Oregon
Oregon Trails West Coast Neighbors With 1.1% GDP Growth in First Quarter
Oregon’s economy grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, roughly half the national pace and a fraction...
Bed Bath & Beyond and Container Store Open Only Oregon Co-Branded Store in Tigard as Lemonis Bets Big on Home
Bed Bath & Beyond and The Container Store have opened a combined store at 7417 SW Bridgeport Road in Tigard, the only Oregon...
West Marine to Close Tigard Store, Oregon’s Lone Casualty in 59-Store Chapter 11 Restructuring
West Marine will close its Tigard store in the Portland suburbs, the only Oregon location on a 59-store national hit list as the...
Scannell Properties Pays $6.5MM for Hillsboro Site, Launches 126,000 SQFT Spec Industrial Warehouse
With Intel’s foundry business staging a dramatic comeback and DSV already breaking ground down the street, Scannell Properties is betting that Hillsboro’s semiconductor...
Washington Tops the West Coast and Lands 4th Nationally in Resident Income, New Study Finds
Washington outranks both California and Oregon to claim the highest resident income on the West Coast and the fourth-highest in the country, according...
PSE Draft Plan Pegs Washington Electric Rates to Climb 142% and Gas Rates 392% by 2050
The utility’s reference case for the 2027 Integrated System Plan warns of binding transmission constraints, unsolvable model runs and mounting affordability pressure for...
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....
Wishcamper Opens 164-Unit Amity Orchards Affordable Community in Beaverton’s South Cooper Mountain
The $80MM multigenerational project, backed by $9MM from Metro’s voter-approved housing bond, is the second bond-funded community to open in the fast-growing area...
Palindrome Opens 121-Unit Vuela Affordable Housing Project Over Food Bank and Transit Hub in Wilsonville
The mixed-use development stacks 121 income-restricted apartments atop a food pantry, a SMART transit center and a community food hall, anchoring a public-private...
Skager Takes the Helm at Sterling Realty Organization in Generational Leadership Shift
The Bellevue commercial real estate firm elevates its operations chief to president as two longtime leaders step back from day-to-day command. Sterling Realty...
Kucha and Felton Launch Felton Stern Capital Partners to Buy Suburban Office at Cycle Lows
The new Lake Oswego-based private equity platform debuts with a three-building seed portfolio and a mandate to acquire institutional-quality office and flex assets...
Portland Business Coalition Bets on High-Speed Rail to Reset Oregon’s Economic Trajectory
Mayor Keith Wilson, the Portland Metro Chamber and major institutional players are pressing Gov. Tina Kotek’s Prosperity Council to make Cascadia rail a...
