Chasing Ghosts

We’ve Peered Into More Than 120 Vacant Properties. These 10 Have Changed.

We’ve learned a lot over two and a half years of peering into the void.

By Aaron Mesh

Find Every Portland Vacant Property We’ve Explored With This Interactive Map

By Anthony Effinger and Aaron Mesh

The Burned-Out Husk of Pacific Market Was Razed

By Anthony Effinger

With Tom’s Pizza Demolished, the Site Is Slated for a Four-Story Apartment Complex

By Nigel Jaquiss

Food Front Is on the Cusp of Selling

By Sophie Peel

Eagles Infighting Continues as East Portland Aerie Becomes a Squat

By Joanna Hou

Neighbors Weren’t Surprised When the Farmer’s Barn Burned Down

By Joanna Hou

A Ladd’s Addition Machine Shop Becomes a 24/7 Climbing Gym

By Nigel Jaquiss

Apartments Are Rising on the Sunshine Dairy Site

By Anthony Effinger

Zygmunt Wilf Is Winning the Battle to Replace an Empty Kmart With a Prologis Warehouse

By Anthony Effinger

Grant Park Residents Hold Their Breath as Gordon’s Fireplace Shop Hits the Auction Block

By Nigel Jaquiss

A Wrecking Crew Took Down the Building Shedding Bricks Onto Alberta Street

By Anthony Effinger

A Shuttered Church in Cully Finally Sells

By Nigel Jaquiss

Alberta Street Eyesore, Famous for Homeless Arrest, Has Ambitious New Owner

By Anthony Effinger

A Dilapidated Former Bank in Parkrose Is Out of Investors

By Joanna Hou