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Pier Pool reopens July 14
Pier and Peninsula pools will have extended summer seasons Pier Pool is on track to reopen July 14 after abruptly closing for almost the entire 2024 summer season due to a catastrophic mechanical failure. The main water pipe of the 84-year-old pool broke on June 27, 2024, forcing Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) to close…
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Pier Park Pool will reopen July 14
Pier and Peninsula Pools will have extended summer seasons through September 5 Pier Park Pool is on track to reopen July 14 after abruptly closing for almost the entire 2024 summer season due to a catastrophic mechanical failure. The main water pipe of the 80-year-old pool broke on June 27, 2024, forcing Portland Parks &…
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Mayor Wilson’s budget keeps SJ and Peninsula Community Centers open
Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposed new budget will keep the St. Johns and Peninsula Community Centers open. It will also complete repairs for Pier Park Pool and increase public safety investments. “I am proud to say that every community center, every program and every park is going to remain open,” Wilson told the North Peninsula Review.…
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Parks to demolish Columbia Pool–reopen Pier Pool
Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) will demolish the Columbia Park Pool, which has been closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will simultaneously restore Pier Park Pool to operations next summer, dramatically altering the North Portland Park scene. “Demolition plans for the Columbia Park Pool building are proceeding,” PP&R spokesperson Mark Ross emailed…
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Plans advance for North Portland Aquatic Center
By Mark Kirchmeier | the North Peninsula Review The public involvement phase for the planned two-pool Aquatic Center at Northgate Park will reconvene in early December. The center, scheduled to open in five to six years, will replace Columbia Park pool that Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) closed amid controversy in 2022. The Parks Bureau…
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Opinion: Three pools—two different outcomes
By Mary Ann Aschenbrenner, Friends of Pier Park (Edited for space by Mark Kirchmeier) Portland talks a lot about equity and inclusion, but those values are clearly not extended to poorer communities in North Portland. Just examine what has happened to the Columbia Park, Pier Park and Grant Park swimming pools, representing three different Portland neighborhoods, to see…
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Neighbors confront Parks on Pier Pool
Disbelief. Anger. Indignation. Emotions boiled over as neighbors grilled a Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) manager during a recent meeting over the bureau’s closing of Pier Pool for the 2024 season. “Cut the BS—and do something about park maintenance,” longtime pool advocate Elaine Mildenberger told Parks manager, Nancy Roth, before an audience of 60 people…
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Pier Park Pool closure alarms supporters
The Portland Parks & Recreation Bureau’s (PP&R) sudden closure of Pier Park Pool for repairs has alarmed pool advocates. “We’ve received emails from citizens worried that what happened to Columbia Pool might also happen to Pier Pool,” said Keola Morley of Friends of Pier Park (FPP). The Bureau closed Pier Pool after a water main…
