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PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland was recently chosen by the National Education Association to host its annual conference in 2025. The convention, the city's largest ever, will be held at the Oregon ...
Without a major convention center, I fear that Portland will continue the current path of lagging economic development, limited income growth for its residents and highly seasonal leisure tourism.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Public Library Associations' National Conference has hit the Oregon Convention Center, marking the first large event to come to Portland since the start of the pandemic ...
Large-scale conventions at the Oregon Convention Center are back after Covid shuttered them in 2020. More than 4,000 librarians will flock to Portland March 23-25 for the Public Library ...
Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center is Portland's first convention center hotel and offers 600 well-appointed guestrooms in the heart of the city’s up-and-coming Lloyd District.
Rep. Kyle Bailey wants to ask voters to weigh in on a bond question this November to build a $110 million convention center in the city 'to invest in our future.' Rep. Kyle Bailey, D-Gorham, who ...
Portland's plans for a convention center hotel -- a legacy project eyed by politicians for 20 years -- are dead. Mayor Sam Adams, Metro Council President David Bragdon and Multnomah County ...
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Oregon Convention Center (OCC) announces the completion of a momentous $40 million renovation project — OCC's first large-scale ...
The idea to build a hotel to draw more and bigger conference crowds has been batted around for 20 years but seemed dead for good in September 2009. Now officials acknowledge they're talking about ...
Though it won't be done until late 2019, the new Hyatt Regency is giving Travel Portland and others a new tool to bring bigger conventions to town. The Business Journals. Select a City ...