Pioneer Place

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Pioneer Place
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Pioneer Place
Location Portland, Oregon, United States
Coordinates 45°31′06″N122°40′38″W / 45.5183°N 122.6773°W / 45.5183; -122.6773
Opening date1990 (constructed c.1987-1990)
Developer The Rouse Company
Management General Growth Properties
OwnerGeneral Growth Properties
No. of stores and services100 [1]
No. of anchor tenants 1
Total retail floor area 369,000 sq ft (34,300 m2)
No. of floors5
Parking200
Public transit access
Website pioneerplace.com

Pioneer Place is an upscale, urban shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. It consists of four blocks of retail, dining, parking, and an office tower named Pioneer Tower. The mall itself is spread out between four buildings, interconnected by skywalks or underground mall sections. The footprint of the entire complex consists of four full city blocks, bisected by SW Yamhill and Fourth, bounded north-south by SW Morrison and Taylor Streets and east-west by SW Third and Fifth Avenues. [2] In 2014, Pioneer Place was the third-highest selling mall in the United States based on sales per square foot, sitting just behind Bal Harbour Shops and The Grove at Farmers Market. [3]

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History

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Exterior of Pioneer Place

Pioneer Place I began construction in 1988 and opened in 1990. [4] Buildings demolished to clear the site for the mall included the Corbett Building, an office building constructed in 1907.

The development was built in two phases, the names of which are reflected in the names of the two main mall buildings. Pioneer Place I, or The "Atrium Shops"/Zone A, opened in 1990 and was developed with assistance from the Portland Development Commission. [5] [6] Pioneer Place II, or The "Rotunda Shops"/Zone B, is located across Fourth Avenue to the east. Construction on Pioneer Place II began in 1998, and at the time was to add 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) at a cost of around $60 million. [7]

Saks Fifth Avenue closed its store at the mall in 2010, with H&M taking over the portion that had been Saks men's store later that year. [8] The remaining parts of the Saks footprint was demolished in 2012 to make way for a new Apple Store and a Yard House restaurant. [9]

In 2016, Pioneer Place started their renovations, and completed the renovation in 2018.

In February 2017, shared workspaces provider WeWork signed a lease to take 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of space, one of their first leases in a mall. [10]

Amenities

The Atrium Shops (interior) PioneerPlaceMallInterior.jpg
The Atrium Shops (interior)

The center has 356,154 square feet (33,087.8 m2) 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 connects to a parking garage. That parking garage, located to the south, also contains retail space, home to Tiffany & Co. [2] The northern lower above-ground levels of the block with Pioneer Tower housed Saks Fifth Avenue.

Public transit

Pioneer Place I faces the Fifth Avenue section of the Portland Transit Mall, served by several TriMet bus routes and MAX Light Rail. It is served by all five lines of the MAX system, with its Fifth Avenue side being across the street from the Pioneer Place/5th Avenue station (southbound service), and with the Pioneer Courthouse/6th Avenue station (northbound service) and "Pioneer Square" stations (eastbound and westbound service) being only one block away. Pioneer Place II is similarly only one block away from the Third Avenue station. Since its opening in 1990, building I had been flanked by directly adjacent MAX stations on Morrison and Yamhill Streets. [11] The two stations were closed in 2020 in order to reduce travel time for MAX riders through downtown and to the close proximity of other stations on the same MAX lines. [12]

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