No More Little Burger?

A new sign is up for the "Moody Dock Food Carts Budget Gourmet Food". What do you think? The lotto sign in the background is a nice touch.

5/13 - sign at Moody & Gaines

5/15 - littlebigburger.com/

Another item for discussion - the word on the street is NO MORE LITTLE BIG BURGER for the South Waterfront. This is just a rumor so far, but I have not seen a bit of action at the location in the Ardea, which was supposed to open in June. Highly unlikely from the looks of things.

The LBB website lists Eugene & SE Portland, but doesn't list other new expansion locations (which it did previously).

Update 5/18 - This just in from South Waterfront Community Relations on Facebook:
"Just wanted to let everyone know that Little Big Burger is coming to the South Waterfront. They will probably begin build out July 1st - so we will have to wait a little longer, but the burgers will be here!"

I would read "begin build out July 1" to mean an opening in the Fall. But hey, we are happy that they are still planning to open here!

Happy Mothers' Day

...and a gosling update. These little guys have grown quite a bit in the last 2 weeks!

Meriwether lawsuit story

In case you hadn't heard... from Willamette Week:

Stormy Meriwether

A lawsuit alleges construction defects at South Waterfront’s storied condo development.

Meriwether (photo from wweek.com)

The story made quite a splash; it seems everyone is talking about it now...
South Waterfront Real Estate blog
Luxury Condos blog
and
Anne Saker @ OregonLive

Update May 21:
Rumor has it there has been a settlement...

Grimm Episode 20 Portland filming locations

Grimm Episode 20: "Happily Ever Aftermath"
This week: "The classic Cinderella tale takes a very dark turn when Nick and Hank are called to investigate the mysterious death of a wealthy matriarch."

A Cinderella Story in West Linn - Getting 'Grimm'

Arthur & the Red Stairway
Arthur gets some bad news while sitting in his car on Naito Parkway, north waterfront, by the red stairway up to the Broadway Bridge.

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Arthur & Lucinda's house
- Located at: Riverknoll Way in West Linn
- Filming took place ~ March 20-21
- OregonLive article March 27 about filming in West Linn's Barrington Heights neighborhood.

Riverknoll Way, West Linn (photo Sally Filler)

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 Lucinda's Stepmother Mavis's house
- Located at: 30000 SW 35th Dr, Wilsonville, OR
- This 11,1110 sq ft mansion could be yours for just $4.5M: Redfin listing & John L Scott listing
- See photos and descriptions on Homes of the Rich blog, 'Authentic English Manor in Wilsonville, OR'
(Thank you to Adele for the info on this filming location!)

http://homesoftherich.net/2011/08/authentic-english-manor-in-wilsonville-or.html

Stepmom's House - nbc.com/grimm

Grimm Episode 19 Portland filming locations

David Zayas as Troll Mob leader (photo from spoilertv.com)

Grimm Episode 19: "Leave it to the Beavers"
This week: "As Nick delves into the trailer's weapons cabinet and his inner Grimm, the investigation of a dead construction worker leads him into a long-standing conflict in the creature world."
Aired: April 27 9pm PST

A new bridge makes an appearance this week: the Oregon City / Gladstone Bridge --- (along with a clever plotline about the creature "mob" and their troll-mobster-ing of the Portland bridges.)

Crime scene #1 = Construction site off 99E "under the Gladstone Bridge"
Filming took place at Clackamette Park

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The Oregonian wrote a quick story with photos (Rick Bella, March 9) on the filming of this episode: 'Grimm' TV production moves to Clackamette Park in Oregon City

I received a few photos from a reader who was at the park filming:

Camera monitors under the bridge (from Sally Filler)

Filming with David Zayas (from Sally Filler)

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Mannheim, Germany bar scenes:  The Lotus Cafe doubled as a German bar in a few scenes, most memorably the final scene where a Reaper receives and opens up a package with 2 severed heads in it.

The California Literature Review published an article by David Loftus (the actor who played the Reaper) about his experience on Grimm. A little trivia from his article: "I noticed that set dressers had placed pictures of Mad Ludwig’s lovely Neuschwanstein castle... and other German scenes inside the picture frames on the wall, but none of those turned out to be visible on camera."

Meeting of the Beaver Society
The Beaver Society meeting took place at Bull Run Powerhouse (thanks Jeff!) The "lodge" scenes were filmed in the former Transformer Building, and the fight and beheading took place in Turbine Hall (see comment below). It sounds like we may see this very cool location again in future filming.

Bull Run Powerhouse (now defunct) @ Bull Run
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_Run_River_at_power_house.jpg

This is located ~6 miles north of Sandy on the Bull Run River, near Bull Run Reservoir. 

For more information:
SaveBullRun.org
PDXHistory.com
Oregonian article, 2010
If you look into this a bit, you will also run across Roslyn Lake, another historical site that was used in the Pilot episode of Grimm.

"Portland Planning Commission" (the trolls') office
Nice bridge view out the window because they are literally under a bridge -- this is a cool location choice. It goes with the Trolls/Mob story line, and extortion under the bridges.  Love the photos of bridges on every wall, nice touch. According to my sources, the scenes were filmed here, in the building facing the Jefferson St Bridge:

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Trip Trap Social Club
The mobster trolls met up here, in the cardroom at Lotus Cardroom & Cafe at SW 3rd & Salmon. The street entrance shown in the final scene was on Salmon.

Lotus Cardroom

 And this is where I'm woefully lacking information...but tomorrow is Friday, time for a new episode and I've held off long enough, so I must post and move forward. If anyone has location information or leads for the following, please shoot me a line!

• Beaver's House
• Arnold Beaver's trailer, (the young Beaver who is eye-witness to the crime)
• John Beaver's repair shop
• John Beaver's house - as mentioned in Episode 11, this house is located off Raleigh & 23rd
• Warehouse/Barn - have we been here before?

Joe Streckert of The Portland Mercury wrote a blog posting in March regarding being an extra on this episode. For an amusing read, you can check it out here.

Usual locations: 

• Aunt Marie's Trailer
• Nick & Juliette's House - Kind of funny... the 'vegan salmon' Juliette cooked for Monroe's visit got people riled up over here on the OregonLive recap article.
• Monroe's House
• Police Station

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My previous Grimm locations posts: http://www.mysouthwaterfront.com/p/grimm-index.html
You can view this and previous episodes online: http://www.nbc.com/grimm/