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Downtown to the Waterfront: Transforming SW Harvey Milk and Oak Mass Timber, Queer Culture, Housing and Urban Play Open House 3-6 pm, Friday, December 12 Presentation: 4:30 pm JK Gill Building, 408 SW Fifth Avenue
City of Possibility is pleased to present the second in our series of workshops to re-envision downtown’s connection to Waterfront Park: Transforming the Harvey Milk/Oak Corridor. Join us to see the ideas generated so far and add yours!
No two streets arguably have as much potential—along with some challenges—as Harvey Milk and Oak to become the kind of live/work/play urban neighborhood that will be the next chapter of downtown Portland’s evolution:The streets stretch from Powell’s Books and the burgeoning West End through the coming Darcelle XV and Pride plazas to the Willamette RiverThey intersect both the future Green Loop and the current “I-5 of fiber”–major bandwidth and durable power for tech developmentThere are four potential office-residential conversion opportunities and eight surface parking lots primed to sprout housing and space for innovationThey end at an underdeveloped portion of Waterfront Park–a prime spot for a major new amenity: an artwork, playground or . . . tell us what the city needs!
Background:
With the announcement of a major Metro grant for design competition for an event facility at the “Hawthorne Bowl” (location for the Waterfront Blues Festival), City of Possibility saw an opportunity to rethink all of Waterfront Park and the downtown’s connection to it.
In March, we held the first Downtown to the Waterfront Workshop bringing key personnel from planning, parks, transportation, and Prosper Portland together with leading urban designers and other creative minds for a major rethink. In October, we brought one America’s most respected urbanists, Carol Coletta, to share her experiences redeveloping the waterfront of her hometown, Memphis.
Since then the design competition has been expanded to the entire park and the other bureaus have been studying options. City of Possibility is continuing its advocacy and its convening to imagine new neighborhoods and a new kind of Waterfront Park.
