RiverPlace History & Future:

(these are LINKS – click on each link to go to the website)

RiverPlace (Wikipedia)

Unsprawl Case Study: Portland’s RiverPlace – in Terrain.org

Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park (Travel Portland)

Now that it’s clean, city leaders work to turn the Willamette River back into Portland’s front yard (Oregonian)

Waterfront Park Master Plan (Portland Parks & Recreation)

Portland wraps up Central City plan (Oregonian)

Portland Neighborhoods Guide: RiverPlace

RiverPlace Redevelopment – NBP Capital (downloadable pdf file)

World-Renowned Japanese Architect  Helping Design the Tall Apartment Towers Proposed for Portland Waterfront (Willamette Week)

Portland Mayor Supports Skyscraper Project Along Willamette (Willamette Week)

A Portland Developer Dangles the Possibility of 500 Affordable Apartments—in Exchange for the Right to Build Downtown Skyscrapers (Willamette Week)

Portland high-rises rile neighbors (Portland Tribune)

RiverPlace wins raised heights for redevelopment (Business Tribune)

The Hooverville of Ross Island City on Portland South Waterfront in the 1930s.

(Photo by Arthur Rothstein — Yale/Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection)

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