Affordable Housing Project Planned for Montavilla
By Megan McMorris The corner of NE 74th and Glisan St. has been the talk of the ‘hood – and the subject of bar bets at the watering hole across the st…
By Megan McMorris The corner of NE 74th and Glisan St. has been the talk of the ‘hood – and the subject of bar bets at the watering hole across the st…
By Megan McMorris I first visited Taylor Court Grocery hoping to sweet-talk my way into a job. It didn’t work. Little did I realize, Mel Hafsos an…
By Megan McMorris Walking down lively SE Stark St. these days, it’s hard to imagine that just a season ago, the empty streets looked like the scene ou…
By Megan McMorris It’s a scene out of a nightmare: waking up in the middle of the night to discover a fire coming toward you. A neighbor pounding on t…
By Megan McMorris When Marko Johnson opened MuddWorks coffee roastery on NE 70th and Glisan in November 2019, his plan was to focus on wholesale roast…
By Megan McMorris When I last saw Daniel and Elise Gold in February of this year, we were sitting at Montavilla Brew Works (SE 76th and Stark) as they…
By Megan McMorris When people ask me what I did to celebrate my milestone birthday in May, I answer with one word: nothing. “The only thing on my to-…
By Megan McMorris When I moved to the Montavilla neighborhood in the fall of 2016, I felt like I was stepping into a dream. After nearly 20 years in …
By Megan McMorris The sudden closure of Montavilla’s Country Cat restaurant in August at the corner of SE 80th and Stark St., seemed to set off a ch…
By Megan McMorris As new businesses start to refurbish old auto body shops along Montavilla’s NE Glisan, the neighborhood is entering a tipping poin…