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1.53 persons. Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is on the west bank of the Willamette River in the northeastern corner of the southwest section of the city and where most of the city's high-rise buildings are found. The downtown neighborhood extends west from the Willamette to Interstate ...
The Pearl District is an area of Portland, Oregon, formerly occupied by warehouses, light industry and railroad classification yards and now noted for its art galleries, upscale businesses and residences. The area has been undergoing significant urban renewal since the mid-1980s when it was reclassified as mixed use from industrial, [2 ...
August 6, 1975. Location. Portland Union Station is a train station in Portland, Oregon, United States, situated near the western shore of the Willamette River in Old Town Chinatown. It serves as an intermediate stop for Amtrak 's Cascades and Coast Starlight routes and, along with King Street Station in Seattle, is one of two western termini ...
With 23.5% of the residents in the 97203 zip code (which includes St. Johns and other neighborhoods in North Portland) living at or below the poverty line, the neighborhood is one of the city's poorest. [31] As of the 2010s, there has been a lot of new development in Portland, and St. Johns is one of the most rapidly developing parts of Portland.
Pioneer Courthouse Square, with Fox Tower in the background. Pioneer Courthouse Square, also known as Portland's living room, [1][2][3][4] is a public space occupying a full 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2) city block in the center of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1984, the square is bounded by Southwest Morrison Street on ...
Much of the U. S. city of Portland, Oregon is built to a grid plan oriented north/south and east/west. However, the streets in the central downtown area are aligned to magnetic north—presumably at the time the area was platted—and so is oriented about 19.25° eastward. [1]
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon's most populous county.
Neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon. Map of Portland, Oregon's five sections, prior to the creation of South Portland in 2020. Portland, Oregon is divided into six sections: North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland. There are 95 officially recognized neighborhoods, each of ...