The Race to Build Portland's First 'Small Arena'
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"This is a club. It's big, but it operates under the same basis as the Wonder Ballroom. We're going to dance." - Don Strasburg, president of AEG Present's Northwest division.
"There's nothing in between," says Monqui cofounder Mike Quinn. His company has been booking shows big and small in town since 1983, at the Doug Fir, Wonder Ballroom, Edgefield.
After years of declining in-person shopping, Lloyd Center's status as a symbol of Portland prosperity has waned with the rest of the country's malls.
The question lingers: how to get back to its economically viable glory days, fit for likes of Louis Armstrong?
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