PORTLAND DRIZZLE

🕯️Monday. Man oh-Monday. Mostly cloudy and mild. High of 73°. Enjoy it — rain's back midweek. Lloyd Center officially has a checkout date. A SE Portland factory had been pumping something nasty into the air for years. Mayor Wilson delivers State of City, and we have a map of all our murals and more

Mayor Keith Wilson took the stage at PSU's Hoffman Hall Friday night and declared Portland in a state of "resurgence and renewal." He pledged to keep every fire station, every police position, and every park open — while not saying whether that means layoffs. The budget he's releasing Monday will address a $169 million shortfall. On homelessness, Wilson cited a 75% drop in downtown tents and 100,000 shelter users. What he didn't mention: Multnomah County says nearly 3,000 more people are living unsheltered than when he took office. The mayor framed the economic outlook as a coming "boom loop," pointing to Big Pink's new owner and Phil Knight's $2 billion OHSU gift. Whether Portland buys it or not gets tested Monday. OPB

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Portland's most beloved half-empty mall finally has an end date. Urban Renaissance Group announced Thursday that Lloyd Center will officially close to the public on August 8, with remaining tenants — minus Jumbo's Pickleball, Trackers Earth, and the Regal Cinema — out by August 31. The property is more than 90% vacant and the owners say it's no longer viable. Plans call for housing, parks, and commercial space across roughly 20 city blocks. Two advocacy groups — Save Lloyd and the Save Lloyd Ice Coalition — have appeals pending before City Council, with a hearing scheduled for June 24. The ice rink's fate remains unresolved. OPB

Electro-Chem Metal Finishing, a company near Portland's Brooklyn neighborhood, has been releasing trichloroethylene — a known carcinogen — into the air every week, the Oregon DEQ announced Friday. Modeling showed the emissions were "many times higher" than state health risk thresholds, with elevated exposure extending up to a half mile from the site. The company agreed to stop immediately when the DEQ called Thursday. The long-term public health risk is described as low, though the greatest concern is potential effects to babies exposed in the first trimester. The DEQ flagged the company through its Cleaner Air Oregon permit review. KATU

Portland Wild is a website that maps all of Portland’s heritage trees, murals and little libraries. Heritage trees are special trees nominated by Portland citizens and notable for the size, or their history. This project is the work Jeff Reifman, and frankly he deserves a round of applause for this. WEBSITE

In 1859, the Oregon State Agricultural Society was founded — the organization that eventually became the Oregon State Fair, still running 167 years later.

Maybe the heritage trees will clean the pollution out of the air.

by Michael Simpson Contact: [email protected]