Eastport Plaza

Eastport Plaza
Location Portland, Oregon, USA
45°29′30″N 122°34′35″W / 45.4918°N 122.5763°W / 45.4918; -122.5763Coordinates: 45°29′30″N 122°34′35″W / 45.4918°N 122.5763°W / 45.4918; -122.5763
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 406,661 sq ft
Website eastportplaza.com

Eastport Plaza is a shopping mall located on Southeast 82nd Avenue in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

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.

Originally an enclosed shopping mall, former anchor stores included J. C. Penney, Mervyn's (which replaced Lipman's), Newberry's, Albertsons, Tower Records and G.I. Joe's. It largely became a dead mall in the 1990s, particularly after Mervyns moved to Clackamas Town Center 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]

List of anchor tenants and other stores

Current anchor tenants:

Other stores in the center include:[6]

References

  1. The History of Eastport Plaza
  2. "Ground Broken". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. October 21, 1959. p. 5A. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  3. EASTPORT PLAZA: PORTLAND, OR, DeadMalls.com
  4. Nkrumah, Wade (April 25, 1995). "The Unmaking of a Mall". The Oregonian. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  5. Chen, Stanford (March 24, 1997). "Business Arising Anew at Eastport". Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  6. http://www.eastportplaza.com/sites/default/files/images_inline/General%20Site%20Map%202_0.pdf
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