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In Portland, the Lloyd Center’s in-mall ice rink—home for nearly six decades to Tally and Jerry Leonard—closed on Saturday, ending a beloved era as the couple performed one final routine for a grateful crowd.
After nearly 60 years together, Jerry and Tally Leonard will take one final spin at Portland’s Lloyd Center rink before it closes for redevelopment.
Jerry and Tally Leonard, who met skating at Portland's Lloyd Center nearly six decades ago, now face the rink's closure as the mall is redeveloped, ending a beloved era of open-skate crowds and a lasting romance.
Lloyd Center in Northeast Portland will close by the end of the year as owners move to demolish the mall and redevelop the site into 14 parcels, prompting frustration from local businesses and longtime patrons who value the mall as a community space. While supporters hope for adaptive reuse and new amenities in the future, no official closing date beyond year-end has been set and planners say there will be no more holiday seasons at the mall.
Portland’s Lloyd Center will be demolished this winter as developers plan an 18-block redevelopment in the Lloyd District that adds housing (affordable and market-rate), retail storefronts, transit-connected streets, and six acres of publicly accessible open space. A permanent ice rink is not included. Tenants such as Floating World Comics and Star Tropics Pinball Museum will be displaced with at least three months’ notice, and supporters of the Save Lloyd campaign are rallying residents ahead of a Feb. 5 design commission hearing to try to preserve the mall’s legacy.
Two Portland police officers were shot in Northeast Portland near Lloyd Center, prompting a large police response and an ongoing manhunt for the shooter in the area around Northeast 17th Avenue and Clackamas Street.