DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland explained

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland
Address:1000 Northeast Multnomah Street
Location City:Portland, Oregon
Location Country:United States
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Opened Date:September 28, 1959
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Cost:$6 million
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DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland is a hotel in Portland, Oregon's Lloyd District, in the United States. The hotel opened as the Sheraton-Portland Hotel in 1959, and in 1980 became the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center.

The hotel has been credited with playing "a crucial role in the development of Portland's eastside". After an expansion in the early 1980s, for a time it was the largest hotel in all of Oregon.[1]

Description

The hotel is one of the five largest in Portland, with 477 guest rooms as of 2020. The property also has restaurants, a covered parking garage and a conference center.[2] The hotel has fifteen floors and multiple glass elevators.[3] The outdoor pool, among few at Portland hotels, can accommodate approximately 20 to 30 people.[4]

History

The hotel opened as the Sheraton-Portland Hotel on September 28, 1959,[5] [6] owned by the Lloyd Corporation and operated by Sheraton Hotels.[7] It was the first new hotel in Portland since the opening of the New Heathman Hotel, in 1928.[8] It was renamed the Sheraton Motor Inn in 1963.[9]

In June 1980, the hotel was purchased from the Lloyd Corp. by the Thunderbird–Red Lion Inns chain,[8] and became the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center on August 1 of that year,[10] the latter part of the name referring to the Lloyd Center mall, located across Multnomah Street from the hotel. The nine-story hotel had 276 rooms at that time, but a major expansionincluding the addition of a 15-story towerwas planned.[8] When the expanded hotel reopened in 1982, it had 520 rooms and was the largest hotel in all of Oregon.[1] In 1989, with 476 rooms, the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center was still the second-largest hotel in the state, after the 503-room Portland Marriott Hotel in Downtown Portland.[11] In September 1996, its owner, Red Lion Hotels, Inc., then based in Vancouver, Washington, entered into an agreement to be acquired by then-Phoenix-based Doubletree Corp.[12] The merger closed on November 8, 1996,[13] and the Lloyd Center hotel was renamed the Doubletree Hotel Portland.[14] In October 1998, Doubletree announced plans to expand the hotel with a new 300-room tower to be constructed on the northeast corner of the property, in order to make the hotel a 'headquarters hotel' for the nearby Oregon Convention Center.[15] The addition was never built. In late 2010 and 2011, all Doubletree hotels were rebranded as "DoubleTree by Hilton".[16]

A woman was found dead in one of the hotel's stairwells in late 2014. A Washington man was accused of murder and arrested.[17] The woman's family sued Hilton and the hotel's owners.[18] [19]

In 2019, a man filed a $10-million lawsuit against the hotel, claiming that he was racially profiled during his stay in 2018.[20] [21] [22] The hotel issued an apology and fired two employees.[23] [24] [25] The hotel's operator, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, said that the company has "zero tolerance for racism".[26]

Reception

Lizzy Acker included the property in The Oregonian 2016 list of Portland's best outdoor hotel pools.[27] In 2017, the newspaper's Grant Butler included the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in a list of "38 landmark Portland hotels that offer a window into Rose City's history, growth". He wrote:

Fodor's has said, "This bustling, business hotel maintains a steady customer base in meetings and special events, so you will find all the usual business-friendly perks and luxuries.... The large rooms, many with balconies, are well maintained, and many of those on the upper floors have views of the city and—on clear days—the mountains."[28] [29] Deanna deBara of Fodor's has rated the hotel four out of five stars.[30] One guide by Moon Publications said "The best thing about this Lloyd District hotel is its location (and the warm chocolate chip cookies at check-in).... The rooms are, for the most part, spacious, clean, and comfortable."[31]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Carter . Steven . Newest $40 million Red Lion largest hotel in Oregon . . September 12, 1982 . B1.
  2. Sawyer . Brandon . January 31, 2020 . List Leaders: Check in with Portland's 5 biggest hotels . live . Portland Business Journal . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220804232738/https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2020/01/31/list-leaders-check-in-with-portlands-5-biggest.html . August 4, 2022 . August 4, 2022.
  3. Web site: 6 Portland Hotels with Outdoor Pools for Your Summer Staycation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220817110306/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/travel-and-outdoors/best-portland-hotels-outdoor-pools-summer-staycation . 2022-08-17 . 2023-04-17 . . en-US . 1546-2765.
  4. Web site: Photo essay: Outdoor swimming pools, public and private . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220424071311/https://www.oregonbusiness.com/article/lifestyle/item/18429-summer-pools-photoessay . 2022-04-24 . 2022-08-04 . Oregon Business . August 2, 2018. en-gb.
  5. News: April 29, 1959 . Portland Sheraton Hotel Job Progresses . 10 . . Medford, Oregon . April 17, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: September 28, 1959 . Grand opening today, Sheraton-Portland Hotel . 5 . . Eugene, Oregon . April 17, 2023 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Humble . Charles . Lloyd Corp. may change hotel firms . . May 5, 1980 . 1.
  8. News: Shaw . Larry . Thunderbird–Red Lion buys Lloyd Sheraton . . June 24, 1980 . A1.
  9. Web site: Annual Report for the year ended April 30, 1963 . Sheraton Corporation of America . University of Houston Libraries: Digital Collections.
  10. "Red Lion Dining has arrived at Lloyd Center" (advertisement), in The Oregon Journal, September 12, 1980, p . 24. Quote: "On August 1st, one of Portland's longtime favorite hotels became the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center (formerly the Sheraton)."
  11. News: Mayes . Steve . Red Lion considers 300 additional rooms . . August 11, 1989 . C1.
  12. News: Doubletree To Pay $1.2 Billion For Red Lion . December 3, 2020 . . Bloomberg Business News . September 13, 1996.
  13. News: Downtown Red Lion Is Now Doubletree . December 3, 2020 . . May 31, 1997 . Spokane, Washington.
  14. News: . Last of Red Lion Inns' holdings to be sold to Ohio lodging company . . January 1, 1998 . D1 . Vancouver, Washington.
  15. Web site: Lloyd Doubletree to grow by 300 rooms. Miller. Brian. Goldfield. Robert. October 25, 1998. bizjournals.com. Portland Business Journal. December 11, 2023.
  16. Web site: DoubleTree by Hilton Introduces New Global Brand Identity, Creating One of Biggest Hotel Groups . . 2023-04-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101016164800/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101013006525/en/DoubleTree-Hilton-Introduces-Global-Brand-Identity . October 16, 2010 . October 13, 2010 . dead.
  17. Web site: Bernstein . Maxine . 2015-01-10 . Washington man arraigned in homicide at Portland's Doubletree Hotel . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220527220638/https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2015/01/washington_man_arraigned_in_ho.html . 2022-05-27 . 2023-04-17 . . en.
  18. Web site: Cook . Katherine . Family suing Hilton hotel group, Backpage.com for enabling prostitution, daughter's murder . 2023-04-17 . 2017-12-28 . . Salem, Oregon . en-US . 2023-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144626/https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/12/28/family-suing-hilton-hotel-group-backpage-enabling-prostitution-ashley-benson-murder/986837001/ . live .
  19. Web site: 2017-12-26 . Murder victim's family sues hotel chain after Portland killing . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180622070931/http://katu.com/news/local/murder-victims-family-sues-hotel-chain-after-portland-killing . 2018-06-22 . 2023-04-17 . . en.
  20. Web site: Vespa . Maggie . Portland hotel calls police on black guest talking to his mom on phone . 2022-08-04 . . December 26, 2018 . en-US . 2019-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190606063414/https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-hotel-calls-police-on-black-guest-talking-to-his-mom-on-phone/283-cb009895-0083-4d48-b94e-be08fa663d08 . live .
  21. News: $10M lawsuit claims racial profiling at DoubleTree hotel. Portland Tribune. October 9, 2019. 2022-08-04. 2022-08-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20220804232734/https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/440587-353933-10m-lawsuit-claims-racial-profiling-at-doubletree-hotel-. live.
  22. Web site: Powell . Meerah . Black Guest Kicked Out Of Portland DoubleTree In 2018 Sues Hotel For $10 Million . 2023-04-17 . October 9, 2019 . . en . 2021-12-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211201031619/https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-hilton-doubletree-hotel-lobby-racial-profiling-lawsuit/ . live .
  23. Web site: Tina Gordon on Making 'Praise This' Not Too 'Preachy' . 2023-04-17 . Essence . April 11, 2023 . en-US . 2023-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230414024610/https://www.essence.com/news/tina-gordon-on-making-praise-this-not-too-preachy/ . live .
  24. Web site: Youn . Soo . DoubleTree Portland Hotel fires 2 workers for calling police on black hotel guest . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130113509/https://abcnews.go.com/US/doubletree-portland-hotel-fires-workers-calling-police-black/story?id=60066428 . 2022-11-30 . 2023-04-17 . ABC News . December 29, 2018 . en.
  25. News: Brice-Saddler . Michael . Oregon hotel fires employees seen on video evicting black guest . en-US . . 2018-12-29 . live . 2023-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201108122630/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/portland-hotel-fires-employees-seen-evicting-black-guest-video/ . 2020-11-08 . 0190-8286.
  26. Web site: Martín . Hugo . DoubleTree by Hilton scrambles to repair image after black guest is removed in Oregon . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230201172313/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-doubletree-hilton-20190104-story.html . 2023-02-01 . 2023-04-17 . January 4, 2019 . . en-US.
  27. Web site: Acker . Lizzy . 2016-08-16 . Portland's outdoor hotel pools, ranked . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180611173000/http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2016/08/portlands_outdoor_hotel_pools.html . 2018-06-11 . 2022-08-04 . . en.
  28. Book: Fodor's Pacific Northwest: with Oregon, Washington & Vancouver . 2015-04-28 . Fodor's Travel . 978-1-101-87874-3 . en . 2023-04-17 . 2023-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417141135/https://books.google.com/books?id=9pRoBAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT187&dq=DoubleTree+by+Hilton+Hotel+Portland&hl=en . live .
  29. Book: Fodor's Oregon . 2015-05-26 . Fodor's Travel . 978-1-101-87924-5 . en . 2023-04-17 . 2023-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230417141034/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZpoBAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT157&dq=DoubleTree+by+Hilton+Hotel+Portland&hl=en . live .
  30. Web site: deBara . Deanna . DoubleTree by Hilton–Portland . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220804232552/https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/usa/oregon/portland/hotels/reviews/doubletree-by-hiltonportland-40082 . August 4, 2022 . April 17, 2023 . Fodor's.
  31. Book: McCollom, Hollyanna . Moon Portland . 2016-05-10 . Avalon Publishing . 978-1-63121-279-6 . en.

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