Planar Systems' 72,000-SF Build-to-Suit Underway

HILLSBORO, OR-Birtcher Real Estate Group is working toward a June 2002 completion for a 72,000-sf build-to-suit project for Planar Systems, a maker of display systems that signed a 10-year, $15-million lease deal late last summer.

The class A office project is rising at Birtcher’s 1.3-million-sf AmberGlen Business Center located just west of NW 185th on Cornell Road. Including roadway extensions, Birtcher says it is spending $12 million on the project. Ankrom Moisan is the architect. Perlo McCormack Pacific is the general contractor.

Planar is consolidating office personnel currently located in a few different buildings inside and just outside the park. Much of the personnel are currently housed in an aging class B building the company owns in the former Oregon Graduate Center Science Park adjacent to AmberGlen.