Neighborhoods

Cully TIF District Exploration Contact: Dana DeKlyen, email Historically, tax increment finance (TIF) districts in Portland have been a vehicle to serve ambitious land use plans and create resources for investment into regional assets like light rail, the Oregon Convention Center, and the East Bank Esplanade. In recent years, Prosper Portland has used [...]

A multi-partner collaboration between Prosper Portland, Portland Housing Bureau, Human Solutions and Gerding Edlen, The Nick Fish is a mixed-use, mixed-income catalytic project in the Gateway Regional Center TIF District, adjacent to Gateway Discovery Park at NE Halsey Street and NE 106th Avenue.

The CLG program prioritizes projects that benefit communities of color or people with low incomes, and that promote widely shared prosperity.

Old Town / Chinatown Development Prosper Portland owns two properties in the heart of Old Town/Chinatown that are key to implementing the vision of the Five-Year Action Plan for the neighborhood: Block 25 and 4th & Burnside. Old Town / Chinatown Five-Year Action Plan Extension Block 25 Contact: Eric [...]

The Williams & Russell project is a collaborative effort between a community-based Williams & Russell Project Working Group (PWG), Prosper Portland, Legacy Health and the City of Portland. The project involves Legacy Health returning to the community a 1.7-acre vacant block at North Russell Street and North Williams Avenue. Historically, the site once was part of a thriving community that housed the majority of African Americans in Portland and Oregon.

Prosper Portland offers the Affordable Commercial Tenanting Program at Alberta Commons, a unique opportunity for small minority-owned businesses to gain a foothold in the retail mix of the area, provide needed goods and services to the neighborhood and create lasting, beneficial relationships with the Northeast Portland community.

Prosper Portland offers the Affordable Commercial Tenanting Program at two sites in the heart of the Lents Town Center.

This program reduces barriers to entry for underrepresented businesses, preserves small business vitality, and advances our goal to build an equitable economy.

The Commercial Property Redevelopment Loan Program provides financial assistance for property development or rehabilitation that furthers economic development in commercial areas or on commercial corridors.

The Inclusive Business Resource Network (IBRN) is a citywide program that brings multiple services for small business into a single network for entrepreneurs.