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Mar2014
Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International Principals Honored as Top Industrial and Office Brokers in Portland
Portland, OR (March 24, 2014) – Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International, a leading full-service commercial real estate provider serving the Portland metropolitan market, today announced that two of the firms principals have won local awards for industrial and office brokerage services.
Don Ossey, SIOR and principal with Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International won the Broker of the Year Award/Industrial at the recent Commercial Association of Brokers and NAIOP awards ceremony held at the Portland Art Museum.
Ossey was recognized for his 2013 brokerage accomplishments, which included transactions on behalf of Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, Tucker Rocky Distributing, Mastercraft Furniture Company and Goodwill Industries plus many others totaling over 1.3 Million square feet of sales and leases for the year. The award is based solely on production and Ossey was the #1 industrial broker in Portland.
Ossey shared honors with Scott Kappes, SIOR and a Senior Vice President with Capacity Commercial, for the Bill Naito Award. The Bill Naito Award honors the broker or team of brokers who completed the most complex real estate transaction of 2013. The transaction must be outstanding, noteworthy, and show the most initiative, ingenuity, originality, constructiveness, imagination, and ability. The winner is selected by a panel of judges from the commercial real estate community. Ossey and Kappes teamed up and completed four industrial leases totaling over 400,000 square feet in the fourth quarter last year on behalf of Holman Distribution Company, which owns 205 Logistics Center in Clackamas, OR. One of those transactions was a 125,000-square-foot lease to Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, which was an expansion of their global distribution center.
Meanwhile, Capacity Commercial Group/CORFAC International Principal Scott Madsen, SIOR, was runner-up for top office broker of the year. Some of Madsen’s transactional highlights last year included representation of Westpark LLC in a 131,261-square-foot lease with Stoel Rives, LLP which anchored the development of Park Avenue West, a 30-story mixed use office, apartment and retail tower; represented Greenbrier Companies in a 57,654 lease expansion, lease renegotiation and renewal at One Centerpointe; represented Pacific Crest Securities in a 28,760 lease renewal at U.S. Bank Tower and Madsen also represented OTAK Engineering & Architecture in relocating to 17,230 square feet at the Director Building in Portland.During the Commercial Association of Brokers’ event, Joey Harrington, the University of Oregon football star and NFL player, gave a stirring talk on the value of failure and helping others to excel. A call to charity netted tens of thousands of dollars for the Brody Borlaug Foundation, supporting childhood immunology work at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The money counts toward the $500 million Oregon Health & Science University is raising to meet the $500 million Knight Cancer Challenge.
About CORFAC InternationalCORFAC International (Corporate Facility Advisors) is comprised of privately held entrepreneurial firms with expertise in office, industrial and retail real estate leasing and investment sales, multifamily property acquisitions and dispositions, property management and corporate services. Founded in 1989, CORFAC International is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2014. In association with FIABCI (the International Real Estate Federation) and global affiliates, CORFAC International offers commercial real estate services with market reach in 60 countries worldwide. In recent years, CORFAC firms have averaged over 9600 completed transactions annually totaling more than 513 million square feet worth an excess of $5.95 billion for their customers. For more information on the CORFAC network, contact 703.532.6160 or visit www.corfac.com.