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:

• New Goose Hollow 'Main Street Committee' met Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 at Artist Repertory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison to consider the potential for utilizing the PDC's Main Street Program to create a central commercial district for our neighborhood.

• Special Board Meeting held Feb. 4 and passed proposed modifications to Goose Hollow's existing Good Neighbor Agreement with PGE Park (hearing at City Hall set for Feb. 10 at 9:30am).

• Goose Hollow Urban Renewal Area (URA) Open House held on Feb. 11, 7:00 pm at the Multnomah Athletic Club.  Feb. 17, 2010 PDC video here.  More URA links in our future section.

• Most recent PGE Park remodel information here and here, including the recently-completed comprehensive transportation management plan.  Design Commission (non)recommendation here.

• 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.