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For more information about 

purchasing your own Loo,

please contact:

 

Anne Hill

503-823-4807

anne.hill@portlandoregon.gov 

 

Like the Loo on

   

The Portland Loo: A Unique Solution to a Universal Problem

 

Commissioner Leonard visits the Loo.

 

“It’s a big deal if you’re downtown," says [Randy] Leonard, who calls access to toilets a basic human right. “And I don’t care what income bracket you’re in.… If you have to use the restroom, it isn’t funny.”

 

      -Commissioner Randy Leonard

 

 

 


Blogging the Portland Loo


Fifth Portland Loo opening!

The First Flush of the city's fourth Portland Loo

World Toilet Day and the newest Loo opening at Ash St and Naito on 11.19.10

The Portland Loo has been approved for a PATENT!

First Flush of Taylor St. Loo!

Newest Loocation!

5.5 thousand pound Loo is Born! 


The Portland Loo offers high durability and a unique and balanced blend of privacy and security, all at a cost that is a fraction of current stand alone restroom models.

 


 

 


News about the Loo

News about the Loo

Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed - Design (The Atlantic Cities) 1.23.12

 

'Langley Street Loo' offers relief around the clock (Times Colonist) 11.30.11


City flushes a new Loo in Pearl District (Portland Tribune) 12.17.10

 

Jamison Loo Open for Business in the Pearl District (Neighborhood Notes) 12.17.10

 

Portland Loo could be installed in Park Blocks (PSU Vanguard) 11.23.10

 

Central City Concern Clean & Safe staffer honored at unveiling of Portland's Third "Loo"

 

As two more Loos come to Portland, city officials and neighbors call them a success (Oregonian) 11.12.10

 

Public toilets may soon open downtown (Sign On San Diego Newsletter) 10.8.10

 

The Portland Loo: design, entrepreneurship, NIMBYism (Portland Architecture Blog) 9.24.10

 

The Portland loo debate: My kingdom for a porcelain throne (Oregonian) 9.14.10

 

City Commissioner Randy Leonard christens Portland's second public loo (Oregonian) 8.12.10

 

Portland to open its second public 'loo' Wednesday (KOIN) 8.11.10

 

Portland to Inaugurate Second Loo (Willamette Week) 8.11.10

 

Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard to inaugurate second public loo (Oregonian) 8.10.10

 

Toilet Troubles (Portland Mercury) 7.29.10

 

Portland works to add public toilet in Pearl District's Jamison Square (Oregonian) 7.10.10

 

City Council considers purchasing toilets (San Diego Union Tribune) 6.30.10

 

Downtown's lack of public bathrooms persists (KUSI San Diego News) 6.30.10

 

Skip to my Loo (San Diego City Beat) 6.21.10

 

New Loo for Jamison Park meets resistance (NW Examiner) 10.09

 

Flush with a new contract, more Portland Loos are coming (Portland Tribune) 8.29.09

 

City says it found right balance of privy privacy (Daily Journal of Commerce) 8.7.09

 

Portland Loo: so far, so good, so more are on the way (Oregonian) 7.13.09

 

Loo loo loo loo (OurPDXNetwork blog) 6.5.09

 

Real World Solutions; Greener Public Restrooms (Parks & Rec Business Magazine) 6.09

 

PHLUSH honors toilet innovators, hero and champion (phlush.org) 3.27.09

 

Neighbors urge more public toilets in Whiteaker area (Register Guard) 3.2.09