Recent Successes

Champ car grand prix of portland

Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland came to the Square to promote their annual race event at Portland International Raceway happening this weekend, June 8-10th. For additional information on this weekend's event at PIR visit www.globaleventsgrouppdx.com.

Million Marijuana March

This year marked the 8th Annual Million Marijuana March at Pioneer Courthouse Square . Participants gathered at the Square then proceeded through the streets of downtown Portland to educate the community about medical marijuana, industrial hemp and personal privacy rights.

Steps for life

The Pregnancy Resource Center returned to the Square this year to host their annual Steps for Life walk.  Over 1,000 people participated in this family-friendly, two-mile walkathon to raise money for the Pregnancy Resource Centers.

Bike to Work Day

In celebration of National Bike to Work Month, the City of Portland held a morning event on the Square. Bicyclists from all over the City showed up for this Bike to Work Day breakfast. Bicyclists enjoyed fried eggs and coffee as well as free stickers, maps and additional cycling resources. For more information on this event, click here.

Stay 30 Forever

To celebrate their 30th Anniversary, Outside Magazine brought the Stay 30 Forever Tour to Portland after stops in San Francisco and Denver. This national healthy lifestyle tour promoted products, foods and events that help individuals live and maintain healthy and active lives. Attendees of this event enjoyed free yoga classes, free nutritional advice, received free ‘crocs' shoes and even entered to win outdoor recreation vacations!

SQUARE NEWS

festival of flowers 2007 - CIrcles Squared

Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects

On June 8th Pioneer Courthouse Square will officially open the Annual Festival of Flowers Celebration in the heart of downtown Portland. This year’s design, circles squared, created by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, will welcome visitors to the heart of downtown with a mosaic of circles comprised of various plant and building materials that visitor’s can walk through, sit on, touch, smell and experience in a variety of ways. circles squared will be on display at Pioneer Courthouse Square through June 20th and will be followed by the annual Flower Sale beginning at 8:00am on June 21st.

The Flower Sale will feature many popular plants at low, low prices! Annual color spots in 4" pots will sell for only $1.00 and will include: impatiens, salvia, zinnias, and many more! Herbs in 4" pots will sell for only $2.00 and will include: sage, mint, lemongrass, basil and many more! Various types of native grasses will be offered for sale as well. Discounts on all purchases of a dozen plants or more!

In addition to the installation at the Square, a satellite floral display will be placed in the lobby of the Hoffman Construction headquarters in the Fox Tower as well as a display and musical performances at Pioneer Place's ground floor rotunda. For a Pioneer Place performance schedule, click here.

Pioneer Courthouse Square would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of Festival of Flowers 2007: Hoffman Construction Company, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, Pioneer Place, the Portland Rose Festival Association, Chrysler, Jeep, JB Instant Lawn & Nursery, Sunbelt, Precision Truss & Lumber, Inc., Glumac, Comcast Cable, Kink fm 102 and the Portland Tribune.

Noon tunes concert series presented by volkswagen

The Noon Tunes Summer Concert Series presented by Volkswagen kicks off July 10th at the Square and will feature some of the best local, regional and national talent around! Noon Tunes has become a tradition in the heart of downtown providing FREE entertainment throughout the lunch hour every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the summer.

Check out performances by Vintage Mink, Sweet Lou, the Free Will Band, The Dimes, Brett Dennen, Barbara Lusch, The Imprints, Patrick Lamb, Stephanie Schneiderman, Rye Hollow and many more! For scheduling information, click here.

The Noon Tunes Concert Series is presented by Volkswagen and would not be possible without the generous support of the following sponsors: Volkswagen, Red Bull, TriMet, KGW Northwest News Channel 8, KINK fm 102 and the Portland Tribune.

Flicks on the bricks
Pioneer Courthouse Square is proud to announce that Smart Park will be sponsoring this year's Flicks on the Bricks Outdoor Movie Series. This year's series begins on July 20th and will continue every Friday at dusk through August 17th. For easy parking and transportation access to Flicks on the Bricks presented by Smart Park, and the many other family friendly events in downtown, click here.

This summer's Friday night movie series will include:

Batman - July 20th

Grease - July 27th

Mission Impossible - August 3rd

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - August 10th

Stand By Me - August 17th

This year's Flicks on the Bricks series is presented by Smart Park and would not be possible without the generous support of the following community sponsors: Volkswagen, Red Bull, The Portland Clinic, Cricket, KGW Northwest Newschannel 8, KINK fm, Comcast, Portland Tribune and TriMet.

red bull illume
This August, Red Bull Illume – a first of its kind international action and adventure sports photography exhibition – will visit Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square offering residents and visitors alike a spectacular street-side ”illumination” of indescribable proportions. Red Bull Illume began as a quest to find the fifty best raw moments in action and adventure sports captured by both amateur and professional photographers. Contest judges composed of photography experts from around the world hand-selected 50 winning images from over 7,200 submissions representing more than 90 countries.

On August 2nd – 12th, fifty of the hand-selected winning images will light up Portland’s main thoroughfare, SW 6th Avenue, as a breathtaking ‘larger than life’ street gallery with the outdoor spectacle of twenty-five 8-foot glass and metal photography display cubes. Through the cooperative efforts of Portland Department of Transportation, Portland Mall Management Inc. and TriMet three blocks of SW Sixth Avenue, between SW Morrison and SW Salmon, will light up each evening after sunset.

The Red Bull Illume exhibit took Aspen by storm in January 2007 and will make waves in Huntington Beach this June. After its visit to downtown Portland the exhibit will head to Brooklyn, NY and to unique international destinations in 2008. For additional information and updates on this worldwide exhibit tour, please visit www.redbullillume.com.

TRUSTEE MEETING CALENDAR


Executive Committee
Thursday, June 28th 8:30am

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Facilities Committee
Thursday, June 14th 8:30am
Pioneer Courthouse Square

Finance Committee
Thursday, June 28th 8:30am
Pioneer Courthouse Square

Board of Trustees Quarterly meeting
Tuesday, July 31st 11:30am
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower

Harriet Beal Cormack; Helen Blair Day, ACME Business Consulting; Julia Brim-Edwards, Nike, Inc.; Dr. Kim Burchiel, Oregon Health and Science University; Thomas Corry, Bank of America; Wayne Drinkward, Hoffman Construction; Matthew J. Felton, Felton Properties, Inc.; Paul Frisch, U.S. Bancorp Equipment Finance, Inc.; Paul Fry, KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8; Joyce Furman; Brad Hutton, Hilton Hotels Corporation; J.E. Isaac, Portland Trail Blazers; Philip A. Kalberer, The Kalberer Company; Sharon Kitzhaber, Kitzhaber Communications; Kevin Kohnstamm, The Party Pros; Peter A. Krainock, American Water Works International; J.Douglas Macy, Walker Macy; Steven S. Maxwell, KeyBank; R. Scott Montgomery, Sequoia Development Co.; Chet Orloff, Oregon History Works; Tim Parks, Ball Janik LLP; William Peressini, Stimson Lumber Co.; Allyson Reed, Gray & Associates; Wanda Rosenbarger, Lloyd Center; Commissioner Dan Saltzman, City of Portland; Chief Rosanne Sizer, Portland Police Bureau; Gordon Sondland, The Aspen Companies; Patrick F. Stickel, The Oregonian; Vanessa Sturgeon, TMT Development; John Svilarich, Volkswagen of America Inc.; Kerry Tymchuk, Senator Gordon Smith's Office; John von Schlegell, Endeavour Capital; Mary Wilcox, Capital Realty Corp.; Mark Zertanna, Macy's Northwest

HONORARY
Stanley Geffen, Geffen Mesher & Co.; Greg Goodman, City Center Parking; Steve Janik, Ball Janik LLP; Melvin Mark, Jr., Melvin Mark Companies (Founding President); Tom Moyer, TMT Development Co.; Doug Obletz, Shiels Obletz Johnsen, Inc.; John Russell, Russell Development; The Rev. Stephen Schneider, Grace Memorial Episcopal Church; David Zier, Melvin Mark Companies