An ambitious project is underway to take revisit the triangular property that currently serves as home for the David Campbell Memorial and Portland Firefighter Memorial Plaza.  

The project intends to fully renovate the David Campbell Memorial (built in 1928) and add the Portland Fallen Firefighter Memorial Wall, and other interpretive features.  

The David Campbell Memorial (DCM) was built as a tribute to Fire Chief David Campbell.  While it has been used as a place to include names of other Portland Firefighters who had died in service to the city of Portland, it was never done in a comprehensive way.  A memorial to ALL of Portland's Fallen Firefighters is necessary.

By utilizing the entire triangle of property, which rests between SW Alder Street, SW 18th Avenue, and SW 19th Avenue, the renovated DCM would overlook and be opened onto the area of the Memorial Wall, which would become an open and public plaza.  The combined tributes residing on the site will be known as Portland Firefighter Memorial Plaza and become one of the Hallowed Grounds of Portland Fire & Rescue.