The Northeast Columbia Corridor, home to 19730 NE Sandy Blvd., has a vacancy rate of 3.6%.
PORTLAND, OR—The building at 19730 NE Sandy Blvd. has been the home of Boyd's Coffee Company for 40-plus years. Dermody Properties recently purchased the 295,361-square-foot industrial and manufacturing facility from Boyd Future Associates for $18.8 million.
The building is located in the Northeast Columbia Corridor, the largest and most active industrial submarket in the metro area, with a vacancy rate of just 3.6%. A strong employment base, a wide variety of housing alternatives and access to air, rail, road and water transportation make this area particularly attractive to both corporate users and institutional investors, GlobeSt.com learns.
“The property is in the Northeast Columbia Corridor, which is Portland's premier distribution submarket,” Phillip Wood, partner, northwest region, Dermody Properties, tells GlobeSt.com. “Dermody Properties intends to complete upgrades to the building so it will be very attractive to tenants who appreciate its strategic location and the benefits it offers. It perfectly fits our company's strategy of acquiring properties that benefit from our value-add approach, especially in land-constrained markets that appeal to logistics-focused companies.”
Managing directors Buzz Ellis and Paige Morgan led the JLL capital markets team on behalf of Boyd Future Associates.
“As Portland continues to grow, there is high demand from industrial users needing to expand operations to new locations in order to serve the booming consumer base,” said Morgan. “The buyer recognized the value of this location and the rare opportunity to control a large block of functional industrial space in a tight market.”
Of the 50 largest metro economies in the country, Portland grew the 13th fastest in 2017. Portland's GDP grew to $171.7 billion with real GDP growth of 3%, making the metro the 21st largest economy in the country, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Portland's largest sector remains manufacturing, contributing 22.8% to Portland's GDP in 2017, putting Portland second in the nation in terms of manufacturing's share of total economic output out of the 50 largest metros, according to JLL Research. The retail and wholesale trade sector contributed the most to Portland's economic growth in 2017, accounting for 20% of growth, and the arts, leisure and hospitality sector grew the fastest with real GDP growth of 6%, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
