The Retail Thread

[MarkDaMan]

Portland's own big box development...anyone see that oppressive IKEA sign...imagine if it were WalMart

anyway from the Daily Jounal of Commerce:

Myhre Group is designing a new Aloft hotel to be built at Cascade Station, near Portland International Airport.

The five-story, 68,000-square-foot hotel, when completed in December 2008, will be one of the first in Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ boutique Aloft line, part of W Hotels.

The design calls for wood on the ground level and stucco and metal paneling on the higher levels, all punched through with large windows. The rooftop curve is Starwood’s trademark “swoof,” which will be lit from below at night with more than 70 different colors. Rooms will be oversized and loft-like with nine-foot ceilings, and a pool, fitness center and bar will be included.

The Myhre Group design team includes Steve Pearson and Devin Follingstad.
http://www.djc-or.com/viewStory.cfm?...29047&userID=1

[pdxskyline]

It's about time that this development got off the ground! Haven't been up there for a while, but now there's a reason to.

[65MAX]

HUUUUGE Ikea sign, visible from space. Maybe they're using it as a backup for the traffic control tower?

Man, the city really caved in to them, didn't they? Of course, I love Ikea, so it's OK

[pdxman]

Cascade station took a hit, tho, when their other largest tenant Costco Home pulled out. Thats a big hole to fill. I hate it when that happens...

[360Rich]

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[360Rich]

I hadn't heard -Rich

Costco pulls plans for store near Portland International Airport

Posted by Stephen Beaven February 26, 2007 11:27AM

A Costco Home store proposed for a retail development near Portland International Airport has been pulled off the table, a Costco spokesman said.

A local developer announced last April that Costco would open the third in its newest brand of home furnishing warehouses at the Cascade Station project near PDX. The store was to serve as a bookend, along with Ikea, for about 40 retailers.

The shopping center is scheduled to open this summer. But Costco won't be there.

"We are continuing to fine tune our Costco Home operation and therefore do not want to go forward with the third unit, which would have been at Cascade Station," the spokesman said.

In addition to Ikea, smaller stores and restaurants, the shopping center will be home to mass-market retailers, including Best Buy and Golfsmith.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingn...r_store_n.html


Flickr picture of Cascade Station
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dieselb...7594528521044/

[360Rich]

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[MarkDaMan]

Somebody will no doubtly fill the space, I just hope its an iconic destination shopping store and not some Lowes or something.

[PacificNW]

A Cabela's would be cool.

[WonderlandPark]

Originally Posted by PacificNW

A Cabela would be cool.

I never knew Cabela's had any desire to penetrate the West, they have always been a Midwest thing, but then I looked at their store map and saw Boise and the Seattle areas on there (coming soon).

[der Reisender]

Pray tell, what is Cabela's?

[PacificNW]

It is a huge sporting goods store.

"Hunting, Fishing & Outdoor Gear by The World's Foremost Outfitter."


http://www.cabelas.com

[WestCoast]

that Ikea sign is awful, what a gateway to our city if you fly into PDX.

Oh well

[WonderlandPark]

Originally Posted by WestCoast

that Ikea sign is awful, what a gateway to our city if you fly into PDX.

Oh well

Don't worry, Ikea has been right next to the NJ Turnpike at the Newark airport, one of the first thing many people see coming to the NYC area for a decade or two now.

[PDX City-State]

My hopes are low. I admit liking Ikea, but big-box retail generally sucks. I will probably never go there.

[MarkDaMan]

Originally Posted by PacificNW

It is a huge sporting goods store.

"Hunting, Fishing & Outdoor Gear by The World's Foremost Outfitter."

we don't need to encourage more vancouverites to cross the bridge...

[Capitol Hill]

So after this thread, I looked at the website for Cascade Station. I was kind of surprised by the development. A lot of surface parking, it didn't seem to be the most efficient use of land, which I understand is becoming more and more scarce in Portland.

And, on the site plan, the project seemed quite linear, is the Ikea on the far right big box or the far left? Thanks.

[360Rich]

Ouch, no love for us Vancouver folk

PDX IKEA is starting to hire http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingn...employees.html

[MarkDaMan]

Capitol Hill, the area Cascade Station is building on is between the ends of two runways. Housing isn't permitted in the area and the land cannot be sold, just the development rights. Potential for the space is severly limited although the first plan had a more ambitious design, trying to build more of a 'lifestyle center' with offices and hotels as well as shops, but 9/11 changed that and the city became so obsessed with IKEA that they allowed the new developers to turn this into a relatively normal American sprawled big box development. There are longer range plans that office and hotels with underground garages will go up where much of the parking is, after the initial spaces for hotels and offices are filled, but we'll see.

oh, and IKEA is to the far right

[pdxman]

Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

we don't need to encourage more vancouverites to cross the bridge...

Or salemites to clog I5/205...