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Feb. 07, 2019 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center to add some color to this year's Portland Winter Light Festival

Now in its fourth year, the annual Portland Winter Light Festival is a citywide event showcasing illuminated art installations, vibrant performances, and stunning kinetic fire sculptures throughout our city.

Over 100 artists, performers and locations will take part, including the Oregon Convention Center. The OCC is a Dazzling Sponsor of the festival and will display a dynamic and colorful light show from 6 to 11 p.m., February 7th through 9th!

Hyatt Regency Portland Mortenson Construction convention center hotel Daily Journal of Commerce

Jan. 17, 2019 | press

Hotel construction approaching homestretch

By Josh Kulla, Daily Journal of Commerce

The construction site has become a seeming fixture, but crews are clearly making progress on the massive Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center.

The hotel will be 14 stories and hold 440,000 square feet. Inside, there will be 600 rooms, a pair of ballrooms and meeting space. Metro is spearheading the project to serve its convention center across Northeast Holladay Street.

pacificwild Becky Holmes Catering and Retail Foods

Jan. 11, 2019 | pacificwild news

Oregon Convention Center and pacificwild Catering are pleased to introduce pastry chef Becky Holmes

Born in Swansea, Wales and raised in Dunchurch, England, Chef Becky Holmes began baking with her grandmother before she could even reach the kitchen counter. She would help pick rhubarb and gooseberries from the garden, and was sent to collect eggs from the chicken coop each morning, before dragging over a dining room chair to help make a crumble, scones, or tea cakes.

OCC renovation Colas Construction COBID Craig Stroud

Dec. 06, 2018 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center renovation results in unprecedented 56% contracting and subcontracting by diverse firms

The Oregon Convention Center is undergoing a major renovation to reinvigorate the image of the convention center to local Portlanders, as well as improve its national competitiveness. The project construction bidding resulted in the largest Oregon public works contract being awarded to a minority owned business, Colas Construction, as the general contractor for the $39 million project.

Hyatt Regency Portland convention center hotel Tom Hughes Metro Mortenson Construction

Nov. 07, 2018 | news releases

Oregon Convention Center Hotel topping off

From Metro News

sustainability waste diversion LEED Craig Stroud Ryan Harvey

Oct. 24, 2018 | sustainability news

Oregon Convention Center on course to be the most sustainable convention center in the world

From Metro News

With hundreds of events and more than a half a million guests each year, the Oregon Convention Center’s sustainability is blazing the trail towards the most sustainable convention center in the world. Guests of the recent Rose City Comic Con might even say it’s the most sustainable in the galaxy.

photo of downtown Portland with a view of Mount Hood

Craig Stroud Desiree Everett Travel Portland American Association of Woodturners Hyatt Regency Portland OCC renovation

Oct. 19, 2018 | press

The Pacific Northwest: Lower Costs, Less Congestion and the Beautiful Wilderness Entice Planners to the Area

By Sophia Bennett

Excerpted from Association Conventions & Facilities

Lights Out Portland Portland Audubon Society LED lighting energy efficiency Metro

Sep. 21, 2018 | sustainability news

Oregon Convention Center joins community effort to raise awareness about the impact of light pollution on migrating birds

The Oregon Convention Center (OCC) is once again participating in the third annual Lights Out Portland 2018 event on September 21, 2018.

Salmon-Safe sustainability OCC Rain Garden Matt Uchtman Dan Kent

Sep. 07, 2018 | sustainability news

Oregon Convention Center recognized for clean water strategy

Healthy watersheds advocate Salmon-Safe has recognized the Oregon Convention Center with Salmon-Safe recertification for its commitment to reducing polluted runoff to the Willamette River.

A Portland-based nonprofit, Salmon-Safe works with public and private landowners to promote reduced water use, onsite stormwater treatment, and protection of water quality. Properties like the Oregon Convention Center are certified as Salmon-Safe for extensive efforts to halt runoff from entering streams and impacting imperiled salmon.

Hyatt Regency Portland Mortenson Construction Portland Business Journal convention center hotel

Aug. 23, 2018 | press

Decades in the making, the Convention Center hotel finally takes shape (Photos)

"For years, the lot at the corner of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Northeast Holladay Street sat vacant but full of promise — promise that someday, a huge hotel would rise from the gravel to accommodate tens of thousands of visitors to the adjacent Oregon Convention Center every year.

"Though three decades passed before all the stars aligned on the project, they did at last in 2017, when the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center finally broke ground.