Harcourts The Garner Group Real Estate, a Bend real estate agency founded in 2001 and based in Bend, annnounces the grad opening of it's new location at 444 SW 6th Street in downtown Redmond. The 2,500-square-foot office has space for up to 15 agents.
The Garner Group was founded by longtime Central Oregon realtor Sandy Garner in 2001, who got her licese in Redmond in 1979. The brokerage was offically incorporated in 2008, the same year it opened its original location in the Northwest Crossing neighborhood in Bend. The Garner Group joined the internationally acclaimed Harcourts franchise in 2014 and is now owed by Garner's daughters Shelley Griffin and Erica Davis along with her niece, Sara LaFaver.
The new space was designed by Tekneek Architecture and completely remodled by SunWest Builders. Historic Redmond images such as Robert's Field, Sixth Street, Downtown Redmond, Deschutes County Fair, the Redmond Reindeer Ranch, Buckaroo Breakfast and Peterson Rock Garden line the walls, all sourced from Redmond Historical Society. Erica and Shelley have fond memories of stopping into Eriksen's Stationary, which was in the very same building their business now occupies, to buy their mom's Stevens Ness real estate forms ans walking the rows of Halmark cards as children.
"We reconize that Redmond is an important market in Central Oregon", said Harcourts The Garner Group co-owner Erica Davis. "This community is lively and thriving-there's a reason it's called the hub. The spirit of thoughtful growth in Redmond is what drew us back to the place we grew up, and we are thrilled about doing business here".