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These Are the Portland Area's 12 Sexiest New Hotels

Think we've hit peak hotel? Nope. We're not even close.

By James Stevens October 16, 2018

Porter by Hilton Hotel, 1355 SW 2nd Ave, Portland

Opened: April 2018 Just two blocks from Tom McCall Waterfront Park and a two-minute walk to the Keller Auditorium (a frequent venue for the Oregon Ballet and Portland Opera), the Porter Hotel by Hilton rises 16 stories with 297 rooms, an indoor pool, spa, and a top-floor restaurant called Xport Bar & Lounge, overseen by StarChef 2018 Rising Star award winner A.J. Voytko. (On street level, grab a slice at the hotel’s Chiosco pizza window.)

Photography by Courtesy the Porter Hotel

Loge Entrada, 19221 SW Century Dr, Bend, OR

Opened: March 2018 A 20-minute drive to Central Oregon’s Mount Bachelor and a mere 15-minute bike ride to downtown Bend breweries, Loge Entrada is the latest in a series of “LOGEified” Pacific Northwest motels from a Seattle-based company targeting younger outdoor adventurists. A renovated motor inn, the Bend location now offers live performances on their outdoor stage, hot tubs, gear rental, and lodging options from private rooms to hostel-style bunks.

Photography by Garret Van Swearingen

Atticus Hotel, 375 NE Ford St, McMinnville, OR

Opened: April 2018 A little over an hour southwest of Portland, McMinnville’s Atticus Hotel targets tourists drawn to Oregon’s lush, vine-covered Willamette Valley. Plushly appointed rooms adorned with local artwork may have you wanting to stay indoors—order in from the Portland-based Toro Bravo group’s only non-Portland restaurant, Bless Your Heart Burgers, located on the ground floor. Heading out into downtown McMinnville? A short walk leads to 18 tasting rooms and more than 30 restaurants.

Photography by Sionnie Lafollette

McMenamins Kalama Harbor Lodge, 215 North Henderson Dr, Kalama, WA

Opened: April 2018 When the Pacific Northwest gets a new McMenamins—the chain behind the Kennedy School and Olympic Club locations—people take notice. The family-led operation’s newest hotel, Kalama Harbor Lodge, brings the Columbia River port town of Kalama a brand-new 40-room property inspired, in part, by the Hawaiian heritage of John Kalama. From wraparound decks at the hotel, tucked between towering totem poles and the marina, guests can watch pedestrians on the riverwalk, or head inside to witness Pau Hana Golden Ale brewed onsite before heading up to the hotel’s Cloud Bar for a bird's-eye view of cargo ships trucking up and down the river.

Photography by McMenamins/Kathleen Nyberg

Jupiter NEXT, 910 E Burnside St, Portland

Opened: June 2018 In 2004, the Jupiter Hotel opened with 81 rooms jammed with pop art and a vibrant ‘60s vintage flavor. Now this urban adventure goes vertical right across 9th Avenue, with “big sister” boutique hotel Jupiter NEXT. Jupiter NEXT adds 67 rooms, 8,000 square feet of event space, and lobby-level “fern bar” Hey Love.

Photography by Christopher Dibble

Canopy by Hilton, 425 NW 9th Ave, Portland

Opened: June 2018 The new 153-room hotel in Portland’s Pearl District aimed to bring the thriving creativity of the district’s monthly First Thursday art walk inside its walls, with rotating exhibitions and permanent displays curated by local gallerist Elizabeth Leach. Not into visual art? No problem. Instead, soak up the local Distillery Row spirits stocked at hotel bar Canopy Central.

Illustrations by Courtesy Canopy by Hilton

Bay Point Landing, 92443 Cape Arago Hwy, Coos Bay, OR

Opened: Phase 1 July 2018; Communal Club House: December 2018 When overlooking more than 100 miles of secluded beachfront it’s important to have options: Should one stay in one of six modern-style cabins with front-porch views of Coos Bay Lagoon? In an onsite Airstream trailer with modern hotel accoutrement? Or in one's own RV, hooked into a site on the 103-acre property? These are the options at Bay Point Landing, along with crab pot rentals, a marshmallow-ready fire pit, and, some 30 miles north, the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.

Illustrations by R&A Architecture and Design

The Hoxton, 15 NW 4th Ave, Portland

Previously scheduled opening: summer 2018; Now: October 29, 2018 Plagued by delays and ownership changes, the nine-story Hoxton, located adjacent to Portland’s Chinatown Gate, is now oh-so-close to opening its doors. The space, formerly the Grove Hotel, was purchased in 2014 by Portland developer Bill Naito and renovated until 2017, when it was purchased in turn by European hospitality brand Ennismore. The 119-room building will include restaurant La Neta, which plans to offer an “aggressively seasonal” menu, and a rooftop taqueria called Tope.

Illustrations by Courtesy the Hoxton

Woodlark Hotel, 813 SW Alder St, Portland

Previously scheduled opening: late summer 2018; Now: December 2018 This two year-long renovation project fused two historic downtown buildings into one location, Provenance Hotel Group’s new Woodlark Hotel. Occupying the Cornelius Hotel (1908) and adjacent Woodlark building (1912), the brand-new hotel will take cues from the surrounding area with wood tones and mossy velvet design accents. In each room, guests will find examples of the work of Imogen Cunningham, a prominent 20th-century Portland-born photographer. In the lobby level, Portland chef Doug Adam’s long-awaited restaurant Bullard will sling upscale Texas-inspired cuisine, while a separate bar will draw design inspiration from a past iteration as a lady’s waiting room.

Illustrations by Courtesy Provenance Hotels

The Society Hotel, 405 E. Franklin St, Bingen, WA

Scheduled opening: summer 2019 Portland’s Society Hotel brings its brand of hostel/hotel chic to a riverfront site in Bingen, Washington, 65 miles east of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge. Similar to its Portland digs, the remodeled location (once the Bingen School) will offer both private and shared bunkhouse rooms, along with newly constructed cabin options, saunas, and a meditation dome.

Illustrations by Courtesy the Society Hotel

Hyatt Regency Oregon Convention Center, 375 NE Holladay St, Portland

Previously scheduled opening: late 2019; Now: early 2020 A hotel within walking distance to the Lloyd Center Mall, Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and the Moda Center needs to be substantial—capable of withstanding periodic tourist tsunamis. This 600-room monster will fill the 300-block space north of the Convention Center, offering 32,000 square feet of event space—and, the developers claim, adding 950 permanent jobs.

Illustrations by Courtesy the Hyatt Regency

The Toyoko Inn, SW 3rd Ave & Oak St, Portland

Opening: TBD In 2016, Japan-based hoteliers Toyoko Inn Co. announced the group will build its first West Coast location on a downtown Portland lot that's remained a empty brownfield for decades. Currently, the project proposes a 19-story business hotel with 486 rooms, an interior courtyard, and patio dining.

Illustrations by Courtesy Shutterstock

If it seems like Portland gets a new luxury hotel practically every month, well, you’re not wrong. Last winter, we reported on 11 Portland-area hospitality projects slated to open within the next six months. Eight months later, nine are taking reservations, with another three big-name projects are nipping at their heels. (That's not even counting a tight knot of newly announced West End hotel projects: a 33-story, 5-star luxury tower planned for the block of SW 9th and Washington; the 11-story Moxy Hotel, to be developed just across 10th; and a third already under construction at the razed site of the former United Way offices at SW 11th and Alder.)

Surely, we’ve hit peak hotel, right? Not so fast. The latest stats from Travel Portland show that while the number of available hotel rooms in central Portland continued to rise over 2017, occupancy rates held at around 80 percent.

Yes, more tourists means you'll likely be directing ever more people in the direction of Voodoo Doughnut. And yes, the lines at your favorite sandwich shop will continue to get longer with each rerun of the Food Network show that discovered it years after you claimed it. But consider the big picture. If strong occupancy rates hold into 2019, that’s great news for beneficiaries of the state’s visitor lodging tax: public safety agencies, infrastructure projects, and even emergency services. Also happy about that? Area restaurants, wineries, and retailers—sectors, among others, that benefited from the $5.1 billon in direct tourism spending that flowed into the Portland metro area in 2017.

One thing to watch as PDX gets hotter: solid competition for those tourist dollars from new destinations elsewhere—like Bay Point Landing in Coos Bay, Loge Entrada in Bend, and the Society Hotel’s planned satellite location in Bingen, Washington.

Scroll through our slideshow to preview 12 of the area's most interesting new hotel projects—seven newly completed, and five set to open by 2020.

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