Cambria Hotel Portland, Pearl District

Cambria Hotel Portland: Pearl District opened in August 2025 as Choice Hotels' first Cambria in the Pacific Northwest, a new six-story, 178-room build directly on the Pearl District's historic Park Blocks. Trade press flagged it as the only new hotel to open in Portland that year, and it targets both leisure travelers and the nearby Oregon Convention Center's business crowd.

The place

The hotel sits at 165 NW Park Ave in the Pearl District, directly facing Portland's North Park Blocks, a chain of narrow parks dating to the 1850s, making it, per the developer, the only hotel actually sited on the Park Blocks themselves.

The concept

This six-story, newly built property, developed by HighSide Development with Baskervill handling both architecture and interiors, marked Choice Hotels' first Cambria in the Pacific Northwest: the company broke ground on this hotel and a sister property in Hillsboro on the same day in May 2023. Cambria is Choice's design-forward upscale brand, positioned a notch above its economy and midscale chains, and the Pearl District location leans into that with design-forward furnishings and spa-inspired bathrooms rather than a standard branded-hotel room template.

The location does double duty for both audiences the brand is chasing: leisure travelers get a walkable, gallery-and-restaurant-dense neighborhood, while the 1.2-mile proximity to the Oregon Convention Center and 1,350 square feet of flexible meeting space give it a business-travel angle too.

Dining & wellness

Recess, the hotel's in-house restaurant and bar, serves Pacific Northwest-inspired dishes and craft cocktails from morning through evening. Rooms include spa-inspired bathrooms, and the hotel adds a fitness studio, a small marketplace for snacks and essentials, and pet-friendly accommodations.