How to Buy Bend.com

When Chemica Technologies, a Bend-based biotech research firm, pulled up stakes and moved to Portland last year, the managers at Grace Bio-Labs didn’t hesitate.Grace, a maker of patented labware for the molecular study of cells, was about to burst out of its space on Empire Avenue, Business Development Director Michelle Carney said. So it bought the building that Chemica left on west Bend’s ...

Upfront likes to spend some of our idle hours browsing through the Central Oregon real estate offerings on craigslist, just to get a feel for what’s currently on the market. Most of the time what we come across is pretty routine – faux-Craftsman bungalows in Northwest Crossing, cookie-cutter McMansions on the Eastside, “quaint cottages” (read: falling-down former mill workers’ shacks) on the ...