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unusual facts about Downtown Portland


Oregon Sustainability Center

The Oregon Sustainability Center was a proposed high-rise office building that would have been located near Portland State University in Downtown Portland, Oregon.


United States House of Representatives elections in Oregon, 2012

Among other changes, Downtown Portland was moved from District 1 to District 3; District 2 ceded more of the Grants Pass area to District 4; and District 5 was changed to include more of Clackamas County and only small parts of Multnomah County.

WCSH

Owned by Gannett, WCSH has studios at Congress Square in Downtown Portland.

WPXT

On weeknights, the news and sports segments originated from WCSH's studios at Congress Square in Downtown Portland while weather forecast segments came from WLBZ's facility on Mount Hope Avenue in Bangor.


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A. H. Maegly House

Downtown Portland and Mount Hood can be seen from the living room, dining room and kitchen.

Blake McFall Company Building

Completion of the Steel Bridge over the Willamette River in 1888 established a rail link between downtown Portland and East Portland, which already had good rail connections to the east and south.

Cycling in Portland, Oregon

In 2004, a bike path along the Sunset Highway between Sylvan and Cedar Hills was completed, helping to link Beaverton and downtown Portland.

Jen-Hsun Huang

After leaving Oneida Baptist Institute and moving to Oregon with his family, Huang began playing table tennis at a club in downtown Portland and at age 15, he placed third in junior doubles at the U.S. Open.

Maine State Route 100

The south end of State Route 100 is at the intersection of Forest Avenue and Park Avenue in downtown Portland, the same place U.S. Route 302 ends.

Maine State Route 77

Formerly U.S. Route 1, in Portland and continues through downtown Portland, over the Casco Bay Bridge, through South Portland and Cape Elizabeth into Scarborough, where it eventually ends at Maine State Route 207.

Portland Railway, Light and Power Sellwood Division Carbarn Office and Clubhouse

After this system was expanded in 1889 from downtown Portland across the Willamette River on the Steel Bridge to Albina, it was gradually extended south along the east bank of the river.

Rachael Palinkas

Rachael Palinkas (born March 26, 1987), is an aspiring photojournalist who is best known for her photography of an Anti-Iraq War rally and march in downtown Portland, Oregon in 2007.

Tre Arrow

Arrow first came to public attention in July 2000 when he scaled a U.S. Forest Service building in downtown Portland, Oregon and lived on a nine-inch ledge for eleven days, to protest the plan to log near Eagle Creek, Oregon.

Turtledove Clemens

1959: Produced campaign featuring appearance by Playboy Playmate Lisa Winters for opening of Nudelman's University Shop in Downtown Portland.