Please join Venerable at the 2011 George McMath Award luncheon honoring Elisabeth Walton Potter on May 6 from 11:30 a.m to 1 p.m. at the White Stag Block. Tickets available.
Grand opening and first impressions at UO’s White Stag block
No longer Ducking the issue
New University of Oregon Portland facility opens for spring term classes
UO-Portland a study in growth
Developers hope White Stag is gold
Old Town Education
While shiny high-rise developments in the Pearl and South Waterfront have hogged headlines, the most important urban renewal project in recent Portland history has attracted little attention: The renovation of the White Stag Block and the surrounding buildings in Old Town is changing the face of the troubled neighborhood and landing the city a top-notch grad school.
Portland’s Old Town on cusp of a revival
With prodding from Portland’s urban-renewal agency, the Portland Development Commission, developers have seen beyond Old Town’s stigma of crime and urban decay. The result, all sides hope, will be that rare big-city neighborhood that the poor, middle-income and rich call home. Moving in to Old Town is the University of Oregon and Mercy Corps who got the city’s OK to move its headquarters and learning center into the neighborhood.