Second Blazers game in two weeks, this one a less desirable match up against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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Photos from an August 2001 walk with my sons along the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade to downtown Portland.
Family: All of the photos from our walk can be seen in our family-only Flickr account.
The Eastbank Esplanade (officially Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade) is a pedestrian and bicycle path along the east shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States. Running through the Kerns, Buckman, and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhoods, it was conceived as an urban renewal project to rebuild the Interstate 5 bicycle bypass washed out by the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996. It was renamed for former Portland mayor Vera Katz in November 2004 and features a statue of her near the Hawthorne Bridge.
Description
The project, designed by landscape architects Mayer/Reed, cost $30 million, of which $10 million built a lower deck on the Steel Bridge. The esplanade extends 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Steel Bridge (45.526871°N 122.670403°W) to the Hawthorne Bridge (45.512804°N 122.668059°W). The south end connects to the Springwater Corridor, a rail trail that runs south to Sellwood, then east to Gresham, then south to Boring. The esplanade includes a 1,200-foot (370 m) floating walkway, the longest of its kind in the United States. Connected to this is a 120-foot (37 m) public dock. Thirteen markers along the esplanade correspond to the eastside street grid.
History
Construction began in October 1998, and the walkway was dedicated in May 2001. Ref: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastbank_Esplanade