The outcome of these meetings will be a community decision about whether to take on a two-month study of potential streetcar corridors in each district or decide that it’s not a priority for the community at this time.
Meetings for other Portland areas were held in early April

Northwest and Southwest District Workshop
Monday, April 14
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Lincoln High School, Room #169
1600 SW Salmon St.

Outer East Portland District Workshop
Tuesday, April 15
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
East Portland Community Center, Classroom #1 740 SE 106th Ave.

For more information
Contact Portland Office of Transportation Streetcar System Plan staff:
Emily Lieb at 503-823-7854 or Patrick Sweeney at 503-823-5611
Visit the project web page: www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=45755

PORTLAND STREETCAR SYSTEM PLAN
www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=46134

The new Grocery Outlet target opening is April 30th. The business has remodeled the building, planted new landscaping, and is allowing the Hollywood Farmer's Market to continue in the same location on NE Hancock (the market also covers part of the Grocery Outlet parking lot) on Saturday mornings. www.groceryoutlets.com

Grocery Outlet is a food bargains retail store. It will be in the old Hollywood Value Village location, which closed in November. Now you have to go to 82nd for the nearest Value Village. More details from their website:

"The premise is simple: We specialize in brand name products with “bargains only,” that meet the needs of our customers by offering 40% to 60% below traditional retailers. Our offering is wide: Groceries, frozen, deli & refrigerated, produce, fresh meat (selected stores), general merchandise — seasonal products, housewares, toys, and gifts"

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The Oregonian published an article about the Hollywood District in its ..... section, "Hollywood is ready for its close-up". (Oregonian, February 28, 2008). The article is written by Oregonian staff reporter Erin Hoover Barnett and focuses on the new developments going on in the Hollywood District such as the Whole Foods project, the new Trader Joe's location, and Mark Lindsay's Rock & Roll Cafe. Some of the history of the Hollywood District is also revealed.

HNA's own Land Use Chairperson, Trudi Rahija, was quoted in the article!
 

Gerding Edlen is the development company constructing the mixed-use building at the Washington Mutual site on Sandy and 43rd in the Hollywood District. The new building, which will be named the Rosemere, will take up the whole block and include a new Whole Foods, the Washington Mutual bank branch, and some additional retail on the ground floor. It will have residential condominiums above as well as parking built into it. You can see artist renderings and information about the project on the Gerding Edlen website.  

You can also see some of the plans in person inside the Washington Mutual branch on the site. The bank branch has a display with building renderings and additional information. The bank will remain open throughout construction. The plan is to move them into a finished portion of the new building this spring. The bank will retain a drive through option in the finished project.

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Another Hollywood District article showed up in The Oregonian. Written by Joe Fitzgibbon, "Palms now grace Hollywood Theatre" discusses the palm trees that were planted in front of the Hollywood Theatre on Sandy Blvd. last year. The article was published on February 28, 2008 in The Oregonian, under the article heading "Put out those cigs near city buildings".

See pictures of the palm trees in the HNA Gallery. The Gallery also shows some pictures of the trees that were removed.

 

You can also read more about the type of palm trees and why they were chosen at the Hollywood Theatre / Film Action Oregon website. The palms are Chinese Windmill Palms (trachycarpus fortunei), which are adaptable to the Portland climate. According to the site, the old maple trees were taken out because their shallow roots disrupted the sidewalk, the limbs reached into the Spanish tiles and caused damage, and also the large, mature trees blocked a lot of the view of the Theatre.
 

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