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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Let's Talk About... YU Building Is On Its Way

Posted by Jason Baxter on Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM

Portlandart.net has a teenie-tiny piece on the YU Building (the "YU" is for "Yale Union Laundry"), which is on its way to becoming a gigantic, dope-ass art space. I guess the building is still owned by an LLC, but the plan is to turn over ownership of the massive, multi-story warehouse to the YU pro-arts non-prof. Last night they held their first public event.

YU Building. Across from Sassys and the Holocene, on 10th Ave

Portland's YU Building. Across from Sassy's and the Holocene, on 10th Ave

I recently had the opportunity to tour the whole building and get the spiel on plans for renovations (concert spaces, gallery spaces, etc.) from the man Adam Forkner/White Rainbow himself. That building is on a Wayne Manor/batcave level, for real. All kinds of crazy rooms and weird surprises—like a couple of enormous vintage printing presses, an upstairs ballet studio (where Parenthetical Girls were hanging, or rehearsing, or something), the Marriage Records warehouse and offices, and of course the tricked-out Marriage recording studio in the basement.

All of the plans for the building sounded fly, so here's to that. Cheers. Hopefully there's more good news on that front soon.