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The center of the square is arranged like an amphitheater, with a semicircle of approximately two dozen steps serving as seats when the square is used for musical performances or other events. Pioneer Courthouse Square was a designated non-smoking area as of January 1, 2007. [27] South and west sides of the square, looking northwest
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
The Meier & Frank Building is a fifteen-story, glazed terra cotta building located in downtown Portland, Oregon, across from the northeast corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square. The building is the former flagship store and headquarters building for the Meier & Frank department store chain, which was taken over by Macy's in 2006.
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.
A travel bookstore was established in 1985 on Pioneer Courthouse Square, and other stores followed, one a year for the next few years. [2] By the early 1990s, Powell's bookstores were part of the resurgence of the independent bookstore, which collectively made 32 percent of book sales in the U.S. [8] The travel store closed in 2005. [12]
Meier & Frank was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1857, and acquired in 1966 by May Department Stores.May operated it as a separate division for nearly forty years, expanding the chain to Utah in 2001, as a result of a conversion of May Company's Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) stores purchased in 1999.
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 ...
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.