UPDATE and a photo that I took while out and about Wednesday evening

UPDATE: I rode the bus to work, then streetcar and one bus home from work. Hooray! I was pretty tired when I got there, but I was early enough that I had time to rest a bit before signing in and getting busy. I also noticed right away that I'd left my nibbles at home! No green grapes, Cacio de Roma sheep cheese or Ritz crackers! I had time to go to the coffee stand in the building lobby where I bought a bagel with deli turkey and ham, plus cream cheese. I only ate half of the bagel and the turkey and ham--no cream cheese. I made it just fine, too. Tomorrow I will remember the lunch bag because after I put the food and the ice pack in it, I'm hanging it on the door knob!



Yesterday evening I went out for one more short walk, to the corner where I sat down on the low wall around the bioswale. When I saw the cement mixer pump truck, I decided to take a photo to share. There used to be two houses in the space where a multi-story building is going up--five stories, if I remember right, with apartments on the upper floors and retail on the ground floor. The street we're looking at is NE Glisan. You can see the multi-windowed north end of the Albertina Kerr building at the right edge of the photo, behind their carefully maintained hedge.

Change in the neighborhood

March 5, 2011. 2248 N.E. Glisan. Those signs across the front demanded that I take a photo or two.



March 5, 2011. Interesting that the front of that car, that bumper cover or whatever you call it, sort of matches the color of the house. Hmmm. Do you suppose it is Rose Ivory De Vine's vehicle?



May 6, 2015. After hearing from Janessa last week that the house with all the signs about the psychic was gone, I decided to head that way on one of my walks Wednesday. I could see the chain link fence from the corner of Albertina Kerr's front yard, where I shot the photos posted yesterday of the tiny cairn that I built.

Here's some info I found online, about the house having been sold in November, 2014. This 1064 sqft single family home has 2 bedrooms and 1.0 bathrooms. It is located at 2248 NE Glisan St Portland, Oregon. Facts Lot: 4,500 sqft Single Family Built in 1923  Last sold: Nov 2014 for $805,000

And here's something I found online about the plans for the lot where this house stood, as well as the lot next to it to the west, where another house had also stood since 1923.

Proposal: The applicant is proposing mixed use development at this 8,460 square foot site currently developed with two homes. The project will consist of an apartment building with 35 dwelling units and 2 ground floor live/work units. The building will have 7 parking spaces located at the rear of the ground floor and accessed from NE Glisan Street. Mixed use buildings are an allowed use in the CS (Storefront Commercial) zone which has a height limit of 45 feet. The proposal consists of an overall 4 - story building and a partial 5 th floor containing 4 - units located on the front half of the building facing NE Glisan Street. The height of the building measures 54.5 feet to the top of the 5th floor dwelling units. The rear portion of the building measures 43.5 feet to the top of the 4th floor dwelling units. The building is set back a minimum of 3 feet from the side property lines and 11 feet from the rear. The applicant proposes one Adjustment to increase the maximum allowed height from 45 feet to 54.5 feet for the 5th floor dwelling units located on the NE Glisan - facing side of the proposed building. As rationale for the proposed Adjustment, the applicant points to the relation of the site to NE Sandy Boulevard and the Main Street Corridor Overlay Zone which allows residential buildings that front on NE Sandy Boulevard to be up to 65 feet in height.

The following administrative decision was issued on July 22, 2014: Approval of an Adjustment to 33.130.210 to increase the maximum allowed height from 45 feet to 54.5 feet, in substantial conformance with the approved site plans, Exhibits C - 1 through C - 2, signed and dated July 18, 2014, subject to the following conditions: A. As part of the building permit application submittal, each of the 4 required site plans or included as a sheet in the numbered set of plans. The sheet on which this information ap pears must be labeled "ZONING COMPLIANCE PAGE - Case File LU 14 - 157812 AD ." All requirements must be graphically represented on the site plan, landscape, or other required plan and must be labeled "REQUIRED."


A January 27, 2015, article about the sale and proposed plans for these two lots, read when you click here.

A May 1, 2015, article about the demolition of the two homes and plans for these two lots, read when you click here.

An October, 29, 2014, Portland city government Bureau of Development Services' final notice about the appeal of an earlier decision, read when you click here and see the architectural drawings for the building to be erected on the site.

That last link takes you to the most interesting info about what is planned for these two lots which are probably 500 feet from the building where I live--it includes site plan, architectural drawings.



The two houses which have been demolished. The short video that I shot shows what's there now, behind the chain link fence. I wonder what the building will be named.

Signs, out and about in Northeast Portland, No. 1

This bar has since closed on NE 28th at NE Glisan, but their sign still fits perfectly because Sunday evening the Portland Trail Blazers made it into upcoming NBA playoffs! I took this photo on April 23, 2010, through the bus window--the bus route's name is reflected on the left side of the photo. I never visited Lucky's.
 

The Yellow Impala, 1964, 4-door, seen on NE Glisan

I circled the block, well a couple of blocks, to get this photo. I used Picnik to auto-fix the color, crop and resize it. How do you think it turned out?

Mama Update #5, and an easily understood sign, or is it?

Mama's cadre of doctors want her to recuperate over the weekend while they evaluate her problem(s) and the possible solution(s). She's a bit less dizzy, pretty weak, slowly getting back her appetite, and ready to do whatever they tell her to do so that she can eventually get back the life that she had. We're all proud of her and her attitude. She's getting really good care at Providence Hospital on NE Glisan.



"Stop Here Until Door Closes." Straightforward wording for a rather large sign. For some reason, though, I'm getting another message from it. I'm not sure but I'll just bet there's a garage at the other end of that ramp, a garage in a high-priced condo building. I do know for sure that the building is in the Portland's Pearl District which is a high-priced part of the city, from all aspects. Anyway, I think the sign's there to make whoever has the "key" to the door stop at that point to prevent any other vehicles' piggy-backing into the private garage. For some reason the sign also says to me "If you don't have the key, you can't get in." This raises two questions in my mind. One, do you have to "get in" to feel successful? And second, why in the world am I having such a deep sort of thought? It must be the exhaustion. Or is it that I'm 60 now and may be more prone to deep thoughts?