GreenWorks Employee gets Published

As a member of a group called Community of Practice, Jill Roszel published an article in the Oregon Planners’ Journal, a publication of the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association entitled, “Learning from Our Past: Stabilization Strategies to Offset Public-Investment Induced Gentrification Caused Displacement." Community of Practice was comprised of a group of concerned students and professionals that met in 2015-2016 to consider how planners in Oregon can help advance the practice of not causing gentrification-caused displacement, particularly associated with public transportation investments.

http://www.oregonapa.org/learning-past-stabilization-strategies-offset-public-investment-induced-gentrification-caused-displacement/

Collaboration with Public Artists

At GreenWorks, we craft designs that capture and share the story of a place. For this reason, we frequently collaborate with artists on projects across market sectors, including parks, habitat, urban design, and transportation. Recent projects that have involved public artists include Denver Avenue Streetscape Project, Westmoreland Park Nature Based Play Area, and Clay Street Green Street.

The Westmoreland Park Nature-Based Play Area design team included environmental artist, Adam Kuby. Adam collaborated with the design team on the overall conceptual design of the playground theme and layout that represents the restoration of the adjacent Crystal Springs. Not only did he help envision these artistic elements as play features within the design, Adam was also contracted to install the log and boulder climbers to ensure the execution met the design intent.

For Metro’s Canemah Bluff Overlook, we were asked to incorporate art subtly into the design that reflected the site’s natural history. Artist and landscape architect, Caitilin Pope-Daum prepared realistic ink sketches of local flora and fauna unique to the oak savannah including the Nuthatch bird, Camas wildflower, and Oregon White Oak leaf. Mauricio Saldana was the stone carver.

The Khunamokwst Park project benefited from its multi-disciplinary team that included artist Valerie Otani. Public engagement was extensive and included diverse stakeholder groups and community-based organizations. In a series of after-school activities, GreenWorks and Valerie worked with students from the Cully neighborhood to engage them in the process and teach them about park design. The design included a large stone carving of a Douglas fir cone which Mauricio Saldana carved and was incorporated into the playground as a climbing feature.

Art was incorporated as a measure to improve the pedestrian experience in Clay Street Green Street. The “Log Dog” art, by Linda M. Wysong, celebrate the district’s industrial history. Much smaller versions of the Log Dog were once used to grapple and float logs down the river to mills.

Thank you to all the amazing artists we work with!

Westmoreland Park Adam Kuby

Khunamokwst Park Mauricio Saldana Valerie Otani

Canemah Bluff Mauricio Saldana Caitilin Pope-Daum

Denver Ave Mauricio Saldana Valerie Otani

RiverEast Center Linda Wysong

Clay Street Green Street Linda Wysong

Windscape Pete Beeman

GreenWorks Recognizes Employees Active in the Milwaukie Community

Ben Johnson and Michael Corrente, residents of the Milwaukie area, are both active members of their civic community. Michael Corrente has just been appointed to the Design and Landmarks Committee of the City of Milwaukie. His appointment will be made official at the February 7^th City Council meeting. The Design and Landmarks Committee (DLC) is a 5-member group established to advise the Planning Commission on urban design, architectural, and historic preservation activities including but not limited to design review of development proposals in downtown, education and outreach, designation of historic districts and landmarks, and historic and cultural resources inventories.

Ben Johnson has served as a board member on the City of Milwaukee's Parks Advisory Review Board since 2015. As a member, Ben and his fellow board members coordinate with the City and Parks District to provide for the community’s parks and recreation needs.

Thank you Mike and Ben! GreenWorks is very proud of our civic-minded team.

Happy Holidays!

Wishing all of our clients, partners, and friends a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year!

Canemah Bluff named “Trail of the Month”

Portland Monthly is featuring Canemah Bluff Nature Park as its Trail of the Month in the December issue:

http://www.pdxmonthly.com/articles/2016/11/14/trail-of-the-month-high-and-dry-winter-walks-at-canemah-bluff

Canemah Bluff is a 300-acre natural area owned and maintained by Metro within Oregon City. GreenWorks worked with Metro to develop public access to the sensitive oak savannah and woodland and which includes, improving hiking & walking trails, a new boardwalk and a foot-bridge, and scenic overlook. Many thanks to our friends at Metro, Rodney Wojtanik and Alex Perove, for including us in their wonderful project.

Tanner Springs Park continues to get international and national interest

On October 27, 2016 GreenWorks led a tour for the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of Beijing University and staff of Landscape Architecture Frontiers publication. This tour group was particularly interested in technical issues related to: soil/vegetation approaches for water quality treatment; the ultra- violet finishing treatment that allows for human contact with the treated water; and soil capping issues for a former brownfield site. GreenWorks typically leads 4-6 tours per year since Tanner Springs Park opened in 2005. Tour groups have included national and international professional and environmental organizations and academic institutions. Visitors are interested in a variety of issues, including design inspiration, public involvement and outreach, and technical challenges.

Tanner Springs Design Team: Artist: Herbert Dreiseitl, Ueberlingen, Germany Landscape Architect: Dreiseitl/Waterscapes Inc. Ueberlingen, Germany Local Landscape Architect: GreenWorks PC, Portland Civil Engineers: KPFF Consulting Engineers, Portland Mechanical/Electrical Engineering: R&W Engineering Inc., Beaverton Fountain Engineering: CMS Collaborative, Santa Cruz Botany and Wetland Plants: Cooke Scientific Services, Inc., Seattle Construction: Slayden Construction, Slayton Client: City of Portland Parks and Recreation

River Island

Mike Faha recently toured our project at River Island. Situated along the Clackamas River near Barton County Park, River Island is 240 acres of natural area that provides habitat for native species including endangered salmon and steelhead, native turtles and migratory birds. The main portion of the site in the middle of the river was a gravel mining operation until the 1996 flood, which greatly altered the natural area's landscape by breaching man-made levees and shortened the main channel of the Clackamas River. GreenWorks and Inter-Fluve have been working with Metro to help create a vision and concepts for restoring natural channel processes and supporting multiple values including fish and wildlife habitat, riparian and upland forests, water quality and recreation. GreenWorks assisted with public outreach and prepared presentation materials to easily convey complex engineering concepts into understandable, photo realistic graphics that help the public and stakeholders understand the opportunities and what the site could look like once it is restored. Conceptual design alternatives were created for restoration of riparian-forested wetlands at the gravel mine site as well as design and restoration of Goose Creek, reconnecting it to the Clackamas River mainstem for cool water rearing habitat for juvenile salmonids. Inter-Fluve developed a site conservation plan and permit-level designs. This project is one of the biggest restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest.

GreenWorks would like to acknowledge Metro Project Manager Brian Vaughn as well as project lead Inter-Fluve, and members of their team: Emily Alcott, Lon Mikkelsen, Mike McAllister, Mike Brunfelt, Caitlin Alcott, Matt Cox, Colin MacLaren, Rich Phaneuf, and Mackenzie Baxter.

GreenWorks Receives Green Award

GreenWorks received a Green Award from the West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District (WMSWCD) on October 29, 2016 for the Meadowscaping Handbook. GreenWorks was one of three groups recognized at the Conservation Districts Annual Meeting. The Conservation District was very pleased with the design and layout of the publication especially the illustrative plant list and 3-D planting templates. Upon receiving the award, Mary Logalbo said “Greenworks went above and beyond their original commitment to complete the project.” GreenWorks was honored to collaborate with WMSWCD on The Meadowscaping Handbook. The Conservation District’s knowledge and ecological awareness was a pleasure to work with and aligns with our mission, “Integrating people and nature through creative and sustainable design.” A copy of the handbook can be downloaded from WMSWCD’s website.

GreenWorks Honors Vets on Veteran’s Day

GreenWorks would like to acknowledge and thank all of our nation’s veterans. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.

GreenWorks Play Date

The GreenWorks team took a little timeoff lunch last week to visit the Playscapes exhibit at PNCA. Thank you to Stephanie of Design Museum Portland for giving us a private tour of the exhibition, which runs through December 17^th. Two GreenWorks projects are included in the exhibit: Westmoreland Nature-Based Play Area and Khunamokwst Park. Our team got to try out Playworld’s new saucer, which is on display, and had fun playing on PlayForm 7 outside of PNCE in the North Park Blocks. This Sunday, PNCA will host a kids workshop at 1pm (511 NW Broadway). Learn more at www.designmuseumportland.org