Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland articles from October 2006

Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland archives from October 2006

Living Room Theaters in Portland pushes movie-going to a higher level.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan The digital format that'll let Felix Martin and his partners easily and inexpensively put independent films on theater screens is as new as technology gets. But for the design of the flagship Living Room Theaters at...

Northwest investors turn attention to clean power.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Clean energy is a growth industry in the United States as the uncertain price and reliability of electricity and energy security concerns drive energy innovation. And the Pacific Northwest has become a hot spot for...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 2, 2006.
October 2, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff DESIGN Walker Macy has hired Derek Budzik as Internet technology/computer aided design manager. Budzik has a bachelor's in both linguistics and political science from the University of Oregon. Budzik, at the University...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: October 2, 2006.
October 2, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff WASHINGTON LEASE // Office * Edward D. Jones & Co. has leased 1,200 square feet at Centerpointe Retail Center, 8720 N.E. Centerpointe Drive, in Vancouver, from Better Foods Land Investment Co. Pam Lindloff and Nikki...

Workplace safety in Oregon goes up in smoke.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker An employee's medical marijuana card may be physician- and state-approved, but Oregon contractors say it's a prescription for disaster. Rigorous drug-free workplace policies - written by contractors and mandated on...

OR State University researchers' product breaks wood-plastic mold.
October 3, 2006... Byline: Justin Stranzl Wood science researchers at Oregon State University's College of Forestry say they've developed stronger, more affordable new wood-plastic composites, which could serve as a breakthrough for an industry plagued by...

OR State University's Kelley Engineering Center earns LEED gold rating.
October 3, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Kelley Engineering Center at Oregon State University has become the first academic engineering building in the country to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold rating. The 153,000-square-foot...

Bellevue-based MulvannyG2 Architecture recognized for China work.
October 3, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Bellevue, Wash.-based MulvannyG2 Architecture was selected as one of the 20 most influential architectural firms in China at the 2006 China Landmark Summit, held in Beijing. Eleven Chinese firms and nine international...

BBT Architects of Bend to design credit union headquarters.
October 3, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff BBT Architects of Bend has been selected to design the Tillamook headquarters for TLC Federal Credit Union. The 27,500-square-foot, two-story building will focus on sustainable design features and natural lighting. An...

Portland-based Walker Macy tapped for Sacramento river project.
October 3, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Walker Macy, a Portland firm, has been selected to design a new, $25 million riverfront promenade in Sacramento. The city of Sacramento tapped the firm to act as prime consultant on the Docks Area Project's riverfront...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 3, 2006.
October 3, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff LAW Tonkon Torp LLP group has hired veteran employment law litigator Robert L. Carey as head of the firm's labor and employment practice group. Carey, who has nearly 20 years of litigation experience, represents...

Portland's restored Wonder Ballroom to host architecture and design awards.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Irish cultural center. Boxing ring. World War II meeting outpost. Day care center. Basketball court. Up-and-coming music venue. Gallery. Cafe. The Wonder Ballroom has been a lot of things in the last 90 years, but host...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 4, 2006.
October 4, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff CONSULTING AND PLANNING MGH Associates Inc., a local land planning and civil engineering firm, has hired Maria Cahill, Karen Kelly and Amey Rivera. Cahill is a sustainable design leader with nearly a decade of experience...

Safeway buys out its Portland delivery service.
October 4, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Safeway Inc. on Tuesday said it purchased the 43.8 percent of online shopping and delivery company GroceryWorks it did not already own, making GroceryWorks a wholly owned subsidiary. GroceryWorks is Safeway's exclusive...

Oregon directly investing state funds in clean energy sector.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Now's the time to buy into the energy sector, investors say, and Oregon is among the first states to wholeheartedly heed the call. Along with California, New York and Pennsylvania, Oregon is one of four states to...

Biscuit fire timber salvage cost more than it made.
October 5, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government spent nearly $11 million dollars to salvage timber from the 2002 Oregon wildfire and got less than $9 million from selling the...

Oregon Renewable Energy Center names director.
October 5, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Tom Chester of Tucson, Ariz., was named director of the Oregon Renewable Energy Center. OREC has locations on the Oregon Institute of Technology Klamath Falls campus and at the OIT Center in Portland. Chester has worked...

Portland Real Estate Transactions: Oct. 5.
October 5, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * Byrne Specialty Gas has leased 10,000 square feet at 9570 S.W. Herman Road, in Tualatin, from Marlo Station LLC. George Slevin of GVA Kidder Mathews represented the lessee. Stu Peterson of...

Bonneville Power Administration names executive vice president.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff The Bonneville Power Administration has promoted Chuck Meyer to executive vice president for the new planning and governance organization at the federal agency. The governance and planning group will...

A conversation with Portland Development Commission Executive Director Bruce Warner.
October 6, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith When Bruce Warner began his tenure as executive director of the Portland Development Commission on Aug. 1, 2005, he had some idea of what he was getting into. He knew the Development Commission was an agency rife with...

Bob Gerding's built environment in Portland.
October 10, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan The future shape of Portland, says Bob Gerding, biologist-turned-scientific-businessman-turned-real-estate-guy-turned-developer, depends on how well the city - right now - puts plans to be fulfilled in place. "What was...

Oregon Supreme Court to hear liability case.
October 10, 2006... Byline: IBR Staff & Press Release The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could open public employees to liability claims, and compel their agencies to pay them. The court decided last week to consider whether a 1967 law...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 9, 2006.
October 10, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff CONSTRUCTION The National Association of Women in Construction Chapter 54 has announced the installation of new officers. The slate of officers are: president, Gloria Bruning of Anchor Insurance & Surety; president elect,...

Portland Real Estate Transactions: October 9, 2006.
October 10, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * General Glass has leased 32,500 square feet at Columbia Commerce Park, 6763 N.E. 59th Place, in Portland, from LIT Industrial Limited Partnership. Aaron Watt and Greg Nesting of Norris &...

Little-known Measure 37 deadline nears in Oregon.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Kenndy Smith For the last two years, numerous landowners, land-use lawyers, the courts and scholars have taken a wait-and-see approach to Measure 37. There's still a lot to understand about the measure, they say - which became...

Oregon law renders claimants landowners-turned-developers.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith With waivers in-hand, the next question for Measure 37 claimants is: What now? Although many have received the rights to build on their properties, they know that, if they hand over the land to developers, their...

Top U.S. home builder D.R. Horton says orders are down.
October 11, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Top U.S. home builder D.R. Horton Inc. on Tuesday reported a drop in quarterly orders and increased cancellations - and nevertheless relieved investors, who breathed a sigh of relief that the news wasn't worse for the...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 11, 2006.
October 11, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff DESIGN Giffin Bolte Jurgens has hired Alberto Rinkevich as project manager, Tricia Dickson as project architect, Adrian Mathieson as designer, and Jackie Gilles as architectural intern. Rinkevich has a 25-year design...

Portland chapter of American Institute of Architects honors 15 at 50th design awards show.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan The Portland chapter of American Institute of Architects recognized 15 projects in its 50th annual design awards celebration Saturday evening at the Wonder Ballroom. In the built category, honor awards went to Skylab...

Interface Engineering opens Bay Area office.
October 12, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Interface Engineering has opened a San Francisco office. The new office, the company's second in California, will be led by firm principals Hormoz Janssens and Joel Cruz. Current San Francisco office projects include...

Wilson & Shannon cofounder dies at 92.(Obituary)
October 12, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan A memorial service was held Saturday for Bill Shannon, civil engineer and Wilson & Shannon Inc. founder, who died Sept. 26 in Seattle at age 92. Shannon and Stan Wilson founded the firm, which specializes in designing...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 12, 2006.
October 12, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff CONSULTING AND PLANNING PTV America Inc. has promoted Connie Hotard to Vissim product manager; Stephen Hotard, Kean Lew and Kiel Ova to principals; Wolfgang Scherr to vice president; and Ben Stabler to Visum product...

Portland Center Stage has latest theatre-control technologies.
October 12, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan "Where are the actors' microphones hidden?" First-time visitors to the Gerding Theater at the Armory have plenty of questions about the new space. But it's the query about the near-invisible mikes that Portland Center...

Mazzetti & Associates moves to downtown Portland.
October 12, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Consulting engineering and design firm Mazzetti & Associates has moved into new offices in downtown Portland. The company signed a five-year lease for space in the historic Cascade Building at 520 S.W. Sixth Ave. The...

It is key for investors to find the right innovation from which to profit.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Innovation takes place at many levels of development, from the birth of a great idea to entry into the marketplace. The key for investors seeking to profit from innovation is to find the right place to get on board and...

Oregon-based LRS Architects principals join the high-rise condo craze.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Justin Stranzl Thirty years into their firm's history, LRS Architects principals Bill Ruff and Steve Lee are just now joining the high-rise condo craze that's gripped much of Portland's building and design communities. But ask them...

One-day Oregon conference discusses another angle of green building.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Justin Stranzl A one-day conference on moisture problems and indoor air quality could present to sustainable builders a side of green building they don't hear discussed often enough. That's according to the Construction Solutions...

Oregon businesses' personnel and management changes.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff EDUCATION George Fox University Board of Trustees has reappointed five members and added five new members. Gordon Crisman, Andre Iseli, Judy Miller, Bob Monroe and Bill Wilson were reappointed. Pat...

BBT Architects to design new Bend broadcast studio.
October 16, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff BBT Architects of Bend will design a new media center and broadcast studio in Bend for Chambers Communication Corp., a Eugene-based family-owned company that controls ABC affiliates in Eugene, Medford, Klamath Falls and...

Portland Pacesetters: Oct. 16, 2006.
October 16, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff DESIGN W&H Pacific Inc. has hired James A. Nelson as landscape architectural discipline leader based out of its Portland office. Nelson has more than 26 years of industry experience and holds a Bachelors of Arts in...

A look at some of the construction stories featured in past October issues of the DJC.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Theresa McKinlay This month, we take a look at October articles from the DJC and its predecessor, The Portland Daily Abstract, from 1907 through 1982, when Hoffman Construction Co. began work on Pacwest Center, a downtown tower. ...

Portland Development Comm. against measure to prohibit public agencies from condemning private land.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Nobody likes to be threatened, especially if it means there's something to lose. But threatening condemnation of private land, according to the Portland Development Commission, is how the agency gets landowners to...

Auction includes 9.35 acres at Portland's Northwest Industrial District.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Portland-based auctioneer Realty Marketing/Northwest is taking bids on 57 properties in Oregon and Washington. An oral auction to sell 20 of the properties will be held Nov. 11 at the Sheraton Hotel at the Portland...

Portland chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects to premiere sustainability documentary.
October 16, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The Portland chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects on Tuesday will premiere "Toward Sustainability," a documentary featuring design professionals, high school students and downtown Portland spaces. The...

Mississippi Avenue Lofts in Portland aiming for LEED gold certification.
October 16, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Mississippi Avenue Lofts, a mixed-use residential project in North Portland, is targeting gold certification through the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system. The...

New technology offers high-density parking solutions.
October 17, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Parking more cars doesn't have to mean making more parking spaces - supporters of mechanical parking systems say the technology could pave the way for high-density parking solutions in places where space is at a...

In Portland, Wedbush leader says no plans for retirement.
October 17, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Edward Wedbush has no mind for retirement. The 75-year-old president of investment brokerage firm Wedbush Morgan Securities still travels regularly to his company's many locations and visited Portland Oct. 8-11 to...

Bend to hold venture capital conference.
October 17, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The third annual Bend Venture Conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Tower Theater in downtown Bend. The event is geared toward investors and business leaders who want to learn about new...

Portland Pacesetters: Oct. 17, 2006.
October 17, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff DESIGN MulvannyG2 Architecture has hired nine professionals, including Gregory Miller as senior associate. Miller comes to MulvannyG2 having 22 years of experience with multiple Portland-based architecture firms. Miller's...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: Oct. 17, 2006.
October 17, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Office * Robert A. Mosher has leased 215 square feet at Oregon Trail Building, 333 S.W. Fifth Ave., in Portland, from OTB LLC. Sean Turley represented both parties. * Teseda Corp. has leased 4,366...

Portland brokers feel sting of housing slowdown.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith

Renovation roundup for Oct. 18, 2006.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter

Bend-based Cascade Bancorp announces 5-to-4 stock split.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Bend-based Cascade Bancorp this week announced a 5-for-4 stock split and quarterly cash dividend of 9 cents per divided share. Shareholders of Cascade Bancorp, the holding company for Bank of the Cascades, on Nov. 3 will...

City of Lake Oswego earns stellar credit ratings.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The city of Lake Oswego has received top marks for its financial management from Standard and Poor's and Moody's, two independent firms that review financial practices of companies and organizations. The AAA rating is the...

City seeks Spirit of Portland nominees.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The city of Portland is seeking nominations for its annual Spirit of Portland awards, which honor civic involvement of individuals, neighborhoods and businesses. Award categories are humanitarian, "Independent Spirit,"...

Portland Pacesetters: October 18, 2006.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff LAW Lane Powell has had 26 of its lawyers selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2006-2007. The Portland lawyers and their practice areas include: Anne W. Glazer, intellectual property law;...

Portland real estate transactions: October 18, 2006.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * Nazraeli Press LLC has leased 2,112 square feet at Airport Business Center, 6705 N.E. 79th Court, in Portland, from Cal West Industrial Holdings LLC. Aaron Watt and Greg Nesting of Norris &...

Renovation Roundup.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter Reno Roundup 1 Built in 1925, the former home of a piano store on Northeast Sandy Boulevard in the Hollywood District is getting a complete renovation. The three-story, 24,600-square-foot brick building will soon be the...

Brokers feel housing slowdown's sting.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Portland, and the rest of the United States, had the housing market to thank for its recovering economy during the last five years, as housing starts skyrocketed in what was until recently a monumental seller's...

Former MERC head moves to POVA.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Report Jeff Miller, general manager of the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission (MERC), has been chosen to serve as the president and CEO of the Portland Oregon Visitors Association. Miller will start his new...

Portland Renovation Roundup: October.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter Reno Roundup 1 Built in 1925, the former home of a piano store on Northeast Sandy Boulevard in the Hollywood District is getting a complete renovation. The three-story, 24,600-square-foot brick building will soon be the...

Brokers feel housing slowdown's sting.
October 18, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Portland, and the rest of the United States, had the housing market to thank for its recovering economy during the last five years, as housing starts skyrocketed in what was until recently a monumental seller's...

Former MERC head moves to Oregon Visitors Assn.
October 18, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Jeff Miller, general manager of the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission (MERC), has been chosen to serve as the president and CEO of the Portland Oregon Visitors Association. Miller will start his new position...

School, hospital effort in Oregon makes for cleaner vehicles.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan They may not be as sleek as hybrids, nor find as innovative a use for french fry grease as biodiesels do. But big yellow school buses, tractors and delivery trucks have started to make less of an impact on Oregon's...

Lake Oswego-based West Coast Bancorp profit increases by 11 percent.
October 19, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Lake Oswego-based West Coast Bancorp on Wednesday said third-quarter profit rose 11 percent as increased payment system and deposit service charge income offset declining trust and investment revenue. Net income rose to...

City of Portland to give $2M to efforts in areas impacted by Big Pipe construction.
October 19, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The city of Portland on Wednesday made available $2 million for projects that would enhance eastside communities impacted by construction of the East Side Big Pipe, which will manage combined sewer overflows. The...

New leadership, downtown Portland office for Trammell Crow.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Longtime Pacific Northwest native and Trammell Crow Co. broker Steve Wells has been appointed director of the company's Portland metro area operations. He'll be responsible for directing the company's local...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: Oct. 19, 2006.
October 19, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff EDUCATION Portland State University has hired Joan Barnes as assistant vice president of university communications and Mark Langseth as assistant vice president of university development. Barnes will lead Portland State...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: Oct. 19, 2006.
October 19, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * Fastenal Co. Inc. has leased 6,940 square feet at 5811 S.E. Harmony Road, in Milwaukie, from Wireless Connection LLC. Linda B. Folkstad of Folkstad Commercial Realty represented the lessee....

Conversation with a high school teacher who supervises a construction education program.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker From the end of the block on 33rd Place in Forest Grove, the job site looks like that of any other single-family home under construction. On the new foundation stands the front frame, holding a space for a single...

Interview with Oregon student attending Forest Grove High School.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Forest Grove High School senior Jason Cirlincione, 17, is one of 16 of Chris Higginbotham's students on the Viking House crew. He loves the program and plans to pursue finish carpentry after graduation next spring. ...

Washington-based Architect James Cutler to lecture on interior design at an Oregon university.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Architect James Cutler will give a lecture titled "The Nature of Interior Design as it Relates to Place, Culture and Experience" Oct. 27 at Marylhurst University. Cutler, of Bainbridge Island,...

Landscape designer Peter Walker to speak about his work in Portland and Eugene.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Landscape architect Peter Walker will discuss his work during free November lectures in Portland and Eugene. Walker partnered with architect Michael Arad in 2004 to win the commission for design of...

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski appoints the Union County district attorney.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Thursday appointed a Department of Justice senior assistant attorney general to serve as the Union County district attorney. Timothy R. Thompson was selected to fill a vacancy...

Oregon design and financial companies announce personnel changes.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff DESIGN David Evans and Associates Inc. has promoted to vice president both Ron Gasper and Craig Herman and hired Tom McCarty as director of information technology. Gasper has been working as DEA's...

Daily Journal of Commerce Real Estate Briefs: October 20, 2006.
October 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * UEI Inc. has leased 22,800 square feet at Parkside Business Center- Building 7, 8018-8034 S.W. Nimbus Ave., in Beaverton, from Gateway Columbia Properties Inc. Matt...

The China connection: Setting up shop.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith With 1.3 billion strong, the People's Republic of China is home to approximately 20 percent of the world's total population. To many U.S. companies, China's population is a resource they're eager to tap. But that's...

Pacific Rock to build Portland concrete plant.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Pacific Rock Products earlier this month announced an agreement to construct a new concrete batch plant on a 12-acre site in the Port of Portland's Swan Island Industrial Park. The construction material supply company...

Parkrose students get up-close look at Ikea site work.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter Doug Stetler, project manager with Nutter Corp., led a group of 20 Parkrose High School students on a tour Wednesday of his company's work at the Ikea project near the Portland International Airport. Working through the...

Real estate transactions for Oct. 23, 2006.
October 23, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE / Office * Independent Development Enterprise Alliance has leased 1,559 square feet at Columbia Plaza, 4300 N.E. Fremont St., in Portland, from American Proprty Management Corp. Steve Root of American...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 23, 2006.
October 23, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff DESIGN GreenWorks Landscape Architecture has hired Jason King as a senior landscape architect, Robin Craig as a senior landscape designer and Tim Strand as a landscape designer. King joins the firm with 10 years of...

Saving place with Portland's historic preservation zoning code.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Historic projects have their hurdles, and Portland's historic preservation zoning code incentives are meant to lower some of them. "It costs a lot of money to restore some of these buildings," said Peter Finley Fry, a...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: October 24, 2006.
October 24, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff CONSULTING AND PLANNING Hart Crowser, an environmental and engineering consulting firm headquarted in Seattle, has hired for its Seattle office Angie Goodwin for ground water sampling; Audra Inglish for assistance with...

Real Estate Transactions for Oct. 24.
October 24, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Industrial * THD At Home Services Inc. has leased 5,021 square feet at Airport Business Center, 7002 N.E. 79th Court, in Portland, from Cal West Industrial Holdings LLC. Kevin Murphy of GVA Kidder...