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Lloyd Center is also the name of a non-profit organization that provides educational programs on aquatic environments in southeastern
New England .''
is a
Shopping Mall in the
Lloyd District of
Portland, Oregon . 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 food court, and professional offices. It also includes a
Regal Cinema and an ice skating rink where
Olympian Tonya Harding first learned to skate.
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 .
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The mall opened
August 1 ,
1960 in its original 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. (Actually, it had already been surpassed by the
Lakewood Center and the Roosevelt Field Mall [1956 .) Although very close to the
Downtown Retail Core , Lloyd Center was the first major retail development to seriously challenge it, aimed almost exclusively at commuters utilizing Portland's then-growing freeway system.
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 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 the regional transit system;
TriMet buses stop right outside and
MAX Light Rail Stops One Block Away . (As this stop is in
Fareless Square and mall parking is free, the lots are often used
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- (opened 1960 as Meier & Frank, renamed 2006)
- (opened 1999)
- (opened 1999)
- (opened 1960, replacement store built 1990)
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- (opened 1960)
- (opened as J.J. Newberry in 1960, closed 1997, became Dollar Tree)
- (opened 1960, renamed Macy's 2006)
- (closed 1999, replaced by Sears)
- (opened 1988, closed 1996, replaced by Ross, Barnes & Noble)
- (closed 2004)
- (opened 1979, replaced by Lipmans)
- (opened 1960, replaced by Frederick & Nelson 1979, turned back 1979, replaced by second Nordstrom)
- (opened 1986, demolished 1990)
- (opened 1960, closed 1997, replaced by Marshalls)
- (replaced by Lamonts)
