Portland Development Pipeline 2026: Next Portland Relaunch, Data + Mapping | Iain MacKenzie

Multifamily owners, investors, developers, and operators: if you’ve ever asked, “What’s being built over there?”—this episode is for you. It’s a deep dive into how Portland’s public development data can be turned into usable market intelligence. Greg Frick interviews Iain McKenzie, founder of the Next Portland blog, about relaunching it as a collaborative/nonprofit effort, using Portland Maps/GIS to improve public visibility into the development pipeline, and potentially expanding beyond Portland into the broader metro.

What you’ll learn:
How development data becomes a real pipeline signal for owners/investors
Why projects go quiet (and why that makes pipeline tracking hard)
How Portland Maps/GIS can power better public tracking
What a “Next Portland Metro” expansion could look like
Relaunch timing and how to get involved

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro (Multifamily Marketwatch®)
00:26 Guest intro: Ian McKenzie + what Next Portland is
01:15 Ian’s background + why he started tracking development
02:04 Origin story: public data, early assistances, pre-apps
03:35 Why the site paused (life + tech maintenance challenges)
04:41 Nonprofit/collaborative relaunch vision
05:31 Volunteer kickoff: turnout + ways people can help
06:30 Better data today: Portland Maps/GIS and automation potential
07:27 Expanding beyond Portland: Vancouver, Beaverton, Hillsboro
09:22 Editorial approach: neutral info + possible trend analysis
11:20 Why pipeline status is hard (projects go quiet, no press releases)
13:27 How to volunteer / get involved
17:13 Restart timeline: new posts in January + regular cadence
18:56 Mapping vision: “I see a crane—what is it?”
19:46 Closing

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