This is the perfect venue for hosting a small party. The room is tastefully decorated. We hosted…read moreour daughter's baby shower there and loved it. Everyone I dealt with answered my questions and promptly communicated with me throughout the process. We were able to visit the venue twice to determine what we needed. They are flexible as far as who we hired to do the catering and bar service. They have a freight elevator and a wagon to help transport items. I appreciated having the option of clean up services for an additional fee. I also used their dishes and they are beautiful. The cost for this venue is extremely affordable for such a classy place. My daughter walked in and said it felt like she was in a dream! Thank you again for providing such a beautiful venue.

We have used this venue twice now for our family Christmas, once for a baby shower, and we already…read morehave it scheduled for a bridal shower in a few months. Tendue is a great space for gatherings, spacious, decorated very cute, great lighting from the windows and the staff is very accommodating, We are already planning our next Christmas gathering for 2024 to be at Tendue.

Wow! Love this place! Took a ten week class with Lela and loved it. As an artist who has done…read morepottery on and off for over thirty years it was great to come back to it here with great instructors who taught me some different techniques for wedging clay and throwing than I've learned in the past. Definitely coming back for a membership!

I love this creative space. Everyone is made to feel welcomed. They have the most amazing…read morehandmade items for sale, offer classes that don't make you feel intimidated to not know what you are doing and the owner is a great human! They believe in community and offer options to buy scholarships to support students who might not be able to pay for classes. It's just a great all around place!

I was a guest at a wedding reception here. I had a an absolute blast with my friends. This function…read morehalls is inviting from the moment you walk in the door with modern design and a friendly/ accommodating and helpful staff. Spacious dancefloor. Comfortable amount of space for 80-100 guests. Definitely give this place a shot.

Went to another amazing art show at Blanc. Seriously this venue is what it is about in Portland…read more Exquisite, Artistic, Loving and filled with warm welcomes and wonderful interactions of Portland's who's who. Love this place and everything it stands for with our community.

A real estate investor moved into North Portland at exactly the right time. In one of their…read morebuildings, they curate the entire basement of a more than quarter block building as artist studios, to give back. Once a year they have an open house to wander the studios and meet the artists. So it is not the Yelp conventional business: they are open to the public once a year for a few hours. But if you have an interest in buying work from an artist, contact them for access. The most unusual concentration of art styles here are large scale oil paint portraits and landscapes. But there are music studios, theatrical studios, sculptors and the studios of XRay.fm. Many of the apartments above and in their Mississippi properties happen to be occupied by artists too. And the landlord, in their commercial buildings, hosted art school studios. Modern Medicis, yes. For you, an opportunity to see artists at work, once a year. Curious? Check their website.

This is an amazing place to visit, hang out & enjoy a concert or just to hang out!…read more Highly recommended!!!

Green Anchors Studios is a small business incubator built on a brownfield down by the river in…read moreshipping containers. Colonies like this are found in Oakland and in the first cyberpunk novel written in 1984, Neuromancer. In that story, the protagonist, a brilliant hacker, lives in a shipping container with electricity and an Internet connection, not much else. This is that. With the US-China trade imbalance, shipping containers are accumulating in West Coast ports, like Portland. It is not economic to ship them back empty. So shipping containers are being used to house almost a dozen small businesses at Green Anchors Studios. The Willamette River, in its depths and shores, is home to many polluted soils and sediments. In the way back, the solution to pollution was dilution, and the rivers and seemingly infinite oceans and their shores became home to toxic materials. A brownfield is a nice name for a polluted piece of land that costs more to clean up than its value. So it sits. Green Anchors firmly occupies a brownfield they make good. Or at least gooder. Portland is home to many small and startup businesses. Green Anchors includes a solar company, an indoor grower of salad greens, a group of tiny home builders, firewood cutters, several metal fabricators, a grower of mushrooms for restaurants, a vintage boat rebuilder, a sculptor and a docked steamboat with a radio station. Very Portland. Very sustainable. The land is spacious, some of the businesses are close to one another and others scattered. There is room for more. The land is not paved, it's covered with wood chips, it will likely be a bit muddy in rainy season. They have a City water supply. Some businesses have built canopies spanning the space between containers to make their own Drop City studios. It's perfect for noisy and messy small businesses. It is zoned heavy industry. There is no living at the site. The businesses are friends and friends with the DIY community in St Johns. They sometimes have open houses. Green Anchors Studios is a hive of small businesses under the St Johns bridge doing something productive with a piece of land that we forgot to take care of. If you have a business that can fit in a shipping container or a few, talk to them!

The Iron Fireman Collective is a 144,000 square foot pair of buildings with parking across the…read morestreet from the MAX Orange Line Holgate Station in industrial Portland It is raw now, with leasing possibilities from 800 to 35,000 square feet at about $1.40-$2.00 per square foot per month. There are two interconnected buildings, one built in 1920 and the other in 1972. Office space and light manufacturing are potential uses. ADX and Portland Made Collective partnered in their opening party, which featured local artisan food and drink. There was an acoustic band including an upright piano with a built in video screen controlled by the keyboard designed by deaf artists to bring a visual experience of music to deaf people http://www.cymaspace.org/technology/. With manufacturing being displaced from the Central East Side, this is a welcome addition. And if your maker business scales up, this is a place to consider. It is part of the Portland Made http://www.portlandmade.com/the-industrial-grange/ Industrial Grange program. As Sun Ra says, "space is the place." The Iron Fireman Collective is a new raw flex office and manufacturing space.

My brother, myself, and our cousin in Wyoming keep track of places here in Portland where my…read moremother's family lived after moving here from Mammoth, Utah in 1940. Utah had absolutely no work available at the time and was still deep in the Depression. They followed my grandmother's two younger brothers to work in the Kaiser Shipyards (the prepping for WWII was going on even though war had not been declared) and it saved them. They picked fruit for ten cents a basket as they drove to Portland. Talk about modern-day pioneers! Grandpa, grandma, my ten-year-old mother, and, her four-year-old brother coming across country based on faith that good things would happen. It is here at the now renovated Iron Fireman CollectIvee that my Grandpa got a badly-needed job as a machinist. For some reason, I can't save this as a draft. Ron and I plan to visit soon to get a look at the building, take pictures, and finish the review.

Look out for hidden undisclosed charges and a labyrinth of no one to speak to over billing errors…read more I want to like them, but their business practices are so so sketchy I just can't. By the way, If you happen to sign a 6 month contract you may think that is the length of your contract, right? Nope. If you don't formally cancel a full three months in advance your contract auto renews with fees... and you are on the hook to pay that. If they make a mistake with billing you are on the hook to pay it because there is no way to appeal anything --it seems to all be automated from some centralized office and all they give you is a phone number to call and you will be on hold for hours and hours and hours. Never getting to talk woth a human being. By the way, that really nice friendly personable sales person who showed you the office when you signed up? Yeah, you'll never speak to them again --they don't take your calls after that. There seems to be no one person who has any authority to make any changes to errors that they make, misinformation and tricky hidden fees are the norm. It is so frustrating and maddening. I never write bad reviews, but I just hope that someone reading this can avoid all that trouble. When I started running into this terrible service at Spaces I started reading reviews and I saw that this had happened over and over and over to other people. I just wish I had read those reviews in advance.

Love SPACES in many cities and their location in Slabtown is fantastic and highly recommended…read morewhether popping in for a few days or a long term lease. I typically use open areas or grab dedicated desks. There are lots of sitting areas, booths, various rooms more open or quiet, a library area, phone booths and more. Staff is super friendly. Great location with even with outdoor seating, a block or two from groceries, food, coffee and cafes. 21st and 23rd streets are right there as well with tons of shops and food options. Only thing I wish was for a couple drink options on tap or in the fridges complimentary. There is a coffee / cappuccino machine that's paid though I don't personally drink that. Though if you do the prices are very low and reasonable. Overall love the place and it's a regular spot when in town.

The fire throwing was incredible to watch. So glad I happened upon this. Very talented artists and…read moregreat music.

I am so happy I found JaJa Circus! It is my ideal aerial gym: lots of space, height, big windows…read morewith lots of light, and tons of apparatuses! They have plenty of room for acrobatics, handstands, floor work, etc. The ceiling height is wonderful: 26' ceilings. They have lots of aerial classes and private lesson availability: silks, trapeze, corde lisse, straps, sling, lyra, and some custom apparatuses as well. The founders are veteran circus performers with decades of experience in Cirque du Soleil and Le Rêve, among others. I trust their industry expertise, knowledge, and connections. So happy to be training here!