Hello,

This is to announce the next HAND board meeting, Tues September 9, 2025 @ 7PM @ St Philip Neri @ 17th & Division.  We meet in the administrative building on the NW corner of the parking lot.  The room occasionally changes, but if you turn right after entering, you’ll find us.

The big thing happening in the neighborhood right now is that The People’s Depot, an “alternative BottleDrop”, currently located under the Morrison Bridge, is moving to HAND, just off Powell on 11th (1041-1109 SE Brooklyn St), and expanding its hours of operation.  The politics behind this move are complicated (even the governor has weighed in), but these alternative BottleDrop sites have caused some significant problems in other neighborhoods, and we need to figure out how to be prepared to minimize any issues that arise here, including the potential impacts on the Bob Stacey Bridge and the Powell underpass, two of our important pedestrian/bike connections when the trains are there.  (And yes, the elevators are broken… again.)

Hank from Portland Solutions (a city office) will join us to explain the situation and answer questions.  He has been a great partner in the GNA committee related to the Clinton Triangle TASS, and I expect he will be helpful here as well.  We’ll also be discussing the TASS, which is completing its second year of operation, to get a sense of where things are headed from the city’s perspective.

I hope you’ll join us!

Chris Eykamp
HAND Chair

HAND Agenda 2025-09