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Portland Blog: This Week in Portland, May 12 to May 19, 2012
Northeast Portland Sunday Parkways May 13, 2012 ~ 11am-4pm 8 miles Celebrate Mom as you walk, bike, run, roll and play around Northeast Portland. Activities, food, vendors, music, and more will be at Woodlawn, Alberta, and Fernhill Parks. Click here for route map. OHS Doggie Dash 2012Today is also Portland's Annual Doggie Dash, a benefit for the Oregon Humane Society.Learn more about the OHS Doggie Dash. Portland Spring and Summer Sports ProgramsBelow from Portland Parks and Recreation Looking for some fun
outdoor actiities? Visit the Portland Parks and Recreation
website and find a sports program at your local neighborhood park.
The Portland Photo of the WeekThe Portland Photo of the Week is by Lindsay. This lovely image of blooming wisteria was taken at Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden in Oldtown / Chinatown.
Featured Portland Photo by Lindsay
Our Portland Photo of the Week winner gets a $20 gift certificate to a local Portland business of our choosing. This week Lindsay scores a gift card to Blitz Ladd. Come and upload your Portland photos to the Photo Gallery for your chance to win each week. Check back to see if your photo is selected for a spotlight in the weekly Portland blog!
Climb Sublime Written by
PortlandNeighborhood Guest
Writer, Rob
Creighton Garrison
Have I told you lately how much I hate running? Oh I do. Muchly. In times past I've sought to convince myself that I like to run, and in every case have ended with trembling legs, sprained lungs (you laugh, but I know what a sprain feels like), my teeth awash with the tart taste of bile and failure. Running sucks. I don't think you suck if you enjoy running, understand, but the act itself sucks the very suckness of suckitude.
One time, awhile back, I even attempted to run the stairs of Mt. Tabor Park. My reasoning, so like many other wannabe fitness warriors, was that if the effort was over-the-top strenuous but performed outdoors in idyllic surroundings, the distraction of Holy Nature together with sheer will would allow me to transcend the brutal punishment of the act. I'd be like Kwai Chang Caine, but sweating and wheezing instead of carrying a cauldron of glowing coals between my wrists.
We're led to believe that Caine doesn't end up weeping in a fetal position, so yeah, didn't work the way I wanted. Anyway, have you visited Mt. Tabor Park? Pretty freakin' nice. It's a dormant volcano, which is fortunate, since active volcanoes make generally poor venues for outdoor recreation. It's one of only three such geologic features in the U. S. to be found within city limits (the others are in Bend, Oregon and Jackson, Mississippi; the whole city of Jackson rests atop an “extinct” volcano, another example of how we humans enjoy playing slap-and-tickle with Fate). Mt. Tabor is part of the Boring Lava Field, which, you know, doesn't anybody ever think twice about how they name stuff?
Never mind that it “used to be” a volcano. Go because the views of Portland and the surrounding neighborhoods and greenery are gorgeous. Go because your dog(s) will love you for it. Go because playing B-ball and tennis outdoors under towering trees beats Hell out of a gym any day. Go because your bike sometimes likes to go UP. Go because picnics in the park with the kids are a great way to get some much-needed family time.
And you don't have to run up the stairs. A brisk walk, on the stairs and throughout the park, is a fine workout, and you can enjoy the scenery so much more when you aren't bleeding from the eyes. Just please don't litter. Or urinate in the reservoir. Thanks!
Editor's Comments: Mt. Tabor Park is truly one of Portland's great parks for a short walk or hike. There are numerous great Portland hikes in and around Portland. Here are some below, from the City of Portland website. Portland Hiking Trails and Walks
George Himes Park Trail System Maricara Natural Area Trail System Powell Butte Alternate Parking & Access Map Woods Memorial
Natural Area Trail System Powell's Bookstore Picks
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love Powells! Featured Portland Events this WeekBelow are featured and member added events on the Portland Events Calendar: "Next to Normal"April 24, 2012 at 7:30pm to June 3, 2012 at 2pm – Artists Repertory Theatre - Morrison Stage "Race"April 24, 2012 at 7:30pm to May 27, 2012 at 7:30pm – Artists Repertory Theatre - Alder Stage The Cutting RoomMay 3, 2012 at 7:30pm to May 19, 2012 at 7:30pm – The BodyVox Dance Center Oedipus El ReyMay 3, 2012 at 7:30pm to May 26, 2012 at 8pm – Miracle Theater Group "inteREor" at SCRAP's Re:Vision GalleryMay 4, 2012 to June 25, 2012 – SCRAP Flavor Street Food Cart TourMay 4, 2012 at 1pm to December 30, 2012 at 3pm – Mark Spencer Hotel Lobby Library APEX: Claudia FitchMay 5, 2012 at 10am to August 12, 2012 at 5pm – The Portland Art Museum PCC Plant SaleMay 11, 2012 at 9am to May 12, 2012 at 4pm – Portland Community College - Rock Creek Campus Second Annual Boise-Eliot Bluegrass Festival Mothers Day WeekendMay 11, 2012 at 7pm to May 12, 2012 at 11pm – Port City Development The Black LizardMay 11, 2012 at 8pm to June 2, 2012 at 9:30pm – Imago Theatre 70 Years, 70 PhotographsMay 12, 2012 at 10am to September 9, 2012 at 5pm – The Portland Art Museum Black Dice at YUMay 12, 2012 from 8pm to 11pm – YU Contemporary Bring Your Mom on a Beer TourMay 13, 2012 from 12pm to 3pm – Portland Enrique Penalosa, Influential Urban Thinker, Speaking May 14thMay 14, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Ellyn Bye Studio-Gerding Theater at the Armory Meet the READY Public Charter School Team!May 16, 2012 from 7pm to 8pm – Mt. Scott Community Center Add your own events to our Portland events calendar! Its totally free. If we like it, we'll include it in this weekly Portland blog. New to the site and want to add your own two cents to the Portland blog? Please do! But please remember to keep it real and community focused. Read our terms of use and don't spam the planet with self promoting material or weird stuff as it will just get deleted and you might get banned. We have a zero spammer policy to keep the site valuable and hassle free for our members. Thanks! May 2012 Portland Real Estate Market ReportBy Ross and Leah Seligman May 2012 Portland Oregon Real Estate Market Report: What's Happening? Here is a chart of all homes for sale, pending for sale, and sold in Portland, Oregon for the last 15 months:
In
April 2012, inventory
has
risen with 1927 homes on the market. In April 2012,
535 homes sold and 732 are pending for sale.
Chart for average price per square footage:
Yearly change from April 11 to April 12: The average price of a home listed has increased 6.5%. The average price of a home sold has increased 5.3%. Months of inventory:
Months
of inventory
gives a
timeline of how long it would take for all of the current listings to
sell. Anything above 4 months is considered a buyers market. In
April 2012, this figure was 3.6 months based on
closed sales. Portland is currently, on average, a balanced market.
This does NOT mean that it will take, on average, 3.6 months for your home to sell. That number was, on average in all price ranges, 61 days. It means that, if not a single listing were to come on the market in Portland from this moment, it would take 3.6 months for all available homes to sell before there would be none left. Yearly change from April 11 to April 12: The months of inventory figure has decreased 35.1%. About
the report:
They
are a comparison of
the
past 15 months (including a percentage change analysis for the last 12
months) for all of Portland and are taken directly from the RMLS. What
follows is my own analysis of these statistics. For our purposes, I
thought it best to analyze Portland as a whole. Each neighborhood,
however, is a little micro-universe and has its own market. Changing
the parameters of the zip codes, price variables, or time periods can
lead to very different results. This analysis is of all homes sold in
all price ranges in Portland, Oregon. If you have any
questions about specific zip codes, or any questions about the market
in general, please reply to this forum with those questions or feel
free to contact me at: http://www.propertiesofportland.com. Best Deals in Portland this WeekEach week Ross and Leah share five great Portland real estate deals. We share two of them here on the blog each week. Here is this week's list. 5240 SW WESTWOOD VW Portland, OR 97239 - Hillsdale - $2,250,000
Click the image to see the full listing 6632 N HAIGHT AVE Portland, OR 97217 - Piedmont - $325,000  Click the image to see the full listing Here is this week's full list of great deals. Did you know there are nearly 100 unique Portland neighborhoods? Read and learn all about these interesting urban communities. Powell's Bookstore Picks
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Happy
Mother's Day Weekend, Portland. There are a ton of fun
(and free) events in and around Portland this weekend if you would like
to take the family out and celebrate Mother's Day. Visit the 
