Project name: Terminal 1 Block A & C, Port of Vancouver USA

Location: Vancouver, Washington

Completion: 646,835 square feet

Size: October 2024

Landowner/Lessee: Port of Vancouver USA

Developer/Lessor: Lincoln Property Company

Architects: West of West Architecture & Design (design architect) DLR Group (executive architect)

Interior Designer: West of West Architecture & Design

Engineers: Mackenzie, Piper Mechanical, KPFF

General Contractor: Robertson & Olson Construction

Submitting Company: DLR Group

Other Key Participants: City of Vancouver, Portland Street Art Alliance and artists Jeremy Nichols, Hayden Senter, Ana Gabriela

Other Associates/Consultants: Cascade Electrical, GeoDesign NV5, Kittelson & Associates, Walter P. Moore, BEE Engineers, Brightworks, PLACE, Code Consultants

Subcontractors: 2 Down Services, Able Fence, Anderson Specialties, Axiom Division 7, Basco Appliances, Blankenship Equipment Repair, Building Material Specialties, Cascade Electrical, CDI Blinds, Cedar Landscape Construction, Conco, Concrete Designs, Consurco, Cornerstone Masonry, Cosco Fire Protection, Ecoglo, Flash Parking, Floor Solutions, Ground Control Systems, Huntco, Interior Technology, LaRusso Concrete, LCDA, LJP Construction, Mission Glass, Mt. Hood Steel, Overhead Door, Pacific Foundation, Pacific Stair, Piper Mechanical, Pro-Bel Enterprises, Sawtooth Caulking, Schindler Elevator, Sign Wizards, Skyline Sheet Metal, Sound Vanguard Solutions, Spectrum Woodworking & Interiors, Sunset Stucco, Vancouver Paint Group, Vancouver Paving, Vancouver Sign, Western Construction Specialties, Western Partitions, You & I Construction

The Port of Vancouver USA’s Terminal 1 Block A & C development is transforming the city’s waterfront into a dynamic mixed-use destination that honors its maritime heritage while creating new economic opportunities.

Completed in October 2024, the project features two mid-rise office towers rising nine and 10 stories above a shared landscaped podium. The development delivers 287,100 square feet of office space, 12,835 square feet of retail, and a 346,900-square-foot parking structure.

“The Launch,” a pedestrian axis that bisects the towers, recalls the site’s history as a wartime shipbuilding hub while providing sweeping views of the Columbia River and city skyline.

Lincoln Property faced significant challenges during development, including negotiating a long-term lease within just 90 days while simultaneously modifying project plans from a mixed office-residential design to an all-office development.

During the pandemic, supply chain disruptions were a major concern. The team prioritized domestic materials, partnering with a local Vancouver vendor to develop the distinctive metal exterior featuring blades and serrated edges that create dynamic interactions with sunlight.

The towers have achieved LEED Gold v4 certification, incorporating bird-safe glazing and native plantings that support pollinator habitats. The project reduces landscape irrigation by 75 percent and includes occupiable roof terraces, bike storage facilities, and EV charging stations.

ZoomInfo has established its West Coast hub at Terminal 1, leasing both towers and cementing the development’s role as a premier business destination in the Vancouver-Portland metro area.

The Port of Vancouver USA and City of Vancouver were critical to the project’s success. Their leadership is transforming the former 1920s warehouse site into an extension of downtown Vancouver with strategic freeway visibility and direct connectivity to Portland via the Interstate Bridge.

Public art features prominently, with murals by local artists Jeremy Nichols, Hayden Senter, and Ana Gabriela depicting imagery inspired by the Columbia River, Indigenous stories, and the city’s industrial heritage.

General contractor Robertson & Olson Construction completed the project with exemplary safety standards, earning multiple START Certifications from the Washington Department of Labor and Industries. DLR Group was executive architect on the project.

“The successful public-private partnership between the Port of Vancouver USA and Lincoln Property Company, spanning over five years, enabled the bold vision of constructing a Class A world headquarters for the tenant,” noted Patrick Gilligan, senior executive vice president with LPC, in the project submission form. “This collaboration also facilitated the execution of the largest lease signing in the Portland metro market in recent years.”

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A 150,000-square-foot tenant improvement is underway in Vancouver, Washington. Tech leader ZoomInfo’s new headquarters will move from its current location at 805 Broadway St. to a four-story office at Terminal 1 along the Columbia River.

The Terminal 1 office building is technically two buildings, Block A and Block C, connected by a skybridge and a street level launch. ZoomInfo has leased both buildings from Lincoln Property Co. and will have the sixth floor in Block C and the 6-9 floors in Block A. The office will include waterfront access and parking.

Floors five and below are for parking with retail space on the first floor. There is also a fitness center and amenity conference training on the second floor.

Robertson & Olson Construction of Camas, Washington, was the contractor for the shell of the building and finished construction late last year. Lease Crutcher Lewis began the $30 million ZoomInfo tenant improvement project in May of last year. The tenant improvement is 150,000 square feet; the entire building is 300,000 square feet.

“We’re nearly crossing the finish line,” Kelly Nelson, senior project manager at Lewis, said.

The tenant improvement will be complete in mid-June. The project had a lot of significance for Lease Crutcher Lewis, as it is the largest tenant improvement project it has completed in the Portland Metro/Vancouver area, Nelson said.

The project team also includes GBD Architects, HVAC and plumbing by McKinstry, fire sprinklers by COSCO Fire Protection of Vancouver, electric and voltage by Christenson Electric and some structural engineering by KPFF.

Nelson said the tenant improvement includes a connecting stair between levels 8 and 9 in Block A. The structure is post-tensioned slab. Robertson & Olson left an opening for the stairs but there were some components Lewis had to add for the staircase itself. KPFF was the engineer for that work.

The tenant improvements will include the fitness center and training center on floor 2, conference areas, huddle rooms, open workstations, some large conference rooms, collaboration areas and break rooms.

“There’s great natural light and there’s great views of the river and the boardwalk,” said Matt Simpson, director and head of global real estate at ZoomInfo. “One of the things we wanted to do was increase the amount of collaboration space and conference rooms but also bring in the natural light, get our employees closer to the glass line and open up the floor plates so people are sitting closer to the glass line.”

Simpson said the building was designed with large floor plates. To increase the amount of collaboration space, GBD Architects designed a spine through the middle of each floor plate where the team has located conference rooms of varying sizes, huddle rooms and breakout spaces. This enabled the team to put open workstations near the glass.

One of the unique aspects of the project is that it is 64 percent female-led, with women on every level, from project executive to project coordinator. On the GBD Architects team, the lead architect is female. Almost the entire JLL team, which serves as owner’s representative for ZoomInfo, is also female.

Nelson and Simpson said this was not intentional for the project but was a bonus. Lewis strives to have diversity on their project teams and support women in the trades, they said. Simpson said it was a discussion point on ZoomInfo’s end but not a specific goal they made for the project.

Nelson said female-led projects are becoming more prevalent for Lewis, and over the years the number of women at Lewis has grown. She is also seeing more women in the trades in general. Simpson added that it feels more evenly split among project teams and teams feel more diverse.

The new office will open sometime in July with a ribbon cutting to celebrate the grand opening.

“There’s a lot of excitement from our employees about moving into the new space and being on the Vancouver waterfront,” Simpson said.

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The north Pearl District industrial parcel eyed by developers this past fall for a potential emergency homeless shelter has been sold by the city of Portland to another interest.

The Bureau of Environmental Services announced Friday that the 14.48-acre parcel known as Terminal 1, at 2400 N.W. Front Ave., had been sold for $12.5 million to Lithia Motors.

Terminal 1 became the subject of scrutiny in late summer when a band of business interests tried to acquire it for use as a massive homeless shelter, to be operated jointly by public agencies. The plan was the brainchild of developers Dike Dame and Homer Williams, who were inspired by a similar shelter in Texas.

After the plan fell apart due to concerns about the shelter and other issues, the City Council voted in November to put the land up for sale. Portland developers project^ and Winkler Development were among the parties that submitted offers to buy the land.

Medford-based Lithia Motors – the fifth-largest auto retailer in the country, according to its proposal – plans to use the site to unite its scattered operations under one roof.

Lithia Motors stated in its proposal that it wished to have the Portlandia statue relocated from its current location at the base of the Portland Building to the Terminal 1 site, so it could “(welcome) seafarers and the world to our city. Portlandia could finally find a place to project both her strength and the confidence of the community.”

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Terminal 1, Portland’s waterfront industrial property, will go back onto the market after city officials pulled the plug on developer Homer Williams’ proposed homeless shelter.

The city will seek industrial uses for the site, said Jim Blackwood, senior policy director for Commissioner Nick Fish.

“Our focus is still offers that leverage the existing heavy industrial zoning,” Blackwood said.

Industrial land is scarce in Portland, and the right use at Terminal 1 would provide medium-wage jobs, he said.

“We are not interested in breaking the existing zoning,” Blackwood said. “Some of the offers we got before were contingent on zoning changes.”

The property was yanked off the market in the middle of a bidding process when Williams came forward with his proposal for a large homeless shelter on the riverfront. At that point, the property had already attracted offers from Costco and other bidders.

Blackwood said he expects more offers to come in after the property is relisted.

“We had twice as many expressions of interest and tours of the property as we got offers,” he said. “We’re going to have a complete reset.”

Williams on Wednesday issued a news release criticizing city commissioners for ending the Harbor of Hope proposal.

“We are surprised and tremendously disappointed in the city’s decision to reject our operation proposal and business plan – disappointed especially for the hundreds of people living on the streets who otherwise would have had an additional local shelter this fall,” he stated.

The effort had raised more than $360,000, according to Williams.

On Wednesday, Blackwood was busily circulating an agenda item targeting the City Council’s Nov. 2 meeting to approve relisting the property. Blackwood said if the item doesn’t gather enough commissioners’ signatures in time for the Nov. 2 meeting, it will certainly be on the council’s Nov. 9 agenda.

The site at 2400 NW Front Ave. covers 14.5 acres and has a 96,000-square-foot warehouse.

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Following a day of emotional public testimony, Portland city commissioners on Wednesday narrowly authorized a temporary lease of industrial property north of the Pearl District for use as a large and experimental homeless shelter.

With a 3-2 vote, the council took a first step toward allowing the Housing Bureau to rent the 14.5-acre parcel at 2400 N.W Front Ave. – the former site of the Port of Portland’s Terminal 1 – from the Bureau of Environmental Services, to operate a campus intended to serve up to 1,400 people.

Commissioners Nick Fish and Amanda Fritz were the dissenting votes.

“I’m not voting yes because I think the arguments against are bad arguments,” said Commissioner Steve Novick. “I’m voting yes because I think that we’re not in a position, in the homeless state of emergency, to do anything else.”

The proposal is the brainchild of developer Homer Williams and business partner Dike Dame, and based on San Antonio’s Haven for Hope campus. Williams proposed the idea in mid-June, inspired by a trip to Texas and Mayor Charlie Hales’ declaration late last year of a “homeless state of emergency” in Portland.

Williams said the idea is to get the private sphere to do its share in cracking the city’s historically high homeless rate.

(The Housing Bureau uses point-in-time data compiled by Kristina Smock Consulting, which counts 3,800 homeless people in Multnomah County on any given night.)

Under the plan approved Wednesday, the Housing Bureau will lease the waterfront land and 96,000-square foot warehouse for $10,000 per month. The lease will run for six months, beginning Oct. 7. Officials say the shelter could be operational at that time. The final cost for the permanent facility could be between $60 million and $100 million, with some amount of that covered by private donations.

Much else about the plan is still up in the air.

Commissioners heard testimony from nearly 60 people, most of whom expressed some form of opposition to the plan, currently called Oregon Trail of Hope. They spoke of environmental concerns and criticisms of the San Antonio model. Commenters included sewer ratepayers who receive reimbursement because the land was once part of the Big Pipe sewer project. Many were neighbors worried about negative effects of the shelter, some anticipating an influx of “sex offenders” and “criminals.”

Commissioner Fritz, a registered nurse, spoke against “warehousing” homeless people.

Fish spoke passionately while ticking off criticisms with the proposal, including “breaking faith” with the city’s Comprehensive Plan, privileging one developer (Williams) over others, and a pending lawsuit against BES.

Fish had the city’s broker for the site, Scott MacLean, senior vice president at Colliers International, testify about recent efforts to find a buyer so the city could pay back sewer ratepayers. MacLean said he’s given numerous tours to potential buyers. He expects to receive around 16 serious offers, including six from developers.

When it came time to for him to vote, Fish called the proposal “half-baked” and said it fails his “test of common sense and humanity.”

“Today, by this action, we are making a very big statement, and it is that we are lost,” he said.

The commissioners who voted to approve said they did so because something had to be done. Hales said if the “experiment” begins to look like a failure, it will cease.

“My really earnest plea to everybody is, we really need to work together,” he said. “This is worth a try.”

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Portland developer Homer Williams has been making a lot of calls lately, lobbying support for what would be a massive public-private effort to shelter the city’s growing homeless population. The $100 million idea unveiled this week would add a full-service shelter campus to a city-owned 14-acre parcel: the former site of the Port of Portland’s Terminal 1 along the west side of the Willamette River.

“To a person, they’ve said yes,” Williams said.

So far, the project draws heavily from San Antonio’s Haven for Hope, right down to the $100 million price tag and the 501(c)3 organization that would operate the shelter.

That arrangement would be crucial, said Williams, who’s working alongside business partner Dike Dame.

“The important thing here is that this is run by the private side,” Williams said. “The state and city are partners; the businesses and foundations are partners. And in the middle is the community. We’re looking at this like we’d look at a development. You’ve just got to break it down into pieces and attack them.”

Homelessness and housing affordability are two issues gripping government and public consciousness in Portland. Mayor Charlie Hales has declared a “housing state of emergency” to seek shelter for the more than 1,000 people who sleep outside in Portland each night.

Williams said he favors an approach attacking the root causes of homelessness through a program run by a comprehensive group of stakeholders.

“A bed and meals doesn’t do it, and for most of these people, even an apartment doesn’t do it,” he said. “I mean, they need a lot of care and a lot of healing to get back into mainstream society.”

The team so far includes Ankrom Moisan Architects, which has been performing schematic designs pro bono.

Williams told the 91��Ƶ he intends to have a plan to put on the desk of Portland’s next mayor, Ted Wheeler, by the first quarter of 2017. The proposal would cost $360,000, covered mostly by business interests, and contain cost estimates and estimated operating budgets. Williams said he’s had discussions with Wheeler, as well as the chairwoman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, Deborah Kafoury.

Williams first spoke about his plans with The Oregonian’s editorial board. The plan would feature beds for 700 people, and transitional housing for an additional 700.

When asked if this project was intended to be a career-capper, Williams, 71, said, “We just kind of stumbled into this, to be honest with you.”

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