Texan Lassos UO’s Treetops Mansion

Texan Lassos UO’s Treetops Mansion

By Christian Wihtol A Texas-based investment exec has snapped up a controversial old bauble of Eugene real estate. Willam Cornog — a former leader at private-equity giant KKR and a current member of a University of Oregon advisory board — on March 14 bought the Treetops mansion at 2237 Spring Boulevard from the University of Oregon for $2 million, according to the deed. Donated to the UO nearly a century ago, the building in the elite Fairmount …