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True North, KBS Acquire PDX Creative Office for $28.5M

San Francisco-based Swift Real Estate Partners divested Sixth at Yamhill, a 109,725-square-foot, creative office building in Portland, OR. KBSRA Sixth at Yam, LLC, a joint venture between True North and KBS, purchased the asset in an off-market transaction for $28.5 million.

Sixth at Yamhill is situated at 811 Southwest Sixth Ave. in downtown Portland. The 11-story building was renovated in 2016, and offers completely re-imagined creative office space with 9,600-square-foot floor plates overlooking Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Swift completed a major lobby remodel, repositioned floors three through 11 to creative shell, established a common indoor-outdoor tenant patio on the fourth floor, added basement bike parking and secured the high-end boutique Water Ave Coffee Shop as a retail amenity.

HFF Nick Kucha James Childress and Logan Greer marketed the property on behalf of the seller.

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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