Location Pacwest Center is located in the heart of Portland’s Central Business District at 1211 SW 5th Avenue. Pacwest Center is ideally located within walking distance of numerous shops, restaurants and entertainment venues.
Building Area

522,002 SF Class A office space on 29 floors

Avg. Floor NRA

18,000 SF

Amenities Conference facilities, gourmet coffee and food service, 24/7 uniformed security with a lobby presence, on-site bicycle parking, tenant storage spaces, magnificent panoramic views, full service banking, dry cleaning, shoe repair, sundries, florist and gift shop, hair salon, copy center, jewelry store, valet service, car wash and tax preparation service
Accessibility Pacwest Center is conveniently located in downtown Portland. It is accessible by the MAX’s Morrison/SW 3rd Avenue station. (TriMet: Public Transportation for Portland, OR)
Ownership Pacwest Center, LLC
Management Ashforth Pacific, Inc. provides an experienced on-site property management team.
Major Tenants Schwabe, Williamson, & Wyatt, KeyBank, Oracle, Merrill Lynch, and Aon
Year Built

Constructed in 1984. Created by Hugh Asher Stubbins of Cambridge, MA in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects LLP of New York.

Parking 410 subterranean spaces
Security & Access 24/7 uniformed security with a lobby presence and card key access
Construction The basic construction materials include steel and masonry with a poured concrete slab foundation. Framing includes structural steel with masonry and concrete encasement.
Life Safety Pacwest is 100% sprinklered with a wet standpipe system (except for the parking garage and the mechanical area on the 30th floor, which are dry systems). The backbone of the fire systems is a Siemens Firefinder XLS.
Plumbing

Basement level supply distributes cold water to all floors, serving restrooms, drinking fountains and taps for tenant needs using a packaged , staged triplex booster system. Waste and vent system directed to city waste water. Storm sewer drainage system allows site water to be collected and drained through surface drains located in the parking lot areas.

Electricity The 8,000-amp main switchgear equipment supplies 480/277, three phase electrical service to the bus riser system. A stepdown transformer on each floor provides 208/120, three phase electrical service.
Roof The roof is concrete slab with a rubber membrane, high-density foam covered by a vulcanized rubber membrane, felt  and river rock.
Structural Frame

The building structural system is structural steel frame with 3 inches deep composite deck. The decks include 1.5 inches of concrete topping and steel framing spans from 20 foot perimeter column spacing to an average 40 foot interior bay depth.

Elevators Otis Elevator Company. 11– gearless passenger; 2 – hydraulic parking; 1 – geared freight; 2 – escalators
Utility

Electrical – Pacific Power
Water  and sewer– City of Portland
Trash Hauling – Trashco Trash
Gas- NW Natural

Mechanical Fan powered variable air volume boxes equipped with electric reheat coils for the perimeter zones. Cooling is provided by two 25-ton Trane A/C units on each floor. The Trane units feed air to the VAV boxes. All thermostats and dampers are pneumatic. A Barber Colman Network 8000 was installed in 1993 and acts as the backbone of the system. The Barber system also controls the lighting sweep.
Major Operational Contractors
  • Cleaning – ABM Janitorial Services
  • Window Cleaning – ABM Janitorial Services
  • Security – Securitas
  • Building Controls – Control Contractors
  • Life Safety System – Siemens


1211 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 700
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 503-224-1193
Fax: 503-227-4721

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For Management information:
Blake Peterson, Property Manager

Wade W. Lange, RPA, FMA, Vice President of Property Management

For Leasing information:
Douglas B. Pugh, Senior Vice President of
Leasing & Investment
Matthew P. Bassist, Leasing Associate

For Investment/Development information:
Douglas B. Pugh, Senior Vice President of
Leasing & Investment

Michael E. Bernatz, Investment Associate

For Parking information:
David W. Gragg, Senior Parking Manager