DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Portland is a hotel in

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, in the United States. The hotel opened as the Sheraton-Portland Hotel in 1959, and in 1980 became the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center. The hotel has been credited with playing "a crucial role in the development of Portland's eastside". After an expansion in the early 1980s, for a time it was the largest hotel in all of

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Description

The hotel is one of the five largest in Portland, with 477 guest rooms as of 2020. The property also has restaurants, a covered parking garage and a conference center. The hotel has fifteen floors and multiple glass elevators. The outdoor pool, among few at Portland hotels, can accommodate approximately 20 to 30 people.

History

The hotel opened as the Sheraton-Portland Hotel on September 28, 1959, owned by the Lloyd Corporation and operated by

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. It was the first new hotel in Portland since the opening of the New Heathman Hotel, in 1928. It was renamed the Sheraton Motor Inn in 1963. In June 1980, the hotel was purchased from the Lloyd Corp. by the Thunderbird–Red Lion Inns chain, and became the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center on August 1 of that year, the latter part of the name referring to the

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mall, located across Multnomah Street from the hotel. The nine-story hotel had 276 rooms at that time, but a major expansionincluding the addition of a 15-story towerwas planned. When the expanded hotel reopened in 1982, it had 520 rooms and was the largest hotel in all of

. In 1989, with 476 rooms, the Red Lion Inn/Lloyd Center was still the second-largest hotel in the state, after the 503-room Portland Marriott Hotel in

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. In September 1996, its owner, Red Lion Hotels, Inc., then based in

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, entered into an agreement to be acquired by then-Phoenix-based Doubletree Corp. The merger closed on November 8, 1996, and the Lloyd Center hotel was renamed the Doubletree Hotel Portland. In October 1998, Doubletree announced plans to expand the hotel with a new 300-room tower to be constructed on the northeast corner of the property, in order to make the hotel a 'headquarters hotel' for the nearby

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. The addition was never built. In late 2010 and 2011, all Doubletree hotels were rebranded as "DoubleTree by Hilton". A woman was found dead in one of the hotel's stairwells in late 2014. A Washington man was accused of murder and arrested. The woman's family sued Hilton and the hotel's owners. In 2019, a man filed a $10-million lawsuit against the hotel, claiming that he was racially profiled during his stay in 2018. The hotel issued an apology and fired two employees. The hotel's operator,

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, said that the company has "zero tolerance for racism".

Reception

Lizzy Acker included the property in ''

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'' 2016 list of Portland's best outdoor hotel pools. In 2017, the newspaper's Grant Butler included the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in a list of "38 landmark Portland hotels that offer a window into Rose City's history, growth". He wrote:

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has said, "This bustling, business hotel maintains a steady customer base in meetings and special events, so you will find all the usual business-friendly perks and luxuries.... The large rooms, many with balconies, are well maintained, and many of those on the upper floors have views of the city and—on clear days—the mountains." Deanna deBara of Fodor's has rated the hotel four out of five stars. One guide by

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said "The best thing about this Lloyd District hotel is its location (and the warm chocolate chip cookies at check-in).... The rooms are, for the most part, spacious, clean, and comfortable."

References

External links

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