Lloyd Center

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Lloyd Center
Facts and statistics
Location Portland, Oregon
Opening date August 1, 1960[1]
Developer Lloyd Family &
Prudential Insurance[1]
Management Glimcher Realty Trust
Owner Glimcher Realty Trust
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 1,472,000 ft²[2]
No. of floors 3
Website lloydcentermall.com
For the New England non-profit, see Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies.

Lloyd Center is a shopping mall in the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon, just northeast of downtown. It is owned by Glimcher Realty Trust and anchored by Macy's, Nordstrom and Sears. The mall features two levels of shopping, and a third level with a food court and professional offices. It also includes a Regal Cinema and an ice skating rink where Olympian Tonya Harding first learned to skate[citation needed].

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[edit] History

Ideas for Lloyd Center were conceived as early as 1923. The mall was named after southern Californian oil company executive Ralph B. Lloyd, who wished to build an area of self-sufficiency that included stores and residential locations. However, the mall wasn't built until 37 years later, due to major events such as World War II and the Great Depression.[1]

The mall opened August 1, 1960 in a 100-store, open-air configuration. At the time it was the largest shopping center in Portland and in the Northwest region and claimed to be the largest in the world[citation needed]; it is still considered by some to be the biggest in the state[3]. It was located very close to the downtown retail core and was the first major retail development to seriously challenge it, aimed almost exclusively at commuters utilizing Portland's then-growing freeway system, especially the adjacent Banfield Expressway.

The original anchor stores were Meier & Frank at the center, Lipman & Wolfe anchoring the west end, and JC Penney and Woolworth anchoring the east. Nordstrom initially opened as a shore store in 1963, before expanding into a full-line apparel store incrementally in the mall's west wing. Frederick & Nelson acquired and renamed Lipmans in 1979, only to close their store in 1986. Nordstrom reopened the former Lipmans space in 1987 as an expansion of its existing store, before building an entirely new store that opened in August 1990 extending the west wing. The former Nordstrom spaces were gutted and refitted as an extension of the mall, following which the mall was renovated and fully enclosed in 1991, adding a food court at the same time. JC Penney closed in 1999 and was replaced by Sears, while in 2006 Meier & Frank adopted the Macy's name.

The mall is well-connected to TriMet, the regional transit system--buses stop right outside and MAX light rail stops one block away at the Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue station.

Because of Lloyd Center's size and importance, it has played an significant role in the history of freedom of speech in the United States, especially with regard to the scope of free speech within private shopping centers. Lloyd Center was the defendant in the landmark cases of Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551 (1972), a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Lloyd Corp. v. Whiffen, 307 Or. 674, 773 P.2d 1293 (1989), a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court.

[edit] Anchors and major stores

[edit] Inside

[edit] Outparcels

[edit] Former anchors

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Toll, William (2003). Urban Investment. Oregon History Project. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
  2. ^ Glimcher Form 10-K Annual Report
  3. ^ Examples of the ad phrase being used
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