From most Bull Mountain driveways, the drive down to downtown Tigard takes about ten minutes. For years that stretch of Bull Mountain Road felt like a commute to the freeway or the grocery store. This summer it functions as something closer to a nightly errand: the neighborhood's cultural life has quietly consolidated at the base of the hill, in three institutions that all happen to peak between now and October.
If you already live up here, you have probably driven past all three without registering how much they have changed. This is a walk through what is actually happening in downtown Tigard between July and Halloween, and why the reflex to leave the Westside for entertainment is starting to look outdated.
Sunday mornings have a new address
The Tigard Farmers Market spent years bouncing between parking lots. A previous location on Highway 99W came with the noise and traffic you would expect. That chapter is over.
