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June Key Delta Community Center Creates Educational Garden
Source The neighborhood surrounding the Peninsula Park Rose Garden is about to look a lot greener. Neighbors of the June Key Delta Community Center, located on the corner of N Albina and N Ainsworth, have watched the Living Building Challenge remodel of the gas station since last August, but on May 29 neighbors noticed hard hat-clad volunteers [...]
June Key Delta Community Center nears completion in North Portland
Source Sakoya Walker grew up in North Portland. She remembers the days when the Arco gas station at the corner of North Albina Avenue and Ainsworth Street was still open. She would swim at Peninsula Park and stop in at the am/pm for soft-serve ice cream. The gas station closed, and stood shuttered for years [...]
Construction of June Key Delta house moving forward
Source A project to convert a North Portland gas station into one of Portland’s first Living Buildings got a significant boost this morning with a loan and two grants from the Portland Development Commission totaling $434,658. The PDC this morning announced that the June Key Delta House would receive aCommercial Property Redevelopment loan and Storefront Improvement and Community Livability [...]
Portland Deltas turn old gas station into community center
Source The moment things changed forever in the June Key Delta House project didn’t come when the remodeling of an old gas station in North Portland began in mid-January. The moment things changed forever for the small group of African American women in the Delta Sigma Theta sorority came more than two decades ago, when [...]
Deltas Break Ground on ‘Living Building’ Community Center
Source Within a week, Colas Construction will begin work on what promises to be the most sustainable and advanced environmental building in the inner Northeast area. The June Key Delta Community Center at 5940 N. Albina St. promises to be a “living building” – a building made with the lowest environmental impact possible. Members of [...]
