Do yourself a favor and roll or walk over to Northeast 72nd and Mason. What you’ll see is a carfree plaza bordered by a grassy parkway, a vibrant mural on the pavement, a basketball hoop, and places to sit and watch the community unfold around you. Talk of carfree streets often assume they’re only possible … Read more
Stars have aligned for an era of streets full of community instead of cars.
The city relented after years of pushback and non-compliance from business owners.
The laissez-faire era of street plazas in Portland is over.
Fenwick Plaza might live on, but it would be the only public street plaza in Kenton.
This could be a test case for how PBOT builds out a citywide plaza program.
This would be a perfect place for a plaza and should be a no-brainer.
The goal is to add even more reasons to visit the plazas and keep them vibrant into fall and winter.
He thought the idea was too radical, but his timing was perfect.
Weigh in on PBOT’s Healthy Business Permit program.
O’Bryant Square has been fenced-off for five years due to its structurally unsound parking facility.
Yesterday I wrote about Amsterdam’s effort to replace on-street car parking spots with urban greenery and bike parking, an initiative partly meant to create more public spaces in the city for people to enjoy. And as I pointed out in that story, residents of Amsterdam’s city center are not necessarily wanting for urban parks as … Read more