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Come along on this virtual tour of 82nd Avenue climate justice investments by the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund and its partners.
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Your self-guided, virtual tour
Welcome to the 82nd Avenue in Motion Tour!
This is how local organizations and public agencies are working together to deliver climate resilience, workforce development, clean energy, infrastructure improvements, and other community benefits along 82nd Avenue.
From community solar installations to green school campuses and sidewalk trees, these investments are rooted in community vision.
Let's go!
Explore the stops along 82nd Avenue. Below, you will find more information about each organization and project.
Climate-resilient, affordable housing
APANO, 8188 SE Division St.
Featured projects | Cooling Portland and Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing at The Jade, Canton Grill, and Legin Commons
- Cooling Portland. This program delivers and installs heat pump cooling units to Portlanders most at risk for heat-related illness. As a Community Distribution Partner, APANO, helps identify and prioritize the most vulnerable individuals, delivering and installing cooling units, and sharing vital feedback to shape the program’s ongoing success.
- Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing at The Jade, Canton Grill, and Legin Commons. This strategic program adds more than 1,700 climate-friendly multifamily affordable housing units in the next five years. It is imperative that these buildings are built and operated in a way that reduces carbon emissions, reduces operating costs, to improve resilience and health for tenants.
Expanding Transit Access & Regional Workforce Opportunities
Portland Community College, 2305 SE 82nd Ave.
Featured project | Collaborating for Climate Action: Workforce Investments
- Collaborating for Climate Action: Workforce Investments. A collaboration between Bureau of Fleet & Facilities, Portland Community College, and PCC Foundation. This grant expands regional access to trades education in the fleet and facility maintenance sectors and replaces aged City of Portland facility assets with equivalents that reduce carbon emissions, are more energy efficient, and support the City’s Climate Emergency Workplan.
Clean Energy Infrastructure that Serves Community Needs
African Youth & Community Organization (AYCO), 2110 SE 82nd Ave.
Featured projects | Solar Panel Installation and Cooling Portland
- Solar Panel Installation. By installing 100 kW solar array and battery storage, AYCO will be able to reduce their building’s carbon footprint and promote environmental stewardship. Among many other benefits, solar roof battery storage will allow AYCO to more reliably serve as an emergency center and service hub to over 300 families from the immigrant and refugee communities in Portland.
- Cooling Portland. This program delivers and installs heat pump cooling units to Portlanders most at risk for heat-related illness. As a Community Distribution Partner, AYCO, helps identify and prioritize the most vulnerable individuals, delivering and installing cooling units, and sharing vital feedback to shape the program’s ongoing success.
Expanding the Tree Canopy and Sidewalk Infrastructure
82nd & SE Mill Street
Featured projects | 82nd Ave Sidewalk Expansion & Street Tree Infill
- 82nd Ave Sidewalk Expansion & Street Tree Infill. This site is an example of the strategic program to increase street trees along 82nd Avenue. Funding will support sidewalk widening and tree planting. Large tree species are prioritized to maximize shade potential. This program is a partnership between Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R).
Transforming Learning Spaces & How We Get to School
Vestal Elementary, 161 NE 82nd Ave.
Featured projects | Vestal Elementary Outdoor Green Infrastructure and Walking School Bus Program
- Vestal Elementary Green Infrastructure. Depave is leading a community-driven visioning process to remove 4,500 sq. ft. of asphalt and restore as an outdoor classroom. This effort is engaging over 150 students, families, and staff, fostering community stewardship through planting 20 trees and over 300 native plants.
- Walking School Bus Program. Oregon Walks alongside Vestal Elementary PTA has developed a walking school bus program to support elementary students in getting to school safely, every day, on foot.
Restoring Habitat and a Clean Energy Workforce
Wildlife Care Center (future site), 2800 NE 82nd Ave.
Featured projects | Wildlife Care Center Green Infrastructure and Community Solar
The following projects are a collaborative effort between Bird Alliance of Oregon, APANO, and the Bonneville Energy Foundation:
- Wildlife Care Center Green Infrastructure. This project restores six acres of brownfield into native habitat by planting trees and shrubs to significantly increase carbon sequestration capacity on the site. It will support resilience-centered community development projects that promote greenhouse gas reduction and sequestration, wildlife-friendly building practices, workforce development projects with community partners and green infrastructure that offers multiple benefits to people and wildlife.
- Community Solar. This project will develop a community solar site on 82nd Ave. that will provide reduced utility subscriptions for 160 local residents and will install solar on approximately 15 single-family homes in the Portland area. They will contract with minority-owned solar installers to provide energy upgrades to several East Portland households. They will also support several local community hubs to install EV charging stations.
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Student-Led Leadership Opportunities
McDaniel High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave.
Featured projects | Student Led Initiatives (SLI) Program and Word is Bond Youth Panel
- Student-Led Initiatives (SLI) program. Youth will inherit the legacy of our decisions on climate, so they should have a voice in solutions to help mitigate the catastrophic impacts of climate change. PCEF’s SLI Program provides Portland-based students with $15k grants to develop and lead projects that address climate resiliency and greenhouse gas mitigation.
- Word is Bond Youth Panel moderated by PCEF Committee member, DeAngelo Moaning. Word is Bond (WIB) is a Portland-born, Black-led nonprofit leadership incubator for young Black men between 15-19 years old. Its mission responds to huge disparities young Black men face in our education system and asks, “What if young Black men were empowered to their fullest potential?” This panel discussion will center the unique experiences of young Black men of living along the 82nd Ave Corridor and discuss what they see is needed to effect positive change in their communities.
Investments throughout the corridor
- Collaborating for Climate Action: 82nd Ave transit, capital and workforce investments. This project invests $55.5 million to support the transformation of the 72-Killingsworth/82nd bus line into a Frequent Express service. It increases safety and reliability through new station platforms for zero-emission buses, dedicated bus lanes, curb ramp improvements, and improved sidewalks and street trees.
- Climate Infrastructure & Community Resilience Program, administered by Prosper Portland. These programs are intended to reduce energy usage and cost, create health benefits, and increase resilience for small businesses in Portland. The program will invest in turn-key clean energy building upgrades and clean-energy upgrades for business-owned appliances and equipment.