The Leading Commercial Real Estate Organizations Join Together To Form The Portland Metro Chamber Public Affairs Collaborative For The Commercial Real Estate Industry - 12/10/25
December 10, 2025
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Monice Wong
The Leading Commercial Real Estate Organizations Join Together to Form the Portland Metro Chamber Public Affairs Collaborative for the Commercial Real Estate Industry
PORTLAND, OR—December 10, 2025—Three of the city’s leading commercial real estate and development organizations have joined forces with the Portland Metro Chamber (PMC) to expand and strengthen their collective influence in public affairs, launching the Portland Metro Chamber Public Affairs Collaborative.
The Building Owners and Managers Association of Oregon (BOMA Oregon), the National Commercial Real Estate Development Association of Oregon (NAIOP Oregon), Oregon Smart Growth, and the Portland Metro Chamber have aligned around a shared goal: to address the region’s pressing commercial development challenges. As Greater Portland continues to experience economic headwinds, particularly in the Commercial Real Estate sector, these organizations have committed to leveraging their collective expertise and resources, collaborating closely on policy issues impacting commercial real estate, and advancing a unified voice on issues impacting the industry in the Portland region and across Oregon.
Avaly Scarpelli, Executive Director of BOMA Oregon, adds, “Through this partnership, our organizations will lead unified, focused action to improve the region’s commercial real estate environment. As the leading voice for the region’s office building and commercial real estate industry, BOMA Oregon will contribute the expertise and perspectives of industry leaders. We look forward to addressing this tough economic moment with even stronger collaboration.”
Sarah Zahn, Board Chair of Oregon Smart Growth, highlights, “This partnership will support our organizations in spearheading focused, collective action toward regional economic recovery. Oregon Smart Growth guides economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable development for Oregon’s future. We are excited to join with other leading organizations in our community and contribute our membership’s hands-on experience and expertise on how Oregon can create more jobs and housing opportunities, increase property values, and provide sustainable economic growth.”
Travis Drilling, Board Chair of NAIOP Oregon, adds, “Our region needs a stronger culture of unified action, and our organizations have committed to taking action together. As one of the most important forums for Oregon’s commercial real estate marketplace, NAIOP Oregon will contribute insights from developers, investors, and owners across all real estate product types throughout the state. We look forward to working alongside these three partners to advance productive commercial real estate policy that creates jobs and benefits the communities in which our members work and live.”
Michael Liu, Board Chair of the Portland Metro Chamber, states, “This is the beginning of a new chapter for our organizations. The Portland metro region is confronting significant economic challenges—restoring our region’s vibrancy will require strategic, coordinated investment to expand all housing options to address the high cost of real estate and scarcity, activate vacant commercial spaces, and revitalize our downtown core. Together, our organizations will achieve significantly greater impact on these issues than alone. Our team is grateful to BOMA Oregon, NAIOP Oregon, and Oregon Smart Growth for meeting this challenging moment with partnership.”
More than 18 months of collaborative planning informed the partnership. While each organization will retain its own independent board of directors and staff, they will combine resources to create a new position within the Portland Metro Chamber dedicated to advancing a proactive commercial real estate policy agenda.
At a time when the Portland metro regional economy faces significant economic headwinds, these regional economic leaders opt to collaborate even more closely, align their objectives and efforts, and leverage their collective resources to effectively drive economic recovery. The launch of the Portland Metro Chamber Public Affairs Collaborative marks a new chapter of strategic, unified leadership designed to drive economic solutions for the greater Portland metro region.