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May 27, 2020 | news releases

Metro’s visitor venues: economic generators and community bedrocks

With guidance from public health officials, teams are preparing for the return of cultural events, community connections and generating thousands of jobs throughout the region.

The Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Zoo, Portland Expo Center, and Portland’5 Centers for the Arts are powerful economic generators for the state and centers for communities to connect. These visitor venues employ thousands and serve as gathering places for millions of memories created each year.

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Jan. 23, 2020 | pacificwild news

Talk of the Town: Portland, Ore.

by Kevin Gemmell, Chef Works Insider

Oregon Convention Center Exterior Renovation MLK Entrance Drone Photo

Renovation Craig Stroud COBID

Jan. 09, 2020 | press

Unmistakably Oregon: Finding a sense of place at the new Oregon Convention Center

Written by Natalia Hurt, Oregon Business

Organic and inclusive, the remodeled Convention Center makes visitors feel at ease and at home.

Convention centers, like airports, can possess a disorienting quality that leaves guests forgetting which city they are in as they walk the nondescript halls. But of all the words that describe Portland’s newly renovated Oregon Convention Center — welcoming, organic, intuitive — Oregonian tops the list.

pacificwild Chef Allan Wambaa awards catering

Nov. 21, 2019 | pacificwild news

Chef Allan Wambaa & Aramark teammates take the ACE Copper Pot in the Sports & Entertainment category of Aramark's inaugural Culinary Excellence (ACE) Competition

After an 11-month journey, fifteen chefs out of more than 100 from Business Dining, Healthcare, Sports & Entertainment, Leisure and Education (Higher Ed and K-12) categories competed in five teams of three in the Aramark Culinary Excellence (ACE) Competition National Finals at its global headquarters in Philadelphia November 20, 2019.

Oregon Convention Center Exterior Renovation MLK Entrance

OCC renovation Craig Stroud Scott Cruickshank Colas Construction Plaza

Nov. 20, 2019 | press

Portland’s Oregon Convention Center Completes Momentous $40 Million Renovation

Oregon Convention Center celebrates the completion of an ambitious remodel project — the venue’s first large-scale renovation in over 30 years

The Oregon Convention Center with the city of Portland in the background.

awards Best Convention Center Cindy Wallace

Nov. 01, 2019 | news releases

Northwest Meetings + Events Chooses Oregon Convention Center as Oregon’s Best Convention and Conference Venue

The votes are in! We are proud to announce that the readers of Northwest Meetings + Events have chosen Oregon Convention Center as Oregon’s Best Convention and Conference Venue. This award is especially exciting to us because it was based on reader feedback, and we are thrilled to make the Oregon list along with other esteemed local vendors in the event space.

Nov. 01, 2019 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center Wins Its First Stella Award, One of the Hospitality Industry’s Most Prestigious Honors

Oregon Convention Center (OCC) is honored to receive a 2019 Stella Award for Best Convention Center. OCC took the Bronze award in the Far West category (which includes Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming) for a regional, standalone facility.

OCC renovation Colas Construction MERC Diversity Inclusion COBID

Oct. 25, 2019 | press

Oregon Convention Center Renovation Sticks to its Promises

By Stephanie Basalyga, Business Tribune

$40 million project sets new bar for public agencies for diversity and inclusion in contracting, workforce.

The recently completed $40 million renovation of the Oregon Convention Center hasn't just resulted in a new look from the event center. It's also set the bar for how contracting on public projects can be structured to create a fair playing field that supports diversity and inclusion.

OCC renovation Hyatt Regency Portland

Oct. 25, 2019 | press

Oregon Convention Center renovation complete

The new convention center and hotel will draw more events to Portland

by: Kohr Harlan, KOIN 6

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A $40 million renovation project at the Oregon Convention Center is finally complete.

The project included work inside and out and has been completed on schedule and on budget.

OCC renovation MERC Ray Leary

Oct. 25, 2019 | press

Oregon Convention Center's $40-million renovation project unveiled

by KATU Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. — After more than a year of construction, renovations at the Oregon Convention Center are complete.

Officials from Metro and the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission (MERC) joined the Oregon Convention Center in unveiling the building on Monday, renovated with the Pacific Northwest in mind.

The ceiling is a topographic map of the Cascade Mountain Range, and the new carpet is meant to resemble lichen growing in the forest.

Metro’s visitor venues: economic generators and community bedrocks

Talk of the Town: Portland, Ore.

Unmistakably Oregon: Finding a sense of place at the new Oregon Convention Center

Chef Allan Wambaa & Aramark teammates take the ACE Copper Pot in the Sports & Entertainment category of Aramark's inaugural Culinary Excellence (ACE) Competition

Portland’s Oregon Convention Center Completes Momentous $40 Million Renovation

Northwest Meetings + Events Chooses Oregon Convention Center as Oregon’s Best Convention and Conference Venue

Oregon Convention Center Wins Its First Stella Award, One of the Hospitality Industry’s Most Prestigious Honors

Oregon Convention Center Renovation Sticks to its Promises

Oregon Convention Center renovation complete

Oregon Convention Center's $40-million renovation project unveiled

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