Tucked within Portland’s bustling Pearl District, a hip, urban area known for its shopping, night life and exquisite dining, sits a quaint field of grass and a pond filled with ecological wonders.

The Pearl’s mix of natural and urban development has earned it recognition for preserving the brownfield, which is an area once polluted or contaminated that is being redeveloped, in Tanner Springs Park. Both the city and the Portland Development Commission received an award from the Canadian Urban Institute, according to an article in The Oregonian.

“The Pearl District affirms that new life can rise from the ashes of urban decay,” the citation said in the aticle.

Thanks, Pearl, for setting another trend.