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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Ground Breaks for Business Park, Retail Complex

VANCOUVER, WA-The transportation and utility infrastructure gets under way for an eventual 85-acre business park and a 47-acre retail complex that will be anchored by a Wal-Mart.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on March 16, 2005

VANCOUVER, WA-Infrastructure work officially got under way here this week for an 85-acre business park and an adjacent 47-acre retail complex that has been in the works for several years. Located three miles east of Interstate 205 on Fourth Plain Boulevard, the 132 acres are the buildable portion of a 216-acre tract owned by Keller Trust, which signed a development agreement with Birtcher Development back in 2000.Last summer, Birtcher sold the retail land to Alexandria Investments of Bellevue, which promptly flipped 25 acres to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart plans to open a store on the site this year. The rest of the property will be developed with about 300,000 sf of additional retail after the necessary infrastructure is in place. The development will become known as Eastgate Plaza Shopping Center. Eric Fuller & Associates of Vancouver has the leasing assignment.The first phase of infrastructure development for Birtcher Business Center will open up about half of its 85 acres for industrial and office development, Birtcher’s local SVP Jim Edwards tells GlobeSt.com. Zoning allows for light manufacturing, distribution, assembly, storage, flex and office. The first phase of infrastructure will be complete by mid-summer and the first speculative buildings under construction shortly thereafter, he says. Lot sales and build-to-suits also are available. Ron Kawamoto and Garret Harper of Norris Beggs & Simpson have the leasing assignment. WRG Design and Ankrom Moison Architects are the engineers and architects on the project.Birtcher’s owner Brandon Birtcher tells GlobeSt.com that the park will be designed a la Amberglen, its 217-acre business campus in Beaverton, OR. “Like Amberglen, which we built with State Farm, it will be highly amenitized, including outdoor facilities for athletics and entertainment,” he says. “It is being designed for the employer experience.”

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