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Portland: South Waterfront
Nov. 2nd, 2011 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanguinityIt's November now, I know, but for the September challenge existence suggested either end of the OHSU tram, and I did want to take zir suggestion. I've rambled around the upper end of the tram, but the downhill end of the tram is a newish development project that I've never been to. Newish and unmissable: glass and steel high-rise towers, located completely apart from the downtown skyscrapers. It sits just south of the Ross Island Bridge (the bridge I most often use), and whenever I cross the bridge I tend to regard South Waterfront with a mix horror and curiosity: it's just so... high-rise and glass and... there. But hey, at least go look, eh? And in the process, I'd also make good on kake's second suggestion for me, which was to explore the the southern end of the streetcar route.
According to Wikipedia: "The South Waterfront is a high-rise district under construction on former brownfield industrial land... It is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the United States." Apparently it is also going to be much bigger than it is now; only two blocks of that skyline has been built so far.
( High rises and construction and brownfields and pretty day to be by the river )
existence suggested either end of the OHSU tram, and I did want to take zir suggestion. I've rambled around the upper end of the tram, but the downhill end of the tram is a newish development project that I've never been to. Newish and unmissable: glass and steel high-rise towers, located completely apart from the downtown skyscrapers. It sits just south of the Ross Island Bridge (the bridge I most often use), and whenever I cross the bridge I tend to regard South Waterfront with a mix horror and curiosity: it's just so... high-rise and glass and... there. But hey, at least go look, eh? And in the process, I'd also make good on kake's second suggestion for me, which was to explore the the southern end of the streetcar route.According to Wikipedia: "The South Waterfront is a high-rise district under construction on former brownfield industrial land... It is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the United States." Apparently it is also going to be much bigger than it is now; only two blocks of that skyline has been built so far.
( High rises and construction and brownfields and pretty day to be by the river )
