Office Relocation in Tigard, From the Ninth Floor to Main Street

Where the truck goes is the first question

The campus has three parking garages and surface lots, and at least one of the lots, 4 Lincoln, requires a permit. A box truck will not clear the ceiling of a typical parking garage, and a permit lot is reserved for permit holders, so neither works as a staging area. Ask property management which surface lot or service entrance movers use at your building, how close to the doors the truck may stand, and whether a mover who follows in a car can park there at all. Get the answer in writing before the date. A bay near the lobby doors and a spot at the far end of the lot are the same job with a different number of hours on it, because every desk, chair, and carton crosses that distance on a dolly.

The elevator belongs to the building

In a shared building, tenants reserve the elevator through management, and management may require a window outside business hours so other tenants are not waiting. Book the elevator time first, then book us for that window. In a 12-story tower, the reservation is the whole schedule: one cab, one suite at a time, and whatever has not gone up when the window closes waits for the next one. An evening window also needs someone to unlock the lobby doors and release the freight cab, because a crew that arrives to a locked entrance at 6 PM is billing for the wait.

Management will also ask for a certificate of insurance before it releases the cab, and it will usually want specific parties named on it: the building owner, the management company, sometimes a lender. Send us the exact wording they gave you rather than the request in your own words. We can normally have the certificate back to them within the hour, and a certificate with the wrong names on it can cost you the evening window.

Some moves never leave the campus

Some growing or shrinking businesses move from one suite to another in the same building, or across the campus to a different one. Both are called "staying at Lincoln Center," and they are not on the same day of work. Inside one building, the crew can often roll furniture and cartons straight between suites on dollies, and the truck barely moves. Across 23 acres, it is a truck move whatever the address says, with a load, a drive, and an unload at the far end. Ask management whether an indoor route between the two suites exists before you assume the short version, and the estimate will follow the answer.

Get ahead of the elevator window

Elevator windows are fixed. The move runs better when every box is packed, taped, and labeled before the reservation starts, desks are cleared, and chairs are grouped near the suite door. Anything still being packed when the crew arrives eats into the slot, and a second reservation may mean another evening. Start each label with the building and the floor number, so the crew can sort every load at the elevator before it goes up.

Long carries on a wide floor

A full floor plate can put the far corner office a long walk from the elevator lobby, while a suite in one of the low buildings on the same campus is a short carry to the door. On an upper-floor move in one of the larger buildings, a fourth pair of hands who does nothing but run dollies between the cab and the suite keeps the elevator loaded while the rest of the crew is still walking. Tell us the building, the floor, and roughly how far your suite sits from the elevator lobby, and Patrick will pace it on a walk-through and say whether the fourth person pays for itself.