Iron Fireman Collective

Amazing use of a historic place! This building was the site of The Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co, named after its automated coal furnace feeding machines. It is also little known that they were instrumental in building all of the Steam Engines for Portlands Liberty Ships built at Kaiser during WW2. These are the triple expansion reciprocating pistons similar to the ones used on the SS Titanic. Without Iron Fireman, the Portland shipyards would not have been able to set all the records in building Liberty Ships during WW2! Truly a historic place and so glad to see it still fulfilling a great purpose in modern times.

Sketchy building manager.

The Iron Fireman Collective is a 144,000 square foot pair of buildings with parking across the street from the MAX Orange Line Holgate Station in industrial Portland It is raw now, with leasing possibilities from 800 to 35,000 square feet at about $1.40-$2.00 per square foot per month. There are two interconnected buildings, one built in 1920 and the other in 1972. Office space and light manufacturing are potential uses. ADX and Portland Made Collective partnered in their opening party, which featured local artisan food and drink. There was an acoustic band including an upright piano with a built in video screen controlled by the keyboard designed by deaf artists to bring a visual experience of music to deaf people http://www.cymaspace.org/technology/. With manufacturing being displaced from the Central East Side, this is a welcome addition. And if your maker business scales up, this is a place to consider. It is part of the Portland Made http://www.portlandmade.com/the-industrial-grange/ Industrial Grange program. As Sun Ra says, "space is the place." The Iron Fireman Collective is a new raw flex office and manufacturing space.

My brother, myself, and our cousin in Wyoming keep track of places here in Portland where my mother's family lived after moving here from Mammoth, Utah in 1940. Utah had absolutely no work available at the time and was still deep in the Depression. They followed my grandmother's two younger brothers to work in the Kaiser Shipyards (the prepping for WWII was going on even though war had not been declared) and it saved them. They picked fruit for ten cents a basket as they drove to Portland. Talk about modern-day pioneers! Grandpa, grandma, my ten-year-old mother, and, her four-year-old brother coming across country based on faith that good things would happen. It is here at the now renovated Iron Fireman CollectIvee that my Grandpa got a badly-needed job as a machinist. For some reason, I can't save this as a draft. Ron and I plan to visit soon to get a look at the building, take pictures, and finish the review.

Way to go Iron Collective Holiday Bazaar! So beautiful, so local, so delicious on many levels. This was a feast for the senses: audio back drop sounds, theraputic diffusers, wine / coffee/ whiskey/ chocolate / bread tastings, textures and lotions and clothes to touch and try on. The building itself boasts big, bright windows all around and wood floors! Well organized for families and public to mingle and schmooze. Clean bathrooms, dedicated parking lot, security. Nice job! Happy holidays!

I really love this vintage building, I've waited a very long time for Ruse Brewing to finally open and it was fantastic to go to their grand opening. The only reason why I'm rating the building in a non-stellar way, is that a day before the grand opening a friend and I came by to say hi to our friends who were working there. As we were approaching the door, we went to hold it open for the person who was exiting. He immediately slammed it, and aggressively told us that he didn't know us and couldn't let us in for that reason. Later I found out that he was the property manager, Benjamin. I wouldn't care if this was a tenant, or even a customer. But the person who is supposed to promote Iron Fireman, (their own business), take care of their tenants, and tenant's customers? Why would you instantly judge someone like that, and not act more professionally? It made me not want to go back and that's unfortunate.