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A highly collaborative team with award-winning multidisciplinary expertise.    

Over the last 35 years, we have built a highly collaborative team with award-winning multidisciplinary expertise: urban design, architecture, planning, engineering, and construction management. By providing the highest level of client service, creativity, and a think-global, act-local mindset, we help our clients and partners take their projects to the next level. Whether it is city and regional planning; new public works infrastructure; a transit or transportation project; a civic, institutional, or recreational project; or a mixed-use, residential, commercial, or industrial facility, we apply a clear vision, positive energy, and a client-centric focus to every project we touch.

In 1981 Otak’s founders set out to create the region’s premier multidisciplinary architecture and urban design firm.

Otak’s name comes from the initials of its three founders: Nawzad Othman, Ralph Tahran, and Greg Kurahashi. Otak quickly grew into a firm with a presence around the entire western United States and the Middle East, with a strong reputation for excellence in smart growth planning, sustainable design and development, and innovative transportation solutions. Creativity, integrity, and skill have guided Otak’s efforts as an award-winning architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, planning, and construction project management firm.

In 2011, Korean firm Hanmi Global acquired a majority share of Otak. Since Hanmi Global’s involvement, profitable growth, through both organic growth and acquisition, has been a focus. In 2017 DAY CPM joined Otak and expanded our services to include comprehensive project management and owner’s representative offerings. In the same year Loris and Associates strengthened our design capabilities in Colorado. In early 2019 we added an architecture firm, V3 Studios, to bolster our capability in hospitality, mixed-use, and residential high-rise design. Growing rapidly, today we are operating out of eight offices in three states.

Ellen Hogg is a real estate professional that resides with her family in McMinnville and services a variety of areas in Oregon. She is the Office Director at the Premiere Property Group office in Newberg. Ellen works with both buyers and sellers to help people achieve their real estate goals. Honesty, integrity, and professionalism are all values she believes in as she serves her community. Ellen also runs a local construction company with her husband Steve Hogg called Hogg Renovation and Design

About Ellen      

Ellen got her initial taste of real estate with her first home purchase in 2012. Since then, Ellen and her husband have bought and sold several homes and have their own investment properties. Her personal real estate buying and selling experience inspired her to get her real estate license. She feels it is an honor to serve the community as a real estate professional. Ellen is committed to providing the highest level of honesty, integrity, and professionalism. In addition, she is hard working, highly detail orientated, and communicative through every step of each transaction. Ellen grew up in central New York, went on to graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design in 2009, and eventually found her way to the beautiful state of Oregon in 2010. Over the last decade, she developed her career as a kitchen designer. Working in the home improvement industry provided her a vast network of local contractors and vendors. Ellen offers extensive knowledge of home improvement and design expertise that will add immense value to your real estate experience. Ellen resides in McMinnville with her husband and 3 children. As a family, they love to spend time in the community, and they enjoy everything the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Ellen enjoys playing classical and big band music with various groups. She is strongly passionate about helping children in the foster care system and advocating for families to learn more about foster care and adoption.