This sunny morning in Green Portland

PDX City-State · #1 Posted **May 24, 2007, 5:35 PM**

I went for a jog this morning and brought my camera.

Da tram

South Waterfront--not bad for three years of work

Heading back toward downtown

Riverplace--two more 15-story buildings on the way--kinda boring design

From a vantage point in the West Hills

A chunk of the Pearl District

That's it!

mttop · #2 Posted **May 24, 2007, 5:37 PM**

Nice pics, but is the haze smog or has there been some forest fires?

PDX City-State · #3 Posted **May 24, 2007, 5:42 PM**

It was a little hazy this morning--not sure why. No forest fires yet--wait until July and the whole damn state will be on fire.

MarkDaMan · #4 Posted **May 24, 2007, 6:59 PM**

nice...bring us more...MORE!

pwright1 · #5 Posted **May 24, 2007, 7:35 PM**

This is why I love Portland and the pnw. Beautiful pics.

cab · #6 Posted **May 24, 2007, 7:36 PM**

That's fog. Its all burned off now, city looks great!

eburress · #7 Posted **May 24, 2007, 7:36 PM**

What a pretty place. Hopefully downtown can add some height to go along with that wonderful density.

OhioGuy · #8 Posted **May 24, 2007, 8:33 PM**

Love it!

Drew-Ski · #9 Posted **May 24, 2007, 11:21 PM**

absolutely wonderfull pics !

Pistola916 · #10 Posted **May 25, 2007, 12:25 AM**

Nice pics. Portland is definately on my to-do list. The Northwest is a gem.

llazy · #11 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 3:19 PM**

Question... in the second photo, what is the name of the building directly behind the bus shelter?
Do you know of a similar style of building .. maybe in a group of 3, that are kind of rounded and have something black near the top? I have a painting, and am trying to figure out if the building in it is of an actual portland building.

denveraztec · #12 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 3:31 PM**

Nice new development!

Cbautz · #13 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 3:55 PM**

Cool pics!

alexjon · #14 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 4:03 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by llazy

Question... in the second photo, what is the name of the building directly behind the bus shelter?
Do you know of a similar style of building .. maybe in a group of 3, that are kind of rounded and have something black near the top? I have a painting, and am trying to figure out if the building in it is of an actual portland building.

That's the John Ross tower-- the three you are thinking of are probably part of Yaletown in Vancouver. Google it or search Flickr

Buckeye Native 001 · #15 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 6:41 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by eburress

What a pretty place. Hopefully downtown can add some height to go along with that wonderful density.

I love Portland, but don't much care about the height. That city's density is almost second-to-none after the big five (NYC, Chicago, DC, San Francisco, Boston), and that's all that really matters IMHO

Great photos, and I'd really love to go back there at some point

fangorangutang · #16 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 7:29 PM**

Waaaaahhhh...oh Portland, how I miss you so.

mSeattle · #17 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 9:40 PM**

Lovely Portland.

Coldrsx · #18 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 10:08 PM**

nice tour...i always find Portland such a cute little city for some reason.

TXLove · #19 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 10:44 PM**

Portland looks good thanks 4 the pics!!!

PDX City-State · #20 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 11:10 PM**

I took these last summer. The South Waterfront towers you see are completed, and a couple more have broken ground.

Portland is indeed cute, and with a Metropolitan area population twice that of Edmonton, it's not exactly little either. We could, however, use some additional building height. Our urban core might be dense, but it's not too particularly tall. This, most predict, will change in the next decade.