Colliers Sweeps SIOR Transaction of the Year Honors

PORTLAND-Colliers International brokers swept the Transaction of the Year honors handed out this year by the Portland chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors.

In the industrial category, Paul Breuer and Jeff Brooks won for their involvement in the $185-million sale of the Fujitsu chip fabrication plant in Gresham, Ore. to Microchip Technology. In the office category, Colliers’ Gordon King, Mike Holzgang and Brad Christiansen won for their work accommodating Liberty Northwest Insurance in Ashforth Pacific’s buildings in the Lloyd District.

The Fujitsu property includes 826,000-sf of buildings and 75 acres of land available for future development. In 2000, the 12-year-old plant received $350 million in upgrades to convert all production lines to flash memory, the memory used for cell phones and other handheld electronic devices.