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Jantzen Beach Center's owners plan a $50 million remodel, bringing 30 new stores and 500 retail jobs. They even plan to restore the 91-year-old merry-go-round. Target is moving across the parking lot from where its stood at Jantzen Beach Center with plans to unveil a larger concept store with groceries, similar to its location at Northeast Portland's Cascade Station mall. Edens, the Columbia, S.C.-based developer and mall owner, plans a massive overhaul that will reorient the mall from a shadowy-halled, inward facing center to a 100,000-square-foot, U-shaped design where shoppers will enter stores from the outside. The mall will be anchored by the existing Burlington Coat Factory, as well three other large spaces being carved from the existing mall -- two around 25,000 square feet and another at 12,000. Twenty-five smaller stores will be sprinkled in between the larger anchors. Read more at OregonLive.com.
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From Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute: OTRADI today announced its plans to open and operate a 13,000 square-foot multi-tenant bioscience complex in the Willamette Wharf building at 4640 SW Macadam Avenue. Slated to be complete in spring 2013, the OTRADI Bioscience Incubator (OBI) will house up to six companies.
MEDIAmerica, publisher of Oregon Business and Oregon Home magazines, announces a new retail website: HalfOffOregon.com. The website offers lodging, dining, recreation and many other items at half off their regular cost.
As you probably know by now, The Vernon Company is a national leader in the promotional products industry with annual sales of over $60 million. We are a family owned business, led by the fourth generation of the Vernon family.
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