"That includes shutting down beloved Portland Parks & Recreation programs, community centers, and pools, and reducing park maintenance and trash clean-up to close a $23 million budget hole.
These cuts could be more severe if Portlanders choose not to renew a parks levy expected to go to voters later this year."
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/17/portland-city-budget-shortfall-department-funding/
https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/creston-park-skatepark-project
https://www.portland.gov/parks/construction/berrydale-park-improvement-project
"As WW has previously reported, the owner of the Ross Island Sand & Gravel, Dr. Robert Pamplin, leased the headquarters property, which closed in 2019,
to Portland Parks & Recreation. Parks is using the property as a storage and maintenance facility.Oct 19, 2024"
"Ross Island Sand & Gravel leased the headquarters site to Portland Parks & Recreation beginning last September.
The lease runs for 10 years beginning at $48,000 per month and escalating annually. "
"Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan recently announced that $15 million will be spent to build the Steel Bridge Skatepark. The 35,000-square-foot skate park will be fully funded through fees the city assesses on new development."
In 2008, Weiner worked with Portland Parks and Recreation to create the Skatepark Systems Plan which would become the blueprint for the Steel Bridge Skatepark.
But as city funds dried up Howard Weiner, owner of Cal Skate Skateboards, helped lead those early efforts. He worked with community leaders to get city funds to conduct a feasibility study in 2001.
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