page_title: Clackamas Town Center
section_title: Construction and early years
hierarchical_section_title: Clackamas Town Center / History / Construction and early years
caption_attribution_description: Tonya Harding practices for the 1994 Olympics. Location of picture is Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Oregon.
context_page_description: Clackamas Town Center is a shopping mall established in 1981 in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area, located on unincorporated land in the Clackamas area of Clackamas County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is managed and co-owned by Brookfield Properties Retail Group and is currently anchored by JCPenney and Macy's. It also includes a 20-screen Century movie theater. In Fall 2020, a Dick's Sporting Goods store is planned to open in the former Sears space.
context_section_description: The two-level enclosed mall, with 1,218,000 square feet (113,200 m²) of retail space officially opened on March 6, 1981, built by Ernest W. Hahn, Inc. and designed by Seattle architects John Graham & Company. Prior to the mall's opening, the attached the Meier & Frank store opened in October 1980. Original anchors included JCPenney, Meier & Frank, Nordstrom, Sears and Montgomery Ward. There was also an ice rink; a five-screen movie theater; and a branch of the Clackamas County Library. Also featured were three large cedar sculptures carved by artist and woodsman, Dudley C. Carter, which were commissioned by the center in 1979, when Carter was eighty-eight.
  TriMet diverted or extended its bus service into the new mall, constructing a new transit center in the parking area on the mall's north side, which opened in November 1981 and by 1985 was being used by six bus routes. In the 1990s, Olympic skater Tonya Harding frequently practiced on the ice rink.
  The mall remained largely unchanged until Montgomery Ward went bankrupt and closed its store in 2001. Meier & Frank acquired the former Ward building and opened a home store in 2002 in the upper level, while leasing out the lower level to Copeland Sports. The ice rink closed in 2003, the original movie theater closed in 2005, and Copeland in turn closed in 2006. Macy's reclaimed the former Copeland's space and expanded the home store into that space.
caption: Tonya Harding skating in the mall Ice Chalet, 1994; the ice rink was removed in late 2007 during renovations
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