Harcourts The Garner Group Real Estate, a real estate agency founded in 2001 and based in Bend, has opened a 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 license in Redmond in 1979. The brokerage was officially incorporated in 2008, the same year it opened its original location in the Northwest Crossing neighborhood of Bend.

The Garner Group joined the Harcourts franchise in 2014 and is now owned by Garner’s daughters Shelley Griffin and Erica Davis along with her niece, Sara La Faver.

“We recognize that Redmond is an important market in Central Oregon,” said Harcourts The Garner Group co-owner Erica Davis in a press release. “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.”

The new space was designed by Tekneek Architecture and completely remodeled by SunWest Builders. Historic Redmond images such as Robert’s Field, 6th 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 and walking the rows of Hallmark cards as children.

Harcourts North America has 1,300 agents in 45 offices. Shelley Griffin was ranked the number one agent in residential sales for all of Harcourts North America.