Posts by Stratus Developers

General contractor Perlo took advantage of a break in the November weather to place the second half of the warehouse concrete slab on Wednesday.  Just under 20,000 sf of floor area was placed and finished in this one day installation.  Perlo will immediately move to form the concrete wall panels as a next step.  More…

On October 29th, the much anticipated Trader Joe’s opened to the public at Garden Home Marketplace.  Stratus Real Estate Developers represented the landlord in repurposing the former Lamb’s Thriftway into a multi-tenant retail property.  Tilland Schmidt Architects, VLMK and PSR West Coast Builders were instrumental in this complicated transformation.  Ace Hardware and a soon to…

Today the first portion of the concrete floor slab for Leatherman’s new warehouse was cast. Work started before sunrise so that the finish troweling could be accomplished before dark. The new warehouse is located near Portland International airport, across the street from their manufacturing plant. Stratus Developers is managing the project on behalf of the…

Concrete footings have been cast for Leatherman’s new warehouse near PDX. It will be a fulfillment center for e-commerce as well as warehouse for shipping to wholesale customers. Bremik Construction is the general contractor and LRS the project architects. Concrete was placed out of the chutes from concrete mixer trucks. Workers assured that the concrete…

The Portland Business Journal reported this morning that work has begun on the Garden Home Trader Joe’s. Here’s a link to the full story https://tinyurl.com/ypjd6zbu. Specifically, demolition and site preparation are under way. Stratus Developers is working as owner’s representative consultant on behalf of the Lamb family that is the landlord owner of the shopping…

Site work construction has started on the new Leatherman warehouse. It is located across the street from their factory and headquarters office at 12099 NE Ainsworth Circle in Portland, near the airport. The new 68,000 square foot state of the art distribution building will handle warehousing for wholesale customers plus fulfillment for the fast growing…

Summit Body & Equipment https://summitbody.com/about/ has applied to Clark County for land use site plan approval on a new factory and headquarters office in Ridgefield, Washington. The company specializes in building bodies for medium duty truck chassis, think delivery trucks. Their new state of the art manufacturing building will be 68,000 square feet. Stratus Developers…

Acme Construction moved into their new building in Prineville, Oregon. It is in the heart of the data centers for Facebook and Apple. The pre-engineered metal building is about 11,000 square feet within which a small office and overhead storage mezzanine were installed. This new facility will serve electricians, mechanical contractors and other construction craftsmen…

The recent completion of JSR Micro’s manufacturing plant in Hillsboro was announced in a Portland Business Journal article this week. Stratus Developers was their “owner’s representative” to manage the project from land acquisition through move-in. We worked closely with Mackenzie, Perlo Construction, Harder, Therma and EC Electric as the primary team. City of Hillsboro and…

Plans were submitted to City of Portland yesterday for a new warehouse on the Leatherman campus in NE Portland near PDX. The new 62,000 square foot warehouse will be constructed on land across the street from the current headquarters and manufacturing facility. All Leatherman products are proudly manufactured in USA! A small office will be…