"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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"The corner of Northwest 14th Avenue and Hoyt Street is a seven-story archaeology site. The earliest strata were laid in 1923 as the Meier & Frank warehouse. And next summer, the newest layer will be added: The Avenue lofts...
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"It's rare that developer Robert Ball sees an old building that he doesn't like. The 35-year-old Northwest Portlander wears many hats, but he's most comfortable when he gets to come up with ways to refurbish a historic building. ...
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"Nobody knows why the architecture firm of Daniel H. Burnham and Company designed Portland's Marshall Wells Warehouse the way it did...
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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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"Robert Ball, the developer who turned some of Portland's best-known industrial buildings into some of its hippest new residences, is building his first new construction project. ...
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"Last year, Robert Ball completed the conversion of a historic warehouse into the 164-unit Marshall Wells Lofts. Most of the condos sold before construction was complete. This year, Ball is taking on another historic warehouse- the former Meier & Frank building at Northwest 14th between...
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"The old saying, "When it rains, it pours" was more than just an unfortunate adage for The Wyatt's project team as it built the Pearl District's deepest mixed-use tower during one of the wettest winters on record. ...
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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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"Local developers are making plans to rehabilitate two former Meier & Frank warehouses, which were planned for telecommunications hotels in 2000 but abandoned when the telco market crashed...
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"Oh to be the owner of a venerable, desirable business. Peter's Office Supply & Interiors sits on a prime parcel smack in the middle of the ultracool Pearl District. Owner Peggy Oliver's father, Peter Elsenbach, started the stationery business 58 years ago...
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"The Avenue Lofts won't open sales to the public until Oct. 19, but already 50 units are sold in the 170-unit loft conversion of a 1923-era Meier & Frank warehouse. Friends and family of the project team snapped up 38 early sales, and sales opened...
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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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"Inside the old Marshall Wells Hardware Co. at Northwest 14th and Lovejoy streets in Portland is the makings of what Robert D. Ball considers a "jewel." To nearly everyone else, it would be only the emptiness of deep warehouse space, devoid of any light." ...
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"Robert D. Ball makes no claim to being a magician, but from mere Bits & Pieces, he says a seven-story loft condominim building will materialize in Northwest Portland's Pearl District...
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"Wasting little time after completing the $35m Marshall-Wells lofts, Robert Ball has purchased the former Meier & Frank warehouse just blocks away at 1415 N.W. Hoyt St. for $8.8 million...
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"Robert Ball has acquired another historic residential building in Northwest Portland. Ball bought the 69-unit Embassy Apartments at 2015 NW Flanders, and he plans a thorough rehabilitation that will restore some historic elements.." ...
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Real estate developer Bob Ball opened the doors to The Parker, the Pearl District's newest apartment community, for a party where he invited neighbors, friends and a select group of very powerful Portlanders. It was a night to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox, see inside the building,...
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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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"Northwest Portland is home to an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants, cafes and art galleries, making it one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in the city. Now, with the conversion of one of the neighborhood's finest historic buildings, it's also the place to purchase a...
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