Alpenrose Dairy
The brand was named after the alpine rose ("Rosa pendulina") by the Swiss-born wife and early co-owner of the dairy. Alpenrose is a "supplier of dairy products to retail, wholesale and ingredient customers in Portland and throughout the Northwest". In 2020, addressing the growing demand for delivery services the company introduced Alpenrose Home Delivery, a weekly grocery delivery service that provides customers with Alpenrose brand dairy products and other locally-made grocery items. Deliveries are facilitated by the company's fleet of milkmen and milkwomen, who deliver groceries by neighborhood and are unique to the service . The grounds of the dairy include: Products from Alpenrose include milk, ice cream, eggs, and various cultured dairy products. Dairyville. Dairyville was added to Alpenrose sometime in the 1960s. As stated above, the replica frontier town consists of a few streets of false front stores, a doll museum, an ice cream parlor, a music shop and a 600-seat opera house. The theater's pipe organ was salvaged from the Portland Civic Auditorium. Dairyville is typically open to the public on holidays and during the summer months. For decades, Dairyville has hosted an annual holiday event called "Christmas in Dairyville ." In addition to a gift shop and a house where children can have their photos taken with Santa Claus, there's also "Storybook Lane," an elaborate, walk-through attraction. Visitors wander through a snowy, moonlit mock-village inhabited by farm animals and displays based on Mother Goose's fables. The attraction also includes a tiny fire station for kids to play in. Elsewhere on the property, choir groups from local schools perform. Dairyville's opera house also hosts nightly screenings of comedy shorts featuring The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy, along with more contemporary entertainment like the 2004 film  adaptation of "The Polar Express". The event ended its annual run in 2005 but returned again for the 2011 Christmas season. Lawsuit. On March 4, 2019, a lawsuit was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court by three members of the Cadonau family against two other family members, alleging they are planning to sell the dairy and immediately stop all community events at Alpenrose. The family has since settled differences and dropped the lawsuit. In February 2021 the property was closed to events and all other uses. Future Development. Lennar Northwest, Inc, represented by Westlake Consultants, Inc. submitted a "preapplication concept  for developing the Alpenrose property. The application proposes a 193-lot single-family detached residential land division". The proposal includes: