Portland's Goose Hollow: Goose Hollow is host to five historic
residential communities. These residential communities consist of
an uptown area of older brick apartment houses and residential hotels,
mixed with commercial and light industrial activities that Portland's
residents call the Lownsdale area; an area called Kings Hill that
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, an outskirt of downtown Portland that
mixed residential, industrial, commercial, and highway commercial
activities in an area that had been family farms and Portland suburbs
before the automobile. Gander Ridge and Vista Ridge are at the foot
of Portland Heights and at the edge of the bowl that makes downtown
Portland and Goose Hollow.
While the Goose Hollow has now less than half the housing stock it
had thirty years ago, it remains one of the most densely populated
parts of the City. Portland's Goose Hollow's attractiveness as a place
to live has much to do with Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood
Association's insistence on maintaining a pedestrian environment and
rebuilding a community focus lost in a period of dislocation and changing
patterns of urbanization accompanying the development of urban freeways.
Recent trends are toward rebuilding the Goose Hollow's housing stock
with new homes exceeding demolitions in the 1990's. Goose Hollow is
considered to be one of Portland's hottest neighborhoods possibly
this is what accounts for average single family detached homes price
of approximately $950,000 and condos sold on average for $270,000
though it is possible to find condos for the low 100s.
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