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The Public Service Building was the third of three similarly Italianate buildings built in Portland by the firm of prolific local architect A.E. Doyle.The project's primary designer, Charles K. Greene, worked on the other Italianate Doyle-commissioned buildings in Portland: the smaller Bank of California Building (1924) and the Pacific Building (1926). [6]
The Portland Water Bureau is the municipal water department for the city of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.The bureau manages a water supply that comes mainly from the Bull Run River in the foothills of the Cascade Range east of the city and secondarily from the Columbia South Shore Well Field near the Columbia River.
The Portland Building, alternatively referenced as the Portland Municipal Services Building, is a 15-story municipal office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Built at a cost of US$29 million, it opened in 1982 and was considered architecturally groundbreaking at the time.
The Portland metropolitan area has transportation services common to major U.S. cities, though Oregon's emphasis on proactive land-use planning and transit-oriented development within the urban growth boundary means commuters have multiple well-developed options. In 2008, 12.6% of all commutes in Portland were on public transit. [302]
The East Side tunnel was the largest sewer construction project ever undertaken by the City of Portland. A contractor, Kiewit-Bilfinger Berger (KBB), used a tunnel boring machine that was 300 feet (91 m) long and had a cutting head that was 25 feet (7.6 m) in diameter. In addition to the tunnel and the pipe, the project involved building seven ...
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Rocky Butte is part of the Rocky Butte Natural Area, encompassing 17.28 acres (0.0699 km 2) of land on NE Rocky Butte Road. [65] The summit of Rocky Butte is a Portland city park, Joseph Wood Hill Park, which covers 2.38 acres (0.0096 km 2). [66] The park offers views of the Boring Lava Field, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Hood. [6]
Jul. 20—A union representing municipal workers in Portland has put the spotlight on $240,000 in merit bonuses the city quietly awarded to certain employees recently, saying the payments violated ...