Architecture and Development in PDX
SERA Architects and developer Mortenson have received initial Design Advice for the 12th & Market Apartments. The proposed 10-story building would have 114 residential units, aimed at students. No off street car parking is proposed. 171 long term bike parking spaces would be provided in a ground floor bike storage room. A rooftop terrace and common room for the use of the residents would be at the south-west corner of the building.
Every week, the Bureau of Development services publishes lists of early assistance applications, land use reviews and building permits. We publish the highlights.
Early Assistance has been requested for a project at 3009 NE Killingsworth St:
Proposal for a mixed use building with office/commercial on the grd floor and apartments above. Current plan is for a four story building.
Urban Asset Advisors has requested Early Assistance for a project at 5134 SE Division St:
EA Appointment For Project Construction Of New Wood Three-story 14 Unit Courtyard Style Apartments. Project Will Be Constructed With Two Buildings.
Early Assistance has been requested for a project at 7805 SE 13th Ave by Lenity Architecture:
Four story mixed use apartment complex with businesses, restaurant and possible parking on the first floor and 30 apartments on the second thru fourth floors.
Deca Architecture has applied for a Historic Resource Review for a project at 637 SE Harrison St:
New two-story 820 sf footprint (total of 1640sq ft) building. Will be office or hotel (retail sales and service).
Allied Works Architecture has applied for a Design Review for the renovation of the Oregonian building at 1320 SW Broadway:
Renovation of existing full block Oregonian building
A building permit is under review for a building at 1335 NW 20th Ave by Ankrom Moisan Architecture:
New 5-story, 49 unit apartment with tucked under parking
The first building permit has been issued for the Riverscape Lot 8 apartments by SERA Architects:
Structural only for new 260 unit multi family building consiting of five stories of wood framed over two levels of concrete, 1 level of sub grade parking. Structural package includes the concrete structure from the mat slab through the level 2 concrete podium
A building permit has been issued for a building at 3620 SE Powell Blvd:
New 2-story 10,375sf office building with initial tenant improvements for upper level dental office
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.
