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Trader Vics coming to Portland?

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The following article has a rumor that Trader Vics may be coming to Portland, at a location at Ninth and Stark downtown (one block north of Powells book store) in the former Federal Reserve Bank building.

As for the first floor of the building, Trader Vic’s Restaurant Co. is reportedly considering the space for its entry into the Portland market. A source at Trader Vic’s tells GlobeSt.com that it has been looking at multiple locations in Portland but has not signed any lease agreements.

Full article is here ....
http://www.globest.com/news/1108_1108/portland/168870-1.html

The building is pretty cool - designed by an architect named Pietro Belluschi and built in 1949, it has a definite mid-century feel
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/pc/?id=241656&aid=8&sro=1

Let's hope this one happens!

RB

For the record, the site is actually a couple blocks SOUTH of Powell's.

did the article mention why Trader Vics left Portland in the first place. I kinda remember their old location being pretty great!

How funny that they would consider a location just 2 blocks away from the old one. Not that I'm complaining or anything!

RB

did the article mention why Trader Vics left Portland in the first place. I kinda remember their old location being pretty great!

The old location was along Broadway, the main drag through downtown, in the Benson Hotel, one of the top hotels in town. It closed before I turned 21, so I never visited it. As I recall, it closed for the same reason as many other tiki places closed in the '80s. The "El Gaucho" steak house is in that space now.

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