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Burnside Bridgehead
The Burnside Bridgehead is a development project at the northeast end of the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon's Kerns neighborhood, in the United States. The site includes: * Yard, a black 21-story apartment building completed in 2017 * Fair-Haired Dumbbell, two brightly colored connected six-story towers, completed in 2017 * Blake McFall Company Building; historic, home to Autodesk * Slate building, 10 stories, home to CENTRL Office * Eastside Exchange; historic * Union Arms Apartments; historic * Sideyard, designed by Skylab; 4 stories of cross-laminated timber, completed in 2020 * Frigidaire Building Frigidaire Appliance Company is the American consumer and Commercial area, commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of multinational company Electrolux. Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and deve ... References Kerns, Portland, Oregon {{Oregon-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnside Bridgehead Overhead - 2020
Burnside may refer to: Places Antarctica * Burnside Ridges, Oates Land Australia * City of Burnside, a local government area of Adelaide, South Australia ** Burnside, South Australia, a suburb of the City of Burnside * Burnside, New South Wales, in the Oatlands suburb of Sydney * Burnside, Queensland, a suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region * Burnside, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne * Burnside, Western Australia, in the South West region * Lake Burnside, in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia Canada * Burnside, Nova Scotia, an urban neighbourhood in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia * Burnside Drive, a road in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia * Burnside, Colchester County, an unincorporated rural community in Nova Scotia * Burnside Hall, a building on the downtown campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec * Burnside, Newfoundland and Labrador, a seaside town in Newfoundland * Burnside, Ontario, in the township of Severn * Burnside River, Nunavut New Zealand * Burnside, Christchurc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burnside Bridge
The Burnside Bridge is a 1926-built bascule bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States, carrying Burnside Street. It is the second bridge at the same site to carry that name. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in November 2012. Design The bridge was designed by Ira G. Hedrick and Robert E. Kremers, incorporating a bascule lift mechanism designed by Joseph Strauss. Including approaches, the Burnside has a total length of and a center span. While lowered this span is normally above the river. The deck is made of concrete, which contributes to its being one of the heaviest bascule bridges in the United States. The counterweights, housed inside the two piers, weigh . The lifting is normally controlled by the Hawthorne Bridge operator, but an operator staffs the west tower during high river levels. As of 2005, the bridge opened for river traffic an average of 35 times a month. The bridge provides shelter for the initially un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerns, Portland, Oregon
Kerns is a neighborhood in the inner Northeast and Southeast sections of Portland, Oregon. It borders the Lloyd District and Sullivan's Gulch on the north, Laurelhurst on the east, Buckman and Sunnyside on the south, and (across the Willamette River) Old Town Chinatown on the west. The Kerns neighborhood dates back to the 1850s when the area’s first homesteader, William Kerns, wielded axes and saws to clear his 320-acre Donation Land Claim. Kerns earned a living making and selling wood shingles and shakes. By 1855, Kerns was elected by the local school district as its school director, and he led the effort to purchase land for Washington High School. Kerns has a healthy mixture of commercial buildings, condos, rental housing, and single family residences. It's streets are characterized by many trees and comfortable sidewalks. Sandy Boulevard, which follows a path that was used by Native Americans to travel from the Willamette River to the Sandy River, is a main thoroughf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Tribune
The ''Portland Tribune'' is a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Pamplin Media Group, which publishes a number of community newspapers in the Portland metropolitan area. Launched in 2001, the paper was published twice weekly until 2008, when it was reduced to weekly. It returned to twice-weekly publication in 2014 and was again reduced to weekly publication in 2020. It was distributed free from its 2001 launch until October 2022, then becoming available only by paid subscription or purchase at retail outlets. History 2000–2007 Portland businessman Robert B. Pamplin Jr. announced his intention to found the paper in the summer of 2000. The first issue of the twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) paper was published February 9, 2001, joining ''The Oregonian'', the city's only daily general-interest newspaper, and the alternative weeklies ''Willamette Week'' and ''The Portland Mercury''. At the time, it was a rare exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yard (Portland, Oregon)
Yard is a 21-story, -tall apartment building built at the Burnside Bridgehead in Portland, Oregon's Kerns neighborhood, in the United States. It was designed by Skylab Architecture for Key Development Co. of Hood River and Guardian Real Estate Services of Portland. Description Yard includes 21 above ground floors. The -tall concrete and glass high rise was designed by Skylab Architecture. It is a mixed-use development with ground floor retail and 284 apartments. The sixth through eighth floors are set aside for working-class studio apartments, available through a lottery process. Given its appearance, the building is referred to as the "Death Star" and was dubbed "the new apartment building you'll love to hate". History The Portland Development Commission started buying land at the east end of the Burnside Bridge about 2000 for a redevelopment project, eventually spending $11 million. Plans were first submitted to develop the property in 2006, but eventually the project was del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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