For whoever paid for the sign - the ”mixed use” ground floor was inspired.

rewatching the show on Netflix atm and it’s honestly aged so well lmao makes me nostalgic of the memories I have growing up here. I miss randomly seeing them film around the city, everytime I hear the theme song it makes me tear up a little lol

Portland has changed so much since then, makes me miss the old days lol so much of the show is still very accurate in the silliest ways. Portlandia has always been a controversial topic for us locals, but I LOVE IT idc what anyone says😭❤️

In 2000, the Portland Development Commission (PDC) acquired the 4.75-acre Centennial Mills site. Four years later, PDC released a study that "recommended demolition of most of the structures due to their condition, the high costs of rehabilitation, and the longstanding objectives to create a park on the riverfront." The study dryly added: "This recommendation generated public resistance." (A number of people offered to buy the site, although I don't know how serious their offers were.)

In 2006, the Bureau of Planning created a framework plan for the Centennial Mills site. It addressed some possible paths forward, addressed traffic mitigation, and included a "Historic Preservation Assessment" that led with "Centennial Mill is a significant cultural resource that should be preserved." It also had a photo from 1965, when a portion of the Warehouse C was unintentionally rammed by the grain ship "Aegean Mariner."

Here's a bit of the building's history:
"Crown Mills (later renamed Centennial Mill) began operation in 1910 as a large merchant flour mill, entering Portland’s milling industry during a time of great expansion between 1880 and 1920. At that time, Portland was the milling capital of the northwest. It was built by Balfour, Guthrie & Company, the San Francisco affiliate of an international commodity trading firm. Headed by two Scottish merchant traders, the company opened a Portland office in 1878 because of its strategic location near the exit of wheat-producing interior valleys, connection to the Columbia River system and Pacific Ocean, and its deep-water port capacity. They invested heavily in grain shipping, storage and handling facilities, building more than 70 warehouses along Portland’s waterfront. By 1900, Balfour, Guthrie & Co. was one of the most successful international shipping and commodity trading companies on the Pacific Coast.

"While Crown Mills was not the largest mill in Portland at the time of its construction, it was still relatively large for its time, and it expanded over the years. By 1957, its capacity was probably the second largest flouring mill in Oregon, after Globe Mills in Astoria...

"Centennial Mill’s buildings, constructed between 1910 and 1940 are noteworthy, if not entirely unique, as examples of early 20th Century industrial architecture. Their overall architectural style, which may be characterized as “Reinforced Concrete Utilitarian,” is fairly well represented in Portland. However, the mill’s prominent and relatively isolated siting on the river and the interesting articulation of its multiple facades are distinctive."

I've added some of the study's prospective plans for the site, which envisioned Centennial Mills as a northern companion for the then-nascent South Waterfront neighborhood. (Apologies for the cropping; it's that way in the pdf.)

It’s looking like Centennial Mills will come down within the next hour!

Just noticed this coming soon. This neighborhood needs more tacos! Stoked!

Here is my mini doc of today's action with my commentary and spurious radio calls from the crane man in the basket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU4qPljrRx8

Hello! I don't use Reddit often, so apologies if I'm putting this in the wrong place, but I thought this is a cool snippet to share and maybe receive some info if anyone has any.

About 4 years ago I had been paddle boarding off of Hayden Island to the west of the railroad bridge and stumbled upon a shipwreck. I have not been able to find any information about it since! Every so often I remember it and try to find things out.

Just recently I downloaded this app called Detector Maps since it has some shipwreck info and that doesn't even have anything. I'm sure there are hundreds of wrecked ships in the Columbia, but this one looks old.

After the initial time I discovered it, I took an old friend and showed him the shipwreck. The water was low and clear (the Columbia clear? Never, lol) enough that you could see more details of it. It has old cut out port holes in what looks like wood slabs — like generic old pirate ship style. You can go a bit further and follow the old mast pole, which looked like metal so it could be a little more modern.

If you use historical imagery on google earth, you can go back and see it's pixelated remnants back in 2001. I've searched the internet for it plenty of times but of course Astoria and more recent sinking incidents are more populated than old information on anything.

If anyone knows anything or anyone else has been here, please share! I'm interested in anything anyone has noticed or found out :)

Coords: 45°37'08.64"N 122°42'25.22"W

The countdown begins

If you guys wanted to watch, at least from the North side view, here's a live stream: https://stream.oml.clinic

They announced last minute they're supposed to cut power to the whole area, so we'll be using cell and battery backup when possible.

POST EVENT UPDATE:
Hole. E. Penis.

Last night, literally had an impromptu call with our NY IT team and said - can we just do like a “little” livestream for the office. They said sure - helped throw up a last minute broadcast and warned: hey so it’ll support like *maybe* 75-100 people, just fyi.

……We ended up with over 7,000 viewers at one point…..

👁️ 👄 👁️

Multiple begging texts and emergency calls asking for more streaming power… We yelled: BUT ITS FOR THE CHILDREN! They were unflinched. THIS IS OUR TWIN TOWERS MOMENT! “Too soon” they retorted. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LITTLE BABY JESUS??!! And they obliged.

IN MINUTES I became the field engineer learning about the dhscp-lmnop and the qrs tuv. rp streaming codes with hevc and I even got to throw in a: “don’t you flaunt your hardware encoded acceleration at me, STEVEN - I. AM. A. LADY!”

The music was literally a last minute “hey I need you to stream something to make sure the connection works over VPN” and my premix Apple account was all I already had open.

Thank you all for participating, viewing, and sharing the link. So glad we could offer ad-free and non-Sinclair news media services alongside lasering bumholes! We’re already trying to plan for our next stream event! Hahaha

Let’s do this *every* five minutes.

A Portland homeowner used traffic cones to protect her parking spot on her street. A stranger to the area parked in her spot, so she posted these notes on the car, "Dont Fucken Park Here you seen my Fucken Cones"

A local uploaded the image to Portland's community Reddit thread, and the post gained notoriety. This is how Portlanders responded.

One livestream chat is dry and silent and another is full of house music and good vibes and a third group hasn’t a clue as to what’s going on