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Litigation Firm Expands at Pioneer Tower

PORTLAND-After entering the Portland market via the December 2001 acquisition of a law firm located on the 11th floor of the Rouse Co. building, Seattle-based Williams, Kastner & Gibbs is relocating and expanding to 14,000-sf on the sixth floor to make room for another acquisition.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on October 19, 2004

PORTLAND-Williams, Kastner & Gibbs is relocating and expanding within Pioneer Tower, a 16-story Downtown office building here that is owned by The Rouse Co. of Maryland. The litigation law firm assumed an 8,000-sf lease on the 6th floor of the building in late 2001 when it acquired James, Urrutia & Carlton. Now, having recently acquired another local law firm, Duden Neiman LLP, WK&G is relocating to the 6th floor and expanding its leasehold to slightly more than 14,000 sf of the 316,000-sf building.Tom Fellman of CB Richard Ellis represented Rouse in the transaction, and Tom Usher of Cushman & Wakefield represented WK&G. The brokers involved didn’t get specific about the lease details, but others familiar with the transaction tell GlobeSt.com that WKG inked a long-term lease that commences in January at a rate that starts in the low-to-mid $20s per sf. Fellman tells GlobeSt.com that the lease deal, which follows two smaller long-term deals with Bank of the Cascades and the public relations firm Edelman, takes Pioneer Tower to about 95% leased. Pioneer Tower soon will be in the hands of Chicago-based General Growth Properties, which is acquiring Columbia, MD-based Rouse in a $12.6-billion deal that should be finalized by the end of the year.Usher tells GlobeSt.com that in addition to representing WK&G in its lease with Rouse, he also is seeking sublease tenants for Duden Neiman’s current space on the second, third and fourth floors of the historic Gilbert Building at 333 SW Taylor St. A sublease is already out for signature for the 3,500-sf fourth floor, but the second- and third-floor space, which total 5,000 sf and are connected by an interior stairwell, remain available. The marketing rate is $12 per sf.

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