Following a $36.1 million renovation project[2] that lasted from 2002 to 2006, the building home to the theater company Portland Center Stage which produces 11 productions each season.

[2][3] The First Regiment Armory in Portland was completed in 1888, but was immediately deemed too small, and so an Annex was commissioned to give troops stationed there more space for maneuvers.

[2][3] Constructed in 1891, the annex was built in the Romanesque Revival style that was popular from 1880 to 1890 and is identified by massive stone cladding and semi-circular arcades.

[2] As a result, the building hosted exhibitions of early motion picture machines, conventions, reunions, recitals, concerts, and speeches by presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

[3] In 1968, the Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company purchased the entire complex, demolishing the original Armory for a parking lot and using the Annex as a warehouse.

[3] The Armory was the last piece of property in Portland's Pearl District Brewery Blocks to be redeveloped.