[0]Oldtown Chinatown

Last fall, the Old Town/Chinatown community celebrated the culmination of six years of imagining, planning, designing and constructing improvements to this important historic district with a grand opening festival, "Under the Autumn Moon," which drew 35,000 people over two days. The ribbon was cut on a $5.35 million streetscape project for NW 3rd & 4th Avenues that constructed two new festival streets on Flanders and Davis Streets, as well as new sidewalks from Burnside to Glisan, with 126 new trees in landscaped tree wells, granite paver accents, new streetlights, eight grand festival lantern sculptures, and 20 bronze plaques installed in sidewalks throughout the project area. [0]Davis Festival Street

The improvements resulted from a collaborative effort by the Old Town/Chinatown Visions Committee, neighborhood groups and business leaders to bring new vitality to Portland's oldest and most diverse neighborhood. The project was funded by the Portland Development Commision through the Downtown Waterfront Urban Renewal Area. Engineering and construction was managed by the Portland Office of Transportation.

Related Documents

• Old Town - Chinatown Project Outline [1]
• PDC Project Description and Links [2]
• RACC Project Fact Sheet [3]

Community Partners

• Business and Community Leaders
• Steering Committee
• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
• Old Town Chinatown Visions Committee
• Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association [4]
• Suenn Ho (Mulvanny G2 Architecture [5]), Plaque Designer
• Deborah Horrell, Deb Stoner, Public Art artists
• Portland Development Commission [5] (PDC)
• Regional Arts and Culture Council [6] (RACC)

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