There’s a fresh new flyover video up over at the #cathedralparkcohousing YouTube Channel! We some of our currently-local community members gathered at the building site for Portland’s Newest Cohousing Community with a member of our development team that just happens to be a former Navy helicopter pilot, and we waved at his drone while it filmed the site and surrounding area from the air. Check it out!
Journey to Ahhh….Part 2
By: Abby Braithwaite, Cathedral Park Cohousing Neighbor—Previously Posted on the Cohousing US Blog
The Benefits of Collaboration with a Developer with Cohousing Experience and Expertise
In this article, we would like to talk about the benefits of working in close collaboration with a development group that has extensive experience with cohousing. For the development of Cathedral Park Cohousing, we chose Urban Development + Partners, a local Portland, Oregon firm. The committed hearts and minds of everyone we have worked with at UD+P have provided an incredible boost when obstacles have gotten thorny. Because they have worked with other cohousing groups, they understood what we are aiming to do immediately and intuitively, and their broad view of cohousing helped us identify where we can follow the traditional cohousing template, and where we have to tweak things a bit to make our unique vision become a reality. When it came to tweaking, their experience, professional network, and creativity have helped ensure we are creating a process that is efficient and accessible.
Journey to Ahhh…Part 1
By: Abby Braithwaite, Cathedral Park Cohousing Neighbor—Previously Posted on the Cohousing US Blog
This is the first in a five-post series about the journey to the feeling of Ahhhh…. I’m home! Cathedral Park Cohousing is an actively forming, unique and exciting community in Portland, Oregon. Please read with us as we share our twisting journey Home!
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Community Building Podcast Review
Community Building on the Inside Community Podcast
Looking for a great podcast recommendation about community building? Try Inside Community, a series that provides “an inside look at the beautiful and messy realities of creating and sustaining an intentional community. Cathedral Park Cohousing member Rebecca is a self-proclaimed podcast junkie, and she will be sharing reviews here periodically. She recently started listening to Inside Community, and is finding it a great way to get her head and heart ready for living in community!
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Trifle Recipe
Cooking up Spring Trifle
When people think about cohousing, one of their first thoughts is typically about food—community meals cooked by a rotating team of resident chefs in a big kitchen in the shared common house, or potlucks in the courtyard, with everyone bringing the best from their kitchens (or a loaf of crusty bread and a hunk of cheese picked up on the way home from work).
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Where to Get Your Cathedral Park Cohousing Videos
As a part of our rebrand and relaunch as Cathedral Park Cohousing—Portland’s Newest Cohousing Community—we decided that we’d build a channel to share all of our videos in one place. And what better place to do so than YouTube?
We have a new website, a new logo, new social media accounts on Twitter and LinkedIn to go with our established pages on Facebook and Instagram, and now we have our own YouTube Channel for Cathedral Park Cohousing.
The Power of Hope—Bringing Community Together
Over here at Cathedral Park Cohousing we are strong believers in the power of hope. Hope not as an idle wish, but hope as a verb, as they say; hope as a companion to work, hope as the glimmer of deeper truth that keeps us rolling up our sleeves to bring the shared dream of a reciprocal, diverse and dynamic community to life in Portland’s Cathedral Park neighborhood.
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A New Look for Portland’s Newest Cohousing Community
One of the best things about intentionally building community is that you get to keep working on it as it comes together. The only constant is change, and growth is one of our core values as a community here at Portland’s newest cohousing community—Cathedral Park Cohousing. So, we’re growing into a new name and giving ourselves a new look to go with it.
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