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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016
Pier 11 once again a mall on the river
A waterfront
collection of
shops, eateries
play the most local artists of
any gallery in Astoria. Mak-
ing homemade gifts has been
passed down through multiple
generations to Malachi, who
comes from Milwaukie and has
worked some of the local mar-
kets, and opened the shop full
of creations with the help of her
mother, Charlene Rudig.
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
A steady stream of people
perused tables of antiques and
other crafts arrayed along the
rustic, all-wooden central cor-
ridor of Pier 11, a historic feed
mill and grain tower converted
into a galleria in the 1970s and
aptly playing host to Antique
Alley Sunday.
More people popped in and
out of shops and bought New
York-style pizza by the slice
and barbecue along elevated
walkways.
Since taking over Pier 11
nearly two years ago, the Allen
and Huber family have almost
entirely illed up Astoria’s
waterfront mall.
“We didn’t have an opinion
or philosophy,” said building
co-owner Stephen Allen, who is
also an accountant located next
to Pier 11. “We just wanted to
ill the building up and get more
activity there.”
The Allens started their
ownership with nine tenants,
including longtime stalwart
Bruce McBride’s Rollin’ Thun-
A better view
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
John Kozlowski, former
proprietor of Pizza Express
in Seaside, now tosses pies
at Inferno’s Pier 11 Pizza in
Astoria’s Pier 11.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Pier 11 co-owner Karen Allen has started Antique Alley, which fills the central corridor of
the mall with craft vendors each Sunday.
der BBQ, but said the building
could handle nine.
In the past several months
alone, Pier 11 has added pizza,
retail electronics and repair,
home furnishings and interior
restoration, an art gallery and
homemade household acces-
sories. The new additions
joined an already motley col-
lection including Rollin’ Thun-
der, Rich Ewing’s Rat Pack-in-
Astoria woman sentenced
for assaulting oficers
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
An Astoria woman was
sentenced Monday to two
years in prison for assault-
ing two police oficers after
trying to steal a case of beer
from the Astoria Mini Mart.
Misty Dawn Monsen,
42, pleaded no contest last
month in Circuit Court to two
counts of assaulting a public
safety oficer and third-de-
gree robbery. Other charges
of resisting arrest, crimi-
nal trespass, harassment and
theft were dismissed through
a plea agreement.
Astoria Police trespassed
Monsen from the Mini Mart
on July Fourth 2015. Later
that evening, she returned
to the convenience store and
reportedly tried to steal a case
of beer. When she was con-
fronted, she started threaten-
ing an employee.
Before being booked in
Clatsop County Jail, police
transported Monsen to
Columbia Memorial Hospi-
tal. At the hospital, she dug
her ingernails into the arm of
Astoria Police Oficer Brian
Aydt, causing a visible injury
and bleeding. Once at the
jail, Monsen was unruly and
dug her nails into the arm of
Corrections Deputy Lynette
Shaw, causing the deputy to
bleed.
Jail staff had to wrestle
Monsen to the ground and
pepper spray her.
Monsen, who suffers from
mental health issues, is well
known by the jail and police
for a number of incidents.
Her criminal history includes
convictions of assault, disor-
derly conduct, harassment,
criminal trespass, resisting
arrest and theft.
A few weeks after being
arrested for the
Mini Mart inci-
dent, Monsen
was deemed
mentally unit
to proceed in
her criminal
Misty Dawn case. She was
Monsen
transported
to the Oregon
State Hospital in August 2015
for treatment until her capac-
ity to proceed was restored.
By January, Judge Cindee
Matyas deemed Monsen was
able to aid and assist in her
own defense.
As part of her sentence,
Monsen will seek substance
abuse and criminal violence
treatment and mental health
evaluation and treatment.
spired cocktail bar the Inferno
Lounge and Rebecca Kraft and
daughter April Thorgramson’s
WineKraft tasting room.
Pizza by the slice
Since opening the Inferno
Lounge more than a year ago,
Ewing has expanded into Pier
11’s anchor tenant. Several
months ago, he opened Infer-
no’s Pier 11 Pizza, a partnership
with former Pizza Express pro-
prietor and fellow native New
Yorker John Kozlowski to pro-
vide a slice of the Big Apple.
The pizzeria turns out sev-
eral varieties by the slice from
a window inside Pier 11 and
inside the Inferno Lounge, and
sells custom whole pies to go.
“It looks like New York. It
smells like New York. It folds
like New York,” Ewing said,
adding the shop makes its own
dough and sauce, even grating
its own cheese.
On either side of Rollin’
Thunder, perpetually vacant
spaces have recently illed in
with Jay Rosen’s historic inte-
rior and furniture restoration
business North Coast FIX,
Debra Malachi’s Homespun
Gifts by Mom and Me and The
Art Stall gallery run by Debo-
rah Gordon.
Gordon, who specializes
in bronze sculpture, said she
hopes to eventually put on dis-
Seven years ago, Astoria’s
Best computer store owner Leo
Finzi met his partner, Bonnie
Murphy, at a Toys for Tots fund-
raiser inside Pier 11. Last month,
Finzi traded the basement he
had occupied for several years
beneath the Astoria Downtown
Market for nearly 180-degree
views along the Columbia River
from his suite in Pier 11.
Finzi said the move was a
combination of his old lease
expiring, the rent being hiked
and the Allens providing him a
reasonable opportunity. While
there isn’t the car trafic of
Commercial Street, he said,
there’s more parking and foot
trafic from the Astoria River-
walk. Finzi also feels part of the
building and city’s resurgence.
“When people call up, I tell
them I’m in the Pier 11 mall,”
Finzi said. “It’s kind of sym-
bolic of what’s happening in
Astoria.”
City approves emergency bridge repair
work near the Astoria Riverwalk
State had warned
of bridge closures
By DERRICK
DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Declaring an emergency,
the Astoria City Coun-
cil voted Monday night on
$206,000 in repair work
to wooden bridges on the
north ends of Sixth through
11th streets near the Astoria
Riverwalk.
The state Department of
Transportation warned the
city after inspections that the
street-end bridges could have
to close to vehicle and trolley
trafic unless the repairs were
done immediately.
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work, which will be paid for
through capital improvement
fund money.
The repairs are needed to
temporarily sustain the wooden
structures until a nearly $12 mil-
lion bridge replacement project
is completed over the next few
years. The project will improve
the short bridges that link Sixth
through 11th streets with the
pier along the riverfront.
The bridge work is one of
several challenges for the city
near the Riverwalk.
The city’s inance staff
has now estimated that
the city will need to spend
$450,000 for trestle and trail
work before next spring. The
money will come from tourist
dollars in the Promote Asto-
ria fund.
“We’re fortunate that we
will have the funds this iscal
year to be able to afford this,”
City Manager Brett Estes said.
Annual maintenance for
the trestle and trail could run
about $250,000 a year over
the next decade.
Estes said the city is in
talks with supporters of the
Astoria Riverfront Trolley on
potential cost sharing.
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