Doug Bean Wins MVB Honors from BOMA; PacWest, Liberty Center Win Building Awards

PORTLAND-The Building Owners and Managers Association held its annual awards ceremony this week, honoring a host of individuals and buildings in a number of different categories. Most Valuable Broker honors went to Doug Bean of Doug Bean & Assoc., BOMA’s 1989 president. Among more than 50 deals Bean closed last year were a 50,000-sf lease at Pacwest Center, a 40,000-sf lease at Airport Business Center and a 63,000-sf lease at U.S. Bank Tower.

Property Manager of the Year honors went to Sherie Nishikawa, manager of Ashforth Pacific’s Liberty Centre and Lloyd 700 Building. Nishikawa was integral to the leasing of space at Liberty Centre, 650 N.E. Holladay St., and in releasing some 25% of the Lloyd 700 Building (700 N.E. Multnomah St.) following the Port of Portland’s relocation to Old Town.

In office building awards category, honors for the best building over 500,000 sf went to the 16-year-old Pacwest Center, a 30-story Class A building with a two-level retail atrium position on Portland’s transit mall at 1211 S.W. Fifth Ave. Its distinctive sheathing is comprised of alternating layers of solid-sheet anodized natural aluminum and non-reflective gray-glass squares.