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Goose Hollow real estate
Goose Hollow Neighborhood association
Bordered by downtown, the University
District, Burnside Street and Washington Park, Goose Hollow has seen
unprecedented growth within the last decade with over $50 million spent
in urban renewal, including the Westside rail. Historians claim that it
got its name when women raised geese near a depression in the earth thus
Goose Hollow. Home of former Mayor, Bud Clark, Goose Hollow may be
considered one of Portland's hottest neighborhoods.
Goose Hollow Housing Information (from
the Goose Hollow Neighborhood Association)
- Goose Hollow is host to several
distinct, but related, residential communities. These consist of an
"uptown" area of older brick apartment houses and residential
hotels, mixed with commercial and light industrial activities the we
have called the Lownsdale area; an area called Kings
Hill that once hosted the residences of Portland's turn of the
century wealthier merchants, now partly infilled with higher density
apartments and offices; the "hollow" itself, an outskirt of downtown
that mixed commercial, residential, industrial, and highway
commercial activities in an area that had been family farms and
Portland suburbs before the automobile. Less intimately associated
are Gander Ridge and Vista Ridge, hillside
residential areas bordering the hollow, but strongly related to it
socially and historically. While the neighborhood has now less than
half the housing stock it had thirty years ago, it remains one of
the most densely populated parts of the City. Its attractiveness as
a place to live has much to do with this association's insistence on
maintaining a pedestrian environment and rebuilding a community
focus lost in a period of dislocation and changing patterns of
urbanization accompanying the development of urban freeways. Recent
trends are toward rebuilding the neighborhood's housing stock with
new units exceeding demolitions in the 1990's.
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College Housing
Northwest is a private non-profit organization that provides
housing for students of nearby Portland State University,
Portland Community College, and their families. Because of it's
proximity to the University and to downtown Portland, Goose
Hollow has long been a favored location for student living.
- The Inner Westside Community
Development Corporation is another non-profit housing provider
with an interest in rebuilding and maintaining the stock of
affordable housing in Goose Hollow. Contact the Goose Hollow
Planning Committee for further information.
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The Housing
Authority of Portland administers a number of rent assisted
housing units available to individuals and families meeting
income guidelines in Goose Hollow.
Neighborhood History and Landmarks
Of the five historic neighborhoods in the
area now comprising the Goose Hollow Foothills League, one of them,
Kings Hill has been designated a Historic District. Kings
Hill is the site of a fine collection of turn of the century Portland
residential architecture.
Goose Hollow itself is the site of a pond, long since
drained, that was the primary residence for a substantial goose
population in the late nineteenth century.
Gander Ridge and
Vista Ridge were (and are) at the foot of Portland Heights
and at the edge of the bowl that makes downtown Portland and Goose
Hollow. The "uptown" part of the neighborhood, east of Civic Stadium and
north of Lincoln High School was once called, at least in part, the
Lownsdale district, and was heavily residential in
character. Like Goose Hollow, it was becoming a warehouse and light
manufacturing area, but is now undergoing redevelopment toward mixed
residential/commercial activities.
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