Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Fox Tower is a 27-story, 113.39 m (372.0 ft) office skyscraper in downtown Portland, Oregon, along Broadway between Yamhill and Morrison streets. The tower was completed in 2000 at a cost of $64 million, and was named after the Fox Theatre that occupied the site from 1911 until the late 1990s.
The 2000s saw Regal opening an additional two multiplexes in Portland: the Fox Tower Stadium 10 in 2000, which specializes in art house films, and the Pioneer Place Stadium 6. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] The Academy Theater, which had been closed since 1977, was renovated and reopened as a three-screen cinema in 2006. [ 23 ]
The 30-story mixed-use Park Avenue West, located next to Director Park and the Fox Tower in downtown Portland, was completed in 2016. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] By May 2016, the office space had been leased. [ 7 ] By August 2017, the residential portion was 90% leased. [ 8 ]
The second-tallest skyscraper in the city is the U.S. Bancorp Tower, which rises 536 feet (163 m) and was completed in 1983. [5] KOIN Center, completed in 1983 and rising 509 feet (155 m), is the third-tallest building in Portland. [6]
Thomas P. Moyer (March 2, 1919 – November 28, 2014) was an American movie theater chain magnate, real estate developer, and philanthropist from Oregon.Moyer was known for his lightweight boxing career, his career in entertainment, and for developing several real estate projects, including the 1000 Broadway Building, Fox Tower and Park Avenue West Tower.
Lee Hoffman (May 15, 1850 - August 8, 1959) [5] moved to Portland in the 1870s with his family and worked constructing bridges and other projects, including the Bull Run pipeline. [6] The company started out building primarily apartment buildings and industrial structures in Portland. It had grown to more than 400 employees by 1928. [7]
Director Park (officially Simon and Helen Director Park) is a city park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.Opened in 2009 at a cost of $9.5 million, it covers a 700-space underground parking garage, which connects underground to the Fox Tower and the Park Avenue West Tower.
KPDX (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Vancouver, Washington, United States, serving the Portland, Oregon, area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.It is the only major commercial station in Portland that is licensed to the Washington side of the market.