1) Failing Street Bridge clean up
2) OKNA annual holiday Party – Dec. 13
3) Permit parking zone around adidas
4) Highway ramp closures continue
1) Failing Street Bridge clean up
Walkers and bikers in Overlook know the Failing Street Bridge is a convenient route from our neighborhood to the Mississippi Avenue area. Like many public areas, it gets a little dirty from all the use.
The Overlook Neighborhood Association will host a clean up event at the bridge on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 10 a.m. Join your neighbors at the west end of the bridge (behind Kaiser) to help clean there and some surrounding streets. Let’s keep Overlook beautiful.
2) OKNA annual holiday Party – Dec. 13
Mark your calendar for the Overlook Neighborhood Association’s annual holiday party. This pot-luck event is a great chance to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones. The party this year will be on Friday, Dec. 13, 6-8 p.m.
The brand new Arlo Apartments (at the intersection of Interstate and Ainsworth where the old Interstate Lanes bowling alley was) has kindly offered to host our event in their recently completed common room. Overlook residents will be among the first to see the inside of this new anchor building on Interstate Avenue.
Plan to bring your favorite dish to share if you are able and any adult beverages you would like to consume. This is a family event. We’ll have door prizes from local businesses.
3) Permit parking zone around adidas
Overlook neighbors discussed options for a permit parking zone on streets around the adidas campus at this week’s OKNA general meeting. After a very productive conversation, we recommended to the city that the zone cover all streets adjacent to the campus (see map), run from 8-5 Monday to Friday, and include one-hour guest parking. Households will each receive up to two permits and a guest permit.
Adidas has generously offered to cover the costs of this permit system for up to 14 months, by which time construction of their campus expansion should be complete. A new parking garage is part of that expansion, so the hope is employees will park in the garage rather than on neighborhood streets.
OKNA will monitor the effectiveness of the parking permits after the system launches. We’ve shared the requests with the city and will let neighbors know implementation details as we learn them.
In other adidas construction news, the work remains on schedule. The company expects the south crane (closest to the playground) to come down in January and the north cranes to come down by June.
4) Highway ramp closures continue
If you’re heading out early for the Thanksgiving holiday, be aware that some local highway ramps will experience closures while the Oregon Department of Transportation continues repairs, weather permitting.
Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week and all of the subsequent week will see intermittent closures of I-5 south to I-405 south and N Going Street on-ramp to I-5 south from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Also on Monday and Tuesday nights of Thanksgiving week, the I-5 northbound on-ramp from N Alberta Street will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.