Rapaport plans new eastbank music venue

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Anyone else see this? This is almost as exciting to me as the Skylab proposal.

BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF | 503-243-2122

[July 23rd, 2008] Let’s rock: Developers Randy Rappaport (known for loft projects on Southeast Belmont and Division streets) and Brad Malsin (Eastbank Commerce Center) want to develop a new 2,000-seat live performance venue on the Willamette’s east bank. Design is complete for a $7 million building and the developers are talking to Mayor-elect Sam Adams about some public financing. No timetable yet for construction. But Rappaport says, “We’ll have a minimalist, abstract exterior and the interior is going to have a monolithic, organic feel. Like you’re inside a whale.”