Cully Park (Portland, Oregon)

 park, interesting place

This 25-acre site was once the Killingsworth Fast Disposal Landfill. Now it is slotted to be converted into a beautiful urban park using a community-driven park development model.

The site is located in NE Portland’s Cully Neighborhood, a neighborhood characterized by concentrated poverty, racial diversity, as well as by lack of access to nature and other environmental benefits.

In response, Verde and partners have organized the Let Us Build Cully Park! coalition, a collaboration of 15 community-based organizations, including the Columbia Slough Watershed Council, the Cully Association of Neighbors, Hacienda CDC, Latino Network, Native American Youth & Family Center, Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, and Verde.

Let Us Build Cully Park! is an opportunity to create access to nature, create healthy recreation opportunities, redress a long-standing absence of a park in Cully, educate youth, create economic opportunity for low-income people to participate in the green economy, and build environmental wealth.

In Fall 2015, Phase 1 of this project will be complete. This includes a dog park, an exciting nature play area, the youth soccer field, the Northen Slope restoration and the first Intertribal Gathering Garden in the City of Portland.
For more information visit: letusbuildcullypark.org