Green Loop
{{Short description|Proposed urban design concept}}
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The Green Loop is a proposed urban design concept for a 6-mile-long linear park in Portland, Oregon, United States.{{cite web |title=Portland's Proposed Green Loop Could 'Reinvent Outdoor Urban Life' |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2016/2/1/portland-s-proposed-green-loop-could-reinvent-outdoor-urban-life |access-date=31 August 2017 |website=Portland Monthly}}{{cite web |title=Could Portland's Proposed Green Loop Reshape the City? |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2017/3/20/could-portland-s-proposed-green-loop-reshape-the-city |access-date=31 August 2017 |website=Portland Monthly}}{{cite web |title=The Many Ways the Green Loop Could Change Portland, Explained Live |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2017/4/14/all-the-ways-the-green-loop-could-change-portland-explained-live |access-date=31 August 2017 |website=Portland Monthly}}{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/65670 |title=The Green Loop |website=Portlandoregon.gov |access-date=31 August 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/634987 |title=Bureau of Planning and Sustainability's Green Loop is star attraction at Design Week Portland - News and Updates - The City of Portland, Oregon |website=Portlandoregon.gov |access-date=31 August 2017}} First put forward in 2012,{{cite news |last=Sparling |first=Zane |date=July 22, 2018 |title=Green Loop gets city moving for Sunday Parkways |url=https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/green-loop-gets-city-moving-for-sunday-parkways/article_2b053360-0bdd-5dfe-97c2-f832b07733c8.html |work=Portland Tribune |location=Portland, OR |publisher=Pamplin Media Group |access-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219215259/https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/green-loop-gets-city-moving-for-sunday-parkways/article_2b053360-0bdd-5dfe-97c2-f832b07733c8.html |url-status=dead}} The Green Loop is part of the Portland Central City 2035 plan.{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/bps/planning/central-city/adopted-central-city-2035-plan-documents |title=Adopted Central City 2035 Plan documents |website=Portland.gov |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219214137/https://www.portland.gov/bps/planning/central-city/adopted-central-city-2035-plan-documents |url-status=live}} Rather than have a single consistent designer, the park will be made of multiple connecting projects led by neighborhood partners.{{cite web |url=https://www.pdxgreenloop.org/history-of-the-green-loop/ |title=History of the Green Loop |website=Pdxgreenloop.org |date=18 November 2020 |access-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220004004/https://www.pdxgreenloop.org/history-of-the-green-loop/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pdxgreenloop.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gl_Boards170413_FinalProof.pdf |title=The Portland Green Loop |website=Pdxgreenloop.org |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220004224/https://www.pdxgreenloop.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Gl_Boards170413_FinalProof.pdf |url-status=live}}
Route projects
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- Opened in 2022, The Blumenauer Bridge is the first finished portion the Green Loop,{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/construction/congressman-earl-blumenauer-bicycle-and-pedestrian-bridge |title=Congressman Earl Blumenauer Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge |website=Portland.gov |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219221208/https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/construction/congressman-earl-blumenauer-bicycle-and-pedestrian-bridge |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2022/8/12/blumenauer-bridge-open-public |title=The Blumenauer Bridge is open to the public |website=Portland.gov |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219221414/https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2022/8/12/blumenauer-bridge-open-public |url-status=live}} linking the Lloyd District with Kerns, Portland, Oregon for pedestrians and bikers.{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandmaps.com/bps/greenloop/#map |title=The Green Loop |website=Portlandmaps.com |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250219224147/https://www.portlandmaps.com/bps/greenloop/#map |url-status=live}}
- Construction on the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project{{cite web |url=https://www.i5rosequarter.org/pdfs/project_documents/RQ_FAQs_2022May11_finalv1.pdf |title=Project FAQs |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219230118/https://www.i5rosequarter.org/pdfs/project_documents/RQ_FAQs_2022May11_finalv1.pdf |url-status=live}} is set to begin in the summer of 2025{{cite web |url=https://www.i5rosequarter.org/news/construction-begins-this-summer-on-i-5-rose-quarter-improvement-project/ |title=CONSTRUCTION BEGINS THIS SUMMER ON I-5 ROSE QUARTER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT |website=i5rosequarter.org |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219230447/https://www.i5rosequarter.org/news/construction-begins-this-summer-on-i-5-rose-quarter-improvement-project/ |url-status=live}} creating a pedestrian pathway between the Rose Quarter and the Lloyd District.
- The Broadway Corridor Project will continue the Green Loop through the addition of two new North Park Blocks.{{cite web |url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/49ugz8c4pidfhff/USPS%20Master%20Plan.pdf?dl=0 |title=USPS Master Plan |website=www.broadwaycorridorpdx.com |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219232014/https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7zew30djqhg7t9103hwuy/USPS-Master-Plan.pdf?rlkey=oipvqqsu0md0vv602fm29nhdj&e=2&dl=0 |url-status=live}} Construction began in 2024 and is estimated to take 15-20 years.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadwaycorridorpdx.com/faq#300 |title=USPS SITE FAQ |website=www.broadwaycorridorpdx.com |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250219232928/https://www.broadwaycorridorpdx.com/faq%23300 |url-status=live}}
- Block 216 continues the Green Loop path for a single block through downtown.{{cite web |url=https://www.nextportland.com/2019/01/15/block-216/ |title=DESIGN COMMISSION APPROVES BLOCK 216 TOWER (IMAGES) |website=www.nextportland.com |date=16 January 2019 |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220000024/https://www.nextportland.com/2019/01/15/block-216/ |url-status=live}}
- Central City in Motion includes multiple city updates related to the Green Loop on the east side of the Willamette River from Tilikum Crossing to Sullivan's Gulch, Portland, Oregon.{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/ccim/documents/ccim-central-eastside-green-loop-alignment-memo/download |title=Central City in Motion - Green Loop Alignment Study |website=www.portland.gov |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220005313/https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/ccim/documents/ccim-central-eastside-green-loop-alignment-memo/download |url-status=live}}
- The Culinary Corridor has been suggested as a way to add room for food carts along the path of the Green Loop as it moves through the heart of downtown. If the full idea were put in place, a parking lane from NW Burnside Blvd. through Portland State University would put food trucks in, what Randy Gragg (director of the Portland Parks Foundation) calls, “underused right of way."{{cite web |last=Singer |first=Matthew |date=2021-07-22 |title=The Alder Street Food Carts Have Found a New Home |url=https://www.wweek.com/restaurants/2019/07/17/the-alder-street-food-carts-have-found-a-new-home/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Willamette Week}}{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2021/9/7/cart-blocks-comeback |title=The Cart Blocks Comeback |date=2021-07-07 |website=Willamette Week |access-date=2025-02-23}} The Cart Blocks comprise a portion of this vision,{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/alder-street-food-carts-moving-three-blocks-to-ankeny-square/article_5a202135-c44e-5b6a-b417-1fd15989ac62.html |title=Alder Street food carts moving three blocks to Ankeny Square |last=Gallivan |first=Joseph |date=2019-07-17 |website=Portland Tribune |access-date=February 24, 2025 |archive-date=February 24, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250224040606/https://www.portlandtribune.com/news/alder-street-food-carts-moving-three-blocks-to-ankeny-square/article_5a202135-c44e-5b6a-b417-1fd15989ac62.html |url-status=dead }} along with Block 216 and Darcelle XV Plaza.{{cite web |url=https://www.pdxgreenloop.org/the-culinary-corridor/ |title=ABOUT THE CULINARY CORRIDOR |date=2021-07-07 |website=pdxgreenloop.org |access-date=2025-02-23}}
- The South Park Blocks Master Plan would expand the sidewalk along the west side of the south park blocks to create a Green Loop path.{{cite web |url=https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/south-park-blocks-master-plan |title=South Park Blocks Master Plan |website=www.portland.gov |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220010542/https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/south-park-blocks-master-plan |url-status=live}}
- The Southwest Corridor Plan would have added a MAX Light Rail line between Portland State University and Tualatin, Oregon as well as improving biking and pedestrian infrastructure, however the project was paused in 2020 due to lack of funds.{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/swcorridor/ |title=SW Corridor |website=www.trimet.org |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220023044/https://trimet.org/swcorridor/ |url-status=live}}
- The OMSI Masterplan, approved by the City of Portland Design Commission in 2023,{{cite web |url=https://omsi.edu/articles/omsi-district-master-plan-receives-approval-from-the-portland-design-commission/ |website=www.omsi.org |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220030208/https://omsi.edu/articles/omsi-district-master-plan-receives-approval-from-the-portland-design-commission/ |url-status=live |title=OMSI District Master Plan Receives Approval from the Portland Design Commission |date=17 February 2023 }} includes a portion of the Green Loop.{{cite web |url=https://djcoregon.com/news/2022/02/17/the-vision-the-plan-the-cost-omsi-district-masterplan/ |website=www.djcoregon.com |access-date=20 February 2025 |archive-date=February 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250220030641/https://djcoregon.com/news/2022/02/17/the-vision-the-plan-the-cost-omsi-district-masterplan/ |url-status=live |title=The vision, the plan, the cost – OMSI District master plan |date=17 February 2022 }}
See also
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- {{sectionlink|City of Parks|Louisville Loop}}, a proposed ring around Louisville, Kentucky
- Indianapolis Cultural Trail, an 8.1 mile linear park in Indianapolis, Indiana
- High Line, a 1.4 mile linear park in New York City
- Beltline Trail, a 5.6 mile linear park in Toronto
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