Gasoline station being reborn as community center by African American sorority in North Portland | OregonLive.com

Seeing is Believing — The sorority sisters, who marched for the right to vote and saw careers sputter because of their race, wanted to inspire others by proving that a group of African American women could own property. “We did not want a building to have a building,” current president Marian Gilmore says. “We wanted a place to represent something.”

The sorority sisters had no idea it would take this long to get the dream this far. They had no idea the project would become a model for extreme green building practices, no idea a diverse group of people would line up to support them, no idea two decades of work would still leave them $455,000 short of the $700,000 or more total to buy and rehabilitate the property.

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