Press

Find out what’s new with Melvin Mark by checking out our recent news releases and news coverage in local media.

Phase One of Pahlisch Homes Community Opens After Years-Long Initiative

Melvin Mark Companies and Downtown Development Group Complete Sale of OnPoint Plaza to Private Investor

Melvin Mark Investors Secure 200 Market St

Press Releases

2026

2024

Melvin Mark Investors and Capstone Partners Acquire Urban Infill Industrial Property

Storied Local Brand Increases Its Portland Presence

New Event Space Excited for Opportunity at Union Bank Building

2023

Children's Institute Finds New Home at Crown Plaza

Melvin Mark Names Peter Andrews as COO of Melvin Mark Companies

2022

2021

Melvin Mark Investors Acquires Historic Downtown Property

2020

Corvallis Taphouse to Open Second Location in Downtown Portland

2019

MMI Announces Suburban Acquisition - 5S in Wilsonville

MMBC Helps Expensify Acquire Its Historic Office Building

Becker/Mark Partnership Completes Its First Industrial Acquisition

Melvin Mark Acquires Smith Block Building

2018

Becker/Mark Partnership Adds Five Centerpointe to Portfolio

2016

Crown Plaza Building Earns Highest Green Globes Rating For Sustainable Operations

Melvin Mark Brokerage Company Welcomes Back Paul Andrews

Melvin Mark Adds Key Executive to Spearhead Construction and Operations

2015

Petrusich purchases Melvin Mark Development Company

Scott Andrews takes leadership of Melvin Mark Brokerage Company

Historic Pearl District building stages comeback as creative office space

Jon Carder retires as Melvin Mark Brokerage Company president

News Coverage

2026

Swickard, Melvin Mark acquire downtown high-rise

2025

Sport Oregon Announces Full Slate of Officers, Executive Board Members

2024

Melvin Mark exec talks impacts newly approved TIF districts will have on Portland

Investors acquire Northwest Portland Industrial Export Co. property for $5M

Top Workplaces 2024: 123 great places to work in Oregon and SW Washington

Portland teamaker expands in beleaguered Central Eastside

HR Leadership Awards 2024: Kim Barnett, Melvin Mark

2023

Portland employer relocates deeper into downtown

Downtown Portland real estate firm has a new C-suite executive

High-profile developer forges early Broadway Corridor agreement

2022

Oregon's Most Admired Companies 2022: Melvin Mark Cos. on downtown deals and its passion for Portland

Building at 'one of the best retail corners' in downtown Portland sold

2021

Treebeerd's Taphouse branches into Portland with new downtown lease

Panel: 'Urban core' needs community support

After Portland real estate's chilly months, 'the iceberg is slowly starting to break up'

Oregon's Most Admired Companies 2021: Melvin Mark Cos. Commercial Real Estate and Development

2020

Saving Downtown

Oregon’s Most Admired Companies 2020: Melvin Mark Cos.

Portland arts groups collaborate with children, transform plywood into murals in downtown Portland

Portland building owners stress cleaning, other precautions during COVID-19 pandemic

Melvin Mark Investors buys Wilsonville office property for nearly $9.3M

Executive of the Year 2020: Jim Mark, Melvin Mark Cos.

2020

Melvin Mark, Becker team up on the 10-building Pacific Foods campus

With big building buy, Expensify ups its commitment to Portland

Melvin Mark Investors seals its first deal under new investment platform

Familiar CRE name launches a new investment endeavor

2018

Oregon's Most Admired: Melvin Mark Companies

Banking giant makes a $25.7M buy from a familiar Portland partnership

Longtime Portland real estate pros add prominent Lake Oswego office to portfolio for $27.9M

Here are the 32 most-desired addresses in Portland business

Portland Is the Next Big Startup Scene. These Are the Names and Places to Know

Finalists named for Portland post office redevelopment; one proposes James Beard market site

2017

NW Natural signs HQ lease in one of downtown's highest-profile new office projects

NW Natural to move downtown

Two office building buys keep Portland-area market churning

Pete Mark, one of the storied names in Portland real estate and business, dies at 91

Portland real estate giant, philanthropist Melvin 'Pete' Mark dies

Green Globes certification showcases existing building's sustainable practices

The big winners from Oregon's Most Admired awards ceremony

2016

Thought Leader Forum: The Future of Portland

Embracing Change

Pearl District property home to On Deck sells for nearly $20 million

Veritable Quandary will live on in the same building as one of Portland's hottest tech firms

Veritable Quandary reborn? Upcoming Q restaurant to feature VQ staffers, favorite dishes

The first families of Portland real estate

Viewpoint: Scott Andrews on what the PDC needs for its next leader

2015

Portland's Melvin Mark Cos. to sell a key division

Melvin Mark has a new president for its brokerage arm

United Way sells prime downtown Portland property for a pretty penny

Longtime Pearl District developer prepping historic building for creative office and retail space

Go global or go away? No way!

Under construction: Work begins on DHS site, other projects

Picnic House owners to open new BBQ concept near Luc Lac in downtown Portland

First look: The James Beard Public Market

David Sarasohn: Portland’s foodie culture and the James Beard Market

The genius Scandinavian architects making Portland’s public market

James Beard Public Market developers propose new Morrison Bridge ramps

The 50 best food halls in America

Pine Street Market brings new dining concept downtown

2&Taylor’s anchor tenant set to move into new downtown digs this week