PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A once-federally owned Portland site has been acquired by local real estate developers.
The Portland-based ScanlanKemperBard has purchased the former Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse, nearly a year after U.S. leaders first selected it as one of several properties that could be offloaded.
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In December 2024, the General Services Administration identified the site on 620 SW Main St. among the eight government facilities that could be impacted amid an effort to “right-size and modernize the federal buildings portfolio.” The agency then added the 162,103-square-foot courthouse to its list of “assets identified for accelerated disposition” in April, before announcing the public sale process the following month.
ScanlanKemperBard just recently closed on the $1.8 million sale last Friday, according to the real estate company’s President Todd Gooding. In an email, Gooding said SKB will partner with city officials, architects, preservation specialists, contractors and other market experts in redeveloping the property — noting that the plan is to “respect the building’s history.”…