PORTLAND, Ore. – The main changes to Providence Park lie overhead as you walk through the venue’s new, eastside expansion, one that add 4,137 seats to the formerly 21,144-capacity stadium. It feels like a different park, now – a full one, with the tiers that extend three levels above reminding you that Goose Hollow’s 93-year-old landmark has caught up to its 21st-century brethren.
You can still see out to the street, though. You’ll hear the MAX pass behind the first-level’s new gating, see it from being new windows of Tanner Ridge, above. But on that ground floor, a curated display tracking the evolution of the grounds remains: from vegetable gardens at the end of the 1800s; to the pipe that was installed in 1916 to protect Tanner Creek from Daniel Lownsdale’s Tannery; to the early century construction of Multnomah Field; to the population booms of the mid-1900s Goose Hollow.