Recent Successes

health week at the square

In its second year, Health Week at the Square brought free and reduced price medical procedures to downtown in January.  This  year's Health Week provided health and vision screenings, along with information on healthy living and illness prevention from the American Red Cross Bloodmobile, Pacific University College of Optometry IVAN, American Cancer Society, Adventist Medical Center Healthvan, National College of Natural Medicine, American Tinnitus Association, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine and City Chiropractic. 

Pioneer Courthouse Square looks forward to hosting the 3rd Annual Health Week in 2009.

SQUARE NEWS

KGW's HD studio on the square

KGW NewsChannel 8 recently announced plans for a high definition television studio to be based at Pioneer Courthouse Square.  NewsChannel 8's HD "Studio on the Square" will be adjacent to the Square's Visitor Information Center in the interior space previously occupied by Powell's Travel Books. Construction will begin in the coming weeks to ready the Studio for use in summer 2008. NewsChannel 8's morning and noon newscasts will originate from this downtown studio.  With only eight street level news studios in operation throughout the United States, the "Studio on the Square" captures the growing trend of integrating news and information access with some of the nation's most distinguished public spaces. Most notably, NBC has demonstrated the success of street level studios with its daily operations at Rockefeller Center and KGW's parent company, Belo Corp., has recently unveiled its second street level studio at its flagship station in Dallas 's Victory Plaza.

KGW NewsChannel 8 has been associated with the Square for more than a decade through the development and support of community programming. KGW helped Portlanders usher in the new Millennium with a live telecast of the only celebration on the west coast, and has continued to support the Tree Lighting Ceremony, Noon Tunes, Flicks on the Bricks and many other annual citywide events. KGW's Studio on the Square will serve as a natural extension of the station's community resources, enhance its coverage of the 'events of the day' in the metropolitan core and showcase events at the Square in visual detail never seen before.  For more information on this exciting project click here.

new trustees

Pioneer Courthouse Square is pleased to announce the recent addition of three new members to the non-profit organization's Board of Trustees. 

• Kirsten Kays, Nordstrom; Business Member
• Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini; Community Member
• Tad Savinar, Tad Savinar Studio; Regional Member

Each Trustee is elected to serve a 3-year volunteer term.  For a full list of Pioneer Courthouse Square's Trustees click here. 

recycling event banners into market totes

In partnership with Queen Bee Creations, Pioneer Courthouse Square now has the ability to repurpose its seasonal event banners.  Each year Pioneer Courthouse Square designs, manufactures and displays more than sixteen 12'x12' vinyl banners to promote FREE community programming downtown.  With the talented handmade craftsmanship of Queen Bee Creations these event banners have now been repurposed into useful and unique one-of-a-kind totes.  These totes are excellent for grocery and farmers market shopping, as well for going to the gym, beach, book store, record store and general schlepping of all your extra bits!  These limited edition totes can be purchased on-line in the Square's online gift shop or directly from Queen Bee Creations.

Queen Bee Creations is a local small business founded in 1996 specializing in unique handmade bags and accessories from recycled materials.  In addition to the market totes, Queen Bee Creations products also include wallets, laptop jet packs, diaper bags and much, much more! 

Click here to learn more and sign up to be notified when the bags are available for purchase.

year in review

Pioneer Courthouse Square's 2006-07 year of operations brought more than 300 programmed event days to the heart of downtown.  For more information on the events, sponsors and partners that work together to keep Pioneer Courthouse Square an active and healthy public space in the urban core click here. 

TRUSTEE MEETING CALENDAR

Facilities Committee
Thursday, March 13th 8:30am
Pioneer Courthouse Square

Executive Committee
Thursday, February 28th 8:30am

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Board of Trustees Quarterly meeting
Tuesday, April 29th 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; Kirsten Kays, Nordstrom; Sharon Kitzhaber, Kitzhaber Communications; Kevin Kohnstamm, The Party Pros; Peter A. Krainock, American Water Works International; Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini; 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.; Wanda Rosenbarger, Lloyd Center; Commissioner Dan Saltzman, City of Portland; Tad Savinar, Tad Savinar Studio; Chief Rosanne Sizer, Portland Police Bureau; Patrick F. Stickel, The Oregonian; Vanessa Sturgeon, TMT Development; John Svilarich, Volkswagen of America Inc.; 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; Gordon Sondland, The Aspen Companies; Kerry Tymchuk, Senator Gordon Smith's Office; David Zier, Melvin Mark Companies