Centennial Mills

Well, you

remember the Centennial Mills building?

Yeah.

The street men allegedly burned down, even though we know they burned it down, but we can't say it.

Are you kidding me? No, I can say it.

New public records are raising concerns about the level of oversight the city kept on the Centennial Mills building before it burned, posing an asbestos danger for the nearby community.

Of course.

It's always something, isn't it?

Well, you

remember the Centennial Mills building?

Yeah.

The street men allegedly burned down, even though we know they burned it down, but we can't say it.

Are you kidding me? No, I can say it.

New public records are raising concerns about the level of oversight the city kept on the Centennial Mills building before it burned, posing an asbestos danger for the nearby community.

Of course.

It's always something, isn't it?

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Fields Park in northwest Portland is back open today after the nearby Centennial Mills fire forced it to close for about a month due to contamination worries.

KXL's John Eric Smith has more on that.

The city of Portland reopened most of the Pearl neighborhood park this morning after crews completed cleanup.

I'm Tim Lance.

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Fields Park across the street from the burned-out Centennial Mills building returned to life today after a month-long contamination scare.

One of the world's biggest companies announcing its newest innovation is going to take flight in Portland next year.

4.30 now, and here are your top stories.

Fields Park across the street from the burned-out Centennial Mills building returned to life today after a month-long contamination scare.

One of the world's biggest companies announcing its newest innovation is going to take flight in Portland next

year.

A popular green space in Portland's Pearl District is welcoming visitors back today after a month-long closure.

KXL's John Eric Smith reports.

But Fields Park closed because of contamination concerns following that Centennial Mills fire across the street in August.

People living in the Pearl tell me they felt lost without the park.

Fish wrapper or mainstream media bias.

Could there be a pile of bodies at the bottom of a pile of fire debris at the site of the former Centennial Mills building on Portland's waterfront? It seems likely, given that cadaver dogs scented such inside that burned-out building.

But the building was so badly damaged, it had to be destroyed before further investigation.

If people died there, Portland owns those deaths.

When cities discover conditions that put human lives in danger, can they simply ignore it? You know what State Fire Marshal told me, nice young lady? She said, well, we trust that our local partners will do the right thing.

Well, in this case, Portland did not.

The Centennial Mills building burned on August 2nd, but months before that, the Portland Fire Bureau had identified code violations in the building.

It was not a residence.

And I was asking the state fire marshal, would you red-tag a situation where you have homeless people living in a situation which is dangerous to their life if there is ever a fire? And she kept going back to that answer, we trust our local partners to do what they need to do.

Now, consider all that and what we've learned this week about the big fire at the building called Centennial Mills.

This was the gigantic building on the waterfront in downtown Portland.

And we had actually talked to a man a few months ago who had planned to develop it into a restaurant and a bar and a nightclub and all these other things.

And the city of Portland ran him around the block with permits and fees and everything else until he finally just quit.

And the owner of the building was informed Stuart Lindquist owned the building.

And what they found was Portland fire crews discovered 15 makeshift beds and cited several fire code violations inside Centennial Mills in the months before the fire, the fire that happened on August 2nd.

Now, that was the fire that destroyed the interior of this giant building.