Community organizer Jessie Burke in front of The Society Hotel, which she co-owns, in Old Town Chinatown. She says the fentanyl crisis has “crushed” business in recent years.

Portland is at the forefront of bringing manufacturing of footwear and apparel back to the United States, specifically Old Town, the city's oldest neighborhood.

O ld Town’s story begins when Portland does, just a few streets south of where the neighborhood stands today. In 1851, the year Portland incorporated, the first Chinatown—Old Chinatown—germinated on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Businesses and residents in Old Town are growing frustrated with a local outreach group, claiming they block roadways and take over parking lots without permits ...

Portland’s Old Town Neighborhood is undergoing a resurgence. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:49:23 GMT (1750700963503) Story Infinite Scroll - News3 v1.0.0 (common) ...

A future for local manufacturing. The Made in Old Town project is a “vision for the future of Portland’s Old Town neighborhood—to spark the future of clean, and environmentally sustainable footwear ...

Janey Wong is a former Eater Portland reporter. Tokyo-based ramen chain Afuri opened its first U.S. location of Kara Kurenai in Old Town-Chinatown. The restaurant’s spicy, yakuzen-style ramen is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A section of Old Town is now aglow with Chinese and Japanese lanterns. On Friday night, the Portland Chinatown Museum unveiled the Old Town Lanterns Project.

A $15 million skate park is coming to Old Town, with the hopes to play a role in transforming the area. We'll hear from two community leaders on what they think this will mean for the future of ...

The redevelopment of the 10 city blocks that made up the national register New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District in Portland was so carefully orchestrated that, besides the trees, there were to be ...

Chinatown in Portland is unfortunately the least cohesive of the three and the only one between the downtown and the city’s waterway, sandwiched north of downtown and east of the Pearl District ...