Connecting South Downtown and Old Town Chinatown to the Waterfront
4.09 5:30 pm,Design Portland, JK Gill Building, 408 SW Fifth Ave
City of Possibility's "Downtown to the Waterfront" workshop series explores how these two very different neighborhoods can better connect
City of Possibility is pleased to present the draft findings of our workshops to re-envision two downtown neighborhoods' and their connections to Waterfront Park.
With the City of Portland's upcoming design competition to re-envision Waterfront Park, City of Possibility has convened a series of workshops, or charrettes, to explore how to better connect downtown to the waterfront -- to create a better park and spur more residential and neighborhood development in downtown.
The draft results of our first study--the Harvey Milk and Oak corridor--can be found here.
Now we turn to South Downtown and Old Town/Chinatown. Despite PSU, the Halprin Open Space Sequence fountain plazas and other major assets, South Downtown remains cut off from the river by 1960s-era roads and buildings. With its array of cultural institutions, older and new aid organizations, and the coming of the Steel Bridge skate park, Old Town/Chinatown is ripe for reinvention.
After meeting with numerous neighborhood leaders and organizations, City of Possiblity brought some 60 urban designers and creatives together with top city decision-makers to explore how these districts can become, in effect, waterfront neighborhoods where more Portlanders will want to work and live.
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