Retail Reader Fall 2011
"Oregon Sees Third Month of Modest Job Growth"

Retail Reader Spring 2011
Retail Market Recovers

Pop-Ups Become Permanent
Portland Business Journal March 18, 2011

Brokers eye ex-Video spots
"Brokers eye ex-Hollywood Video spots" From the Portland Business Journal - 03/04/11

Retail Reader Winter 2010
Retailers Continue Expansion

Retail Reader Spring 2010
The Retail Market in Portland Continues... For the last 17 years, we have been able to tell our friends and clients that “the retail market in Portland continues strong.” And we weren’t making it up. Portland Oregon was late to the national retail expansion. As a second tier city with stringent land use laws, retailers had a difficult time expanding in this market. But it finally caught on.

Retail Reader Winter 2009
Portland has it all. Third “Best Beer Town In The U.S.” (Men’s Journal,10-5-2009), fourth best “Youth Magnet City” (WSJ, 9-30-2009), third “Safest Major City” (Forbes,10-26-2009) and the leader in “Mobile Carts Serving a Range of Diverse, Innovative and Budget Friendly Food” (Bon Appetite, 9-2009). Portland is cool and every national travel, active sports and business magazine continually cite Portland and Oregon for their natural beauty, environmentally sensitive built environment and well thought out land use planning. That’s the good news.

Retail Reader Spring 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that “April Store Sales Seed Recovery Hopes” (WSJ, May 8th, 2009). After a long cold winter, where many retailers moved from “soft holiday sales” to “going out of business,” vacancies have increased significantly. Tremendous opportunities are now available to lease retail space ranging from store fronts on NW 23rd to big boxes in Tanasbourne.

Retail Reader Winter 2008
Editors Note: As we write The Retail Reader, we look at past editions knowing that we have always been able to open with "The retail market in Portland continues to be strong." It’s been an incredible run that is now being interrupted by announcements of declining store sales, retailer store closings and postponed retail projects. As marketing guys, we always try to find the silver lining in the retail market. However, to retain our credibility as experts in the retail real estate market we must change our opening line.