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Opus Goes to Church, Walks Out with Office Park

GRESHAM, OR-Developer Opus Northwest convinces a religious group to sell more than half its prime industrial land for an office park, and then wins the bid to build the group a new complex on the remaining acreage.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on September 05, 2000

Opus Northwest is developing Gresham’s first class A office park on what would have been a very large church parking lot.

After four years of on-and-off negotiations with the New Beginnings Christian Center, Opus’ development director Bruce Wood has not only acquired more than half the group’s 84-acre property for the 800,000-sf Columbia Gorge Corporate Center, he’s won Opus the contract to build the church a huge new complex on its remaining land.

“When I first started for Opus, the church was only selling (20 acres) they weren’t going to need for their development,” Wood tells GlobeSt. “But over the years we’ve been able to talk through the issues, and they made the decision to, rather than build a huge facility with seas of parking, find a higher use that would met their needs and also benefit the larger community.”As a result, for right around the market rate of $5-$6/sf, Opus now owns 54 acres of prime industrial land between Northeast Sandy Boulevard and Interstate 84, in a market that is quickly losing its inventory of valuable, close-in land for office and industrial parks.

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