TechDex (apps|provider|hardware|var) Central Business District Avatron Software – One Main Place | 101 SW Main St | 4,834 SF Eastside Finishing Technologies – Airport Way Biz Center | 205 Airport Way | 14,077 SF Westside MIPS Technologies – Summit Building | 1260 NW Waterhouse Ave | 6,973 SF Prolifiq Software – The Round | 445 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘downsizing’
No Hooray For Hollywood
Posted in building sale, commercial real estate, downsizing, Forecast, headquarters, lease, office space, oregon, portland, rental rate, retail brokerage, square feet, Trends, Vacancies, tagged bankruptcy, blockbuster, cancel lease, Ch. 11, commercial real estate, downsizing, Hollywood Video, lease terminations, Movie Gallery, netflix, office space, redbox, rental rate, retail stores, sony pictures, square feet on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Between Sony Pictures laying off another 450 employees in March and Movie Gallery filing for Chapter 11 again, one would find it hard to believe the entertainment industry just came off one of their biggest years ever. But technology, maybe more so than the economy, seems to be the major impetus behind this latest round of [...]
On Waldenbooks
Posted in commercial real estate, downsizing, Forecast, lease, oregon, portland, rental rate, retail brokerage, square feet, Trends, Vacancies, vancouver, tagged borders books, closures, commercial real estate, downsizing, rent per square foot, retail space, square feet, store closing, waldenbooks on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Waldenbooks, a division of Borders, is closing 200 stores nationwide and eliminating 1,500 jobs. The stores have been closing down, 66 a year on average, since 2001. Following this latest round of closures in January 2010, there will be 130 stores remaining. The typical Borders store size is 25,000 square feet while Waldenbooks runs closer [...]
Who’s On The Move – Week Ending 10/09/09
Posted in commercial real estate, downsizing, Green Building, headquarters, lease, LEED, new office, office brokerage, office space, oregon, portland, square feet, start up, sublease, Trends, Vacancies, vancouver, tagged bonneville billing, celestial solstice, columbia shores, commercial real estate, coyote logistics, downsizing, ford building, hampton affiliates, hampton management, inflow systems, LD jellison, lease, lease rates, leasing, mccormick and schmick's, mentor oregon, new offices, office space, oregon jewish museum, radio popper, rate per square foot, renewal, SAP, square feet, wells fargo, Whipple Duyck on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Activity has definitely picked up post Labor Day, with many firms looking to upgrade their space now that rates are the lowest they’ve been in at least 3 years. The larger tenants are continuing to renew, such as Wells Fargo, but a few are making moves to newer space. McCormick & Schmick’s will be vacating the [...]
Big Tech Not Goin’ So Big
Posted in build to suit, building sale, commercial real estate, downsizing, Forecast, headquarters, lease, new office, office brokerage, office space, oregon, portland, square feet, sublease, Trends, Vacancies, vancouver, tagged AmberGlen, carlyle investment, commercial real estate, credence, cutbacks, downsizing, flex space, hewlett packard, hillsboro, HP, lease, leaseback, ltx, magnachip, office space, planar, portland, R&D, sale, square feet, sublease, tektronix, vancouver on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As many of you know, LTX-Credence made the decision to pull much of their presence from Hillsboro, Oregon last year. It started with the company announcing it’s sale-leaseback deal in January 2008. The two building portfolio (72,000 SF and 112,000 SF between the two structures) was sold to local real estate investor/owner Barry Menashe for a cool [...]
The Benefit of Few Fortune 500 Firms in Portland
Posted in commercial real estate, downsizing, headquarters, tagged absorption, chicago, downsizing, square feet, sublease on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sublease Space Chokes Downtown Chicago* Companies have put more than 3 million sq. ft. of office sublease space on the market in downtown Chicago through the third quarter of 2008, marking a three-year high, according to locally based MB Real Estate. Nearly 1 million sq. ft. of new sublease space was added in the third [...]