First Real Estate Social Hour

Back and building for the future

FRESH PDX began in 2013 for the purpose of gathering members of the local commercial real estate industry to provide cross-networking opportunities in a large-scale event format.

Between 2013 and 2020, this evolved into a “Super” networking event held each January as the first social event of the calendar year, bringing together professionals from the full spectrum of the industry; Architects, real estate attorneys, brokers, contractors, developers, lenders, marketing professionals, policy makers, property managers, students, and more.

The event is planned each year by volunteers from affiliated associations in the Portland and SW Washington chapters of BOMA, CREW, ICSC, IREM, NAIOP, ULI, SMPS, CAI, NARPM and CCIM.

In 2022, First Real Estate Social Hour returned from a pandemic hiatus as a newly formed 501(C)6 non-profit entity, to “RE”FRESH the industry with an August 2022 relaunch event. The event returned to the annual January format in 2023.