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Most streets in downtown Portland are one-way. Naito Parkway (two-way, formerly known as Front Avenue) is the farthest east, while most of the high-rises end by I-405 to the west. Interstate 5 runs on the opposite bank of the river, crossing over on the Marquam Bridge. U.S. Route 26 connects downtown Portland to the Oregon Coast and the Cascade ...
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]
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round.
In 1946, U.S. National purchased the Wells Fargo Building (since 1922 known as the Porter Building), [23] a multistory office building located directly adjacent, immediately to the north, to expand its downtown Portland headquarters. [24] United States National Bank of Portland changed its name to United States National Bank of Oregon in 1964. [25]
Union Station is situated near the western bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland's Old Town Chinatown.The site is bound by Northwest Glisan, Hoyt, and Irving streets to the south; Northwest Broadway Street and Station Way to the west; Northwest Overton Street and Naito Parkway to the north; and Northwest Ironside Terrace and industrial and commercial zones to the east.
In these early days of the city, Naito was known as Front Street, and was the center of the downtown commercial core. [8] Front consisted of a large levee, which was considered by many community members to be a public street, although a court ruling found it to be private in 1862. [7] Front Street, 1852
Director Park (officially Simon and Helen Director Park) is a city park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.Opened in 2009 at a cost of $9.5 million, it covers a 700-space underground parking garage, which connects underground to the Fox Tower and the Park Avenue West Tower.
Downtown Portland lies in the Southwest section between the I-405 freeway loop and the Willamette River, centered on Pioneer Courthouse Square ("Portland's living room"). Downtown and many other parts of inner Portland have compact square blocks (200 ft [60 m] on a side) and narrow streets (64 ft [20 m] wide), a pedestrian-friendly combination ...