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Church eyes expansion
The Love of God Church on Northeast Glisan Street at 100th Avenue is seeking to expand. According to consultant Mildred White of Livermore Associates, the church will seek to add a new, 7,000 square foot sanctuary and convert the old sanctuary to office use. White says the church is preparing an application for mandatory design review for the work.
Bingo parlor owners consider redevelopment
The new owners of the long-vacant bingo parlor property on Northeast 104th Avenue and Wasco Street, south of Halsey Street are considering redevelopment options for the site. According to consultant Mildred White of Livermore Associates, possible uses under consideration include town homes, condominiums, or offices. The property, previously owned by the Ukrainian Bible Church, was once considered a prime location for a new public park in Gateway. The church expressed willingness to sell the property to the Portland Development Commission for public use, but PDC could not put together financing in a timely manner, and the church needed to complete the sale to pay for expanded facilities for itself.
East Holladay Park planned
A Portland Parks & Recreation advisory committee is nearing completion on a master plan for East Holladay Park, an unimproved park at Northeast 128th Avenue and Holladay Court that the bureau envisions as the site of an off-leash dog park. According to Hazelwood Neighborhood Association’s Land-Use Committee Chairwoman Linda Robinson, one of the few unresolved issues is whether the dog run area, on the east side of the park, will be fenced or open. Fencing the area would ensure that dogs do not interfere with other activities elsewhere in the park, or bark at other dogs in adjacent yards. However, Robinson says, some nearby neighbors have objected to fencing, in part because they fear a fenced facility will draw people from outside the area, in part because they are used to and like the park as it is.
Citywide parks committee invites discussion
A new Citywide Parks Committee gives parks and open space volunteers and advocates an opportunity to exchange information with their counterparts, discuss matters of common interest and take collective action. For now, the group will meet at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at City Hall, 1221 S.W. 4th Ave.
The topic for the Sept. 15 meeting will be community centers, large and small, existing and planned.
This will be the second citywide group of its type in which the leadership role has fallen to a Mid-County resident; Hazelwood Neighborhood Association’s Land-Use Committee Chairwoman. Linda Robinson is chairwoman of the new citywide parks committee and, in recent years, Russell Neighborhood Chairwoman Bonny McKnight has taken responsibility for the Citywide Land Use Committee.
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