Harrington started with C&W and stayed there for 15 years. In 2000, she was the first female president of the local chapter of the Commercial Association of Realtors.

Harrington tells GlobeSt.com she will continue to lease and sell properties for clients in the Downtown market. She declined to name clients or say how many of them would be following her to her new firm, but it is common for clients to stick with the broker, not the brokerage house, and local brokers in town say she holds client services contracts with major players in town, including Oregon Health Sciences University and Portland State University.

Her new office is up on Highland Road. Harrington says she may eventually bring on other partners but wants to keep her company small and specialized in client services. Harrington says she may also eventually move down into the Pearl District, where several Trammell Crow Co. brokers have set up shop after going out on their own in the past year or so.