Eastport Plaza
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| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Coordinates | 45°29′30″N 122°34′35″W / 45.4918°N 122.5763°W |
| Address | 4000 SE 82nd Avenue |
| Opening date | Sep 1960[1] |
| Developer | E. Phillip Lyon Edward Meltzer |
| Owner | Eastport Plaza. L.P. |
| No. of stores and services | 45 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | sqft |
| Website | eastportplaza |
Eastport Plaza is a shopping center located in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It is anchored by Century 16 Theatres and LA Fitness. Originally an enclosed shopping mall, construction began on October 20, 1959,[2] and was carried out by the Anderson–Westfall Construction Company. It was one of the biggest construction projects in the Pacific Northwest at the time and cost $5 million. It opened on October 27, 1960.[citation needed]
Former anchor stores included J. C. Penney, Mervyn's (which replaced Lipman's), Newberry's, Albertsons, Tower Records, Walmart and G.I. Joe's. It largely became a dead mall in the 1990s, particularly after Mervyn's relocated to Clackamas Promenade in 1988, part of a flight of businesses and customers to the newer, larger suburban mall to Eastport's south on 82nd Avenue. The enclosed structure was demolished in 1996, replaced by the current open-air shopping plaza.[3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ The History of Eastport Plaza
- ^ "Ground Broken". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. October 21, 1959. p. 5A. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
- ^ EASTPORT PLAZA: PORTLAND, OR, DeadMalls.com
- ^ Nkrumah, Wade (April 25, 1995). "The Unmaking of a Mall". The Oregonian. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
- ^ Chen, Stanford (March 24, 1997). "Business Arising Anew at Eastport". Retrieved 12 July 2015.