Burnside Gentrification
As part of the ongoing beautification of the waterfront and adjacent areas of Portland, the Burnside project is getting more real estate. Eventually it will butt up against some new parks facility and thus scenes like this mom chatting on her cell phone while she drops the kids off at Burnside wil lbecome more and more of a reality. I don’t know if Burnside will get any cold hard cash, but the land grab has already started. There’s a panorama of some recent tranny work after the jump.
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Posted by: kilwag on November 12th, 2008
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with awesomeness comes unwanted business i guess. someday my mom (err, wife) will drop me off to skate there i hope.
emerging from under the bridge.
beautiful
so i finally looked up gentrification in my dictionary.
so nows i is educated. that park has changed since last time i was located up here. so you gotta have a keyholder around with a key to take a proper piss. well at least somewhere to store tools and shit. in most other ways it seems the same. same dudes there getting drunk and not skating. ha. but if cleaning it up gets mo land from the city to build more stuff then full tilt. funny though, last time was there all the “dudes” were drinking a beer but had to hide them when the skate furor showed up.
oh, did i mention i love this place. so fun.
Isnt that your wife kilwag on her way back from starbucks wondering where you are. You told her you would be at burnside but you really were at holly farm.
I imagine they’ll make the new additions gnarly enough not to attract the unwanted crowd.
Yeah, Scum, but I was actually at DOS instead of Holly Farm. I’m not sure what that mean, actually. But wait, i took that picture, so I must have been there. Some sort of oversight on my part I guess. WOn’t happen again, sorry.
Actually, I’m part of the city’s gentrification plan for Burnside.
shredding at DOS I might add…
All sarcasm aside for a moment, http://www.pdc.us/ura/central_eastside/burnside-bridgehead.asp is a good place to learn more about what’s slated for the surrounding environment. Props to Chuck Willis, who’s done a great job on behalf of Burnside Skatepark, Inc., to represent skaters’ interests and secure more square footage for the skatepark expansion you see in these photos. Ditto for the Portland Development Commission who understands the skatepark is a both a landmark and a positive resource for the neighborhood, the adjacent businesses, and the community generally.