page_title: Providence Park station
section_title: Public art
hierarchical_section_title: Providence Park station / Station details / Public art
caption_attribution_description: The eastbound platform (on SW Yamhill Street) of TriMet's Providence Park MAX station, viewed from the east, from 17th Avenue. A train led by car 223 (coupled to a Type 1 car) is arriving. The station opened in 1997 as Civic Stadium station and has carried two other names in the meantime, during periods when the stadium after which it is named had a different name (PGE Park, then Jeld-Wen Field). In the lefthand background is the one of the buildings comprising the longtime printing plant of The Oregonian, which at the time of the photo (August 2, 2015) had either recently closed permanently, or was in the process of closing permanently, the paper's owners having outsourced their printing.
context_page_description: Providence Park is a light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It is named after the adjacent stadium, Providence Park. The station primarily serves Providence Park and residential areas around West Burnside Street. The station, consisting of separate eastbound and westbound platforms built into city sidewalks between SW 17th and SW 18th Avenues on SW Yamhill and SW Morrison Streets, opened on August 31, 1997.
  Originally named Civic Stadium, it was renamed to PGE Park in 2001, Jeld-Wen Field in 2011, and to its present name in 2014. All of the renamings were the results of changes in the name of the stadium.
context_section_description: The station's southern platform (used by eastbound trains), on Yamhill Street, was located directly adjacent to the longtime printing plant of the city's major newspaper, The Oregonian, until the plant's closure in 2015 and demolition in 2018. As a reflection of this, TriMet chose "communication" as the theme for the public art at this station – known as Civic Stadium station at the time of its opening, in 1997 – "celebrating the importance of communication to the vitality of our city".
  The Yamhill platform features unique seating shaped like punctuation marks.  The nearby westbound platform features small bronze pedestals in the shapes of a "stump, capital and soapbox, suggest[ing] podiums for impromptu oratories". A utility building is adorned with stainless-steel panels etched with poems by writer Robert Sullivan on the history of the region and "great moments in Oregon free-speech history", Oregonian architecture critic Randy Gragg wrote in a 1998 review.
caption: The station's eastbound platform, shown in 2015, is located on Yamhill Street and is separate from the westbound platform. One building of the former Oregonian printing plant is at left.
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