CASCADE LOCKS — Port of Cascade Locks commissioners are keeping their fingers crossed in the quest to find a tenant for the Flex 6 building.
Port commissioners received an update from Anne Medenbach, the Copper West commercial broker tasked with marketing and filling the building, at the Oct. 17 meeting. The Flex 6 Building is a 43,376-square-foot building at 1400 NW Columbia Gorge Way. The port completed construction in 2021. It is zoned Heavy Industrial and can provide spaces for manufacturing, wholesale, light industrial services, community service, and production.
The property has been on the market for 21 days, Medenbach said. In that time, she listed it on several sites, including LoopNet, RMLS, social media, and the Copper West website. The metrics she presented to the commission show web listings have netted 1,568 views.
Medenbach has received two phone inquiries over the 21-day period she has marketed the property.
One of the two inquiries, she said, was an aviation technology firm. She couldn’t get more specific than that with the commissioners and couldn’t comment on the other inquiry.
“Aviation technology would be rad,” said Carrie Klute, commission vice president.
In addition to web marketing, Medenbach said she sent the listing directly to commercial brokers in the region. She plans to pitch the property at a commercial broker industry meeting in Portland.
Medenbach said there are calls for buildings between 20,000 and 50,000 square feet in the Portland area. With these calls, she pushes Cascade Locks because it is close to the metropolitan area.
Port Commission President Brad Lorang said Medenbach was getting the property out there.
“Great work,” he added.
The port originally built the Flex 6 Building for the Renewal Workshop, a company that rehabilitated discarded designer clothes. Owners of the Renewal Workshop sold it to a Dutch company, who opted to leave the port location and move the Renewal Workshop jobs out of state in 2022.
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