PerformanceBike.com.
Peformance Bicycle, America’s largest chain of bike retail shops, will open their latest location in downtown Portland.
According to the Portland Business Journal, Bitech Inc. (Performance’s corporate name) signed a lease for 20,000 square feet of retail space at 1736 SW Alder St. (the Biz Journal reported it incorrectly as SE Alder).
The location is just south of W. Burnside and a few blocks from PGE Park. Performance currently has 80 retail locations in 15 states and is a juggernaut in the online and catalog bike part/accessory business. This will be their fourth store in Oregon. They already have retail stores in Beaverton, outer east Portland (Mall 205) and Tualatin.
No word yet on when the store is scheduled to open. I have a call into Performance’s corporate offices and will update this story when I know more.
Bo Peele in the marketing department at Performance Inc. told me this morning that the store is scheduled to open in May and a grand opening event will be held in June. The store is slated to be a “state-of-the-art” design and will be the first one of its kind outside of their flagship store in North Carolina.