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29-554: In the northwest section, NW Broadway forms the western boundary, separating it from the Pearl District , and W Burnside Street forms the southern boundary, separating it from Downtown Portland . In the southwest section, the neighborhood extends from SW 3rd Avenue east to the river and from SW Stark Street north to W Burnside Street (with the exception of areas south of SW Pine Street and west of SW 2nd Avenue, and south of SW Oak Street and west of SW 1st Avenue, which are part of

58-474: A longtime Old Town-based businessman and developer, who with his brother Sam Naito in the 1960s helped to halt the decline of the area—then known as Portland's " Skid Road "—by opening a retail store, buying and restoring old buildings in the area, and convincing others to invest in the district over the next several years. Bill Naito died in 1996. New Market Block , 50 SW 2nd Ave, is an historic six floor building. The Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District

87-1295: A railroad watchman who worked below; two of them have been saved. The increasing density has attracted a mix of restaurants, brewpubs , shops, and art galleries. The movie Drugstore Cowboy (1989), by Gus Van Sant , has several scenes shot in the neighborhood. Portland New Chinatown Look for Portland New Chinatown on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Portland New Chinatown in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

116-642: A redevelopment proposal, similar to the Uwajimaya Village in Seattle 's Chinatown-International District . It would host the store, an underground parking garage, mixed-income apartments, and other small retailers. It was hoped to revitalize the area and bring in more tourists. In August 2011, Uwajimaya decided not to put a store in Chinatown because its stores in downtown Seattle and Renton, Washington are not meeting their potentials. In May of 2021,

145-665: Is also a parking structure with a helipad on top. In a step towards revitalization of the area, the Lan Su Chinese Garden opened September 14, 2000. The $ 12.8 million park covers an entire city block and was built by 65 artisans from Suzhou , China of imported materials (though all plants were grown locally). More recently, NW 3rd and 4th Avenues received streetscape improvements, including plaques describing historical features. Two block-long "festival streets" that can easily be used for street festivals were also created between these streets. In 2008, Uwajimaya anchored

174-412: Is an area of Portland, Oregon , formerly occupied by warehouses , light industry and railroad classification yards and now noted for its art galleries , upscale businesses and residences. The area has been undergoing significant urban renewal since the mid-1980s when it was reclassified as mixed use from industrial, including the arrival of artists, the removal of a viaduct and construction of

203-594: Is an important part of Old Town Portland. Attractions include the Saturday Market ; the Shanghai tunnels ; and Ankeny Square , site of Portland's oldest public art work, the Skidmore Fountain (dedicated September 22, 1888). The fountain, designed by Olin L. Warner of New York, is named after pioneer druggist Stephen G. Skidmore. Naito Parkway (ex-Front Avenue) is named after the late Bill Naito ,

232-560: Is located in the northwestern portion of the neighborhood. The Broadway Bridge marks the northern tip, and the ends of the Steel and Burnside bridges are along the area's eastern border. The MAX Light Rail line turns south into the neighborhood from the Steel Bridge and stops at Old Town/Chinatown , Skidmore Fountain , and Oak Street/Southwest 1st Avenue ; the system connects the neighborhood to Northeast and North Portland across

261-619: Is marked by a China gate (built in 1986), complete with a pair of lions, at the corner of NW 4th Ave. and W Burnside St. The core of the area, from W Burnside St. to NW Glisan St. and from NW 5th Ave. to NW 3rd Ave., was designated in 1989 the Portland New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District . Major organizations based in Chinatown include the Port of Portland , Oregon Department of Transportation 's Portland offices and NW Natural Gas. There

290-649: The Portland Streetcar . It now consists of industrial building conversion to offices, high-rise condominiums and warehouse-to-loft conversions . The increase of high-rise condominiums and warehouse-to-loft conversions was made evident with the construction of the Cosmopolitan on the Park building, which opened in Summer 2016. The Cosmopolitan on the Park residential building is now the tallest building in

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348-692: The 15 coolest neighborhoods in the world in 2016. The United States Post Office main processing facility for all of Oregon and southwestern Washington was built in the Pearl District in 1964, next to Union Station . This location was chosen in order for the post office to be able to better serve towns outside the Portland metro area. The district is part of Multnomah County's District 1 , Oregon Metro's 5th district , Oregon's 33rd House district , Oregon's 17th Senate district and Oregon's 1st congressional district . The district includes most of

377-541: The Old Town Chinatown Community Association voted to drop Chinatown from their name under the initiative of their new chair person, Jessie Burke, owner of The Society Hotel located in the heart of the historically recognized Chinatown district. The newly rebranded Old Town district ceased using Chinatown in any official capacity, even going so far as to have it removed from official City of Portland tourism maps. Prior to World War II,

406-606: The Pearl District and the 8th tallest building in Portland, contributing to the changing Portland skyline. The area is located just northwest of downtown between West Burnside Street on the south, the Willamette River on the north, NW Broadway on the east and the Interstate 405 freeway on the west. The area is home to several Portland icons, including Powell's City of Books . The former Weinhard Brewery, which operated continuously from 1864 to September 1999,

435-645: The Triangle, too, but found the name unsatisfactory, and recognized other options, like the Brewery District and others. An article in The Rose Arts Magazine presented the alternate names, and argued "The Pearl District" was best to refer to the treasury of art and artists inhabiting the interiors of so many of the crusty warehouses. The article included photos of the area and a map, and profiled individual artists with studios in several of

464-679: The Willamette, and to Downtown Portland to the south and west. The Portland Mall begins at the Greyhound station, providing local bus and light rail service along 5th and 6th Avenues south into downtown. Old Town was the original urban core of Portland. It straddles West Burnside Street and includes an area under the Burnside Bridge . The Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District , created in 1975 and roughly bounded by Naito Parkway, Everett Street, 3rd Avenue, and Oak Street,

493-531: The area that is today called Chinatown was Portland's Japantown. Beginning in the 1890s, many Japanese immigrants were processed through Portland, creating a demand for hotels, bathhouses, and other services. Businesses that formed in the city's Japantown thrived in the low-rent areas near the river. Before World War II, the Japantown in the Northwest District was home to more than 100 businesses, and

522-494: The district with 37 numbered locations indicating special events organized by local artists and businesses for the third annual Pearl Arts Festival. The editor gave the following series of Pearl landmarks: (a) Victoria Frey of Quartersaw Gallery, 528 NW 12th Ave., was enthusiastic about the name, and organized the first annual Pearl Arts Festival in September 1987, six months after the initial article; like others, she had not heard

551-475: The downtown area). Despite the name, most Chinese-Americans and Chinese immigrants had already moved out of the area by the time the city reworked it as an official Chinatown in the 1980s; the increase in property values after the renovations drove out many of the remaining Chinese immigrants, with a section of NE 82nd Avenue in East Portland becoming the new unofficial Chinatown. Old Town is well known as

580-484: The express purpose of getting the name to stick.” He “stumped hard” for the name in the neighborhood while selling ads and distributing the paper. At the time, the city was calling the area the Triangle, though the NW Triangle Planning District explicitly referred only to the railroad yards on the far side of NW Lovejoy Street. The NW Triangle Business Association for the area was calling it

609-690: The historic North Park Blocks (1869), as well as three public plazas: The area was formerly used for warehousing , light industrial purposes and a railroad yard. The Pearl District was first named in print in March 1987, in an article titled “The Pearl District” by Terry Hammond in The Rose Arts Magazine , a free local periodical in Portland. Marty Smith uncovered the origin story and corrected rumors in his humorous Dr. Know column in Willamette Week in January 2014. “Hammond says he wrote it with

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638-435: The name before, (b) Sunset Magazine picked up the story in January 1988, and adopted the name in quotation marks in the title as the "Pearl District," (c) The Oregonian daily newspaper first adopted the name in September 1988, at the time of the second annual Pearl Arts Festival, following the original Pearl District article in The Rose Arts Magazine with a map and profiles of some of the same artists, (d) Investors adopted

667-609: The name in promotional materials as converted warehouses turned residential, starting in 1989. In the 1990s, the Lovejoy Viaduct, an elevated portion of NW Lovejoy Street from the Broadway Bridge past NW 10th Avenue was demolished, opening dozens of surrounding blocks (including some brownfield sites) for development, which peaked in the 2000s. The viaduct was notable for the Lovejoy Columns , painted by

696-579: The next two years, and reported in October 1989 the identity of the Pearl District “is now firmly established,” when he found investors adopted the name. The second Rose Arts article reported a brochure for the newly remodeled Irving Street Lofts, formerly the McKesson Building, named the area “Portland’s emerging Pearl District.” The building was the first converted warehouse up to code for residences. The second news story showed another map of

725-461: The primary homeless district of Portland. The Oregonian reported that homelessness, open drug use, crime, and the perception of danger and dirtiness that accompanies these problems were deterring factors to development. One prominent developer told the newspaper that "transient activity" is "perhaps the foremost deterrent" to developing in this neighborhood. The neighborhood is well-served by various modes of transportation. Amtrak 's Union Station

754-581: The warehouses, including photographer Hiroshi Iwaya, glass artist Liz Mapelli, sculptor Martin Eichinger, ceramic artist Geoffrey Pagen, and silkscreen printers Elizabeth Harris and Russ Mahler. Terry Hammond acknowledged in an endnote that the name "the Pearl" originated from Thomas Augustine of the Augustine Gallery, then located at NW 13th & Hoyt St. He tracked the progress of the name over

783-646: Was Oregon's largest Japantown. Today the Japanese American Historical Plaza and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in what is today Portland's Chinatown serve as reminders of what was once Portland's Japantown. The street signs in Chinatown are both English and Chinese. The Chinese on the signs is written in traditional characters , and its pronunciation is Cantonese (using Jyutping romanization). Pearl District, Portland, Oregon The Pearl District

812-505: Was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977, its national significance based on its historic importance as a major 19th-century west coast port, and also for its collection of cast-iron commercial architecture. In 2016, Portland Mercury described the Old Town as a neighborhood "well known as Portland's primary homeless district." The Chinatown portion of Old Town extends north from West Burnside St. to Union Station. The entrance

841-617: Was shut down by Stroh's upon the purchase of the Weinhard's brand by Miller Brewing and sold for redevelopment as the Brewery Blocks. There are art galleries and institutions such as the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and Blue Sky Gallery (many who stage monthly receptions), boutiques, and restaurants abound, and also a number of small clubs and bars, a combination that has led to Pearl District being named one of

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