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This stop on our tour of Portland's East Park Blocks is Roseway Parkway, on NE 72nd between Sandy & Prescott, which places it due north (wayyy north) of Firland Parkway. That sure doesn't seem like a coincidence, although I don't have concrete evidence that this was part of a plan.
These are the widest East Park Blocks out there. I'd guess they're about as wide as the park blocks downtown, although I'm notoriously bad at guessing sizes and dimensions of things. The trees are smaller, and the place has a curiously orchard-like feel to it.
Forget connecting the north & south park blocks downtown, you urban visionaries out there -- if you want a real challenge, try hooking the Roseway & Firland Parkways together. Actually no, I'm not seriously proposing that. I'm not sure what the point would be. Even if there was a good reason, it'd cost way too much, which I think is the same reason it didn't happen to begin with.
Some links about the place:
- Oregonian: 2003 tree-planting party. Described as a "parklike strip".
- The Roseway Neighborhood Association apparently tends to call them the "72nd Avenue Park Blocks".
- A detailed planning doc about the area, including much about the parkway.
- International Day festival held there
- Urban Adventure League beat me to it, as usual. And Firland, and Omaha, too.
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