Mackenzie has a sixty-three-year history unified in the pursuit of building equitable communities for generations to come. We deliver design excellence and invest in the wellbeing of our people, our clients, and the communities in which we work.
We’ve honed our capabilities across a range of design disciplines including:
Architecture
Interior design
Structural and civil engineering
Land use planning
Landscape architecture
Mackenzie is rooted in the design of industrial, advanced manufacturing, high tech, and commerical space. We bring decades of experience across the West Coast, and nationally, with an extensive understanding of how design details can benefit communities while providing significant business value.
UNIFIED DESIGN SERVICES
Architecture
The architecture team delivers design excellence with a client-focused, results-oriented approach informed by decades of experience. With a focus on our clients’ needs, and a cost-effective process, we’ve designed a very wide variety of building types for both public and private clients. Mackenzie’s architects aim to create lasting value for clients, their communities, and their environment.
Interior Design
Our interiors group creates flexible designs, and prizes a layout’s ability to adapt to future uses and changes in client demands. The team has expertise in sustainable design methods, as well as a deep understanding of how the built environment influences the experience and performance of its users.
Land Use Planning
Our land use planning expertise, developed over decades of working with private and public sector clients, is structured around a solutionoriented approach to development issues. Our varied experience, and our up-to-date knowledge of public policy and regulatory issues, enables us to recognize opportunities to benefit our clients and enhance project value.
Landscape Architecture
The landscape team pursues the creation of meaningful places. We achieve this through design solutions that simultaneously meet the client’s goals, reflect the values and characteristics of the Pacific Northwest, and enhance the natural environment.
Structural Engineering
Our structural engineers develop sophisticated, cost-effective solutions in concrete, steel, post-tensioned systems, and wood. The team is well versed in the unique structural challenges of clear spans, heavy loading, vibration reduction, and in a region vulnerable to earthquakes, our team is on the leading-edge of seismic design and upgrades.
Civil Engineering
Our civil engineering staff excels with fast-track project approaches, and has in-depth experience in stormwater design, drainage, construction staging, roadway standards, and the hydraulic design of transportation systems. We focus on anticipating problems and identifying solutions, expediting the permit process, meeting crucial time schedules, and forecasting budgets.
INDUSTRIAL TEAM
Primary Contacts
Dietrich Wieland President | Principal Commercial Office dwieland@mcknze.com 971.346.3790
Integrated Team
Architecture
Adam Solomonson Project Leader Architect
Civil Engineering
Matt Butts Civil Engineer
Land Use
Planning
Dale Poppe Project Leader Architecture
Brett Conway Associate Principal | Sacramento/Seattle Contact
bconway@mcknze.com 206.734.8413
Rob Gonia Civil Engineer
Ryan Weston Project Leader Architect
Structural Engineering
Scott Moore Associate Principal | Sacramento/Portland Contact
smoore@mcknze.com
971.346.3759
Mackenzie brings an integrated team of industry professionals and have over 200 additional technical members on our industrial team across all disciplines who are available for project work as needed. Our team members are distributed across our three offices, located in Portland, OR, Vancouver, WA, and Seattle, WA, and Sacramento, CA. Suzannah Stanley Land Use Planner
Michael Chen Land Use Planner Gabriela Frask Land Use Planner
Mackenzie has proven success—and decades of experience—in providing professional architectural and engineering solutions for a wide range of industrial and advanced technology clients. We have assisted in site feasibility studies, development decisions, facility planning, and the design of complex facilities. Our advanced tech work encompasses:
Campus master planning and development.
Research and development laboratories.
Advanced manufacturing and manufacturing support.
Clean rooms.
Technology Facilities
Tech facilities need to be designed and built quickly, and must be reliable with a built-in ability to adapt. Mackenzie’s integrated design approach efficiently delivers projects with a focus on speed-to-market, 24/7 operations, and the flexibility to change with time.
Industrial and Manufacturing
Mackenzie is a leader in industrial and manufacturing experience with strong expertise in the following industrial sector design areas:
Light and heavy manufacturing projects
Advanced manufacturing/automation
Technical coordination of MEPF and process engineering
Site logistics for trucks, rail and yard areas
Hazardous materials design and coordination
Metal building coordination
Crane design coordination
Integrated Disciplines
Mackenzie is one of the few integrated architectural and engineering firms on the West Coast. We believe in the value that an integrative process provides and have been honing this expertise for decades.
By internalizing our teams, we are able to work efficiently and holistically to craft design-driven solutions. We are cross-trained in a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared in order to create and deliver coordinated projects. Some benefits include:
Internal shared knowledge cultivates innovation
Streamlined decision making and real-time availability of the whole consultant team.
One project manager overseeing all disciplines adds efficiency and accountability.
In-depth knowledge and broad resources
Advanced BIM capabilities and execution plan.
Fully coordinated architectural and structural design. Our architects and engineers work collaboratively in the same shared model file.
Master Planning Experience
Mackenzie’s master planning has resulted in projects that, over time, have supported catalytic development and the creation of new places that truly work. We have a record of providing expert master planning services for both public and private clients on a broad range of development projects, from large parcels of vacant land to urban infill redevelopment sites.
A successful master plan requires careful thinking about infrastructure, history, local culture, and the area’s surrounding context, both human and environmental. Our integrated approach is a great advantage in synthesizing these disparate elements: our architects work alongside our economist and land use planners, and with our civil engineers and landscape architects. This breadth of expertise results in actionable master plans that best realize our clients’ visions.
Selected master planning experience
Amberglen Master Planning, Hillsboro, OR
Bornstedt Park Master Plan, Sandy, OR
Cascade Mill Master Plan, Yakima, WA
Kalama Shorelines Master Plan Update, Kalama, WA
Clark County Shorelines Master Plan Update
Columbia River Economic Development Commission Employment Land Analysis, Clark County, WA
Convene Master Plan, Vancouver, WA
Concordia University Master Plan, Portland, OR
Creekside Master Planning, Beaverton, OR
Proposed Development Scenarios
Port of Ridgefield Discovery Point Master Plan, Ridgefield, WA
Port of Chehalis Master Plan, Chehalis, WA
Port of Hood River Waterfront Redevelopment, Hood River, OR
Redmond Mid Town Master Plan, Redmond, OR
Regional Industrial Lands Inventory and Site Readiness Project, OR
Stone Creek Master Plan, Redmond, OR
Woodmont Park Master Plan, Lake Oswego, OR
Development Planning
Our land use planning department was created in 1980 to lead our clients through land use planning, entitlement, and permitting. Our in-house land use planning team works with our design team early in the project to set the project goals and schedule up for success, while acting as the liaison with jurisdiction staff and our clients. While our land use planners support all our business sectors, many of them have a specialty and focus on industrial and employment land development and industrial site readiness.
Our work on regional employment lands is an example of our expertise in land use planning for industrial uses and industrial park development, impacting the policy and regulatory land use requirements. We have worked with juristdictions throughout the United States either through industrial development permitting or through policy development and regional employment lands planning projects.
In the last year, Mackenzie was a part of the Semiconductor Taskforce Industrial Lands subcommittee, advising on policy and regulatory requirements to promote more semiconductor development in Oregon, testifying in front of the legislature in support of Senate Bill 4, and acting as a resource to the legislatures on the policy and regulatory front as they crafted the legislation.
ON THE BOARDS
Twelve
The first CO2-based eJet propulsion fuel manufacturing plant.
Location: Moses Lake, WA
Site: 12 acre campus with four buildings
Occupancy: Planned Q2 2025
Services: Architecture, structural engineering, land use planning, and landscape architecture
Design Drivers:
This existing industrial site was home to a sugar beet processing facility. This was demolished to provide a brownfield site for this 21st century operation. The key to this location was its abundance of power immediately available.
Twelve will operate a demonstration plant to show their proprietary technology that uses electricity to split water and CO2. This process produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. These are combined to produce “syngas” — synthetic hydrocarbon gas they then process into sustainable aviation fuel.
Twelve will install and operate a plant that produces 5 BPSD of SAF that meets ASTM D7566.
Distribution Center | 215 15th Street SE
A multi-tenant warehouse facility on a repurposed site.
Location: Puyallup, WA
Client: Fortress Investment Group, LLC
Owner’s Representative: KGIP
Type: Warehousing, logistics, manufacturing
Site: 7.8 acres
Building: 120,400 SF
General Contractor: Sierra Construction
Occupancy: 2025
Services: Architecture, structural engineering, land use planning, and landscape architecture
Design Drivers:
The site plan was driven by transportation constraints from an adjacent heavily used rail line and adjacent crossing and limited site access opportunities.
The design maximizes visibility and branding along the adjacent rail line.
A full truck court along one side with office nodes at either end provides multi-tenant leasing options with much-needed trailer parking.
Mass Timber Coalition Build Back
Better Grant/Port of Portland T2
Innovative manufacturing project to support regional community.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: New construction
Size: 60 acres
Reference: Tom Boullion Planning Manager, Land Use, Transportation & Marine
503-415-6615
Tom.Bouillion@portofportland.com
Kenneth Anderton
Sr Mgr, Real Estate Development, Investment and Leasing Business Development & Properties
503.415.6575
Kenneth.Anderton@portofportland.com
Design Drivers:
In preparation for the US Economic Development Administration $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the Port of Portland competed for an economic development program to boost economic recovery and rebuild regional communities, particularly for communities historically marginalized and impacted by the pandemic. We were successful in winning a $42 million EDA grant.
Mackenzie was tasked with analyzing the Terminal 2 site for redevelopment into a new state-of-the-art mass timber manufacturing facilities, University of Oregon research lab, business incubator, and support facility to enable recovery from not only the pandemic, but recent wildfires impacting rural communities. It will jump-start job creation, workforce development, and mass timber housing products for the Pacific Northwest region.
Mackenzie also was tasked with assisting with the application. Jan Mason’s writing became the framework for the equity and inclusion narratives for all the coalition members and their subsequent project narratives so that a cohesive and consistent implementation strategy and approach was presented for each of the project’s applications.
West Valley Highway Distribution Center
A unique design response to a challenging site and design environment.
Location: Kent, WA
Client: Lift Partners
Type: Warehouse, logistics, manufacturing
Site: 6.4 acres
Size: 117,175 SF
General Contractor: Sierra Construction
Occupancy: 2025 (est.)
Services: Architecture, structural engineering, and land use planning
Design Drivers:
The project successfully navigated Kent’s Industrial Design Standards.
It represents a significant design at the north entry to the Kent Industrial District.
The curvature of the highway on the site’s west side caused unique access issues that were creatively resolved by the project’s design
Advanced Technology Center
Campus plan and concept development.
Location: Kent, WA
Client: City of Kent and Avenue 55
Type: Research, manufacturing, job training, museum
Site: 9.4 acres
Building: 250,000 SF
Services: Architecture, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and land use planning
Design Drivers:
The City of Kent was interested in developing a place to engage the diverse youth and adult populations in South King County in science, engineering, technologies, arts, and math.
The City located this project on city-owned lands strategically placed at the “fifty-yard line” of the Kent Valley and within the walkable grid of its historic downtown. A partnership with Avenue 55 was formed to bring this project to fruition.
The project supports a modern way of engaging with students outside of the traditional classroom, and providing exposure to the worlds of innovation, imagination, and collaboration that lie ahead in advanced careers in the region, with a focus on the intersection of digital and traditional hardware skills that together are remaking career pathways.
New 50-acre campus in advanced manufacturing development.
Location: Gresham, OR
Type: New industrial development
Site: 50 acres Buildings: 650,000 SF
Design Drivers:
Diversity, equity, and inclusion client goals in development through construction, including workforce and contracting.
The design incorporates state of the art industrial building with advanced manufacturing attributes.
Buildings provide collaborative work environments with flexible space adaptable for multiple users.
100% solar roof capability and extensive vision glass for natural lighting.
Grainger
Location: Gresham, OR
Client: Grainger
Type: Regional Fulfillment Center
Site: 50 acres
BUilding Area: 560,000 SF (Phase 1)
General Contractor: Perlo Construction
Occupancy Date: 2025 (est.)
Services: Architecture, civil engineering, structural engineering, landscape architecture, land use planning, and traffic engineering
Design Drivers:
The project was established to apply workforce mentorship opportunities to disadvantaged and emerging small businesses within the design, development, and construction communities.
Establishes a highly efficient point of distribution to serve the western US region for Grainger.
Facility is designed to have a strong public facade along the main property frontage.
Creates a equitable transition between the existing industrial development and surrounding residential neighborhood.
BCP Frederickson
A multi-tenant warehouse facility ready for eCommerce.
Location: Puyallup, WA - Frederickson
Client: Bertch Capital Partners
Type: Warehousing, logistics, manufacturing
Site: 10.3 acres
Building: 126,000 SF
General Contractor: Sierra Construction
Occupancy: 2024 (est.)
Services: Architecture, structural engineering, land use planning, and landscape architecture
Design Drivers:
The site plan was driven by significant slopes along one side and right of way improvements along 176th Street East.
Strong color details have been added to the entries, and façade articulation and metal detailing along the street were integrated into the design.
A full truck court along one side with office nodes at either end provide multi-tenant leasing options with significant trailer parking.
MASTER PLANNING
Convene Master Plan
A mixed-use master plan setting the stage for a vibrant collection of commercial and retail functions.
Location: Vancouver, WA
Type: Master plan and Phase I design and development
Size: 30 acre site | First building: 84,000 SF
Design Drivers:
This commercial mixed-use development is organized linearly through an amenity-rich green belt.
A pedestrian-friendly boulevard runs through the center of the 30-acre development, stitching together commercial and retail functions and blending urban design with a natural landscape.
The first building of the development, a heavy timber creative office, has been designed and delivered by Mackenzie.
Exposed mass timber structure to create a market differentiator.
Washington County Industrial Site Readiness Assessment and Implementation
Analysis of 15 industrial sites, followed by market analysis and business recruitment strategy.
Location: Washington County, OR
Type: Land analysis
Design Drivers:
This multi-phase project began with a master plan and included two main components.
The first component was a detailed analysis of the current challenges and opportunities presented by regulations, infrastructure, local economics, and the environment of 15 industrial sites.
The finished report serves as a guide to Washington County communities in understanding the complex relationship between regulations, infrastructure investment, and the development of industrial sites for job creation.
The project was a collaborative effort undertaken by a partnership between Mackenzie, Washington County, and the cities of Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Sherwood, Tualatin, and Wilsonville.
The sites analyzed ranged in size from 25 to 225 acres, with development timelines that ranged from 15 months to over six years. The study identified the cost of improving site readiness and evaluated the
potential economic benefits of these improvements. On a regional level, the project forms a part of the dialogue in Washington County’s effort to attract industry and family wage jobs through establishing a realistic inventory of developable, market ready, industrial sites.
The second component was a Market Analysis and Business Recruitment Strategy for over 700 acres added to the urban growth boundary in the early 2000s for industrial development, namely Sherwood’s Tonquin Employment Area (TEA) and Tualatin’s Southwest Concept Plan (SWCP) area.
This effort built on the concept plans adopted by the Cities for the TEA and SWCP by assessing market conditions, evaluating the suitability of the target industries, identifying transportation and infrastructure needs and associated construction costs, recommending a phasing strategy, and outlining actions to market the area to potential businesses.
Finally, the team prepared specific recommendations including an implementation plan pertaining to project sequencing, key projects, and potential financing tools for infrastructure improvements for both areas.
Washington County Employment Lands Inventory
Clackamas County Strategically
Significant Employment Lands
In-depth survey of industrial and employment potential.
Location:
Type:
Design Drivers:
Building on the industrial and employment inventory work completed by County staff in a phase I land inventory project, and utilizing the key clusters analyzed by FCS Group, our team evaluated 21 industrial and employment sites to determine development costs, market demand, and economic potential and development readiness.
SITE BOUNDARY:
STORM POND:
LANDSCAPING:
We also worked collaboratively with the County to prepare a marketing and implementation strategy based on business and industry profiles and site opportunities. This marketing material was developed to assist in active recruitment efforts to attract targeted industries matching both the County’s economic development strategy and sites meeting needs of end users.
PAVED SURFACE:
CLACKAMAS COUNTY EMPLOYMENT LANDS PROJECT
CIAO DEVELOPMENT SITE
Proposed Development Scenarios
Port of Ridgefield Master Planning
Long-term master planning and permitting for two large projects.
Mackenzie’s planning team helped provide certainty in applicable permit standards for Discovery Pointe’s future users, with a goal of encouraging employment-based industry.
For the Discovery Pointe effort, our land use planners identified the need to annex about 30 acres of property into the City of Ridgefield.
For the Miller’s Landing Waterfront Development, the team evaluated preferred land uses, storm and utility plans, and financing and implementation strategies.
LOGISTICS | MANUFACTURING | FOOD
Logisticenter 205
A speculative industrial facility designed for warehousing and distribution in response to regional needs.
Location: Vancouver, WA
Type: Speculative industrial
Site: 98,400 SF
Design Drivers:
The project was efficiently processed through Vancouver’s streamline permit application program.
There are 21 dock doors and two grade level doors, a 130’ dedicated truck court, and a 30’ clear height.
The building features early suppression fast response sprinkler systems, energy efficient fluorescent lighting, and a TPO roofing system with rigid insulation.
Coffee Creek Logistics Center
Modern industrial facility following new municipal design standards.
Location: Wilsonville, OR
Client: Panattoni
Type: Warehousing, logistics, manufacturing
Site: 20 acres
Building: 110,000 SF
Services: Architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, land use planning, transportation planning, and landscape architecture
Design Drivers:
Coffee Creek balances the operational and functional needs of a modern industrial facility with the enhanced design standards required of the City of Wilsonville’s recently established Overlay District. The first of its kind within the District, it has since become a catalyst for other similar industrial development in the area that bring living wage jobs to the region.
The building is oriented to highlight prominent architectural features at the entries, and expanded overhangs at the truck court to create a stronger sense of scale.
Enhanced landscape design reflects the history of the site through use of plant material, art displays, and public gathering space. The team designed the site to retain a cluster of large, mature, fir trees along the public frontage and developed that area to accommodate outdoor amenity space for the building occupants.
Confidential E-commerce Fulfillment Centers
Multiple large-scale fulfillment centers.
Locations: Portland and Salem, OR; Arlington, DuPont, and Pasco, WA; Baton Rouge, LA; Houston, TX; Ontario, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Slate Hill, NY; FL; and DE
These were developer-led projects for a confidential end user.
The projects were designed to follow the end user’s program and requirements including bay spacing, clear height, office, super flat floors, energy efficient lighting, a reflective thermoplastic roofing membrane, early suppression fast response fire sprinklers, security systems, and HVAC management systems.
Sites vary in size from 50K SF to 3.8M SF.
Portland Meadows Lot A
A first-of-its-kind last-mile fulfillment center for a confidential ecommerce company.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: Industrial
Size: 250,000 SF
Client: Prologis
Mackenzie Services: Architecture, structural engineering, and land use planning
General Contractor: Perlo
Civil Engineering: DOWL
MEP: Vanderweil Engineers
Design Drivers:
The project is located on the former site of the Portland Meadows Racetrack, a 110-acre site.
The design is an innovative facility that will have a direct impact on consumer delivery logistics.
The project was delivered on an exceptionally tight timeframe, with construction beginning in November of 2019, and substantial completion achieved in October 2020.
Shipping and delivery logistics are being rapidly reinvented, so a successful design response had to evolve in parallel.
The project also represents a turning point in the redevelopment in the East Columbia neighborhood.
Gresham Vista Logistics Park
Very large speculative industrial project designed to flexibly serve the functional needs of distributors.
Location: Gresham, OR
Type: Speculative industrial
Site: 733,232 SF; Building A: 113,144 SF, Building B: 125,624 SF, Building C: 494,464 SF
Award: CAB/NAIOP/SIOR Development of the Year
Design Drivers:
Two of three buildings are designed with a 30’ interior clear height, with the third at a 36’ interior clear height.
The project opened up the interior, exposing the structure, and implemented an entirely new interior décor, signage, and graphics package.
Mackenzie provided full design services for the project, the largest ever single-phase speculative industrial project in the metro area.
PDX Logistics Center
A three-phase project designed and built between 2010 and 2017.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: Speculative industrial
Site: 1,100,000 SF
Design Drivers:
The buildings are state-of-the-art, with super flat concrete floors, energy efficient lighting, a reflective thermoplastic polyolefin roof, early suppression fast response sprinklers, and deep truck courts.
Mackenzie also designed a 428,000 SF tenant improvement for national organic grocer KeHE. It included approximately 80,000 SF of freezer (-10 degree) and 40,000 SF of cooler space, 300,000 SF of food-grade space, and 20,000 SF of office.
Young’s Market
Beverage distribution facility with a tasting room and mass timber office.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: New tenant office and industrial tenant improvement in a Mackenzie-designed shell
Size: 155,400 SF, including 14,400 SF office, 800 SF tasting room, and 140,200 SF warehouse
Design Drivers:
Mackenzie was selected for the firm’s ability to deliver a successful project on an aggressive schedule.
The design includes CLT mass timber construction for a 3,000 SF office mezzanine. The team worked with the CLT manufacturer to leverage the product’s modularity, and meet budget and schedule goals.
Throughout all project phases, Mackenzie coordinated closely with the general contractor, Perlo, as well as the developer and tenant, to meet tenant schedule objectives.
Farwest Steel
A heavy manufacturing and office facility for steel fabrication.
Client: Farwest Steel
Location: Vancouver, WA
Type: Heavy Manufacturing and Office
Site: 360,000 SF manufacturing; 20,000 SF office
Design Drivers:
The fabrication building is pile-founded, with heavy reinforced floor slabs to accommodate 20 ton overhead cranes, has a 25-foot hook height and overall building clear height of 35.’
The project was subject to local, state, and federal permits, including floodplain, shorelines, SEPA, and streamlined development review.
The team collaborated with the Port of Vancouver, City of Vancouver, State of Washington, Columbia River Economic Development Council, and non-profit community groups to secure financial incentives.
The site design included coordination of a rail spur to the building and coordination of heavy process machinery.
Organically Grown
Food-grade regional organic vegetable and fruit distribution center.
Location: Gresham, OR
Type: Distribution center
Site: 119,000 SF, including 13,575 SF of office space and 105,425 SF of production coolers
Design Drivers:
The project entailed an extensive tenant improvement inside a warehouse shell for a produce and vegetable distribution company.
The team coordinated requirements and designed structural support for coolers and process piping in production areas.
Mackenzie provided architecture, interior design, and structural engineering services.
Project Kansas
New $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant.
Location: De Soto, KS
Client: Panasonic
Type: New construction
Size: 600 acres
Design Drivers:
The facility, the largest economic development in Kansas’s history, is expected to support 4,000 permanent employees and bring in $2.5 billion in yearly economic activity.
The plant has a U-shaped footprint sited around support and utility facilities and will be constructed in phases due to its complexity and size.
The current focus of design is on the production facility, as well as designing spaces for staff in alignment with Panasonic’s employee-centric culture.
Confidential Semiconductor Facility
Complete renovation and modernization of an advanced facility.
Location: Roseville, CA
Type: Renovation/remodel
Size: 500,000 SF
Project Components: Clean room, process systems, gas yard, data and electrical upgrades.
Design Drivers:
Design and construction support for the complete renovation and modernization of a facility to manufacture silicon carbide automotive computer chips.
The one-of-a-kind project will support a highly skilled workforce and be a long term catalyst for regional growth and community prosperity.
Mackenzie’s team applied both technical expertise in the facility project type, as well as experience in jurisdictional collaboration to efficiently achieve schedule objectives.
The project includes significant system modifications to the facility that houses the main fab and subfab. The general arrangement of the fab and subfab will be updated to suit the new tool layout.
The Energy Center comprises chillers, boilers, compressed air systems, ultra-pure water (UPW) systems, and other fab support systems. Utilities are routed across a pipe bridge to serve the M-Line. Energy Center upgrades are limited to the chilled water system, compressed air systems, PCW and UPW systems, and equipment platforms.
Confidential Semiconductor Supplier Client
Mackenzie’s long relationship with this client is based on an understanding of their needs and the demands of the market they serve.
Location: Tualatin, OR
Type: Campus; manufacturing; research and development
Relationship: Over 50 projects completed since 1998
Project delivery: Design-build and negotiated
Size: 58-acre site | 6 buildings | 550,000 SF
MEP/P partners: Glumac, Corbin, Bradford
Project components: Clean rooms (Class 10,000 to class 1,000); Subfab, fabrication, and interstitial fan levels with raised access floor on waffle slab and return air wall chases; central utility building; bulk gas yard; skybridges; perimeter landscape berm; office building with staff, conferencing, cafeteria, and training functions.
Design Drivers:
Long-term campus master plan sets the stage for flexibility in future building and parking options.
Each building addresses program-specific functions. Elevated skybridges support connectivity and circulation between buildings and accommodate process piping below the walkway.
Extensive expertise in multiple fields and building types has been required, with the delivery of advanced tech manufacturing facilities; office projects requiring nuanced workplace design; campus civil engineering; and landscape architecture.
Confidential Technology Company
Collaborative manufacturing and office building design to drive innovation.
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Type: New construction
Size: 218,000 SF
Design Drivers:
The interior design of the building blends collaborative workplace and cutting edge manufacturing space. The vast scale and height affords the creation of a “city scape” blending open office community and collaborative gathering spaces.
The design focused on a spine of collaboration and conference spaces, where staff could come together to connect and create.
Connection is a cornerstone for this company. They wanted to have a flexible space for staff to relax or host events. Based on that, we designed a spacious break room and presentation area that capitalized on the amazing views.
The facility houses multiple functions for multiple work divisions and contains clean rooms on a two story waffle slab. It provides a collaborative space where close work can be done with customers to jointly create solutions. The site utilizes the latest process, inspections, measurement, and analysis systems technologies to create unique solutions.
Confidential Biopharma Client
This biotech campus project included extensive land use planning, site development, and construction contract administration.
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Type: Biotech Campus
Client: Confidential
Site: 12 acres Building: 296,000 SF
Project components: Event plazas, gathering areas, extensive pedestrian amenities, planted rain garden for roof runoff, and an on-site stormwater conveyance swale and an off-site treatment pond. Park and trail improvements include walkways, earthen berms, stone walls, seating areas, and extensive planting.
Design Drivers:
Mackenzie provided land use planning, site development services, civil engineering, landscape architecture, and comprehensive A/E construction administration services.
Mackenzie, in collaboration with Flad and Associates, prepared final conceptual site plans and engineering plans, and managed Development Review approval from the city.
Public/private partnerships between client and the City of Hillsboro Park and Recreation Department and ODOT created passive park and trail improvements within an expanded right of way.
Autodesk
This renovation creates a compelling identity for Autodesk’s Portland office, interpreting the company’s brand through its local context.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: Tenant improvement
Size: 60,000 SF
Awards: CAB, NAIOP, SIOR Office Redevelopment of the Year; DJC TopProjects, Tenant Improvement of the Year; Fast Company Innovation by Design, Workplace Honorable Mention
Design Drivers:
The workplace, a renovated historic warehouse, is designed to attract and retain talent through carefully crafted amenity space that fosters engagement and an authentic collective identity.
Collaborative rooms and meeting spaces are inspired by the tiny house movement, using a palette of materials reflective of the neighborhood’s history, and incorporating the work of local makers.
Portland cultural motifs are woven throughout the workplace, paying homage to the city’s artisans, urban landmarks, geography, and history.
Iron Fireman
Urban redevelopment of an industrial building into a mixed-use creative maker space.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: New construction/Renovation Size: 98,000 SF
Award: Portland Business Journal’s 2017 Commercial Real Estate Transformer Award
Design Drivers:
The remodel restores and accentuates the building’s historical character, while creating a modern maker space for small businesses, artisans, and light industry.
The building features large old-growth timber beams, wood paneling, and huge windows restored to their original size.
The space supports an atmospheric mix of Portland maker culture.
Steelhead Surgical
State-of-the-art medical equipment facility that houses the sales team, sophisticated lab, and training settings for the medical profession.
The project relocated the company to a state of the art lab facility with sales, office support, training and event space at one central location.
The design embraced the industrial nature of the rehabilitated space and celebrate the existing architecture.
A showpiece to be able to display Steelhead’s products in the best way possible to the medical community.
Clay Creative
Mixed-use urban redevelopment project in central Portland.
Location: Portland, OR
Type: New construction/Renovation
Size: 90,000 SF
Certification: LEED Gold certification in process
Design Drivers:
Six-story mixed-use building with ground floor retail space, rooftop deck, extensive bike amenities, and parking below grade.
Design responds to the historic context of Portland’s Central Eastside.
Innovative hybrid structure blends heavy timber, structural steel, and post-tensioned concrete to maximize efficiency and leverage each system’s inherent advantages.
Synopsys
Mackenzie strategically furthered Synopsys’ long-term goals through master planning campus and the phased delivery of a large campus project.
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Type: Corporate Campus; Research and development
Relationship: Multiple projects since 2002
Project delivery: Design-build
Size: 43 acres | 7 buildings | 796,000 SF
Project components: Campus site design; office buildings; research and development facilities; data center; research lab; sport courts, outdoor plaza area, and campus trail system; parking; landscape design.
Design Drivers:
Mackenzie provided full professional services for the master plan and design of this campus to be built in three phases over 15 years, a timeline supporting strategic growth that responds to an evolving market.
The buildings are designed to complement their surroundings. Entry points to the site allow visitors to quickly find their way to the heart of the campus.
Parking, landscaping, service areas, and open spaces are distributed throughout the campus so that each building meets applicable standards independently.
Self-Storage Projects
Self-storage facilities have grown into a significant building category where developers are providing facilities across the country to meet demands. Cities have also responded to this growth of facilities with more and more restrictive constraints for the look and operation. These often require unique solutions for each city and developer. The four projects we highlight each offers a unique solution for the site conditions and the issues that arose.
Self-storage has seen a shift from the typical suburban single level development to more urban development responding to the changing housing market. This change has also impacted the approach to challenging properties and entitlements to create more density with development. In the past few years, we have seen multiple projects designed with three to six stories of height to meet the demand of the market.
Four Mackenzie projects are highlighted below. Detailed projects sheets are available.
