8 Best Shopping in Northeast Portland, Portland

The Alberta Arts District hosts an arts walk on the last Thursday of each month. This quirky procession along 15 blocks of one of the city's favorite thoroughfares for browsing art galleries, distinctive boutiques, and hip bars and restaurants features street performers and buskers, crafts makers, and food vendors. During the three summer events, from June through August, the street is closed to traffic from 6 to 9 pm, and many more arts and crafts vendors show their work.

You'll find everything for the bird lover here, including bird feeders, birdhouses, a huge supply of bird seed, and colorful bird-theme gifts ranging from wind chimes to stuffed animals. There are several other locations in the Portland metro area.

This fabulous independent bookstore near Lloyd Center mall has new and used books on all subjects, including the Pacific Northwest. The staff is unpretentious and helpful, and there's a good selection of games and puzzles, too.

On the MAX light-rail line, Lloyd Center has more than 170 shops (including Nordstrom, Sears, and Macy's), a food court, a multiscreen cinema, and an ice-skating pavilion. It's a fairly run-of-the-mill mall, and in a similarly bland neighborhood, but it is the largest centrally located shopping center in the city, and it began an extensive 18-month renovation in 2015, to add outdoor stores and to greatly upgrade the food court, common areas, and ice rink. The mall remains open during construction.

This discount outlet of the famed and locally based athletic retailer sells products that have been on the market six months or more.

The urbane, free-spirited fashions carried in this friendly Alberta Street boutique capture the essence of the neighborhood—many of the short dresses, leather handbags, and unpretentious necklaces and bracelets are in the blacks, grays, and tans favored by East Sider Portlanders, although you'll find the occasional floral-print top or rose-hued handbag in the mix. Major brands include Pink Martini, Biko, and Spitfire.

Carrying fun and stylish designer clothing, you might describe Tumbleweed as "country chic," for the woman who likes to wear flirty feminine dresses with cowboy boots. There's also baby and toddler clothing in their children's shop next door, Grasshopper.