Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Eastside Burnside-Couch Couplet Update

Published by Michael Chan on March 22, 2007 in Articles. 0 Comments

Denyse McGriff – PDC

In March 2006, the Portland City Council authorized commencement of engineering for the eastside Burnside-Couch Couplet. The eastside Burnside-Couch Couplet (eastside Couplet) will serve as a catalyst for Central Eastside Urban Renewal Area redevelopment and business growth, and is a critical infrastructure improvement for the Burnside Bridgehead project.

The eastside Couplet project will be constructed on existing roadways from NE 14th Avenue to the Burnside Bridge. Burnside and Couch Streets will be realigned into a one-way couplet system, with eastbound traffic in three lanes on Burnside Street and westbound traffic in two lanes on Couch Street. Redesigning the streets will increase transportation capacity, improve pedestrian connections, slow vehicular traffic, improve commercial access with left turns at all intersections, and create a more pleasing streetscape environment.

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Sisters of the Road Café Helps Homeless

Published by Terry Taylor on March 22, 2007 in Articles. 0 Comments

Home.

The word conjures up images of comfort, security, and love. A home is something that everyone should be entitled to, and nobody should be without. However, more than 3,500 in Portland are currently without homes. Most people have seen homeless people on the streets or living in partially erected shelters, but don’t look to see much beyond that.

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“Key Development” in Transformation of Central Eastside Opens

Published by Terry Taylor on March 22, 2007 in Articles. 0 Comments

An abandoned warehouse becomes a model of sustainable design, boathouse for paddlers and home to architects/engineers and a software firm.

A former warehouse adjacent to the Hawthorne Bridge has been transformed to bring new life to the central eastside industrial area. RiverEast Center will bring over 220 jobs to the neighborhood and provide the City long awaited, improved public access to the East Bank esplanade.  The innovative public plaza includes the first shared “green street” in Portland to treat stormwater from both public and private runoff sources as well as a public art installation from reclaimed building façade elements.
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