"Portland real estate investor Bob Ball has always had a knack for buying and selling properties at the right time. Now Ball celebrated turning 50 by launching a new development and investment firm to continue capitalizing on those deal-making instincts. ...
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"Robert Ball just can't stand sitting still. In addition to the overseeing demolition work on the former Meier & Frank warehouse - now called "The Avenue" and slated for 166 lofts - and keeping a watchful eye over sales of the last eight units in...
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BY: Lee Fehrenbacher Bob Ball, developer, is the owner of Astor Pacific LLC. (Photo by Sam Tenney/DJC) At age 19 – when many college students are still trying to figure out their major – Portland developer Bob Ball was figuring out how to buy his first property. He...
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"Robert Ball is a different kind of developer. Instead of a suit and tie, he wears jeans to work. Rather than frequent trendy restaurants he's got part of Wendy's menu memorized. He's a small-town boy - from the tiny Oregon city of Knappa - who's...
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"Bob Ball walks around the apartment building named after his toddler son, Parker, and none of the tenants know who he is. They greet his adorable child with oohs and ahhhs almost as enthusiastic as those they reserve for each other's pet dogs...
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When Portland developer Bob Ball, principal with Astor Pacific LLC, sold his Pearl District apartment building, The Wyatt, back in 2008, he was glad to be out of the real estate game at the right time. But it didn’t take Ball long to start plotting his...
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"For the past decade, the Pearl District has been symbolic of Portland's meteoric housing and retail boom - and its subsequent recession-induced cooling-off period." ...
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"I felt like a million pounds of pressure was taken off my shoulders. I felt free, and I felt alive." ...
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"One of Portland's leading real estate developers, and the CEO of Astor Pacific, is still managing to climb up the civic ladder. Robert Ball was recently promoted °from Reserve Captain in the Portland Police Bureau to Reserve Commander, the highest rank a reserve officer can...
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"A Portland developer, who laid low after the condo market crash and an aborted mayoral bid, is planning a six-story luxury apartment building on the Pearl District's northern fringe." ...
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"Ball is one of those people who actually comes from humble beginnings, growing up in Knappa, Ore., a small logging town outside Astoria. There were only 35 kids in his graduating class. He still knows many of those who he went to school with, but...
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