Key Players to Talk Future of Lloyd District

PORTLAND-The Northeast section of Portland’s Central Business District is rapidly slated for the city’s next major redevelopment boom, and an upcoming event is set to put it all into perspective.

Three executives who will direct the renaissance of the so-called Lloyd District–from the former Red Lion property on the Willamette River through the Rose Quarter and Convention Center areas and up toward the Lloyd Center Mall–are set to talk publicly about their redevelopment plans next week.

The speakers will be Jay Isaac of Paul Allen’s ArenaCorp, which owns or controls several properties in and around the Rose Quarter; Doug Pugh of Ashforth Pacific, which is planning to redevelop a four-block area in the Lloyd District; and Jeff Blosser of the newly expanded Oregon Convention Center, for which a convention center hotel is being planned.