Extra Medium Sketch Comedy have started work on our final show at the Jasmine Tree after more than three years of monthly comedy showcases. We hope to be reborn someplace great and have narrowed our search to a couple of venues, but would really like, for the time being, to spread awareness of Jasmine Tree's charms and plight and give an incredible send-off.
PDC development manager Kathryn Krygier said "[the area] has a lot of opportunity" and that the space that the Jasmine Tree currently occupies will be removed to make room for the development of a light-rail line that will run on Fifth and Sixth avenues beginning in 2007. Krygier said the PDC is trying to create a 24-hour neighborhood with this project, meaning that it would include housing as well as commercial property. She added that they are hoping to increase homeownership in the area with condos that would cost around $240 per square foot, compared to a Pearl District condo costing around $400 per square foot. Krygier said the purpose behind this style of housing is not for students, but more for people who work within the university.
The "plan" to make faculty and teacher housing on the site will likely NEVER be realized in light of similar endeavors like the Hilton purchase two years ago. Is it student housing now? The unrealized promises are compounded by the notion that businesses offering low-wage jobs inaccessible to most students will occupy the bottom floor as they do the new student housing on Broadway.
City Planning's destructive sweep will also demolish an historic site, one of the country's last tiki rooms. Look it up. It's one of four left in Oregon and of several hundred in the US. There are abandoned houses and buildings
on campus which await restoration or demolition. Why is the Portland Development Commission in such a rush to crush this already "exciting" and "potential" space?
Ok, so it's a bar. No big loss, right?
Actually, it's also a venue. One that's been home to musicians and performers otherwise overlooked by bookers. It's been a great environment for For the last three years Extra Medium Sketch Comedy have called Jasmine Tree's tiki bar stage home for its monthly showcase. We've sold out shows, given hundreds of hours of live, video and stand-up performance and developed a meaningful niche for the artform. So I shudder to think how individuals who've spent years working there 5 days a week feel when they hear what a lucrative piece of real estate it is.
Last Jasmine Tree show at 401 SW Harrison is April 4th, 2006 seating at 8:30 PM show starts at 9 PM, approx. 90 minutes, 21 & over, $5 cover
PDC development manager Kathryn Krygier said "[the area] has a lot of opportunity" and that the space that the Jasmine Tree currently occupies will be removed to make room for the development of a light-rail line that will run on Fifth and Sixth avenues beginning in 2007. Krygier said the PDC is trying to create a 24-hour neighborhood with this project, meaning that it would include housing as well as commercial property. She added that they are hoping to increase homeownership in the area with condos that would cost around $240 per square foot, compared to a Pearl District condo costing around $400 per square foot. Krygier said the purpose behind this style of housing is not for students, but more for people who work within the university.
The "plan" to make faculty and teacher housing on the site will likely NEVER be realized in light of similar endeavors like the Hilton purchase two years ago. Is it student housing now? The unrealized promises are compounded by the notion that businesses offering low-wage jobs inaccessible to most students will occupy the bottom floor as they do the new student housing on Broadway.
City Planning's destructive sweep will also demolish an historic site, one of the country's last tiki rooms. Look it up. It's one of four left in Oregon and of several hundred in the US. There are abandoned houses and buildings
on campus which await restoration or demolition. Why is the Portland Development Commission in such a rush to crush this already "exciting" and "potential" space?
Ok, so it's a bar. No big loss, right?
Actually, it's also a venue. One that's been home to musicians and performers otherwise overlooked by bookers. It's been a great environment for For the last three years Extra Medium Sketch Comedy have called Jasmine Tree's tiki bar stage home for its monthly showcase. We've sold out shows, given hundreds of hours of live, video and stand-up performance and developed a meaningful niche for the artform. So I shudder to think how individuals who've spent years working there 5 days a week feel when they hear what a lucrative piece of real estate it is.
Last Jasmine Tree show at 401 SW Harrison is April 4th, 2006 seating at 8:30 PM show starts at 9 PM, approx. 90 minutes, 21 & over, $5 cover
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