Adapting to Market Shifts: Inside the Projects, People, and Plans Shaping the City’s Future
What You’ll Learn:
- Analyze the current state of Portland’s commercial real estate market, with a focus on downtown vacancies, suburban momentum, and evolving tenant expectations across asset classes.
- Explore how developers, designers, and contractors are adapting project delivery in response to economic headwinds, permitting challenges, and shifting investor criteria.
- Learn how top firms are approaching urban revitalization and mixed-use development, with strategies centered on placemaking, flexibility, and long-term community value.
- Gain insight into the industrial sector’s resurgence, driven by food and beverage users and logistics demand—and how design and site planning are evolving in response.
- Discover how retail is rebounding through experience-driven design, suburban infill, and integrated ground-floor activation in larger mixed-use projects.
- Examine approaches to future-proofing development—from sustainability innovations and adaptive reuse to collaborative delivery models that drive cost efficiency and resilience.
- Gain insights into how design is being used as a strategic tool to differentiate projects, improve user experience, and align with community needs.
