Rose City Park is a neighborhood (and a park of the same name) in Northeast

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. It borders Beaumont-Wilshire, Grant Park, and the Hollywood District on the west (at NE 47th Avenue), Cully on the north (at NE Fremont Street),

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and Madison South on the east (at NE 65th Avenue), and

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on the south (at the Banfield Expressway and MAX transit line). The neighborhood was

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ted in 1907, the year of the first

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. Trolley service from

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was inaugurated that year by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co., and discontinued November 30, 1936. In addition to its eponymous park (acquired 1920), other parks in the neighborhood include Normandale Park (1940), Frazer Park (1950, on the site of a former juvenile detention center), and the western part of Rose City Golf Course (1920), whose

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was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. A statue of

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was commissioned by Henry Waldo Coe and sculpted by

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, and dedicated on July 4, 1927. It stood at 57th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, in the center of the neighborhood, until it was toppled and burned by rioters on June 18th 2020 in the aftermath of the

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at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Beginning in March 1946,

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proposed building a large factory on in the Rose City Park neighborhood, choosing the location for proximity of workers and access to the rail line. The city council approved the zoning change on June 5, 1947, but by June 26, 1947 NABISCO abandoned the project, building a plant at the northern edge of the

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neighborhood on Columbia Boulevard. The plant was completed in August 1950. The NE 60th Ave station on the Blue Line and Red Line of the MAX light rail system is on the boundary ( Interstate 84) with the Center neighborhood. In July 2008, ''

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'' magazine named Rose City Park the ninth most overpriced neighborhood in the country. This was based on a price-to-earnings spread comparing rental costs with buying costs for similar properties, based on number of bedrooms, location and price per square foot. A neighborhood with a high price-to-earnings spread is considered overvalued because a buyer is getting a low return based on costs and paying a huge premium to live in area relative to how much it would cost to rent a similar property there.In Depth: America's Most Overpriced ZIP Codes - Portland, OR
- Forbes.com

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External links

Rose City Park Neighborhood Association Official Web Site
(RCPNA.org)

(PortlandNeighborhood.com)

* ttps://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/594937 Rose City Park Street Tree Inventory Report {{Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon 1907 establishments in Oregon Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon Populated places established in 1907

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