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Slide Show: Up-and-Comers

March 16, 2010

Fewer car lanes and broader streets encourage pedestrians in the Kenton neighborhood.

With the nearby Lents urban renewal area extending all the way down Foster Road to SE 49th Ave, the stalwart blue-collar neighborhood of Foster-Powell is already spiffing up with early adopters like Bar Carlo.

Photography by Daniel Root

Along with a lively mix of storefronts and thriving neighborhood businesses, the Foster-Powell neighborhood is quickly gaining tree plantings and open spaces.

Photography by Daniel Root

Though it may seem like an outpost, in reality Foster is only 10 minutes away from Hawthorne and 20 minutes from downtown.

Photography by Daniel Root

The up-and-coming Boise neighborhood is walkable and full of cute houses.

Photography by Daniel Root

With an influx of cash from the Portland Development Commission, merchants began settling along N Mississippi Avenue during the 1980s.

Photography by Daniel Root

An ever-burgeoning collection of independent businesses is a hallmark of the Boise neighborhood.

Photography by Daniel Root

Kenton Some would say that Kenton isn’t as much of an up-and-comer as it is a neighborhood that’s already arrived. And with the bevy of new businesses that have sprung up along N Denver Avenue—the NoPo hood’s commercial hub—in the past year or so, it’s hard to argue. Posie’s Café, the Black Door Gallery, and Queens Mab clothing boutique—to name just a few—now stand in the shadow of the area’s iconic Paul Bunyan statue alongside culinary anchors like Ke...

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