Category: News

ReStore locations in Portland, Beaverton and Vancouver will be closed for Independence Day,  Monday, July 4, 2016. We will be open on Saturday, July 2. In addition, The ReStore will suspend our donation pickup service during the Fourth of July weekend: July 1 through July 4. For other dates, please CLICK HERE to schedule a donation pickup. […]

You’re invited to a luau! The Clark County Habitat for Humanity Store will open its doors after hours on Friday, May 27, and we hope you’ll stop in for some great island fun. Try your hand at a bit of traditional Hawaiian lawn bowling or air hockey, sample the kalua pork, yummy baby back ribs, or Hawaiian-style […]

Now’s your chance. Give your two cents on the framing verbiage for the new deconstruction ordinance. It’s all about the do’s and don’t’s that will impact just about every neighborhood in Portland.  Over 300 single-family homes are lost to mechanical demolition each year, according to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. In an effort to […]

UPDATED- Whew! What a day! Staff at the Portland ReStore had a shocker Friday morning when they discovered part of the ceiling had caved in under flooding. Apparently a space in the building above our store flooded and soaked through The ReStore ceiling tile, creating quite a mess in our tool section and beyond. Luckily, volunteers […]

Most of the time we encourage DIYers to dig in and get the job done, but when it comes to dealing with asbestos, it’s often best left to the professionals. Before you pull on your DIY gloves, take some time to educate yourself on both DEQ and Metro guidelines regarding asbestos and asbestos disposal.  WHY AND […]

They don’t start shooting the third season of “The Librarians” for another month, but the show’s set decorator, Benjamin Hayden, knows a good thing when he sees it and snatched up a terrific buy this month at the Washington County ReStore. It’s an unusual item, but finding that weird and wonderful gem is part of […]

“We should capture another 100 homes per year,” Joe Connell said of the new deconstruction resolution passed in February. The resolution, approved by unanimous City Council vote, stipulates that houses and duplexes built in Portland before 1916, as well as those that have historical designation, must be completely deconstructed instead of demolished. This ensures that […]

In 2014, Jason Halstead, Gist Brands founder and creative director, delved deep into the soul of The ReStore, merging its non-profit label and its retail functionality to reconceptualize, redefine and reposition the brand as an environmentally sustainable social enterprise. “It’s not just the dichotomy of nonprofit-versus-retail issue, but the ReStore being able to exist under […]

The call came in a couple of years ago. Multnomah County was moving some portable shop facilites and they wondered if we would be interested in salvaging the attached ADA-compliant ramps. Mark Haley, The ReStores business relations director and several Evergreen Habitat for Humanity site volunteers went to work pulling apart the structures and storing the […]

We’d like to put your know-how to work! The ReStore is recruiting business-savvy people who share our passion for Habitat and our passion for reuse.  This new team of volunteers will build and expand our current ReStore business partner donor base. “We’ve named this group our Volunteer Outreach Ambassadors,” said Mark Haley, business relations director […]