{"id":451949,"date":"2026-02-06T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451949\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:46:11","slug":"new-renderings-reveal-planned-transformation-of-portlands-lloyd-center-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451949\/","title":{"rendered":"New renderings reveal planned transformation of Portland\u2019s Lloyd Center site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The once-popular Lloyd Center will be closing &#8220;sometime this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urban Renaissance Group, which owns the mall, said it has big plans to not only demolish the existing structure, but also create a brand new one with apartments, shops, and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The framework will allow for the creation of this new neighborhood with new streets, new parks and open space, and new opportunities for development of a wide mix of uses across the site,&#8221; Thomas Kilbane, the managing director, told KATU News. <\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/portland-plans-tear-down-lloyd-center-redevelop-the-area?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">City plans to tear down Lloyd Center and redevelop the area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kilbane&#8217;s team also confirmed there &#8220;won\u2019t be another holiday shopping season at Lloyd Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the master plan is approved, it will allow us to go through a subdivision process to create development parcels. And at some point the mall&#8217;s demolished and it will clear the way to build these new streets and new open spaces and allow for the construction of all of this new development,&#8221; Kilbane said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite plans to revamp the mall, more than 5,000 people have signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/save-lloyd-center-mall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online petition<\/a> calling for the demolition of the mall to stop. According to the petition, organizers say the goal is &#8220;preserving and maintaining the current structure that is Lloyd Center Mall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KATU News has also reached out to the city for comment about the plans to renovate the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The once-popular Lloyd Center will be closing &#8220;sometime this year.&#8221; Urban Renaissance Group, which owns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-451949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}