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The Pioneer Square stations occupy the sidewalks facing Yamhill and Morrison streets between Broadway and 6th Avenue at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland.The square, commonly referred to as "Portland's Living Room", is situated on a 40,006-square-foot (3,716.7 m 2) city block in the center of downtown.
In 2002, the organization controlling the square had plans to add a large ice skating rink for four months of the year, at a cost of $12 million. [19] [20] The Pioneer Square group and Project for Public Spaces thought the rink would make the square more active in the winter months, and had funding pledged by The Oregonian and Wells Fargo Bank ...
The Pioneer Courthouse is a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built beginning in 1869, the structure is the oldest federal building in the Pacific Northwest, and the second-oldest west of the Mississippi River. [4] Along with Pioneer Courthouse Square, it serves as the center of downtown Portland.
The center has 356,154 square feet (33,087.8 m 2) of space [5] and 66 stores. Pioneer Place I and II contain four levels, including a basement level. [2] The top floor of Pioneer Place II houses a Regal Cinemas theater. [2] Cascades, the food court, is located underground below Pioneer Tower/Zone C, which also
Allow Me, also known as Umbrella Man, [1] is a 1983 bronze sculpture by John Seward Johnson II, located in Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, United States. The sculpture, one of seven Allow Me casts, was donated anonymously to the City of Portland in 1984 for display in the Square. It depicts a life-sized man dressed in a business ...
Nearby points of interest include Pioneer Courthouse Square, Pioneer Place and the Pioneer Courthouse. When opened on August 30, 2009, the stations were located in Fareless Square (within fare zone 1), which was renamed the Free Rail Zone four months later, but the fare-free zone was eliminated in 2012 when TriMet discontinued all use of fare ...
The Portland Hotel (or Hotel Portland) was a late-19th-century hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States, that once occupied the city block on which Pioneer Courthouse Square now stands. [1] It closed in 1951 after 61 years of operation. [2]
The building was completed in 1977. [1] According to The Oregonian, the building's construction "helped kickstart a much-needed retail revitalization". [2] In 2001, Parr Financial purchased the building from Portland CT Investment Inc. for $13.1 million plus $200,000 in other costs.