One of Portland’s few Black-owned music venues is facing eviction from its location in Southeast Portland.
The Heights lounge and event space was founded in 2024 by local musician Jermaine Malone. Since then, it’s operated out of a 3,800-square-foot space on SE Foster Road. The lounge features a rotating calendar of events from comedy nights, to dance parties, to “secret” punk shows. It also offers event space rentals and was expanding to include a studio space for music recording and mixing.
Three times this year The Heights has defaulted on rent that Malone feels to be predatory. He now says The Heights is being forced out of the space by the landlord. Property records show the site is owned by Sandra McLeod, a real estate broker…