Mike Vogel is there to get the video:
Exploding Car on Broadway from Front Ave. on Vimeo.
Archives for April 2009
An idea for the grass seed capital of the world
Where MAX and the streetcar don’t share the right of way with cars, something like this sure would look nice:
The Willamette Valley is the Grass Seed Capital of the World, after all.
Image from Mellow Monk.
Idea from The Overhead Wire: Grass Track on the T Willie?
Essential Websites to help you start a bar or restaurant in Portland
Katie and Justin at Hall of Records (blog | myspace) have been researching and scouting the restaurant and bar scene in Portland for the past year in their search for a brick and mortar record store and bar location.
Katie has compiled a list of websites essential to such an endeavor in Portland:
- Yelp – Amazing insight into market research and competition analysis
- PortlandMaps
- Craigslist (business and office/commercial)
- Loopnet
- RMLS
- OLCC
- Portland Food & Drink Blog
- Google Maps
- Bizcenter.org (Portland SBDC – our business counselors)
Read the whole post: The Routine
And check out this video of last Friday’s Hall of Records produced Wax Broker Riot (Mile73‘s Heather and yours truly make a very brief cameo!) :
A Portland Ghost tower – or should that be a Boise Hole?
Tom Moyer is halting construction on the putative 32 story tower, Park Avenue West (at this stage it’s just a really big hole in the ground).
Moyer announced today that construction will stop for nine months, a troubling sign of just how far the economy and the financial markets have fallen. Law firm Stoel Rives had already announced plans to move into the Park Avenue West building. The tower was 55 percent leased, an unusually strong demand during a recession.
Portland’s very own Ghost Tower . . . well, it would be if it weren’t currently just a hole.
Update: Per Devlyn’s comment, I guess what we have now in Portland, is our very own Boise Hole!
Surviving the PSU Farmers Market
Our PDX Network‘s Metroknow (no relation) has a bunch of great survival tips for visitors to the PSU Farmers Market. Here’s one of the tips I can say an Amen to, despite my atheism:
We don’t bring the pre-global warming V12 quad-cab double-wide 128oz. soda-bucket holding, fossil fuel drilling and self-refining, “hey let’s go for a bouncy run with a gurgly goopy infant!” mega-stroller (though we do still have one, for which the HD-DVR Infrared GPS XM portable satellite indentured contract doesn’t expire until 2016)
Go read the rest: Top 10 PSU Saturday Market Survival Tips