The Nov. 14 opinion piece by Carl Abbott, “Lloyd Center was a mall for a different moment” was insightful and informative, but he concludes it was doomed to fail with the advent of online shopping. After the second corporate ownership took over Lloyd Center, they destroyed the indoor-outdoor layout by removing beautiful metal art sculptures and fountains and enclosing it to create a sterile, generic-looking indoor mall. Once the intimate ambiance was removed, Lloyd Center was never the same experience again.
My parents moved to the Irvington neighborhood in 1966 when housing was still affordable. I attended Grant High School and made many shopping trips to Lloyd Center while it was still an enjoyable destination. I met former Trail Blazers player (now deceased) Maurice Lucas at the only health food store in Lloyd Center shortly after the team became NBA champions in the summer of 1977. A new Major League Baseball park there would be the best use of acres of real estate. Who wants to look at unsightly Amazon warehouses?
Marvin Thiessen, Portland
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