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Prosper Portland Moves to Buy 30-Unit Concordia Apartments for $7.2MM

Portland's economic development agency is preparing to become a landlord for the first time under a new strategy aimed at keeping newer, well-maintained...

Portland Council Advances $449MM PSU Performing Arts Center, Clouding Keller Auditorium’s Future

Portland City Council voted 8-4 to move planning forward on Portland State University's roughly $449 million, 3,000-seat Broadway house at the University Place...

APANO, Our Just Future Open $58.5MM, 124-Unit Legin Commons on PCC’s Southeast Portland Campus

A coalition of APANO, Our Just Future and Edlen & Co. cut the ribbon on Legin Commons, a 124-unit affordable housing community on...

Swickard Floats Adding Observation Deck Atop Portland’s Big Pink Tower

A helipad that once welcomed some of Portland's biggest business names could give way to a public observation deck under new owner Jeff...

Vintage Aviation Museum Acquires Historic Tillamook WWII Blimp Hangar for $1 as Roof Repairs Begin

The Port of Tillamook Bay has handed one of the largest wooden structures in the world to a Utah nonprofit for a single...

Oregon’s Labor Force Participation Holds Above the U.S. Average but Stays Far Below Its Peak

Federal labor data shows 62.4 percent of Oregonians were working or looking for work in July, a rate that edges out both the...

Portland Sheds 26,800 Jobs as Apartment Absorption Collapses 76% to 2,150 Units

Seven straight quarters of job losses have drained renter demand out of the Portland apartment market, cutting net move-ins by more than three-quarters...

Schnitzer Sees a Smaller, Housing-Led Downtown as Portland’s Path Back

Longtime Portland owner Jordan Schnitzer says the city's downtown must shed a glut of office space and convert to housing and waterfront life...

Portland Council Lines Up Albina Vision Trust for 10 City-Owned Rose Quarter Parcels

Portland's council has tied the future of ten publicly owned parcels around the Moda Center to a single nonprofit, starting a 12-month clock...

Portland Apartment Pipeline Contracts to 1,953 Units as 2026 Completions Head for 56% Drop

Northmarq's latest research shows Portland's apartment development pipeline has fallen below 2,000 units after three years of contraction, and the firm expects that...

Oregon Lands on Battery Storage’s Map as Washington Towns Move to Block Grid-Scale Sites

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence named Oregon among the states driving pipeline growth in the largest battery storage quarter the country has ever recorded, even...

Oregon Joins a Faster-Growing Inland West on Paper, With Portland Weighing Down the Average

A new 21-year data model from a California investment manager takes Oregon in full as the fourth-largest component of a 47.3 million-person Inland...