PacWest Center
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PacWest Center is an office skyscraper in Portland, Oregon
. At 127.41 m (418 ft), it is the fourth-tallest building in Portland. The 29-story
building was designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts and completed in 1984.
Its name is derived from former anchor tenant, Pacific Western Bank of Oregon, owned by PacWest Bancorp. However, PacWest's Oregon operations were acquired by KeyCorp in 1986 and became part of KeyBank.
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Estate Co.
had been the majority owner in the building since it rose in 1984. In December 2007 the building was sold to Ashforth Pacific Inc. for $161.5 million.
The modern, metallic look of the building comes from the use of aluminum panels imported from Japan
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. At 127.41 m (418 ft), it is the fourth-tallest building in Portland. The 29-story
Storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
building was designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts and completed in 1984.
Its name is derived from former anchor tenant, Pacific Western Bank of Oregon, owned by PacWest Bancorp. However, PacWest's Oregon operations were acquired by KeyCorp in 1986 and became part of KeyBank.
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Estate Co.
Mitsubishi Estate Co.
is a Japanese corporation. It is one of the core Mitsubishi companies. Mitsubishi Estate has its headquarters in the Otemachi Building in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.-Business:...
had been the majority owner in the building since it rose in 1984. In December 2007 the building was sold to Ashforth Pacific Inc. for $161.5 million.
The modern, metallic look of the building comes from the use of aluminum panels imported from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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See also
- Architecture of Portland, Oregon
- List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon