Outerwear company looks to Washington city as possible site for expansion.
Outerwear company looks to Washington town as possible site for expansion.
Mayor Tim Leavitt said the company met with him this week to discuss opportunities for about 30,000 square feet of space to house 50 to 150 staff people. The company’s direct-to-consumer business line is growing rapidly, Leavitt said, and it’s looking to enlarge its operational footprint.
Peter Bragdon, senior vice president and general counsel for Columbia, said Thursday that he, CEO Tim Boyle and Xander Smit, the company’s director of global real estate, met with Leavitt on Wednesday. The company’s timeline is uncertain, Bragdon said, and it remains in search mode. “We’re looking around this area and other parts of Oregon and in other places,” he said. Nevertheless, the meeting with the mayor was good, he said.
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