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McKinstry, a Seattle-based mechanical-electrical contractor that has operated an office in Portland since 1969, recently opened a full-service office in Hillsboro.

The new office is needed to serve the company’s “confidential client in Hillsboro” (widely known as Intel), as well as other existing clients and emerging business opportunities west of Portland, said Joe Korte, general manager of the 10,000-square-foot facility on Northwest Evergreen Parkway.

“Our intention is to be able to provide those services available from our main office in closer proximity to our main clients,” he said. “We’ve had some great success in delivering a variety of construction services on the west side of Portland to the degree that it involved making those services readily available to those customers.”

McKinstry provides design-build-operate-maintain services for mechanical and electrical systems to clients building data centers, corporate campuses and advanced technology centers. Thirty employees are stationed at its new Hillsboro facility, Korte said.

Investments by the “confidential client” have spurred additional investments by related businesses in the area. Future work could include data centers and expansions, Korte said.

“I think right now in the industry, and in part with some of our key customers, they’re looking for new approaches for design and construction of their facilities,” he said. “They’re trying for innovative approaches that we’re perfectly aligned for.”