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Jan. 20, 2021 | news releases

Metro Visitor Venues Host Vaccination Super Sites

by Heather Back

GBAC COVID-19 Craig Stroud
Jan. 08, 2021 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center: Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) Facility Accredited

—Heather Back, Metro visitor venues communications and policy 

 

Verified best practices to respond to and recover from outbreaks and pandemics

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Evacuee Shelter Metro Red Cross Craig Stroud Oregon Wildfires
Sep. 10, 2020 | community stories

Metro working to open the doors of the Oregon Convention Center as evacuee shelter

Clackamas County, Metro and the Oregon Convention Center are working to set up the center as an evacuee shelter for community members displaced by the Oregon wildfires.

The Red Cross managed shelter will accommodate community members displaced by the fires with sleeping arrangements and other services offered in the temporary space, with COVID-19 physically distanced protocols. The Joint Office of Homeless Services will also be expanding the capacity of the shelter set up earlier this year.

COVID-19 Craig Stroud Reopening GBAC
Sep. 02, 2020 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center to attain biorisk facility accreditation for health and safety

By Heather Back

The Oregon Convention Center to attain the Global Biorisk Advisory Council STAR accreditation, the gold standard for prepared facilities to implement the most stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection and infectious disease prevention.

Under the guidance of GBAC – a division of ISSA, the worldwide cleaning industry association – the convention center will implement the most stringent protocols for cleaning, disinfection and infectious disease prevention.

Colas Construction Renovation Diversity BIPOC Scott Cruickshank MERC Ray Leary Craig Stroud
Aug. 18, 2020 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center renovation: a model for equity in public projects

By Heather Back

Jun. 02, 2020 | community stories

OCC's spires will be shining in yellow as a beacon of hope for our suffering and silenced communities of color

Oregonians are demanding change to dismantle racist systems and address racial inequities in our region and throughout our country. For far too long, communities of color have been unheard. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? …it has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. …And so in a real sense our nation’s summer of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay.”

Metro MERC COVID-19
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.

#pacificwild #chefallanwaamba #portland
Jan. 23, 2020 | pacificwild news

Talk of the Town: Portland, Ore.

by Kevin Gemmell, Chef Works Insider

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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.

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