Architecture and Development in PDX
Tahran Architecture & Planning has scheduled a Pre-Application Conference to discuss a proposed 5-story wood framed apartment building at 10506 E Burnside St in the Gateway Plan District. The building would contain approximately 40 dwelling units with 21 on-site car parking spaces.
Pearl West will be the new North American headquarters for Wacom
Our weekly roundup covers the stories relating to architecture & development in Portland.
Michael Graves, the architect of the Portland Building, passed away this week at the age of 80.
Wacom announced that they plan to move their North American from Vancouver, WA to the Pearl District. They will occupy three floors and 56,000 sq ft of the under construction Pearl West office building. They will also open a retail store on the ground floor.
The developers behind the James Beard Public Market briefed Multnomah County that they are looking at realigning the Morrison Bridge ramps at Naito.
Noraneko, a new ramen shop, opens today in the Pitman II restaurant building on SE Water Ave.
The state Higher Education Coordinating Commission approved the University of Oregon’s application to start a Master of Science in Sports Product Management. The program will be based in the Block 8L building in Old Town.
OHSU has committed $7.5 million to the $50 million PSU Viking Pavilion and Academic Center, which will allow the project to move ahead.
The Portland Business Journal published photos of the 1510 Technology Center, the former PGE operations facility in the Central Eastside that has been converted into new offices for Viewpoint Construction Software.
Seattle’s Urban Renaissance Group last year bought 1320 S.W. Broadway, the former home of the Oregonian. They plan a multimillion dollar renovation of the Pietro Belluschi designed building.
The development team behind the proposed Hyatt Regency hotel at the Oregon Convention Center have submitted initial drawings to the Design Commission for the purpose of receiving Design Advice. The drawings by ESG Architects, Ankrom Moisan Architects and Mayer Reed Landscape Architecture focus on the street level engagement and public spaces of the proposed hotel. The massing, height and facade articulation of the room tower is purposefully left vague in the drawing package, and will presumably be addressed at a future hearing.
The $212 million, 600-room Convention Center hotel is being part financed by $60 million of Metro issued bonds, which will be backed by lodging taxes paid by hotel guests. In 2012 Metro chose Minneapolis based Mortenson as the developer for the project. Mortenson are also behind the Downtown AC by Marriott Hotel.
The Design Commission is set to review a new 13 story hotel in Downtown. The AC Hotel by Marriott, first announced in August 2014, will include 204 rooms in a 130’ tall building. At the ground floor the hotel will include a bar, lounge, lobby and breakfast room. Meeting rooms, a fitness center and most of the back of house areas are located in a single below grade level. No on-site parking is proposed, however valet drop off is proposed at the curbside. The architects for the project are SERA, working for Minneapolis based developer Mortenson.
A Pre-Application Conference has been scheduled [PDF] for a new 14-story residential building at NW Eleventh and Hoyt in the Pearl District. The building will contain approximately 98 dwelling units, with a mix of studios and one or two bedroom apartments. The ground floor will have two retail spaces, and a parking garage with 52 mechanized spaces. As reported in the Oregonian, the developer for the project is John Carroll, whose previous buildings in the neighborhood include The Elizabeth and The Edge Lofts. The architects are Ankrom Moisan.
This post is the Part II in a series on Hassalo on Eighth. See also Part I about the masterplan and site design, Part III about the Elwood and Part IV about the Aster Tower.
Appropriately for a building in a development that will have 1,200 bike parking spaces, the Velomor takes its name from a combination of “velo” and “amore”, to form “love of biking”. The six story mixed-use building will form one of three new residential buildings in the Hassalo on Eighth development by American Assets Trust, GBD Architects and Place Studio landscape architects. The Velomor will include 177 studios, one and two bedroom apartments as well as 9,470 sq ft of retail space.
PSU School of Business Adminstration, as presented during the Design Advice stage
Every week, the Bureau of Development services publishes lists of early assistance applications, land use reviews and building permits. We publish the highlights.
Scott Edwards Architecture have requested Early Assistance for a new office building at 9109 NE Cascades Parkway:
New two story 30,000 sf tilt-up concrete office building located in the Cascade Station Plan District
Early Assistance has been requested for a project at 3699 N Hayden Island Dr:
Looking to develop 1 or 2 srtuctures apartment/loft for a total of 11 units
SERA Architects have scheduled a Pre-Application Conference for a project involving the Washington Center at 419 SW Washington St:
Pre-Application Conference to discuss a Type III Design Review for a proposed 15-story, 246-room hotel. The project will incorporate an existing 2-story commercial building with a new 13-story vertical addition. Existing below grade parking will remain.
The PSU School of Business Administration by SRG Partnership and Behnisch Architekten has been submitted for Design Review:
Project is to expand the SBA to approx 137,500 GSF. Includes four modifications and one adjustment.
A building permit application has been submitted for a project at 1636 SE Harold St:
New 3 story 14 unit apartment building with associated site work
CIDA Architects have submitted a building permit application for a project at 3116 N Vancouver Ave:
New construction – new 5 story micro unit apartment building of approx 7200sf
Morton Building Design, LLC have submitted a building permit application for the RAM Apartments at 5803 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy:
New 22 unit multifamily project, consisting of three story apartment structure, detached trash enclosure, and sitework for parking area, and grading/utilities
A building permit was issued to Brett Schulz Architect for a project at 1459 SE Ankeny St:
New 5 story 40 unit apartment building with commercial on main and parking at grade level
A building permit was issued for the Milwaukie Retail project by Ben Waechter Architect at 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave:
New 2 story commercial mixed use building, retail on 1st floor, offices on 2nd floor, building A has attached trash enclosure at south elevation
SERA Architects and developer Cairn Pacific have scheduled a Pre-Application Conference to discuss a major renovation of the Conway Leland James Center Building at 1621 NW 21st Ave. The existing building would be converted into creative office space, and will contain 85 parking spaces in the basement, ground floor retail and office space in the floors above.
Image from the West Quadrant Plan showing a possible development scenario meeting targets for approximately 20,000 new housing units and 30,000 new jobs.
Our weekly roundup covers the stories relating to architecture & development in Portland:
In a 4-1 vote the City Council approved the West Quadrant Plan which will shape the development Downtown, South Waterfront, the Pearl and Goose Hollow for the next 20 years. The lone no vote was Amanda Fritz, who stated that she was “disgusted” at the way the hearing was conducted.
The public got their first chance to see the PNCA 511 Building when it opened for its first First Thursday event. At Portland Architecture Brian Libby writes about his experience of visiting PNCA’s “transformational new home” now that it’s finished and the students have moved in.
The Portland Mercado has set an opening date of Saturday, April 11. The market will include food cart vendors from regions of Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Argentina and El Salvador.
After years where South Waterfront was a retail desert, Urban Works Real Estate is now reporting that they are running out of space to offer in the district. They recently announced that have leased the entire 14,000 square feet of retail space at The Ardea.
The Portland Chronicle published photos of the stretch of N Williams / N Vancouver on which the Cook Street Lofts, The Woods and the Cook Street Apartments are all either planned or under construction. They noted that “between the two blocks 360 residential units are in development on property formerly home to three residential dwellings”.
The Oregonian published two articles about the Oregon Square development. The first article focused on the proposed public plaza, and quoted Kyle Anderson of GBD Architects who said that they “definitely see it as being both an amenity and asset to the development, but also a destination.” The second article revealed that that the tower might be the first building in Portland to undergo a peer review of its seismic design, instead of using the prescriptive requirements of the building code.
Chad Rennaker’s Palindrome Communities won the development rights to Lents Town Center Property #1 and Property #2. The Portland Tribune wrote about his plans for Lents, which also includes the Z Haus brewpub and restaurant.
Oregon Health & Sciences University and ZGF Architects have requested Design Advice for a $200 million project in South Waterfront. The Center for Health & Healing South will include two buildings adjacent to their existing building at SW Moody & Gibbs St. The two buildings will be connected to each other and the existing OHSU Center for Health & Healing building via a set of sky bridges over SW Whitaker St and SW Bond St.
