- Bilfinger Berger Moving to Northwest
Vancouver, Wash.— The German construction firm Bilfinger Berger will relocate its U.S. corporate headquarters to Vancouver, Wash., the Columbia River Economic Development Council and Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development has announced. Bilfinger Berger Civil Inc. has signed a lease to move its U.S. headquarters operations from ......
- Forecast 1991: the ridin' high real estate days
are over.
The construction boom of the 1980s, particularly in the latter part of the decade, seemed to defy the economic principle of supply and demand. In almost all major cities nationwide, building and construction lending continued it an unprecedented pace, despite signs of trouble ahead, perhaps the most significant of which ......
- Office leasing activity strong in Portland metro with no sign of slowing down
You don't have to be a commercial real estate broker to know that office leasing activity is looking up this year - but it helps if you are one. The commercial real estate community is feeling pretty optimistic about the pace of office leases during the last six months, as ......
- Savings found in Oregon Convention Center construction costs
Although the $116 million expansion to the Oregon Convention Center has been up and running for months, the cost of building it is still decreasing. Yesterday the Metropolitan Exposition-Recreation Commission, which manages the convention center, received a change order from general contractor Hoffman Construction reducing the overall cost of the ......
- Investors in new survey say 'I'll take
Manhattan'.
With solid market fundamentals, Manhattan rates as a top market for commercial real estate investment. So says the just-released third quarter edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' "Korpacz Real Estate Investor Survey." The survey reports that transaction activity is accelerating after a brief slowdown earlier this year that stemmed more from a decline ......
- Briefs
Mercer Island, Wash. — Express Construction has hired Donald Sheppard and Ryan Wright as superintendents. Sheppard, in the shell and core division, is currently working on a 29,000-square-foot office building in Seattle. He has more than 30 years of construction experience and earned an associate degree in business from Central ......
- Bellevue Booms Again
Just a few years ago, tower cranes loomed over the downtown areas of most major Pacific Northwest cities, symbols of a burgeoning demand for office space fueled by an ongoing economic expansion. Then the recession arrived, and the tower cranes came down — in some cases even before their projects ......