Kenton – Page 13 – Out & About

City of Roses Motel gets woodier.

Workers have been busy framing up the site.

City of Roses Motel: More framing.

They’ve been making progress. I’m not sure what will happen first. Will it be light in the morning when I walk to the train, or they will finish this building?

City of Roses Motel: wood frames rising.

We have the beginnings of a wall. You can see that the back side of the building wall is mostly framed.

Crazy Basketball Player and Crazy Statement

Ten years from now we will all be amused by this hair, (facial and otherwise).

This is from an article about Green Zebra Grocery Store. It’s a tiny grocery store that has the aesthetic of a natural foods store and the size of a convenience store. The owner is looking to expand to other neighborhoods and is drumming up investors.

Here she says, “The Kenton neighborhood is part of an urban renewal neighborhood, and they didn’t have a grocery store.”

But the paragraph above says, “When the store opened in Kenton, the nearest full-service grocery store was the Interstate Avenue Fred Meyer, about a mile away.”

I live in the Kenton Neighborhood and I think Sedlar doesn’t have a good grip on the Kenton geography. The Interstate Fred Meyer is four blocks away from me. And about six blocks past that is a New Seasons. I feel very well served by grocery stores. Also, even if the Fred Meyer is a mile away from the furthest reaches of the Kenton neighborhood, that’s pretty darn close. Walkable in 20 minutes. I’m thinking of my friend who lives in Cully. Now that’s an undeserved neighborhood for grocery stores.

I’m all for putting fancy convenience stores in food deserts, but I think maybe the neighborhood should be a food desert.

Good job, wind!

Just last week I noticed that the same billboard has been up since at least June 6, when I wrote this blog post. “What we need is a good windstorm to scour that right off the billboard.” I thought to myself.

And the wind did provide.

City of Roses Motel site. Trenches.

We now have trenches dug. I’m pretty sure this means there won’t be any garages to drive down into in whatever they are building here.

City of Roses Motel, six days in.

So far I’ve not been able to use the sidewalk for six days and all they have managed to do is drop a construction trailer and park this moving van. I understand the construction trailer. The moving van I’m less certain of its purpose. It’s an empty lot.

Happenings at the City of Roses Motel Site.

What’s this? A fence directly in my way on my walk to the train?

It seems that I will not be accessing this sidewalk at least through the end of the year.

Some establishing photos:

The sign as it stands now.

I have had mental plans for this lot for years. This area will be the garden, ringed on the outside by orchard trees.

This smaller section will be where the small house I will build will be located.

Opposite view of sign. I wonder if the rose bush will survive whatever is coming.

Stay tuned. Change comes quickly.

Bikes!

Matt and I were going out to dinner, but first we stopped by Kenton Cycle Repair to have them look over his bike before his big ride. Here’s where the Kenton Bike Shop is located.