June 05 2021
A century and a quarter in Sellwood and Westmoreland can be traced by following one family
Westmoreland in the 1950s and 1960s found young people spending their Saturday afternoons at the Moreland Theater, while mom and dad played cards with their next-door neighbors, and when teenagers went dancing in sock hops at the local high school. And everyone went to church on Sunday.
For a ten-year-old girl like Marcia Singer, that was a time to appreciate the burst of colorful flowers and wonderful smells that came from Crantford s Flower Shop on the corner of S.E. Milwaukie Avenue and Bybee Boulevard…a time to ride bikes with neighborhood girlfriends to summer concerts at Sellwood Park…and to rise early in the morning for ballet and tap dance classes at the Sellwood Community Center at Spokane and S.E. 15th.
A home in Johns Landing topped all Winter Garden and Oakland residential real-estate transactions from May 1 to 7.
The home at 520 Largovista Drive, Oakland, sold May 7, for $1,623,453. Built in 2020, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 5,222 square feet of living area. The price per square foot is $310.89. Days on market: 45.
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The home at 520 Largovista Drive, Oakland, sold May 7, for $1,623,453. Built in 2020, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 5,222 square feet of living area. The price per square foot is $310.89. Days on market: 45.
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AVALON ESTATES
The home at 11036 Avalon Ridge Way, Winter Garden, sold May 4, for $620,000. Built in 2002, it has three bedrooms, two-and-one-half baths and 2,046 square feet of living area. The price per square foot is $303.03. Days on market: 94.
Have Portland’s luxury condos lost their luster? People want less density, more sanctuary
Updated 8:20 PM;
Today 6:30 PM
Pearl District luxury condos are selling for less due to people not wanting to live in Portland s urban core during the coronavirus pandemic.Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty/Ruum Media
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Not every home for sale is flying off the market at record prices, despite the frustration felt by hopeful buyers. Interest in downtown Portland’s luxury condos has fallen so much that next-door neighbors are snapping up an adjacent unit to expand their living space, a condo combining concept seen in Manhattan and San Francisco, but new to Portland.
3611 SE 20th Ave., Suite 300, Portland, OR 97202
“We have a long history of building successful projects in the Pacific Northwest and we’re proud to be a part of an industry that helps shape the growth of Portland,” says Mark Bruun, president of Lorentz Bruun Construction.
Norwegian immigrant Lorentz Bruun founded his namesake company in 1946 when his new hometown was experiencing a post-war construction boom. Over 75 years, stewardship of the family-owned company has been handed down twice. Lorentz’s son Kelly took the reins in 1973, guiding and growing the business for almost 30 years before handing it over to his sons, Mark, Kurt and Erik.
Autodesk pays $1 billion for Portland software company Innovyze
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
A low-profile Portland software company, Innovyze, had a very high-profile sale this week.
California-based Autodesk will pay $1 billion for Innovyze, integrating the Portland company into Autodesk’s portfolio of product design software.
Privately held Innovyze, based in South Portland’s Johns Landing neighborhood, makes software for designing and operating water infrastructure. It’s a niche, but a big one given the universality of water treatment and distribution systems.
Founded in 1996, Innovyze had previously been owned by Swedish private equity firm EQT. Autodesk said it plans to offer jobs to all 250 Innovyze employees, about two-dozen of whom work in Portland.