Nike’s downtown Portland store, Nike Portland, is back up and running, in more ways than one.

A sneak peek of Nike Portland reveals that the company is focusing on running shoes, apparel and history at its newly remodeled retail store at 638 SW Fifth Ave. There’s flooring made to look like track lanes, a landscape photo of Hayward Field at University of Oregon, and a museum-style exhibition of 50 years of racing spikes.

“We started on the tracks of Oregon and for us to focus on running in the epicenter here in Portland made sense,” Tim Rupp, Nike’s senior director of North America retail design and experiences, said at a tour of the renovated digs.

Closed since late 2023, the store is located in the historic Kress Building and reopens to the public Nov. 13. (And it’s not the only locall

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