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A typical daytime scene on the waterfront (June 2014) Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park is a 36.59-acre (148,100 m 2) park located in downtown Portland, Oregon, along the Willamette River. After the 1974 removal of Harbor Drive, a major milestone in the freeway removal movement, the park was opened to the public in 1978.
Originally situated adjacent to a freeway in a highly developed waterfront district, the Visitors Information Center was subsequently retained when Tom McCall Waterfront Park was developed around it. It now stands within the park. [2]
The recommendations from these studies eventually led to a plan which would move the market out of the space under the Burnside Bridge at First Avenue, to a new space one block east, in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, and include construction of an open-side shelter (called a "pavilion" by market representatives) to provide 8,000 square feet of ...
The 37-acre (150,000 m 2) Waterfront Park was built in 1974, running along the Willamette River for the length of downtown Portland. McCall was honored after his death when the park was renamed Tom McCall Waterfront Park in 1984. [21] McCall was a leading figure in passing the Oregon Beach Bill to declare Oregon shores public land in 1967. [22]
Cherry blossom in the Tom McCall Waterfront Park, created with the removal of the Harbor Drive in Portland, Oregon.. Freeway removal is a public policy of urban planning to demolish freeways and create mixed-use urban areas, parks, residential, commercial, or other land uses.
Japanese American Historical Plaza is a plaza in Portland, Oregon's Tom McCall Waterfront Park, located where the Portland Japantown once stood. [ 1 ] Description and history
Land use in Oregon; Tom McCall Waterfront Park – portion of the greenway in downtown Portland; Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade – more greenway near downtown Portland; 40-Mile Loop – Willamette Greenway is one portion of extensive pathways throughout Portland
In 2012, HAP spearheaded a plan to have Portland Parks & Recreation designate an official city beach at the southern end of Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Tom McCall Bowl Beach. HAP also organized several cleanups of Tom McCall Bowl Beach called "Unrock the Bowl", where volunteers picked up riprap rocks from along the river's edge to the bank ...