PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson led a press conference this week celebrating, for the first time in six years, the return of Sunday Parkways to downtown Portland beginning next month. Streets will be closed to vehicles for a once-each-week community block party run by the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
The reboot coincides with the promotion of Portland Staycation, an effort to get Portlanders out for a long weekend full of events happening Sept. 12-14.
“I do want to just talk about bringing that Portland spirit, that opportunity to restore and repair and revitalize the community that we also love very much, and that’s what today is about,” said Wilson…