PORTLAND, ORE. — Rosendin Electric has leased 91,650 square feet of office space at Majestic Brookwood Business Park in the Portland submarket of Hillsboro. The park is located at 23677 N.W. Huffman St. The space will serve as Rosendin’s division headquarters. Majestic Brookwood Business Park is a master-planned, 73-acre commercial development that will include up to 1 million square feet of industrial, retail and office space. CBRE’s Scott Weigel represented Rosendin. Colliers’ Mike Thomas and Mark McClung represented the landlord, Majestic Realty Co., in this transaction.
TUALATIN, ORE. — Superwinch has leased 38,812 square feet of factory space at Koch Corporate Center in Tualatin. The industrial park is situated at SW 115th Avenue and Tualatin-Sherwood Road. The designer, manufacturer and marketer of winch systems and accessories is building a design and manufacturing facility to complement existing facilities in Connecticut and the United Kingdom. The new facility will become Superwinch’s corporate headquarters. It will include both assembly and distribution of new product abilities. The new facility is scheduled for completion this April, with Superwinch taking occupancy the following month. CBRE’s Cara Nolan represented Superwinch. The landlord is PacTrust.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Portland Housing Bureau has acquired The Ellington, a 263-unit apartment community in Portland, for $47 million. The community is located at 1610 N.E. 66th Ave. The property is adjacent to the Rose City Golf Course. The sellers were Guardian Real Estate Services and partner Broadreach Capital Partners. HFF’s Ira Virden and director Carrie Kahn executed the sale.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Land and Houses has acquired the 284-unit Yard Apartment Tower in Portland for $126.7 million. The community is located at 22 N.E. 2nd Ave. in a former industrial neighborhood on Portland’s east side. The 21-story tower is part of the Portland Development Commission’s Burnside Bridgehead Master Plan, an effort to revitalize entrepreneurial development in Portland. Yard was completed in 2016. It was sold pre-stabilization at 50 percent occupancy. Land and Houses is a subsidiary of a Bangkok-based investment firm. This is its first investment in Portland. Philip Saglimbeni and Elizabeth Davis of Institutional Property Advisors represented the buyer. Davis also represented the seller, Block 67 LLC, with assistance from Pete Shelton and Kim Grant.
PORTLAND, ORE. — A Santa Clara, Calif.-based private investment group has purchased the 58-unit Muse apartment complex in Portland for $20.1 million. The community is located at 1313 N.W. 19th Ave. The Muse was built in late 2016. Jordan Carter, Clay Newton, Tyler Linn and Joe DeJager of Kidder Mathews executed the sale. The seller was Gerding Edlen.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Zeller Realty Group has purchased the 298,176-square-foot Umpqua Bank Plaza in Downtown Portland. The building sold for $90 million, according to Portland Business Journal. The Class A office tower is situated on the western shore of the Willamette River. The property was originally developed in 1974 but underwent renovations in 2015. The space was 97 percent leased at the time of sale. Lana Baldock, Dan Swift and Havilah Coady of Cushman & Wakefield will handle leasing at the property.
CORVALLIS, ORE. — EdR has acquired The Retreat at Corvallis, a 1,016-bed community located near the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. Built in 2015, the property offers a mix of one-, two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom units in both traditional apartment configurations and cottages. Community amenities include a clubhouse, resort-style pool, cardio room, weight room, yoga studio, bike storage, complimentary coffee bar, indoor golf simulator, game room, computer lab, tanning and green space. The community is 95 percent occupied for the current school year.
PORTLAND, ORE. — Second City Real Estate has acquired a 72,572-square-foot office building in Portland’s Lloyd District for $14.5 million. The building, known as 1500 Plaza, is located at 1500 N.E. Irving St. It was built in 1964 and designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The property is currently 95 percent leased. More than one quarter of the space has already been converted into modern, creative workspace. JLL’s Paige Morgan and Buzz Ellis executed the sale. The seller was Swift Real Estate Partners.
PORTLAND, ORE. — A joint venture between American Realty Advisors (ARA) and Unico Properties LLC has purchased the 23-story Congress Center in Portland for an undisclosed sum. The office tower is located at 1001 S.W. 5th Ave. Congress Center was built in 1980. The JV plans to upgrade the lobby, fitness center and bike parking. It will also add amenities like an outdoor deck to encourage creativity and collaboration among tenants. HFF’s Nick Kucha and Michael Leggett represented the seller. The firm’s Tom Wilson and Erica Christensen assisted the JV in securing a floating-rate acquisition loan through RBC Capital Markets.
PORTLAND, ORE. — The Ashforth Co. and an unnamed institutional investor partner have sold Pacwest Center, a 30-story, 545,000-square-foot office tower in Portland’s central business district. The $170 million sale of Pacwest Center is Portland’s largest office transaction in 2016, according to HFF, which represented the seller in the transaction. HFF also procured the buyer, LPC Realty Advisors I LP, on behalf of a pension fund client. LPC Realty Advisors is an investment advisory affiliate of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. Completed in 1984, Pacwest Center is located at 1211 S.W. 5th Ave. within the 57-block Transit Mall, which has more than 1 million square feet of development currently underway. The office tower features parking for 413 vehicles through valet and self-parking and is an Energy Star-rated building. The new ownership plans to renovate PacWest Center by modernizing the common spaces, main lobby and shared amenities. The tower was 76 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Merrill Lynch, Markowitz Herbold, Schwabe, Key Bank of Oregon and Perkins & Co. Nick Kucha and Michael Leggett led the HFF investment sales team. Based in Stamford, Conn., The Ashforth Co. owns, develops and invests in assets on the East …