Two long-awaited accommodations have failed to come to fruition this summer.

The Ritz-Carlton, Portland

The highly anticipated Ritz-Carlton, Portland has canned its August 15 opening date. We first wrote about the 35-story building back in 2019, with its $450-and-up reservations and upper third devoted to luxury condos (penthouses: $8 million). The Ritz tapped chefs Pedro Almeida and Lauro Romero for its restaurant, Bellpine, and we looked forward to the culinary results. We'll have to wait longer, because last week, August hotel reservation options disappeared from the Ritz's website. Reservations are now available beginning October 15 (starting at $564). The Ritz points to supply chain issues for the "setbacks in the final stage of construction." (We'll note here that Portland Monthly's office sits across the street, and that as late as June, scaffolding still surrounded the sidewalks outside the building.) 

Kah-Nee-Ta Resort

In Warm Springs, two hours southeast of Portland, Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa also remains shuttered. After operating from 1962 to 2018, a grand reopening was slated for this summer, almost five years after the popular affordable family getaway announced its closing in a Facebook post. (We chronicled the resort's rise and fall, largely due to financial woes intertwined with those of the Warm Springs Reservation.) A late-spring storm crushed those reopening plans. According to Kah-Nee-Ta's website, "severe storm weather on May 19th ... resulted in significant damage to facilities and infrastructure." No updated timeline is provided, though it's safe to say that the generations of Oregonians who grew up visiting Kah-Nee-Ta cheer its reopening.