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Daily Journal of Commerce July 23, 2010 Video rental stores’ demise leaves space up for grabs By Nick Bjork When video retail chains Hollywood Video and Blockbuster began closing Portland-area stores, local real estate professionals expected to struggle to fill the vacant spaces.
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The Oregonian- July 10, 2010 Analysis: Redevelopment process for the Rose Quarter and Memorial Coliseum Begins Again By D.K. Row On Monday, another possible exercise in futility begins when a process to develop the Rose Quarter, including Memorial Coliseum, begins at a public forum at the Gerding Theater.
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Daily Journal of Commerce June 2, 2010 Retail Construction May Increase Portland's Eastside By Nick Bjork As landlords have become cash-strapped and lease rates have dropped, new and existing businesses have flocked to Portland’s eastside.
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The Oregonian- May 22, 2010 Interview with Urban Works Real Estate's Craig Sweitzer By D.K. Row Few people have a better ground-level view of Portland's identity and reputation as a place where independent creative businesses thrive than Craig Sweitzer, founder of the retail brokerage firm, Urban Works Real Estate.
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The Oregonian- April 17, 2010 Portland's Gerding Edlen: A Return to the Heights? By Ryan Frank & Jeff Manning Developer Mark Edlen gathered his sales team and investors in January 2009 to celebrate the opening of the most ambitious project of his career...
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The Oregonian- April 10, 2010 Mississippi Avenue reflects retail story in Portland By Laura Gunderson Over the past year, the historic North Portland district has welcomed first-time business owners, many of them women. Retailers backed by federal recovery loans have expanded, while experienced operators opened their second, third or even fourth shops on a strip where lease rates remained relatively flat...
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The Oregonian- March 23, 2010 Saks closing downtown Portland store, may open Saks Off Fifth at Bridgeport Village By Laura Gunderson & Mike Rogoway Saks Inc. is packing up its Gucci bags and leaving downtown Portland, closing its only two stores in the Northwest by midsummer...
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The Oregonian- March 17, 2010 A handful of Aces on Portland's Southwest Stark Street show how neighborhood is truly built By Steve Duin When the history of Southwest Stark and the Glamour District -- as it's known in polite company -- is written, the raucous early years of Portland's Gay Triangle will get their due...
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Daily Journal of Commerce March 12, 2010 North Portland: Landlords compete to lease space By Nathalie Weinstein Leasing activity in North and Northeast Portland is steady, says Urban Works senior associate broker Sara Daley. But that doesn’t mean landlords don’t have to work for leases.
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Portland Business Journal- March 11, 2010 Super Supplements coming to downtown Super Supplements, a regional health supplement store, is leasing one of the most prominent empty spaces in downtown Portland. |
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Portland Tribune - January 21, 2010 Road Project Worries Merchants By Peter Korn
What do you believe? I don’t know,” DeKalb says. What he does know is that if construction isn’t finished by the end of March, he might reconsider when he will reopen...
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The Oregonian- January 14, 2010 Front Porch Top 5 By Ryan Frank Despite real estate collapse, a revival for Northeast Sandy Boulevard?...
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Daily Journal of Commerce December 28, 2009 Real Estate Goes Back to Basics By Nathalie Weinstein As building sales and leasing remain sluggish in Portland this year, brokers are telling building owners, and each other, to get back to basics.
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The Oregonian- December 19, 2009 H&M Setting Up Shop in Portland by 2010 By Laura Gunderson Avid shoppers have been known to schedule trips to big cities with Hennes & Mauritz, a Swedish chain better known as H&M whose fans have dubbed it the Ikea of clothing...
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KGW Northwest News Channel 8 - November 5, 2009 Pop-Ups Help Landlords Fill Vacant Buildings News Report
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Portland Business Journal - October 23, 2009 Vanishing Act: Stores Sprout Briefly By Wendy Culverwell
Awash in a sea of empty storefronts, Portland landlords are enlisting temporary tenants to occupy space as they wait for the economy to improve. |
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Portland Business Journal - August 28, 2009 Merchants hope new light-rail lines bump up sales By Andy Giegerich After nearly two years of construction, downtown merchants and property owners hope Portland’s newest light-rail lines help revive deflated sales and perk up commercial leasing.
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Daily Journal of Commerce September 14, 2009 Block x Block: 323 N.W. 13th Ave. By Tyler Graf The Block 90 building, at 323 N.W. 13th Ave., was built in 1923 to serve as storage space for Meier & Frank stores.
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Portland Business Journal - September 11, 2009 Dining Dip Leaves Space By Wendy Culverwell As prominent restaurants close across downtown Portland, their empty shells will probably remain dark.
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Daily Journal of Commerce September 3, 2009 Recession Creates Opportunities in Nob Hill By Tyler Graf The recession has created a now-or-never situation for retailers looking to enter Northwest Portland’s Nob Hill neighborhood.
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The Oregonian- June 6, 2009 Retailers seek lease relief By Laura Gunderson When it came time for McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Inc. to renew the lease on its original namesake eatery, the Portland company faced the classic dilemma...
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Portland Business Journal - May 22, 2009 Park Avenue Woes Don' Faze Nearby Retailers By Wendy Culverwell Retailers clustered around the Park Avenue West Tower site hoped the building would deliver new customers when it opened in mid-2011...
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Portland Business Journal - May 18, 2009 Real Estate Roundup Of Note: Urban Works Blog
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Daily Journal of Commerce May 11, 2009 Percentage of Lloyd Center is For Sale By Tyler Graf Lloyd Center may be weathering the retail downturn better than other malls around the country, but that hasn’t prevented its owner, Glimcher Realty Trust, from putting a yet-to-be-determined percentage of the 1,400,000-square-foot property up for sale.
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Urban Works Press Release May 2009 Urban Works Announces Two New Retail Brokers |
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Portland Business Journal - April 27, 2009 Urban Works Welcomes Two New Brokers!
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Urban Works Press Release March 2009 Urban Works Recent Transactions |
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Portland Business Journal - January 5, 2009 When California retailer Mervyns quit operating in Oregon and Washington in 2007, it vacated a big box store near Washington Square. The property didn’t stay empty. A new retailer, Dick’s Sporting Goods, entered Oregon by demolishing the old building and building a new big-box store of its own design.
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Western Real Estate Business - September 2008 The Westfield Group is continuing the retail redevelopment trend with the revitalization of Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila, Washington. The shopping center underwent a $240 million renovation, which included a three-level, approximately 400,000-square-foot expansion of retail space.
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Portland Business Journal - September 12, 2008 Tough times in the restaurant industry are handing growing chain restaurants an opportunity to lease high-profile locations on favorable terms.
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Western Real Estate Business - July 2008 While there certainly has been a noticeable downturn in national markets and chain retailers, when it comes to Portland’s retail market, the overwhelming sentiment from developers and retailers is, “continue to expand, but proceed with caution.”
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The New York Times - July 4, 2008 Starbucks wants to get back to its roots to help turn around its ailing fortunes. It brought back the pioneering chief executive Howard Schultz to run the coffee chain day to day, and it has introduced a new blend, Pike Place Roast, that harks back to the location of its first Seattle store.
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