• Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)

    Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)

    The Parks & Recreation Bureau has the distinction of having the biggest maintenance backlog of any City of Portland bureau—$600 million—a figure that exceeds the Gross National Product of eight countries in the United Nations including the Marshall Islands, Tonga and Sao Tome. And closer to home, that figure is twice the $276 million backlog…