Wonderful looking older neighborhood.  With more grit to please the UO!

 

Love that Fountain Square Theatre building.

Thanks!

Thanks for these.  Fountain Square interested me.  The area around the square seemed quite run down and the square itself lacked a lot of aesthetics, and yet it seemed to be functioning and semi-thriving.  Kind of like O-Bryonville in Cincinnati, although O-Bryonville is jammed full of beautiful aesthetics.  But the 'hood around it....not so much. 

Yes -- Fountain Square seems to finally be seeing some life.  It gets pretty busy on weekends with some of the best art galleries in the city (Big Car, Wheeler, Murphy, and a few others) plus some excellent new bars and restaurants:  Radio, Radio; the Brass Ring; Siam Square; Maria's Pizza; Naisa (Asian); Santorini and others.  There are plans for the Museum of Contemporary Art to move to a site on the NW edge of Fountain Square.  It still looks plenty rough - but when people are out - its a great atmosphere.  There are also plans to re-do the fountain (those 70's cement urns are a little ... not so nice).

Looks cool.  I like how it doesn't follow a perfect grid.

Diggin' the retroness here: