
about it, at least nothing he
would share with the press.
Rychlik did not
answer the following questions
from the Examiner:
Was Mr. Hoyt represented by
anyone in this transaction?
If so, who and was that person a relative, friend, real estate
agent, attorney, etc.?
How was the sale price determined? Was there an independent appraisal?
What communication from
the Real Estate Agency makes
you believe they will exonerate
you?
Did you inform Summa of
this transaction, when and in
what form?
The last question may be the
most pivotal because a state
law is involved.
That’s according to Dave
Shaw, the attorney who represented the elderly Southwest
The cars in Robert Hoyt’s driveway in Lake Oswego haven’t been
taken out in a while. The Jaguar is almost hidden under vegitation.
of its agents bought from an
unrepresented elderly man who
hoards newspapers at a price all
available sources say was below
market, he responded:
“My client was not made
aware that someone believes
this transaction may be irregular until it was notified of the
complaint against Ms. Rychlik
lodged with the Oregon Real
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your own counsel before you
proceed with the suggestion
that he has a mental disorder or that his disorder has
impacted his capacity.
“As to Summa’s position,
there is a third alternative
you may not have considered:
Summa did not know about
the issues in this transaction,
but the transaction ends up
being a true arms-length deal
that does not require my client
to take any action.
“Again, I am not defending
Ms. Rychlik. … All I am saying
is that, based on my advice,
Summa is currently maintaining status quo until the Real
Estate Agency’s investigation
is done and its conclusions
revealed.”
He did not however confirm
or deny whether the transaction was reported to Summa
last summer.
Pending the decision of the
Real Estate Agency, we asked
a real estate ethics expert what
a person in Rychlik’s shoes
should have done in such a
case?
Edgar Lazarus homes, sometimes described as Queen Anne shingle style, are characterized by
steeply pitched roofs, turrets, multiple gables and a variety of window styles. Although the house
on Irving Street had not been lived in for many years, the woodwork and doors were in good
condition. jean-rychlik->-summa-real-estate-assoc
UPDATE
Rychlik out at
Summa Real Estate
Debra
Galliano-Nolen,
a principal broker for Better Homes and Gardens Real
Estate Realty Partners and an
ethics instructor for Portland
Metropolitan Association of
Realtors, said the association’s
code of ethics “binds us to give
our total representation to the
client and to promote their
interests.”
J
Galliano-Nolen said that
duty extends to the seller on
the other side of a transaction.
Even though Hoyt was selling
property to Rychlik and he was
not in a strict sense her client, she was ethically bound to
protect his interests.
Rychlik said she was worn down
by inquiries about her purchase
of 2343 NW Irving St. from Robert
Hoyt last July, and “I would like to
have it end at some point.”
“He’s her client because he’s
the public,” she said.
In cases of possibly incompetent seller, “It’s up to the
Realtor to see if he/she has any
other representation.
“If they see a red flag that
this person isn’t able to make a
decision on his own,” she said,
“the Realtor should bring in
another Realtor.”
That may involve contacting
aging services agencies “to see
that they’re getting the repre-
ean Rychlik called the NW
Examiner March 4 as the
paper went to press to say she
no longer works for Summa Real
Estate.
“Yesterday I was let go from my
company on the threat of your article,” she said.
After responding to calls from
Multnomah County Aging Services, which exonerated her after an
investigation completed last year,
jean-rychlik->-summa-real-estate-assoc
Portland Residential Appraisals
and the Oregon Real Estate Agency, whose investigation is pendsentation they need.”
agent against approaching an Realty Inc., a Beaverton com- ing, she was upset to be contacted
That representative may elderly person with a low-ball pany headed by Tim Horst. by the newspaper about the same
The company website lists 16 matter.
be a relative, attorney or real offer.
estate agent.
As a further safeguard, Ore- offices, including Summa Real
“I was trying to protect Robert,”
Estate Associates on Northeast
“My biggest concern is if gon law requires that agents Sandy, where Rychlik is man- she said, insisting that her motives
“have to run personal transacthey’re very elderly,” she said.
and actions have been misintertions through your broker. It aging broker. The Oregon CorHoyt is described by two is not lawful to sidestep their porate Division lists Summa preted.
Real Estate Associates as a
sources as 80.
She scheduled a meeting with
brokerage.”
separate business.■
Hoyt
and Examiner Editor Allan
Galliano-Nolen said she
Daraee represents Summa
Classen
later in the month to more
would advise a real estate
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Sewer repairs delayed
over concerns about
nighttime construction noise.
Neighbors nix night work
ing could save the city money
on the project, which is budgeted for $3.8 million.
“Overnight construction
does add to our construction
costs,” said Mann. “Contractors
will typically charge more for
nighttime construction, which
often requires more traffic
control measures and always
requires more noise abatement
equipment (baffles, lights, generators, spotters for equipment
not using backup alarms, electronic two-way communication
equipment, etc.).”
ALLAN CLASSEN
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ewer repairs on and around
Northwest Vaughn Street
are on hold due to objections about nighttime noise.
The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services proposed
working primarily at night to
avoid disrupting heavily traveled Vaughn Street during the
day. Doing so requires a noise
variance because the city sets
stricter noise limits at night in
residential areas.
Keeping traffic flowing is
worth the effort, in BES’ eyes.
“Northwest Vaughn is a major
arterial with very high daytime
traffic volume,” he said.
What some may have
assumed was a pro forma
request became anything but
when the Northwest District
Association board voted 6-0 to
oppose the variance.
NWDA board member Kathy
Sharp said night construction
would place an unfair burden
on lower-income tenants in
the area, most of whom lack
air conditioning and therefore
keep their windows open in the
summer. After limited discussion at the end of long meeting
at which four board members
had already left, her motion
passed.
The bureau must now go
through a Noise Review Board
“We’re concerned about
impacts on businesses and
motorists, and we especially
want to avoid any traffic backing up on I-405.”
The Bureau of Environmental Services doesn’t want to close Northwest Vaughn Street during the day,
but it may have to if a noise variance isn’t granted. Courtesy Bureau of Environmental Services
hearing April 8 (see ad on page
18).
Linc Mann, public information officer for BES, said that
means construction can’t begin
until July at the earliest and
could be postponed until October if the variance is denied.
Mann said the work will be
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Portland plan gives industrial sector free pass
away additional incentives will
succeed where it has failed in
the past. Portland will never be
able to compete with other cities solely on cost; we will never
be the cheapest. Nor should we
seek employers whose arrival
(or departure) will be determined only by the cost of land
and regulation.
The old Linnton Plywood Association mill property along the Willamette River has been vacant for 15 years, in part because its industrial
zoning puts it off limits to other types of redevelopment. “We should not offer protected zoning or other subsidies to businesses that do
not meet a jobs-per-acre threshold sufficient to achieve our prosperity goals,” said Ed Jones.
As long as the city makes cheaper ‘shovel
ready’ land available, brownfields will not be
cleaned up.
ED JONES
President, land use chair
Linnton Neighborhood Association
T
he following excerpt is
reprinted with permission from recommendations submitted to the Portland
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability on the draft Central
City 2035 plan by the Linnton
Neighborhood Association.
The message in the proposed Central City 2035 plan
for all neighborhoods in or
near industrial zones is that
economic prosperity trumps
livability and even safety. And
when it comes to a balancing of
community and environmental
needs with the potential for job
growth, the community and the
environment get the short end
of the stick. For example, in the
discussion of traded-sector job
growth, the plan states: Work
needs to be done to provide
a more competitive and supportive environment for traded-sector businesses to help
strengthen the overall economy
and to ensure that more Portlanders have the opportunity to
secure stable living-wage jobs.
In this context, “competitive
and supportive” means less
regulation, which means greater risks for the community and
lower taxes, which means others are paying more than their
share. The community, through
We should not offer protected zoning or other subsidies
to businesses that do not meet
a jobs-per-acre threshold sufficient to achieve our prosperity goals. An assessment of all
businesses currently occupying industrial land in Portland
regarding their land-use efficiency (i.e., how much of the
property is in use) and intensity (i.e., how many living-wage
jobs per acre) would provide
a benchmark upon which a
rational subsidy/incentive pro-
gram might be based. Particularly in the case of our limited
riverfront land, the city should
encourage concentration and
multiple use rather than sprawl.
The emphasis on industrial
development is an old habit
rather than a clear vision. Portland has a long history of spending to encourage industrial job
growth. There have been few
successes, and nothing in the
current economic situation
encourages a belief that giving
city government, already subsidizes the “traded sector” in a
great variety of ways, and other
parts of government offer additional subsidies. We should be
slow to offer additional incentives to businesses to come
here or to stay here
before we determine
if we are getting our
money’s worth out
of the subsidies we
already provide. Every
tax break we offer is a
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street not paved, a park
not cleaned, a restaurant not inspected or a
criminal not arrested.
The kind of businesses that
will contribute to the community in the long term are
those that come here for good
schools, good government and
a clean environment. Many
such businesses will not bring
with them the environmental
risks associated with historically “industrial” businesses.
Our poor past management of
industrial development is demonstrated by the large supply of
brownfields that impede new
development of the waterfront.
We should learn from those
mistakes. As the plan notes,
many potential redevelopment
sites within Portland, because
they are brownfields, are constrained by high cleanup costs
and greater risks relative to
greenfield sites, which are easier to find outside the city.
The plan seeks to solve this
problem by annexing new
“virgin” areas into industrial use. But as long as the city
makes cheaper “shovel ready”
land available, no investment
in brownfield remediation
will occur. Rather than take
the “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party”
approach and annex new clean
land for industry to move to
while the old sites are left fallow, the city needs to make
brownfield reuse viable by,
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elsewhere) has been
about job elimination
rather than job creation. To improve the
prospect of additional
stable
living-wage
jobs, we need to discourage large acreage,
low-employment projects and reserve land
for businesses that use
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Height of
controversy
Continued from page 1
increased supply of housing will
militate against rising costs.
Building height is shorthand
for a range of related concerns.
The minority report, sometimes called the Pinger Report,
was drafted by Steve Pinger, an
architect, developer and member of the Northwest District
Association land-use committee. He also served on the West
Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory
Committee, five members of
which voted for his report.
The stakeholder body as a
whole was not swayed by Pinger’s paper, though an extra meeting was needed to dispense with
the height issue. A committee of
the American Institute of Architects chapter issued a stinging
rebuke to its conclusions last
year.
Through it all, Pinger’s
approach remains calm and
measured. Testifying before
council Feb. 4, he asked merely
for a “non-binding resolution”
to further consider parts of the
plan.
“At heart, the minority report
is not really about building
height but about what kind of
city we want Portland to become
over the next generation. How
we manage tall buildings and
where they can be built is fundamental to this question, and
no other factor has the ability to
influence livability of the central
city as much as this does,” he
said.
“Livability is truly Portland’s
greatest asset. Everybody wants
to come to live and work in
Portland, and not because of its
exciting skyline but because of its
comfortable scale, the character
of its streets and neighborhoods
and unpretentious buildings,
and way of life.
“These qualities are the soul
of Portland we need to be careful
to conserve, and what I fear the
building height concept of the
West Quadrant Plan as currently
written puts in jeopardy.
Rezoning for tall buildings in the West End, like the 22-floor twelve west built in 2009, may threaten
older, smaller buildings like these along West Burnside because it drives up land values, spurring more
intense redevelopment. Twelve west is 266 feet tall, well short of the 460 feet recommended for most
of Downtown in the draft West Quadrant Plan.
“My request is that the council consider adopting the four
specific recommendations of
the minority report along with
the West Quadrant Plan. The
recommendations do not suggest lowering building heights or
any changes in current policy.
They're intended to be uncontroversial; simply to establish
the framework for a more comprehensive review of this critical
area of public policy.”
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1. Determine if current heightbonus incentives are still necessary to achieve central city housing goals.
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District character and scale.
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Appropriate
allowable
building heights. Establish
building-height allowances
appropriate to foreseeable
market demands.
as the Downtown’s West End,
become less affordable for
tenants and small businesses
even before redevelopment
begins.
Street character. Reinforce
the social role of our street
environments, as they are the
primary component of our
system of public spaces.
“Excessive
headroom
inflates property values,” said
Pinger, “and tends to take renovation of old buildings off the
table.”
4. Provide alternative
building-height concepts
Instead of repairing older,
smaller structures, property
owners look for a massive
upgrade that will supplant all
existing occupants, he said.
Create conservation districts to protect iconic places
and compare concept maps
showing various buildingheight options and how they
affect the street level.
Focus building height to
preserve affordable housing
and office space.
Pinger and other signers of
the document contend that
granting lavish height allowances drives up the price of
real estate. Property owners
can charge more for land on
which a 460-foot tower can
be built than land zoned for
a maximum of 100 feet, so
values rise whether or not
each property is redeveloped
to its full potential. Thus
those neighborhoods, such
Goose Hollow
neighbors oppose
height
I
f the people of Portland could vote on
building height limits, what would they
say about the skyward vision of the
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability?
The Goose Hollow Foothills League
held a membership meeting Feb. 11 to
read public temperature on proposed
height limits in their neighborhood.
Michael Mehaffy, a cosigner of the minority report,
is executive director of Stasis Foundation, a nonprofit
devoted to sustainable urban
development.
“There is research on tall
buildings that shows that they
can fuel demolition of historic
structures, exacerbate economic inequality and degrade
the livability of the critical
public realm,” Mehaffy said at
the Feb. 4 council hearing.
“The claim that tall buildings will promote more sustainable development is contradicted by a large and growing body of evidence,” he said.
Building Height Policy Minority Report
SIGNERS
Michael Mehaffy, Stasis Foundation
Suzanne Lennard, International Making Cities Livable Conferences
Wendy Chung, Northwest District Association board
Wendy Rahm, West End resident and advocate
Tracy J. Prince, Goose Hollow Foothills League president
Burton Francis, co-founder, Preserve the Pearl
Steve Pinger, AEC consultant, West Quadrant Plan SAC member
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The draft West Quadrant Plan retains
the current height caps of 175-325 feet
(including bonuses) in the eastern side of
the neighborhood sometimes known as
the hollow.
But many residents would apparently
like to see those caps reduced.
Steve Pinger, an architect, developer and citizen activist,
wrote the Building Height Policy Minority Report to present
another side to a controversial topic he felt was getting short
shrift in the city’s West Quadrant planning process.
Mehaffy does not support
the strategy of directing some
of the higher profits derived
from the development of tall
buildings to finance affordable housing.
things we want to do. In many
cases, the result has been disappointing.
“Steve Pinger’s work is very
valuable, and I’m sorry to see
that it hasn’t been taken more
respectfully,” said Mehaffy.
“We have to recognize
the dangers in this kind of
supply-side economic strategy— deregulating so that
the wealth will trickle down
to the rest of the city and to
affordable housing and other
Council was scheduled to
complete deliberation on the
West Quadrant Plan March 5,
the day after the NW Examiner went to press.■
A crowd of 71 people attended a sometimes disorderly meeting on the topic, and
46 neighborhood association members
voted. Most (27 or 29 by different counts)
marked their ballots in favor of reducing
height limits, and most of those picked the
lowest height option on the ballot—100 feet.
On the other hand, 17 voted to keep
height limits as they are, although about
half of these wanted to reduce height and/
or density allowances from current standards.
At a GHFL board meeting held Feb. 19,
there was division regarding the meaning
and legitimacy of the vote. For the record,
the vote was downgraded to a non-binding “straw poll” instead of an established
association policy.
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Hard to find Pearl condos for sale
Inventory will remain
tight as thousands
flock to walkable central city.
family, or the size was right, but
there was so much remodel
and rehab that had to be done
that we couldn’t take on that
project in our price range.”
KC COWAN
“You needed to have all of
your financing in place and
you literally had the paperwork as you toured the home.
You’d pretty much have it in
your pocket in a file folder. Your
earnest money needed to be
generous, so that they knew
you meant business. And if you
could do a 30-day close or less,
that would be more ideal.”
She very quickly learned that
they couldn’t be unprepared.
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ocal real estate agents
update their list of available
condos or townhouses in
the Pearl and inner Northwest
daily. These days, it’s a very
short list.
Last month, popular Pearl
District buildings such as the
Metropolitan, Gregory, Henry,
937 and Irving Street Lofts had
no units for sale. On Feb. 9, for
example, 15 buildings had no
listings, while 20 other buildings had a total of 35 between
them.
Furr signed up with an internet company that would alert
her when something new came
on the market. That’s how they
heard about the townhouse.
“I got an alert, and Max and
I were Christmas shopping. So
we literally called (our agent)
and said: Can you meet us at
this townhouse in 20 minutes?
It had probably only been on
the market an hour.”
Real estate agents say this
is the lowest inventory they’ve
seen in years.
“Super low inventory, especially in the Pearl District for
condos,” said Marissa Sainz of
Pearl District Properties. “It’s
frustrating when you have buyers who are ready to go and
ready to move and you know
that it’s just going to take longer
to find things.”
They were the first to see it
and the first to make an offer.
They even offered above the
asking price, but found out
later others did as well.
“Then our agent said we
needed to offer an escalation
clause if we really wanted this
place. Which was really nervewracking.”
While a six-month inventory
is considered the norm, brokers
say the current supply is down
to two months.
As a result of the limited
choices, prices are going up
and buyers can’t waste time
mulling over an offer.
Susan Suzuki of Debbie
Thomas Real Estate said she
sees multiple offers on properties within the first few days of
going on the market.
“People don’t realize how
quickly they have to react until
something they fell in love with
is no longer available,” said
Suzuki. “We tell our clients, if
you see something you like, you
have to be ready to act, and
Even with its 146 units, finding a place to buy in the Metropolitan Condominiums building is an iffy
proposition.
you have to go in with your
best offer at the first offer. You
most likely won’t have another
chance.”
Courtney Furr and her husband Max just moved with their
toddler daughter into a town-
house just west of the Pearl.
They spent two years looking
for the right mix of size and
budget, intensifying the search
last fall when they learned they
were expecting another baby.
Furr calls it the most stressful
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“We really, really wanted to
stay in Northwest,” said Furr.
“And it was just very difficult in
our price range to find anything
that didn’t need a lot of work or
would have adequate space. So,
it was either too small, where
we couldn’t grow at all as a
An escalation clause means
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initial offer to fend off competing offers. It’s a blind bidding
war, in which you have no idea
how much more of your additional money you might end
up paying. The Furrs also wrote
a letter telling the seller about
their family and why they wanted the house so much. After
two days of nail-biting tension,
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been accepted.
So does the hot market mean
anything sells for big bucks?
Not necessarily, said Suzuki. ▶
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“I believe most owners are staying
put, as they like where they are and there
are not a lot of options to buy elsewhere,”
he said.
Furthermore, the problem of underwater properties—which are worth less
than the amount owed on them—“is no
longer a factor. … Everyone is above it.”
Patricia Gardner, an architect and
president of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association, said Portland is one
of the fastest-growing cities in the country as about 20,000 people move here
annually. Our job growth is also above
average.
“Immigration [to Portland] is very
high,” said Gardner, adding that the city
will have a deficit in housing units for at
least the next two years.
The growth is fueled by two large
generations—baby boomers and millennials—both wanting to live in the
central city, she said. While Portland is
Listings may be updated daily, but that doesn’t mean new properties are booming, the surrounding suburbs are
added to list every day.
growing slowly.
“For sellers, having their properties go on the market
and show at their absolutely best is the most important
thing,” she said. “The bidding wars are happening to
good, clean properties that show well. Buyers will pay
a premium for a move-in ready property.”
“People are looking for a walkable
life,” she said, which includes living near
transit stops.
So those seeking the walkable lifestyle in the Pearl
District are advised to run, not walk, to the nearest real
estate agent.■
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Brad Golik, a broker and real estate blogger, agrees.
While he’s seeing hot competition for sales, he doesn’t
see buyers panicking.
“They are being a bit patient and smarter, knowing
that things will come along down the road,” Golik said.
This attitude indicates to him that the market isn’t
heading into another condo “bubble” as in the early
2000s, when people were paying “insane prices” for
properties.
“It’s kind of healthy for the market,” he said. “As an
agent, I would rather have a market like this where you
see steady normal growth (in prices) of 5 or 6 percent,
rather than 15 percent. That’s not good for anybody;
the bubble’s going to break. So, obviously we’d like to
see more inventory and get back to the six months’
inventory situation, but I think that will happen over
time.”
Dave Davis, owner of Pearl District Properties, gave
a broader perspective to the local real estate picture.
“The demand for the neighborhood is huge, and I
do not see that changing,” said Davis.
At the same time, few properties are being listed.
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 Going Out
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Dining & Entertainment
A look at Le Vieux
Grappling with ghosts,
ambition and a tough town
MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN
W
hen word got out last
year that San Francisco restaurant veterans
Annette Yang and Brian Leitner had moved to town, the
local fooderati hailed them as
the latest power couple poised
to make an impact on Portland
dining.
Yang, with sterling frontof-the-house credentials, and
Leitner, the cook, last ran the
seafood-focused Nettie’s Crab
Shack in the Marina District.
It opened in 2008, at the nadir
of the Great Recession, and
enjoyed a critically-acclaimed
five-year run before Yang and
Leitner decided to decamp
north, away from entitled dotcom tycoons and spiraling
expenses.
Portland must have seemed
like paradise. The laid back
attitude, nationally recognized
food scene and relatively low
costs are powerfully attractive,
as national media have been
trumpeting for years. Yang and
Leitner locked up a lease at the
corner of Northwest Vaughn
Street and 23rd Place and
eventually named their new
restaurant Le Vieux, referring
to something or someone old,
after their initial choice of Old
Country elicited a protest from
a similarly named local steakhouse.
Intellectual property savvy
aside, some aspects of these
experienced operators’ business judgment had me scratching my head even before the
doors opened.
The first was the choice of
location. The property’s last
occupant, Noisette, was at least
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Annette Yang and Brian Leitner came from San Francisco to apply their sterling credentials in a smaller town. Both were chefs at several
of San Francisco top restaurants before moving to Portland two years ago.
the sixth restaurant to attempt
a go there. (For those stretching
their memories to identify the
others, the list includes Café
Dacx, Back Porch Barbeque,
American Palate, Mangia Pizza
and Filbert’s. Most did not last
long.) It’s not just superstition
to believe that an above-grade,
long-ago residence with scant
on-street parking and fastmoving traffic along one side
might not be conducive to a
successful restaurant operation. An extraordinary restaurant can transcend a lousy
location. Few achieve that distinction. Why take chances?
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The other puzzling decision was the rotating cuisine
concept Yang and Leitner
installed. One month Le Vieux
might be French countryside,
another it could be a visit to
Tuscany, as it was in February.
It’s difficult enough to competently present a single cuisine
night after night. It’s just short
of insanity to attempt a menuof-the-month club.
The only restaurant I’m
aware of that pulls this off with
panache is Next in Chicago.
But Next is run by an international star-chef, Grant Achatz,
who is bankrolled to the tune
of millions and counts a cast of
dozens on his staff to help plan
menus, test dishes and put all
the pieces together for the public. Le Vieux isn’t playing in the
same league.
Predictably, the dishes I’ve
sampled over three visits to Le
Vieux have rarely crested above
adequate. It’s a bit like shooting at a moving target to talk
specifics, since last month’s
Tuscan menu will have given
way to Greek as this review
goes to press.
But one positive trend worth
noting is that the seafood dish-
es have been highlights, so perhaps that will continue as the
menu points toward the Parthenon and beyond. It makes
sense that years of cooking in
a seafood-oriented kitchen
would have sharpened Leitner’s acuity with fish and its
shell-bearing cousins.
A starter-sized dish of red
wine-braised squid ($8) was
hearty without being overly
sharp or boozy, accented by
tomato and extended with
chard. The sole was the only
star on a dish described as
Petrale Affogate ($22), meaning drowned or smothered, ▶
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Hand-cut pappardelle with wild boar ragu.
though the fish fortunately maintained
separation from the uninspired splotch
of risotto beneath it. There was so little
of the noted “wine-soaked bread and
mushroom” that the fish was supposed
to be stuffed with, it was hard to get a
fix on it.
Early season nettles were highlighted in a moist frittata ($6) appetizer that
received a flavor boost from parmesan
cheese. The happy (though expected)
suggestion is that, regardless of which
part of the world is highlighted on Le
Vieux’s improbable international tour,
diners can expect the seasonal bounty of the Willamette Valley to receive
plenty of play. Yang and Leitner have
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also gone with Grand Central as their
bread vendor of choice, but for those
looking for a few pre-meal slices, it is
not served automatically nor is bread
and butter listed on the menu. I was
told it’s only available on request.
My concerns for Le Vieux beyond
concept and location boil down to consistency and quality of execution. The
rabbit in an otherwise interesting, shattery-crusted rabbit/fennel/red onion
fritto misto ($12) was overcooked and
dry; a porchetta entrée ($18) arrived
greasy, sliced too thin and mostly missing the stuffing that helps define the
dish; a farro tart ($6) was as dry as a ▶
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One month Le Vieux might
be French countryside,
another it could be
a visit to Tuscany. ...
It’s difficult enough to
competently present
a single cuisine night
The new operators have thoroughly
remodeled and expanded the dining area
while adding a touch of “old country.”
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desert; and the garlic in the “garlicky
greens” side dish ($6) was indiscernible,
while the chili flake mentioned in the
menu description was concentrated in a
single tongue-searing bite.
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As comfortable as Le Vieux may be,
the kitchen will need to step up its game
if Yang and Leitner want achieve local
longevity. San Francisco may be a tough
restaurant town, but for its size, Portland
after night. It’s just
short of insanity to
attempt a menu-of-themonth club.
offers an amazing spectrum of quality
choices, most within a short driving distance from Le Vieux and two top tables a
mere five-minute walk away. Portlanders
are understandably picky about where
they spend their hard-earned restaurant
dollars. Just OK won’t make the cut.■
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Vol. 21, No. 03
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March, 2015
CARPET GIVE-AWAY GROUNDED
Paley’s Place celebrates 20 years in business at Northwest 21st and Northrup.
Coffee, Tea or….?
Next month’s column will feature
a selection of favorite Northwest Portland (and close by Southwest) hot
drink destinations. I’ve been curating
my list for a while, but I’d love to hear
from readers about your local standbys. Send your favorite along, though
Starbucks doesn’t count.
Cupcakes Redux:
Apparently Food TV, Inc. hasn’t
completely pounded the cupcake
trend into dust. According to multiple
sources, the local Saint Cupcake brand
of formerly too-cool-for-school handheld desserts will make an appearance
at the soon-to-reopen Poplandia shop
on Northwest 23rd. Honestly, though,
if I’m looking to set the Wayback
Machine to 2007, I prefer the cramped
little Cupcake Jones shop on Northwest
10th, next to the formerly left-leaning
corporate ice cream emporium with
roots in Vermont.
New Seasons vs. Food Front:
I don’t work on the editorial side of
this newspaper and have no ambition
to do so. (Full disclosure: I served on
the Food Front board of directors in the
late 1990s but have been an inactive
member and only an occasional shopper since.) But as a purely pragmatic
matter, does anyone seriously believe
Food Front has a snowball’s chance
to survive once the big, shiny New
Seasons opens its doors within spitting distance of the vintage co-op? I’m
not a New Seasons shopper either, but
I understand they are locally owned,
they sell quality products, including
many artisan-caliber, locally produced
items, and they treat their employees
well. Leaving aside sentimental attachments and the reported labor-management wrangling, might it be time for
Food Front to make a graceful exit from
the brutal, low-margin grocery business rather than end up liquidating out
of necessity?
What Would James Beard
Think?
Remember those idiotic high school
elections in which popularity trumped
qualifications nearly every time? That’s
a good metaphor for how chefs and
restaurants are nominated for the
annual James Beard awards. I’d sure
like to hear from one of the local Beard
voters on how they could omit Northwest Portland standouts Ataula and
St. Jack and their talented chefs, Jose
Chesa and Aaron Barnett, respectively,
from the list of this year’s semifinalists.
Dave’s stimulated toesies.
With all the fanfare over the old Portland Airport carpet, Dave the taco chef had
an idea: Why not give away pieces of the
Nob Hill Bar & Grill carpet! It’s certainly as
historic! Feet from all over the world have
treaded across it.
Alas, it was not to be. The public
response was less than tepid. As beloved as
Nobbys is, it seems no one cares about the
carpet. None of the TV stations sent crews.
Even the Northwest Examiner scoffed at
the story.
Dave himself liked to come in early
and practice barefoot hip hop steps upon
the plush rug. “It stimulates my toesies,”
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one couple’s vision of what makes the
bounty of our area special, aided over
the years by an amazingly talented cast
of cooks and servers that has passed
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 Community Events
St. Patrick’s dinner
The annual St. Patrick’s
corned beef and cabbage dinner at St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church, 1623 NW 19th Ave., is
scheduled Sunday, March 15,
noon-6 p.m. There will be beer,
wine and a raffle. Takeout will
be available. The cost is $16
for adults and $10 for children
under 10.
Rotary topics
Portland Pearl Rotary Club
meets every Tuesday at 7:25
a.m. in the Ecotrust Building,
721 NW Ninth Ave., second
floor. The public is invited. A
$10 charge includes breakfast.
For information, contact Randy
Vogt, [email protected]
or 503-228-9858. This month’s
programs are:
March 10: Sharon Harmon,
executive director of the Oregon Humane Society.
March 17: Jennifer Trubenbach, executive director of
Operation of Hope.
March 24: "Innovative Education in South Africa and its
Role in Peace Building," Nicholas Drushella, international
development manager for
Imagine Scholar.
March 31: Rotary International Exchange Student Presentation, Fah Niamngern
April 7: “Solar Power in
Nepal,” Jordan Weisman
scene. The event includes a
dinner and silent auction.
Tickets are $100 or $1,000
for a table of 10. For reservations, visit tinyurl.com/FHauction2015.
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presents the third annual
Cherry Blossom Bazaar Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8, 10
a.m.-4 p.m., at 118 NW Third
Ave. This large rummage sale
includes Japanese treasures,
such as dolls, furniture, fans,
kimonos, ikebana, Kokeshi,
jewelry, books and dishware.
The event is free and open to
the public. A preview night Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m., will give
those who contribute $50 an
opportunity to beat the crowds.
All proceeds benefit the organizations work to preserve
Japanese American history and
culture.
Spring Auction
Ballyhoo!, Friendly House's
Spring Auction is Friday, March
13, 6-9 p.m., at 1737 NW 26th
Ave. To celebrate the organization’s 85 years of service, the
Crawford Building will be decorated as a glamorous 1930s
A fund-raising dinner for
Linnton Community Center’s
food bank and children’s programs will be served Saturday March 14, 4:30-7 p.m., at
10614 NW St. Helens Rd. The
event includes a corned beef
and cabbage dinner with dessert and traditional beverages.
Kid-friendly food and hot dogs
will also be available. Irish
music, carnival games and a
50/50 drawing will be part of
the festivities. Admission is $10
for adults, $3 for children.
Local Catch
Author Paul Greenberg will
join local fishermen for a forum
on strengthening fishing communities, their livelihoods, fishing grounds and the food they
put on our tables at Ecotrust,
721 NW Ninth Ave., Wednesday, March 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Nibbles and drinks will be
provided by Bamboo Sushi,
Iliamna Fish Co., Whole Foods
Market, Port Orford Sustainable Seafood, The Commons
Brewery and Dry Soda. Local
Catch is the first in a three-part
event series designed to bring
together Portland's leading
food system thinkers
Tickets are $15. For information or reservations, visit ecotrust.org/food-forums.
Clean air forum
Neighbors For Clean Air
and Forest Park Conservancy
are forming a Clean Air Advisory Committee and are seeking volunteers for a two-year
commitment to develop a strategy to reduce and mitigate the
impacts of air pollution. An
informational meeting will be
held Wednesday, April 8, 6-8
p.m., in the Chapman Elementary School auditorium, 1445
NW 26th Ave. Speakers will
include Matt Davis of the Multnomah County Environmental
Health Department, and Drs.
Linda George and Todd Rosenstiel, Portland State University
researchers who recently published a paper entitled: "Assessing the relationship among
urban trees, nitrogen dioxide,
and respiratory health.” The
public is invited.
Hoagy Carmichael
Carmichael, who wrote “Stardust” and “Georgia on My
Mind,” will be presented by
Gordon Neal Herman Wednesday, March 18, 1:30 p.m., at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th
Ave. From his days as a jazz
performer to his work in Hollywood, his story will be presented in video and music. The
cost is $9 or $7 for Friendly
House members. For information, visit friendlyhouseinc.org
or call 503-228-4391.
Discussion group
Moderator Matthew Carlson
hosts a community Current
Events Discussion Group at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th
Ave. Tuesday, March 24, 7 p.m.
Help foster intelligent citizen
participation while discussing
international, national or local
news. There is no admission
charge, though donations are
accepted. For information, visit
friendlyhouseinc.org or call
503-228-4391.
Story Time
Family Story Time with Multnomah County librarian Susan
Smallsreed will be Friday,
March 27, at Friendly House in
the Pearl, 1542 NW 14th Ave.
The event is free. For information, visit friendlyhouseinc.org
or call 503-228-4391.
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Lincoln Cardinals Focus
News, photos, schedules and announcements of school activities.
To submit information, contact [email protected] or 503-481-6538 or send to
[email protected].
“The Skin of Our Teeth”
links one spectacular
disaster after another
Lincoln High School’s drama
department presents Thornton
Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning satire, “The Skin of Our
Teeth,” March 5-7 and 12-14
at 7:30 p.m. The play is a raucous tour of humanity through
the ages, from George Antrobus
inventing the wheel and Noah’s
flood to an Atlantic City beauty contest and the aftermath
of global war, the surprisingly
contemporary American classic entertainment for the whole
family. Tickets are $20 patrons,
$12 adults and $7 students and
seniors. For information, visit
lincolnhighschooldrama.com.
Huang to attend
leadership conference
Lincoln High School
sophomore Jonathan Huang
was selected to participate in
the National Service Learning
Conference in Washington,
D.C., April 6-11. He was one
of 30 students chosen. The
conference draws about
1,500 attendees from around
the world for three days of
speakers, workshops and
networking.
POWGirls filmmakers
Lincoln students Isabella
Potter, Leah Steindorf, Serena
Zafiris and Zanna Kortenhof
participated in the POWGirls
2015 filmmaking workshop featured in the Portland Mercury.
Their movies will be shown at
POWFest March 15, 3 p.m., at
The Hollywood Theatre.
National Merit finalists
Lincoln students Adeline
Graham, Brandon Hyun, Hannah Moon, Katherine Nootenboom, Amy Zhongyu-Qiu,
Anne Savaria-Watson and
Lukas Schwab were named
Lincoln High School's winter play, "The Skin of Our
Teeth," runs March 5-7 and 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. in the
school auditorium. The Antrobus family is portrayed
by Emma Weightman (L-R), Caleb Sohigian, Harper
Wilamoski, Ben Pagano and India Houides.
National Merit Scholarship
finalists. They were selected
for PSAT/NMSQT test scores,
essays,
extra-curricular
achievement, awards and leadership.
Presidential Scholars
candidates
Thodora Mautz, Hannah
Moon, Amy Qiu and Annie
Savaria-Watson have been
named Presidential Scholars
candidates. Annually up to
141 Presidential Scholars are
chosen from among that year’s
senior class.
Exhibiting at PNCA
Nine Lincoln students
earned the right to show their
artwork at Pacific Northwest
College of Art. Gold Key winners are: Emily Anderson,
Mekinsie Callahan, Missy
Gerlach,Will
Schweinfurt,
Ramsey Tehan, Sophie Becker,
Andrea Hernandez, Lilliana
McDaniel,and James Staver.
Freshman Trynadii Rocha placed second in the
106-pound weight class at the state qualifying tournament in women’s wrestling. She won her first
match before losing in the second round of the state
tournament Feb. 28.
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 Going Back
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PEARLANDIA
History
In 1920, the Portland Post Office was two years old. It was designed by architect Lewis P. Hobart of San Francisco, who was chosen for the project from six contenders.
Donald R. Nelson collection
Pacific Northwest
College of Art begins
classes in renovated
511 Building on
Broadway.
DONALD R. NELSON
P
acific Northwest College of
Art’s new home, the Arlene
and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design in the 511
Federal Building, opened for
classes Feb 2.
PNCA obtained the building, which housed Portland’s
main post office 1918 to 1963,
Historic post office reborn as art college
in 2008 and completed a $32
million renovation that saved
the landmark’s best features
while creating bold new spaces
that were once rows of dreary
offices.
In 1957, my father Ward E.
Nelson worked here as a postal
clerk. His first day on the job
was also the day Ad Liska, a
famed Portland Beavers pitcher from the Vaughn Street Ball
Park days, began his career as a
postal clerk.
In 1910, Joseph Wood Hill
was appointed a special agent
of the U.S. Treasury by President William Howard Taft, a
friend from their time together
at Yale, to find a site for the
new post office. Hill founded
Hill Military Academy and had
been headmaster of the Bishop
Scott Academy, private schools
then in Northwest Portland.
The old Portland post office
in the Pioneer Courthouse
couldn’t handle the mail volume, even after an expansion
in 1905. Bureaucratic stalemates on the federal and local
level stymied action.
Hill’s mission, veiled in
secrecy, was to assess the situation and report his findings
to the government. He would
not answer reporters' questions
and was slow to relay information to the U.S. Treasury
Department. In late 1910, the
Morning Oregonian reported
on the consternation of Oregon
Senator Jonathan Bourne and
the Secretary of the Treasury
on Hill's failure to recommend
a site for the post office. President Taft telegraphed him to
report at once.
Treasury officials were reluctant to dismiss Hill because of
the presidential appointment.
Seventy days after his appointment, he recommended a site.
One news report stated it was
on West Burnside between
Ninth and Tenth. Another
article questioned that location because the government
wanted post offices as near as
possible to principal railroad
terminals.
In June 1911, the Morning
Oregonian
revealed
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HISTORY
The exterior of the 511 Federal Building has hardly changed in the 97 years since its
completion. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
bounded by Northwest Broadway, Eighth, Glisan and Hoyt
for $340,000 through condemnation.
Architect Lewis P. Hobart of
San Francisco was selected in
1913 from six firms submitting
plans. Two years later, he completed his design, which was
approved by the federal government in 1916.
The new Portland post office
opened in 1918 during World
War I. With the male workforce
depleted by military duty, many
women worked in the facility.
By 1948, expansion of the
post office was contemplated.
Eventually plans grew into a
replacement post office, which
was completed in 1963.
An aerial photo shows post office area inundated by the 1948 Portland flood.
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The building has been on
the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.
As far back as 1992, the General Services Administration
was offering to give the building to the city to replace lowincome housing in old hotels
lost to construction of the Justice Center and the future Federal Courthouse in Downtown.
Later, there was talk of a public
market in the lower two floors
of the building and the parking
lot immediately west.
PNCA was awarded the
building in 2008 under a program that favored educational
institutions. Funding for the
remodel included a $5 million
donation from the Harold and
Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and $20 million in loans
from the Portland Development Commission.
The dramatic design by Brad
Cloepfil of Allied Works Archi-
The grand main hallway linking the eastern and western entries is now known as the Anne Payne Edlen
Creative Corridor. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
tecture includes a large atrium
with skylights and was created
as a gathering space and gallery
off the main hallway. Drop ceil-
ings were removed, revealing
architectural details unseen for
years.
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6-9 p.m., 511 NW Broadway.■
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After the post office left the
building, the lower two floors
were remodeled for use by the
U.S. Bureau of Customs. Other
federal agencies occupied the
upper floors; later occupants
included U.S. Homeland Security.
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 Business
3 remaining Food Front board members contemplate replacements
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Finance & Real Estate
With the defection of former president Brandon Rydell, the Food Front Cooperative Grocery board has shrunk to three members, the
minimum allowed by its bylaws.
ALLAN CLASSEN
A
t last month’s board meeting, co-op officers outlined steps involved in
filling at least some of the six
available slots. President Linda
Jauron-Mills told an audience
of about 25 members that while
emergency appointments can
be made at any point, the board
may decide to wait until the
annual meeting in September
before bringing on new blood.
Two candidates from Hillsdale await board action.
Ted Coonfield, a former Food
Front president who served on
the board from 2008-10, also
co-founded the Hillsdale Farmers Market. Coonfield said he
waited a month for application materials to arrive after
requesting them in January.
Dave
Hawkins,
a
sultant who for 20 years has
been working with companies
including Ziba and Umpqua
Bank to build customers and
engage employees.
Last month they were interviewed privately by the board,
which is checking their references.
No other candidates were
identified at the board meeting.
Jauron-Mills said decisions
will be made in June as to who
will be placed on the ballot
for the annual meeting. As for
expedited appointments, “We
haven’t decided how that process will work,” she said.
Rydell, who stepped down
midterm, opened the meeting
by explaining he was leaving
the board “to take a break,” but
felt he had left the organization
in good standing.
con-
Jauron-Mills thanked him
Food Front remains a hub of community life even as the board of directors has shrunk to three people,
the minimum allowed under the co-op’s bylaws.
for his service, calling him “by
far the best president I’ve been
honored to serve with” in her
18 years on the board.
Confusion resulted from the
introduction of Holly Jarvis
as “former general manager.”
Under a consulting contract
with National Co+op Grocers,
Peg Nolan has been acting as
the management liaison to the
board, but nothing had been
said previously about demoting Jarvis.
When a member asked about
Jarvis’ status and whether she
would regain her position after
Nolan leaves, Nolan said, “It’s
up to the board.”
Later, all parties agreed it
was a misstatement and Jarvis
remains general manager.■
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Marilyn Murdoch (L-R) of Murdoch Collections, Peter Murdoch of Katayama
Framing and Jeffrey Thomas of Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art are blending their talents at
2219 NW Raleigh St.
Jeffrey Thomas joins Katayama, Murdoch to form
full-service art center
Jeffrey Thomas, who 30 years ago opened a Downtown gallery with William
Jamison, has a new gallery salon at 2219 NW Raleigh St. in the home of Katayama
Framing and Murdoch Collections. Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art presents a series of
curated group exhibits around themes. The collaboration provides custom framing,
art for purchase or resale and expert advice on art collection in one building. The
first exhibit, “The Sum of Its Parts—Part 1,” continues through March 7.
Jamison and Thomas helped launch First Thursday in 1990. Jamison Square was
named in honor of Jamison, who died of AIDS in 1995.
Business Briefs
Justin Escalante has purchased Le Happy Creperie Restaurant and Bar, 1011 NW
16th Ave., from its founder and longtime owner, John Brodie.
Silk, located at 1012 NW Glisan St. has a new name, Pho Van Fresh Inc., and new
owners, Lam Van and Vinh Wong.
Jerrick Fulkerson has purchased Whiskey Dolls, 317 NW Broadway, and renamed
it Stage PDX.
Gaia Couture, an organic women’s clothing store at 921 NW 23rd Ave., has closed.
Scott Ray Becker is holding a grand opening party at the Skyline Tavern, 8031 NW
Skyline Blvd., which he purchased recently, Saturday, March 7, noon-6 p.m. He has
upgraded the menu and beverage lineup and plans to add an outdoor amphitheater
for films and make it a destination for runners, hikers and cyclists.
The Rose City Awning building, a three-quarter-block warehouse bounded by
Northwest Northrup, Overton and 16th streets, will be converted into offices aimed
toward creative professions.
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Since City Council rejected a demolition permit for the Ballow & Wright building at
1727 NW Hoyt St., owners Tim Ramis and Mark O’Donnell are meeting with immediate neighbors and the Northwest District Association to explore redevelopment
ideas that might draw community support.
Developer/architect Don Vallaster plans to build an 11-story apartment building at
Northwest Ninth and Couch streets, where Westside Auto Body & Paint has operated since 1996.
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BUSINESS
 New Businesses
Yesteryear Antiques
and Furniture
1323 NW 16th Ave., Suite 1002
971-276-7343
yesteryearantiquesfurniture.com
Jeff Dudley and Madeleine Scott
launched Yesteryear Antiques and
Furniture last month and are planning a grand opening this month.
The shop is filled with unique
pieces of furniture selected to fit
into the smaller living spaces of
today’s condos and apartments.
Jeff Dudley and Madeleine Scott.
A gentleman’s dresser sits near an
antique autoharp, while a Japanese
below it. Dudley and Scott have the
bridal kimono hangs on one wall
and a detailed map of the Pacific NW expertise to tell you who manufactured
Coast covers another. A world globe a piece of furniture as well as where and
made of precious stones sits on a stand when it was made.
Joel Mikkalson.
Ritual Adornments
524 NW 23rd Ave.
971-806-5133
ritualadornments.com
CeCe Cummins and Joel Mikkalson
sell precious and semiprecious stones
from more than 50 countries. The walls
are adorned with color-coordinated
strands of beads ranging from amber,
turquoise, jade, onyx and pearls. They
have beads from Mali, Africa, dating
to 1100 A.D., Roman glass beads made
from oil vials, hand-painted beads from
Russia and fossils. Ritual Adornments
offers classes, gives personal assistance
in jewelry making and hosts children’s
birthday parties. Cummins, who has a
degree in fine arts from UCLA, started
making jewelry as a hobby. Mikkalson was a recreational therapist who
learned to take loose beads and broke
jewelry into activities for clients. They
had stores in Santa Monica, Calif., Taos,
N.M. and Santa Fe, N.M. before moving
to Portland.
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1306 NW Hoyt St., Suite 309
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Gina Marie Purl has
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practicing Rolfing since
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to improve posture, balment. She also teaches yoga in private
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Molly Pearl.
Molly Pearl, a certified licensed massage therapist who has been practicing
since 2010, recently opened her own
practice. After training at the University
of Western States (formerly Western
States Chiropractic College), she has
taken continuing education courses in
orthopedic massage, advanced myofascial techniques and aromatherapy.
She has given free massages to chemotherapy patients at Northwest Cancer
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Help Old Town Receive Matching Funds!
The Old Town Chinatown Community Association has a chance to contract with a District Manager to transform the
image of the neighborhood and to serve as a catalyst for new activity. Among other duties, this person will increase
positive neighborhood communications, bring people living and working in the neighborhood together, and support
event coordination.
Show your support by providing a financial contribution so that OTCTCA can secure $50,000 in matching funds
from the Portland Development Commission. The PDC grant is available only if an equal amount is contributed by the
local community. Contact Jane Demarco, [email protected], with any questions. Thank you for considering a tax
deductible donation. Please make your check payable to: OTCT Community Association, Attn: District Manager, 221
NW 2nd Avenue, Box 15, Portland, OR 97209.
Calling All
Gardeners!
Advocates
Seek Space
by Lura Jones, Linnton Resident &
Masters in Public Health Candidate
at Portland State University
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Time: 7:30 AM
Place: Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St.
The purpose of a Court Appointed
Special Advocate – or CASA – is to
advocate for a child in the foster care
system who has been abused or neglected
and to get them into a permanent home
safely, quickly and effectively. CASA
is searching for training space and
will be attending the next Northwest
Industrial Neighborhood Association
meeting to explore possibilities with
local industrial neighbors. Please come
to the next NINA
meeting to learn
more or to suggest
possibilities.
Linnton Annual
Meeting &
Elections
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Linnton Community Center,
10614 NW Saint Helens Rd
The nomination committee will
report in March with the elections
held in May. Questions? Contact Ed
Jones at [email protected].
Portland Parks and Recreation is
interested in building a community
garden in Linnton at Kingsley Park
off of NW 114th Ave. The City of
Portland's Community Gardens program coordinator, Laura Niemi, needs to
confirm that at least 10 local residents or businesses are interested in order to
proceed. Typical community gardens contain 25-50 plots, but since Linnton is
a small community, the city agreed to install as few as 10 plots.
They have sent out a postcard to all local residents and businesses to gauge
community interest. Please fill these out and send them back if you are interested
or have comments and suggestions about the community garden project. Once
enough interest has been confirmed, the process of designing the community
garden and securing funds to build and maintain it will begin.
For more info: Laura Niemi, 503 823-1612, [email protected]
or go to www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/39846.
Linnton’s Access to River
by Brian Hoop
“We are one big step closer to river access,” reports Ed Jones, Chair
of the Linnton Neighborhood Association, referring to the Type 2 land
use review of a proposal to redevelop the former Linnton Plywood Mill site
into a natural habitat “mitigation area.” The proposed pathway at NW 107th
Avenue to a river view overlook has been of particular interest. The Linnton
Neighborhood Association has long sought this location as an access point to the
Willamette River Greenway and a sandy beach that is within the public right-ofway. The Bureau of Development Services approved the developer’s application
on the condition the path be extended the additional 35 feet from the overlook
to the property line. This is still no guarantee for access to the sandy beach.
“Nonetheless,” says Jones, “We want this done as part of this project, rather
than left to an uncertain future. My concern is that once it is built it will be
impossible to make changes....” Questions? Contact Kathy Harnden, Bureau of
Development Services, 503 823-7318 or [email protected].
Pearl District Turns Out for Public Safety
NWNW
Internships
Help us collect stories of Northwest
and inner Southwest Portland – the
history of everyday people living,
working, learning, and volunteering
in the local community through the
W-NW Collective Memoir Project.
Join a new group of interns and
volunteers interested in supporting
this project in a variety of ways –
as storytellers, researchers, visual
artists, and event planners. Interns and
volunteers may be interested in one or
more of these roles.
An anthology will document a legacy
that describes how actions in the past
have impacted the community we see
before us today, and is intended to
inspire others to positively influence
the future. For additional information,
visit us online at www.nwnw.org/
get-involved/internship-program
or
contact Angela, 503 823-4211.
County Budget
Multnomah County’s Citizen Budget
Advisory Committees (CBACs) are
independent citizen bodies that review
and make recommendations on county
departmental budgets and operations.
Prospective CBAC members need
only fill out an interest form and
participate in an interview on their
interests and availability and send it
to [email protected]. For more
information and to download the form,
visit
https://multco.us/oci/citizenbudget-advisory-committees-cbacs
Transportation
System Plan
On January 30, 2015 the Portland
Bureau of Transportation posted
the updated Transportation System
Plan Recommendation for Major
Projects and Citywide Programs
list to the city’s Map App at:
www.portlandmaps.com/bps/cpmapp2
by Stan Penkin, Pearl District Secretary
Some 60 Pearl District neighbors attended a safety information meeting
on January 21, 2015 at the Ecotrust Building. Hosted by Friends of the
Pearl, a subcommittee of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association’s
Livability and Safety Committee, attendees learned about crime issues and how
everyone can play a role in helping to combat criminal activity.
Bill Dolan, Chair of the Livability and Safety Committee, spoke about the
goals of establishing foot patrols and neighborhood watch activities. Mr. Dolan
introduced Jacob Brostoff, Crime Prevention Coordinator from the City’s Office of
Neighborhood Involvement (ONI), who spoke about various criminal activities, provided basic tips about awareness
and reporting and described how the neighborhood can organize and communicate with each other. Numerous handouts
were provided including information about bicycle theft prevention, illegal drug activity, car prowl prevention and
reporting suspicious activity. Detailed information is available at the ONI website www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/cp.
The Pearl District needs 20 people to sign up for our foot patrol and six people to be community coordinators to gather
residential buildings and businesses to establish neighborhood watches. The Crime Prevention Bureau will provide
training for these activities. For those interested in participating, please email [email protected].
Reservoirs
Date: Monday, March 23, 2015
Time: 1:30 PM
Place: 1900 SW 4th Ave., Rm 2500A
Portland’s
Historic
Landmarks
Commission is currently reviewing
a proposal to demolish Washington
Park Reservoirs 3 & 4 and the Weir
Building. Public comments are due by
the hearing date above. To review a
PDF of the proposal, visit:
www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/
article/520669?
Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest
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Arlington Heights
Neighborhood Association
Northwest District
Association
Old Town Chinatown
Community Association
Portland Downtown
Neighborhood Association
www.arlingtonheightspdx.org
northwestdistrictassociation.org
www.oldtownchinatown.org
www.portlanddowntownna.com
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Mar. 9th, 5:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Forest Park
Neighborhood Association
www.forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Mar. 17th, 6:00 pm
Willis Community Center
360 NW Greenleaf
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Mar. 16th, 6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan (LGS)
Wilcox ACR 102, 2211 NW Marshall
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MTG
Weds., Apr. 1st, 11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Mar. 24th, 5:30 pm
Executive Committee
Weds., Apr. 8th
8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Mar. 18th, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 150
70 NW Couch
Both meetings held at:
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St
Air Quality Committee
Mon., Mar. 9th, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St
Art History and Culture Committee
Weds., Mar. 11th & Apr. 8th
11:45 am
Non Profit Center, 221 NW 2nd Ave,
2nd floor front conf room
Planning Committee
Thurs., Mar. 12th, 19th, 26th, Apr.
2nd & 9th, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
Goose Hollow
Foothills League
Safety & Livability Committee
Tues., Mar. 10th
6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B, 2211 NW Marshall
www.goosehollow.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., Mar. 19th, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St
Transportation Comm. Special Mtg
Weds., Mar. 11th, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox A
2211 NW Marshall
Planning & Zoning Committee
Tues., Apr. 7th, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson
P u b l i c S a f e t y, P a r k i n g , a n d
Transportation Committee
Tues., Mar. 17th, 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson
Bylaws Committee
Tues., Mar. 24th, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th
Transportation Committee Meeting
Weds., Apr. 1st, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox A
2211 NW Marshall
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Mar. 14th & Apr. 11th, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Mar. 21st, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd
Duty of Loyalty Committee
Tues., Mar. 10th, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave
Northwest Heights
Neighborhood Association
Hillside
Neighborhood Association
Contact: Charlie Clark,
503 459-3610
Business Committee
Thurs., Mar. 26th, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW Davis
Marketing & Communications Comm.
Thurs., Mar. 19th, 3:30 pm
One Pacific Square, 11th floor
220 NW 2nd
Land Use Design & Rvw Committee
Tues., Mar. 17th, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 150
70 NW Couch
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Apr. 6th, 12:30 pm
Forest Heights HOA Office
2033 NW Miller Rd
Linnton Neighborhood
Association
Northwest Industrial
Neighborhood Association
www.linnton.com
www.nwindustrial.org
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING & ELECTIONS
Weds., May 6th, 7:00 pm
Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW St.
Helens Rd
www.pearldistrict.org
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., Mar. 12th & Apr. 9th, 6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Hoge Creek Restoration
Sat., Mar. 14th & Apr. 11th, 9:00 am
St. Helens Rd at NW Hoge
www.sylvanhighlands.org
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Mar. 10th, 7:00 pm
Meetings held at:
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Neighbors West-Northwest
Coalition
www.nwnw.org
Planning & Transportation Comm.
Tues., Mar. 17th & Apr. 7th, 6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th
Communications Committee
Mon., Mar. 16th, 6:00 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Emergency Prep Committee
Mon., Mar. 9th, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor
907 NW Irving
[email protected]
NINA MEETING
Tues., Mar. 10th
7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
Sylvan-Highlands
Neighborhood Association
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Mar. 10th
8:30 pm
Nob Hill
Business Association
Ma Olsen Garden Project
Sat., Mar. 28th, 9:00 am
St. Helens Rd at NW 108th
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., Mar. 11th, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave
Pearl District
Neighborhood Association
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., Apr. 1st, 5:30 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Apr. 14th, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Terr
Land Use & Transport. Comm.
Mon., Mar. 16th, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th
Livability Committee
Tues., Mar. 17th, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St
Executive Committee
Tues., Apr. 2nd, 8:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th
www.hillsidena.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Mar. 24th, 7:00 pm
GENERAL MEETING
Weds., Mar. 18th, 8:30 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Mar. 11th & Apr. 8th
5:30 pm
LGS Northrup Building, 1st floor
Conf Rm, 2282 NW Northrup
Emergency Preparedness Work
Group
Weds. Mar. 25th, 6:00 pm
LGS Northrup Building, 1st floor
Conf. Rm., 2282 NW Northrup
Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar
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BUSINESS
“Desoto Detached,” a mural by Gage Hamilton, was installed
at 720 NW Couch St. last year. Hamilton will speak at a public
murals workshop hosted by the Regional Arts & Culture Council
Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m.-noon, at 411 NW Park Ave., Suite
101. To sign up, email [email protected].
New aerial photos show boundaries of Oregon Zoo’s Elephant Lands
(highlighted), scheduled to open later this year. Photo courtesy of the Oregon Zoo.
Ryan Hindlin, Portland Rotary’s Lincoln High School
Student of the Month, talked about heterosexism and
internalized homophobia at the club’s Feb. 4 meeting.
Brian Bressler performed at a memorial service for longtime
Northwest resident, historian and newspaperman Mike
Ryerson at Mission Theater last month. Ryerson’s nephew Ken
Carey (left), emceed the gathering.
Courtesy Orlando Sanchez/McMenamins
Volunteers with Neighbors For Clean Air and Global
Community Monitor plus Portland State University student
researchers installed air monitors in the tennis courts by
Chapman School. The project is funded by ESCO as part of a
Good Neighbor Agreement. The 12-month project will collect
air samples through next February.
There’s still time to remember a special person
Nominations for the 2015 NW Examiner Community Awards will be accepted through March 9.
If someone has made life better in the neighborhoods served by the NW Examiner (Northwest and
the northern slice of Southwest), drop us a line. Tell us who they are and why they are deserving.
Send to [email protected] or mail to NW Examiner,
2825 NW Upshur St., Suite C, Portland, OR 97210.
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