The Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood Association is host to five historic residential communities. (map)  These consist of an uptown area of older brick apartment houses and residential hotels, mixed with commercial and light industrial activities that we have called the Lownsdale area.  Another area called Kings Hill once hosted the residences of Portland's turn of the century wealthier merchants, now partly infilled with higher density apartments and offices.

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.  It is 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.

Come explore our history and our future.  Find out what's here, and why.  Contact us and become a member.

New Matters:

• Please join us at PGE Park for the Annual Goose Hollow Neighborhood Picnic on August 18, 2010.  RSVP to angela@nwnw.org and look for the Goose Hollow table in the plaza for your free tickets.  The Portland Beavers game starts at 7:05pm (picnic starts at 5:30), and food and drinks will be provided.

• Historian Chet Orloff gave a presentation on the history of the Goose Hollow neighborhood during a recent Urban Renewal Area (URA) meeting.  Feb. 17, 2010 PDC video here.  More URA links in our future section.

• Portland Main Street Program -- Latest meeting held Monday, April 5 to consider the potential for utilizing the PDC's Main Street Program to create a central commercial district for our neighborhood.  Four communities across Portland will be selected to receive up to $73,000 in matching funds.  Applications are due May 7, 2010.

• Special Board Meeting held Feb. 4 and passed proposed modifications to Goose Hollow's existing Good Neighbor Agreement with PGE Park.

• Funding to remodel PGE Park has been approved.  Status of renovation plans can be found here, including the recently-completed comprehensive transportation management plan.  Latest public hearing scheduled for April 15.

• Check out the recent Neighborhood Notes article on the Goose Hollow neighborhood.

• Information on preserving David Campbell Firefighters Memorial at W. Burnside and 18th Ave. can be found in this Feb. 10, 2010 Neighborhood Notes article and 1939 video.