Nautilus Inc. is close to relocating its headquarters within the Columbia Tech Center campus, with more than 80 percent of its new, smaller building’s construction completed and with the move-in expected to wrap up in September.
“We’ll be moving in several waves over the next three or four weeks,” Bill McMahon, chief operating officer for the Vancouver-based manufacturer of fitness equipment, said Monday. McMahon said the company also plans to give media a tour of the new building in September. “It’s mostly together,” he said of the new office space at Southeast 177th Avenue and Southeast Sixth Way.
The company — which employs 240 workers in Vancouver, 30 at its distribution center in Portland and 20 in Shanghai, China — announced in July 2011 that it would leave its current offices at Columbia Center at Columbia Tech Center, 1115 S.E. 164th Ave., by Sept. 1 of this year.
The relocation is occurring under an agreement Nautilus reached with its landlord, Portland-based PacTrust Realty Inc., which is building Nautilus’ new, 51,833-square-foot headquarters. Nautilus now occupies about 72,000 square feet on the third floor of the 478,000-square-foot Columbia Center, which has welcomed both PeaceHealth — the parent company of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center — and Hewlett-Packard Co. as tenants.
