What to see in Portland

Issue 62

Progress Ridge Area as seen from above. Progress Lake is
in the foreground, with bull mountain rising above it. The
Mall is barely visible to the left. withthe houses around the
 lake toard the center

This issue: Progress Ridge

Starting off our new column, is a district of suburban Portland called Progress Ridge. Progress Ridge is a recently developed area, built entirely in the past ten years. It's a nice place to visit if you like shopping, dining and variety in general. The area is basically a lakeside park, condos, and an outdoor mall with, among other things, a frozen yogurt shop, a soda shop with about every kind of bottled soda imaginable, a cinema, and several restaurants. If you get bored, you can take a walk to Progress Lake, where you can fish, or just gaze out over the lake at the houses surrounding it, and the small patch of forest behind them. Overall, a very nice place. However, it is the sort of place that you would stop at while visiting the suburbs, it’s not a destination in itself.