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Originally Posted by pdxf
I've always been intrigued with little forgotten pieces of land, like in the image below (which is just south of Waterfront Park on Naito). According to portlandmaps.com, the top red box is owned by the city (seems like that could be an easy piece of land to devote to a better purpose), and I'm not sure who owns the lower red box. It seems like these pieces of land could be great areas for a public market. The pedestrian friendliness of the area is pretty bad, but it seems like that could be solved, and perhaps even used to create a stronger bond between the south end of downtown and the waterfront.
I did a quick writeup about this option here: http://www.drempd.com/blog/A-Better-...-Public-Market
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I work across the street from this site and I can attest the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure here is awful. I think just about any development here would help connect downtown with South Waterfront and Riverplace.
The vacant property to the south is owned in part by ODOT and in part by the PDC. The Parks bureau has some staff that report to the parking lot site with a small building. It's screaming for a redevelopment, but I'm a bit pessimistic about PDC's skills to get anything done. The PDC did a plan for this whole area in 2004 and it's been covered in dust ever since. I happen to have an electronic copy, but I can't seem to find it anywhere on the web. Currently, their website says the following about the sites:
Harbor/Naito Properties
This site has been considered as a potential future affordable housing site within the URA and the Harbor/Naito development area. The Portland-Milwaukie light rail alignment will transect this site at SW Lincoln.
Link to the PDC webpage