Month: December 1987

History of the end of the Athens Hotel

December 4, 1987
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Eds. Note – The series of articles below list the steps the City of Portland made to secure the Athens Hotel from slumlords. They eventually turned it over to Central City Concern which remodeled it, renamed it “The Sally McCracken” and designated it the nation’s first intentional alcohol and drug free community. CITY LEASES ATHENS […]

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City leases Athens Hotel to house the homeless

December 4, 1987
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From the Oregonian, December 4, 1987 The city will spend $168,000 over the next six months to house homeless people in the Athens Hotel for the winter, the board of the Portland Development Commission decided Thursday. The five commissioners voted unanimously to lease the vacant, 100-room residential hotel as a way to open up space […]

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