Portland
Seattle Cracks Top Five U.S. Downtowns for Stickiness as Portland Lags on Vibrancy, Gensler Finds
Seattle landed among the five most magnetic downtowns in the United States in Gensler’s latest global study of urban experience, even as neighboring...
Portland Construction Costs Rise Just 0.86 Percent in Q1 2026 as Market Trails National Escalation
Portland’s nonresidential construction costs increased a modest 0.86 percent in the first quarter of 2026 and 2.55 percent year-over-year—the slowest annual escalation among...
City Study Pegged Moda Center Needs at $505MM as Trail Blazers Seek $600MM in Public Funds
A city-commissioned facility assessment found the Moda Center needs $505 million over 20 years to remain operable, well below the $600 million public...
Cresa Portland Adds BC Group in Push to Build One-Stop Advisory Platform
The merger folds the 22-year-old development and construction management firm into Cresa’s Portland office, extending an acquisition streak aimed at occupier clients across...
PSU Selects Colas Development Group for $70MM Hotel, Conference Center in Downtown Portland
A privately financed 150-key hotel and conference center anchors the commercial bet on PSU’s Performing Arts + Culture Center as the project’s fate...
191,114 SQFT Cascade I & II Office Campus in Hillsboro Hits the Market
The two-building, recently renovated Class A campus in the Sunset Corridor tests investor demand for suburban office in the Portland metro’s strongest-performing submarket....
Oregon’s In-Migration Slows for Second Straight Year, Squeezing Demographic Math Behind Portland CRE
Driver’s license exchanges hit a five-year low in 2025, signaling fresh demographic drag on Oregon’s office, multifamily and labor markets. Oregon’s reliance on...
Newmark Folds Oregon Capital Markets Team Into Bay Area Platform to Channel California Investor Flow
The realignment positions James Childress and Kellen Kollmorgen alongside Steven Golubchik as Portland courts Bay Area institutional buyers chasing yield in secondary markets....
Central City Concern Acquires 160,000 SQFT Everett Building in Portland Old Town for $11MM
Nonprofit’s purchase of former NWEA headquarters lands at 77 percent below the property’s 2015 trade, marking the latest fire-sale benchmark for downtown Portland...
Portland Posts Nation’s Second-Worst Metro Construction Loss as Oregon Sheds 1,900 Jobs
The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro lost 4,900 construction jobs over the year ending March, ranking 359th of 360 U.S. metros in absolute losses and trailing...
Portland Hotels Limp Into 2026 as Downtown Distress Collides With Suburban Strength
National hotel performance is finally turning the corner, but Portland’s recovery remains stuck in the slow lane as international travel falters and downtown...
New Blueprint, Rabina Land $75MM Loan to Launch 250-Unit First Phase at Former HP Campus in Vancouver
Six-year transformation of 180-acre Vancouver Innovation Center pivots from office park renovation to ground-up residential, with another 1,000 units in the pipeline. After...
