Our 42nd Ave

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Join the ‘Our 42nd Ave Design Team’

Who is the Design Team?

We are a small team within a large group of people who are interested in Design, Architecture, Urban Design or a similar field. Anybody who is part of the community and has an interest in one of these field can be part of our meetings. Most of all we like to bring some design perspective to the street to make this corridor a more attractive and liveable place to be, live, work or play.

What does the Design Team do?

We help businesses to visualize how a new storefront can look like.
We help organize small and big events. Like the Community Design Fair and Street Fair Workshops.
We gather community input on design and future developments and communicate this voice to City Staff.
We think of small improvement and placemaking projects. Get funding and realize!

We organize a creative meeting every other week on Thursday evening.

How can I get involved?

Join our Thursday evening meetings. It will be an hour of brainstorming, discussion and/or workshop. Every time there will be a different topic or project. The goal is making the street a more attractive place to be, building relationships through design and most of all have fun working together with and for community members.

What is going on this Thursday?

We might think about a little placemaking project for the whole stretch and other exciting things that are going on. Would you like to be a part of the start of this design process? Lets collaborate!
New design folks will be attending the meeting. Ready to meet new people from your neighborhood?
Are you interested in what we’ve done so far? This Thursday we’ll show you many drawing and inspirational sketches for 42nd.

Interested?

Reply on this post or email awfvansisseren@hotmail.com

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Steering Committee Meeting: Monday, November 19

Our monthly Steering Committee meeting will be held this coming Monday, November 18th. Details:

What:    Our 42nd Steering Committee
When:   5:30-7:oopm on Monday, November 19
Where:  St. Charles Church Parish Center (click here for map)
enter from the north of the building, nearest the church parking lot

Preliminary agenda… it’s a full one:

  1. Organization
    • PDC grant agreement process and next steps
    • Fundraising updates
  2. Community Relationships
    • Equity Strategy discussion
    • February event: updates, steps forward, etc.
  3. Economic Development
    • February event cont’d: design workshop
    • Walking tour review
    • Venture Portland Grant and mini-grants program
    • Whitaker Site discussion
    • PSU RFP for student projects

 

All of our committee meetings are open, so please feel welcome to join us. We do encourage community members to contact us if they plan to attend so we can get new folks up to speed.