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Editor’s note:
For your reading pleasure, we present Perlman’s potpourri — a roundup of news items from the Mid-Multnomah County neighborhoods of Gateway and Parkrose from veteran Beat Reporter Lee Perlman.

LEE PERLMAN
THE MID-COUNTY MEMO

There were several development milestones in Mid-county last month, with more coming. Developer Andy Kelly is undergoing design review for two new housing projects. Portland Adventist Medical Center is about to break ground on a new building. The new Oregon Clinic headquarters is about to open for business. The East Portland Neighborhood Office is up and running and about to get a ceremonial tree planting. Dogs are up and running and doing their business at the new Glenhaven Off Leash Dog Park in front of the new Banfield, The Pet Hospital world headquarters.

Mayor Tom Potter’s office is continuing to do visioning — see what local activists have to say about it. They didn’t have much good to say about a new directive about how City Council wants the Gateway Urban Renewal Area to spend its money. The Portland Planning Commission has heard community leaders mouth off about local conditions, so last month they went to take a look. Speaking of leaders and officials, two — Portland Development Commission’s Sara King and Hazelwood Neighborhood Association’s Barbara Harrison — bid Mid-county a fond farewell last month. A business and real estate owner used his community service reputation in Gateway to convince skeptical neighbors in the Eliot neighborhood he’d be a different type of slumlord than the previous owner of a notorious drug and prostitute hotel in an inner northeast neighborhood. So far, it’s the same old story at the hotel.

The 102nd Avenue project is partially funded and will start next spring. A TriMet hearings officer takes an almost unprecedented step at a recent hearing, and the Office of Neighborhood Involvement is making over $200,000 in grants available to Mid-county non-profits.

Take a break from all this and smash pumpkins for charity at Rossi Farms Oct. 7.
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East Portland development projects develop
Several major development projects were moving forward as the Memo went to press this month.

Developer Andy Kelly has proposed two new housing projects. At 232 N.E. 97th Ave., Kelly is planning a five-story, 87-unit apartment building with 11,000 square feet of ground floor retail and 105 underground parking spaces. At 206 N.E. 102nd Ave., he wants to build two six-story buildings with 50 apartments each. Both are in the Gateway Plan District, and so are subject to design review. The projects were scheduled to have Design Advisory reviews — sort of a dry run before a formal application is filed — before the Portland Design Commission the afternoon of Sept. 28.

The Portland Adventist Medical Center will hold a ground-breaking ceremony at 11 a.m. on Oct. 2 for the first project in its new master plan. It is an Outpatient Pavilion, a four-story, 181,000 square-foot building that will house cardiovascular services, an expanded emergency department, operating rooms, a multi-level garage, and space for future medical offices. It will be located on Southeast Main Street near Building One.

Russelville Commons is pursuing the third phase of its development. There are no specifics as of yet but, according to Hazelwood Neighborhood Association Chair Arlene Kimura, the phase will include more senior housing, medical offices, some retail space, and possibly a street vacation.

Oregon Clinic completed
The new Oregon Clinic headquarters building at the Gateway Transit Center is complete. It should be open for business by early October, and is tentatively scheduled for a grand opening on Nov. 3. The project is a joint venture by the Oregon Clinic, the Portland Development Commission, TriMet, and the Gerding-Edlen Company.

East Portland Neighborhood Office open at new location
The East Portland Neighborhood Office is up and running at its new location at Northeast 117th Avenue and Holladay Street in the old Hazelwood Water District headquarters building. Around it, Commissioner Randy Leonard’s Hazelwood Hydropark — the largest of four Portland Water Bureau facilities being converted to recreational use — is taking shape. Two ingredients are still missing: the Water Bureau still hasn’t decided whether to create a community garden on part of the grounds (neighbors are divided on the issue), and the promised paving of Northeast 117th Avenue will not occur until next year. Consequently, Leonard’s office has put off any official grand opening for now. However, Leonard’s office participated in a ceremonial planting for a “patriotic” big leaf maple, donated by the Villa Garden Club, for 1 p.m. Sept. 28.

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