Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland articles from September 2006

Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland archives from September 2006

Pacific Northwest faces unprecedented change in way utilities distribute and manage power.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Electricity flows plentiful and cheap throughout the Pacific Northwest, powered in large part by the dams and electrical grid comprising the Federal Columbia River Power System. But as the region's population has...

Home Stores on 18th project in Portland gets $3.6 million fixed-rate loan.
September 1, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Cohen Financial, a national real estate company, has secured a $3.6 million loan for the Home Stores on 18th project from developer WDC Properties. The 24,000-square-foot, single-story retail building is at the...

McCall Oil becomes sole Portland distributor for SeQuential-Pacific Biodiesel.
September 1, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff McCall Oil this week announced it would become the only wholesale distributor for SeQuential-Pacific Biodiesel in the Portland metro region. The company, which distributes more than 50 million gallons of petroleum...

MAX light-rail yellow line, heavy impact for North Portland.
September 5, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith In 2003, when Esmeralda Caldera first heard about construction of the MAX light-rail yellow line in North Portland, she was nervous about how the project would affect her business, Exodus Spa, on Interstate Avenue,...

Oregon gains five rehabbed affordable housing complexes.
September 5, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff In an investment totaling nearly $13.5 million, the real estate firm Guardian Management LLC has preserved and rehabilitated five affordable housing complexes comprising 198 units for low-income families in Wilsonville,...

Developer begins building two new point towers on either side of Willamette River in Portland.
September 6, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Developer Joe Weston is in the beginning stages of building two new point towers that could reach Portland's maximum height limit on either side of the Willamette River. Weston has proposed a 31-story building near...

Pointing toward towers.
September 6, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith

Salem apartment complex goes for $72 per square foot.
September 6, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co. has sold the West Hills Village Apartments in Salem. The asset commanded $5.4 million. Charles Brazer and Brandon Emrick, brokers in the firm's Portland office,...

Snow job at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
September 7, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter Upon arrival at Crater Lake for a remodeling project, Tom Gerding and his crew met with a daunting sight. "When we got back in here at the first of May to continue our work, the snow was 23 feet deep," recalled...

Snow job.
September 7, 2006... Byline: Dan Carter

Portland company facilitates assisted living complex sale.
September 7, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Portland based RealNet Investments LLC has facilitated the acquisition of Royalton Place, an independent living facility, for $3.84 million on behalf of four tenant-in-common owners that each completed 1031 exchanges. ...

Interview with Steve Duh: A park perspective in Portland.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Steve Duh is working on filling a niche - one that seems as though it may already be filled in Portland - but one, he argues, that needs as much help as it can get. His new firm, Conservation Technix Inc.,...

Boot camp in Northeast Portland teaches apprentices tricks of the trade.
September 8, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker 2006 marks a record year for the NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center in Northeast Portland. The National Electrical Contractors Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 48 has thus...

Portland's design commissioners asking for is a better building.
September 12, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Ladd Tower could be the only large-scale building to ever front Portland's South Park Blocks, and the city's design commissioners are asking project architects to step up efforts at creating a city icon. "It's in a...

Notable exception.
September 12, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan

Piano, others join 2007 Pritzker Prize jury.
September 12, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff 1998 Pritzker Prize winner Renzo Piano, Paris architect Shigeru Ban and American designer Toshiko Mori on Monday were added to the panel for architecture's highest award. The 2007 Pritzker Prize panel will expand by...

Piano, others join Pritzker Prize jury.
September 12, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff

Over the past year, many Portland Development Commission employees have left agency.
September 13, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith In the last six months, the Portland Development Commission has posted 30 new job listings and two reopenings. And, since the beginning of the year, 17.8 percent of the PDC's entire work force has walked out the door....

Port of Vancouver unveils $3.2M mobile harbor crane to help unload giant wind turbines.
September 13, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Northwest renewable energy development got a lift last week when the Port of Vancouver unveiled a new $3.2 million mobile harbor crane. The crane, capable of lifting 140 metric tons, was purchased in part to unload...

A tough choice: Measure 48 could force lawmakers to choose between general services and bonded transportation programs.
September 14, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker A November ballot initiative to cap state spending could dramatically decrease transportation funding and place critical bridge, highway, rail and port projects in jeopardy, state officials say. If approved, ballot...

DJC to celebrate downtown office with open house.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce The Daily Journal of Commerce will celebrate its new publishing offices today in downtown Portland in Suite 210 of the Pittock Block, 921 S.W. Washington St. Readers can visit the office from 4 to 7...

American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon seeks entries for excellence awards.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Entry forms for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon's 2007 "Engineering Excellence" awards are available on the organization's Web site, acecoregon.org. The contest entry...

Architecture Foundation of Oregon to recognize 2006 Honored Citizen.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce The Architecture Foundation of Oregon will recognize Bob Gerding as its 2006 Honored Citizen at a ceremony Oct. 10. Gerding formed Gerding/Edlen Development Co. in 1996 with partner Mark Edlen. The...

University of Oregon student wins ASLA prize.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce University of Oregon student Kevin S. Mock took an award of excellence in the American Society of Landscape Architects 2006 Student Awards. Mock's project, "Creating the Cartographic Landscape:...

Commentary: More infrastructure, not MAX, is answer to fuel-price problem.
September 14, 2006... Byline: Tammy Bachofner Fuel prices have dropped a bit of late, but we'll never see $2-per-gallon gas again. In response, we're witnessing a variety of ideas on how to lower our fuel consumption and/or prices. Many of these ideas focus...

Commentary: Bankruptcy alternatives are paths to recovery.
September 14, 2006... Byline: Judith McGee For the past 10 years, I've served on the board of directors of William Temple House, a Portland social service and counseling agency. I've witnessed a constant concern for the working poor. When the realities of...

Gray Purcell hires project manager.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Gray Purcell Inc., a commercial general contractor, has hired Allen Murray as project manager. Murray has over a decade of experience in Oregon's construction industry, most recently at Western...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: September 14, 2006.
September 14, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce * Micro Systems Engineering has leased 26,532 square feet at Lake Oswego Commerce Center, 6024 S.W. Jean Road, in Lake Oswego, from Watumull Properties Corp. Steven Klein and Peter Stalick of GVA Kidder...

PNGC Power names new interim president, chief executive officer.
September 14, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Report PNGC Power, a generation and transmission cooperative owned by 15 member utilities serving territories in seven western states, has promoted Joe Nadal to interim president and chief executive...

Condos and consequences: A conversation with Jim Prichard.
September 15, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Despite talk of a slowdown in the national residential building market, Portland developers and contractors continue to build high-end condominiums like crazy. "If you look at the planned condominium construction...

Condos and consequences: A conversation with Jim Prichard.(Interview)
September 15, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker

Task force 'protectionist' toward building industry.
September 15, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker DJC: The governor assigned the construction claims task force to examine the issue from a consumer protection standpoint. How is that going? Jim Prichard: When Gov. Kulongoski created the task force, people who do...

Green building in the limelight this weekend.
September 15, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan The six rowhouses may look like typical Portland homes to the casual observer - until the casual observer spots the green roofs. The Southeast Portland two-and-three-bedroom row houses, a project of REACH Community...

Mead & Hunt hires senior project manager for Portland office.
September 15, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Mead & Hunt has hired Dirk Brandley as a senior project manager in its Portland office. Brandley will be leading an aviation design team and will be managing many aviation and transportation...

Cushman & Wakefield of Oregon Inc. hires two to lead retail brokerage services group.
September 15, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Report Cushman & Wakefield of Oregon Inc. has hired Lisa Fisher and Anne Hecht as directors to lead the firm's retail brokerage services group. As a top retail transactional team in the Portland...

Insurance industry sees value in offering discounts to green building owners.
September 18, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan The insurance industry is beginning to see the value in offering discounted rates to green building owners - and owners may see the value of their environmentally friendly properties rise as a result. In late...

City of Portland looks to speed development process with new plat review.
September 18, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Carving up land for development will soon get easier in the city of Portland. The Bureau of Development Services and Office of Transportation are overhauling the city's archaic plat review to speed the building process...

Glacier Northwest purchases Concrete Services Inc. of Clackamas.
September 18, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Glacier Northwest last week announced the purchase of Concrete Services Inc., a ready-mix concrete operation in Clackamas. The acquisition brings Glacier's total number of concrete batch plants to 12 in the...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: August 18, 2006.
September 18, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce LAW Jordan Schrader PC has hired Ron G. Guerra, Cynthia L. Phillips, Noah D. Ernst and Amanda L. Haas. Guerra, over the past 14 years, has represented clients before federal and state agencies...

Portland Real Estate Transactions: September 18, 2006.
September 18, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce OREGON LEASE // Industrial * Product Development Corp. has leased 9,777 square feet at 7926 N.E. Killingsworth St., in Portland, from Mt. Scott Industrial Park LLC. Tony Reser and Sean...

Preaching to the converted.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker A construction defect claim case recently filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court could redefine the rights of homeowners looking to collect for damages on converted condominium units. Claims litigation on new...

Clackamas-based barge company inks deal with Hawaiian shipper.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff U.S. Barge LLC, a company co-owned by Clackamas-based Oregon Iron Works Inc. and Vigor Industrial LLC, headquartered at Swan Island, has signed a contract for its first order. The company has...

Living Smart becomes reality for two Portland neighborhoods.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff Portlanders will soon get a glimpse of smart solutions to infill design in two city neighborhoods. Ground broke Friday in North Portland on the first homes to be built using designs from the...

Nike World Campus took shape in September 1990.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Theresa McKinlay This month, we take a look at news stories from 1964 and 1990, when Portland's TVA Architects (then known as Thompson Vaivoda & Associates) began work on Nike's Beaverton campus and Seattle's Callison Partnership...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: August 19, 2006.
September 19, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce CONSTRUCTION R&H Construction Co. has hired Kraig O'Connor and Brendon Warren. O'Connor has joined R&H's Portland office as a project engineer. He is a recent graduate of California...

Portland Real Estate Transactions: September 19, 2006.
September 19, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff OREGON LEASE // Retail * Max Tan & Nails has leased 1,385 square feet at Gresham Square, 160 N.W. Burnside Road, in Gresham, from Gresham Square LP c/o Falcon Real Estate Investment Co.....

Revitalization of Portland's Old Town/Chinatown streets is nearly finished.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan A nearly finished revitalization of Old Town/Chinatown streets takes its design cues from the area's diverse past - but it also opens the door to a future that's hoped to come. The $5.35 million project began in...

Looking back, looking forward.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan

Kennewick firm to rehab Bonneville Power Administration's Portland systems.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Cheyenne Electric Inc. of Kennewick, Wash., has contracted with the U.S. General Services Administration for $2 million to replace the fire alarm system and upgrade the building automation system at the...

Oregon Building Congress picks 6 for awards.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Five individuals and one construction firm will be honored for their contributions to education and development of the building industry's future work force at the Oregon Building Congress' awards banquet...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: September 20, 2006.
September 20, 2006... Byline: Daily Journal of Commerce Staff FINANCE Wells Fargo has promoted Tisha Stigler manager of its branch inside Safeway at 8330 N. Ivanhoe St. in the St. Johns area of North Portland. Stigler manages the customer service,...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: September 20, 2006.
September 20, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce OREGON LEASE // Retail * Cymer Inc. has leased 2,130 square feet at 3000 Building, 3000 N.W. Stucki Place, in Hillsboro, from Hemstreet Development Corp. Cliff Finnell of Colliers...

Oregon business a one-stop shop of clean-air technologies for West Coast trucking industry.
September 21, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker High fuel costs in recent months have prompted long-haul truckers to consider new fuel-saving technologies that reduce idling time and curb air pollution from diesel engine exhaust. But with installation costs of more...

Oregon business a one-stop shop of clean-air technologies for West Coast trucking industry.
September 21, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker

San Francisco-based consulting firm buys Adolfson Associates of Seattle.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Environmental Science Associates, a California environmental consulting firm, has obtained Adolfson Associates Inc., a Seattle-based consulting firm that maintains an office in Portland. ESA, which...

San Francisco-based consulting firm buys Adolfson Associates of Seattle.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce

Portland waterproofing consultants become Trinity ERD.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce

Evergreen Engineering relocates in Hillsboro.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Evergreen Engineering has relocated its offices to a larger space in Hillsboro. The company traded its old 5,000-square-foot space, also in Hillsboro, for an 8,000-square-foot space in the...

Portland's Gartrell Group to offer Map Intelligence.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce The Gartrell Group, a Portland firm, has partnered with geospatial business firm Intego to offer Map Intelligence, a graphic information systems product that allows generation of interactive maps. ...

Portland's Gartrell Group to offer Map Intelligence.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce

Columbia Non-Profit Housing hires executive director.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce Columbia Non-Profit Housing has hired Christine Hermann as the organization's executive director. Hermann joins Columbia Non-Profit Housing from the Portland Development Commission where she worked...

Portland Real Estate Transactions: September 21, 2006.
September 21, 2006... Byline: The Daily Journal of Commerce LEASE // Industrial * Hallander Printing has leased 2,068 square feet at 2430 S.E. Umatilla St., in Portland, from HB & B Enterprises. R. Daniel Bessmer of Bluestone and Hockley Real Estate...

A conversation with Gil Kelley, director of Portland's Planning Bureau: Charting a new course.
September 22, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Gil Kelley, director of Portland's Planning Bureau, is one of the rare Portlanders who can claim hometown pride. Raised in Portland since he was 2, he considered the city to be his home, even when he was working as...

A conversation with Gil Kelley: Charting a new course.(Interview)
September 22, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith

National Electrical Contractors Association laborers, others donate to GATE House work.
September 22, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Electricians with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48 donated 540 hours to light the Vancouver School District's new Gateway to Adult Transitional Education (GATE) House. The facility is home to...

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries: PDC could set state standard on prevailing wage.
September 22, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker The Portland Development Commission met Wednesday night to examine the application of prevailing wage laws to its development projects. Adoption by the PDC of a prevailing wage standard for projects involving...

Portland Pacesetters Briefs: September 22, 2006.
September 22, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff The landscape architecture group Mayer/ Reed has hired Ivy Dunlap and Ryan Carlson as landscape design professionals. Dunlap, certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental...

Downtown building on Portland's south end could be first project in extensive renewal effort.
September 25, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Within two years, the 1700 Building on downtown Portland's south end could translate to home for 300-odd condo dwellers. But for the project team, the building means the first piece of what could be an extensive renewal...

Energy facility being built on Oregon State University's west side.
September 25, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Oregon State University's in-the-works Energy Center will serve a much-needed function for the school's Corvallis campus. The existing plant has churned heat to the campus for more than 75 years, and the new facility...

The condo tradeoff in Portland.
September 26, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Portland's condo market is booming despite a national dip in housing values, state economists say, but the high-end developments are making it harder for the average Oregonian to purchase property in the central city....

The condo tradeoff.
September 26, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker

Belatedly, Bend gets citywide bus system.
September 26, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Starting Wednesday, Bend will no longer be the largest city west of the Mississippi without a public transportation system. After six years of deliberation and planning, the city will begin its new fixed-route bus...

Floor-area-ratio transfers enter the lexicon of building big in Portland.
September 27, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Floor-area-ratio transfers have entered the lexicon of building big in Portland - and more exploration of what FAR transfers might mean for the city is still to come as a FAR Working Group gets under way. Right now,...

FAR to go.
September 27, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan

Portland Armory scores platinum rating before completion.
September 27, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff It's official - the Portland Armory has earned a LEED platinum rating. The new home of Portland Center Stage and the Bob and Diana Gerding Theater earned 53 points in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design...

Armory scores platinum rating before completion.
September 27, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff

Biofuels demand flows from Portland.
September 28, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Mid-afternoon Tuesday, the city of Portland's Water Bureau fleet maintenance crew gathered to watch as B99 - a blend of 99 percent biodiesel and 1 percent traditional diesel - flowed silently from a StarOil tanker...

Biofuels demand flows from portland.
September 28, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker

Open house on green design comes to Bend.
September 28, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff Central Oregon architects, builders and design professionals are invited to learn about incorporating eco-friendly materials into their new construction or remodeling projects at an open house in Bend. The event,...

A conversation with Andy MacRitchie: Head of the headhunters.(Interview)
September 29, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Smith Andy MacRitchie wants to set the record straight on Portland's new economic development corporation. First, it's not affiliated with the Portland Business Alliance, although the group helped form the organization....

Dept. of Homeland Security denies Columbia River ports security funding.
September 29, 2006... Byline: Libby Tucker Columbia River ports came up short this week in requests for U.S. Department of Homeland Security port security grants. The federal agency will distribute more than $168 million in port security grants in 2006. West...

Clean energy expo at OCC shines light on Northwest solar.
September 29, 2006... Byline: Alison Ryan Home improvement tips and tricks are in the spotlight during this weekend's Home Improvement and Remodeling Show, but just down the hall at the Oregon Convention Center, clean energy solutions are what will draw a...

Portland Real Estate Briefs: September 29, 2006.
September 29, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff OREGON LEASE // Office * Concorde Career Colleges Inc. has leased 986 square feet at Lloyd Plaza, 1425 N.E. Irving St., in Portland, from 1201 Lloyd LLC. Mark Friel of NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson represented the lessor....

GreenWorks PC appoints national president for landscape architectural registration boards.
September 29, 2006... Byline: DJC Staff GreenWorks PC has appointed Jim Figurski as the national president for the council of landscape architectural registration boards. He has served the past year as the national vice president/president elect. He takes over...