Portland Infill | Southeast Portland

[winstonLT5]

Originally Posted by urbanlife

Wait, so they are building three stories of apartments on top of the retail? That makes more sense because I was looking at the development the other day and it was starting to look like two different buildings with the apartments and the retail portion.

Yeah, it sure looks that way from the renderings. I kind of like the way it is now, with the setback. Hope they go with the rust color rather than that dull gray. The question with this project is how big an impact will it have on parking and traffic? There are a number of new apartment buildings (with no off-street parking) just a couple of blocks south of this location that have already put some pressure on SE Milwaukie. The size of this development required one level of below-grade parking, but I'm not sure how many spaces that will mean. In any event, this development will surely add some vitality to the neighborhood's street life.

[urbanlife]

Does anyone know what is going on with the apartments south of Burgerville on 12th and SE Clay? I was leaving Burgerville the other day and noticed the old apartment building on the corner being torn down.

[maccoinnich]

On the Boards: YMCA Foster project – Leeb Architects



A new project in the Lents neighborhood of Southeast Portland aims to provide a unique combination of residential living and professional childcare.

The new YMCA Foster development is a mixed-use project, combining a full-service daycare facility with 48 new apartments intended for workforce housing. The project will ultimately replace the existing aging YMCA facility the currently sits on a trapezoidal shaped piece of property near the junction of Southeast Foster Road and Southeast Holgate Boulevard.

Architect Charlie Baxter is the project lead for Portland firm Leeb Architects. He said the way in which the YMCA property is split between commercial and residential zoning propelled the design and led to the concept of bringing the project much closer to the street than the existing structure. In addition, it also led to the use of sweeping rooflines and other design features that will set this project apart from the rest of the neighborhood.

...continues at the DJC (temporarily unlocked).

[maccoinnich]

Photos: A new community asset in Lents



Hundreds of people turned out for a celebration held Wednesday to mark the opening of the Asian Health and Service Center, a cultural, educational, health and social service hub in the Lents neighborhood. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot building contains treatment space for physical and behavioral health, the Asian Cancer Resource and Support Center, a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose room, a healing garden, and small multipurpose rooms for classes and group programs. The building also holds a ground-floor commercial space occupied by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic.

The Holst Architecture-designed project was built by O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders, which broke ground in early 2017. The building features a distinctive metal sunscreen structure along the south façade consisting of prefinished aluminum attached to color-matched steel columns. The building’s southwest corner contains a three-story curtainwall system, which provides ample daylight for a stairway from the ground-floor lobby to the third-floor public spaces.

...continues at the DJC (no paywall).

[maccoinnich]

Holst have been selected to design the Portland Housing Bureau's new development at 3000 SE Powell, on the site of the former Safari Showclub.

[maccoinnich]

Notice of a Pre-Application Conference for 3000 SE Powell

[maccoinnich]

Nature Conservancy spruces up its Oregon headquarters with tons of timber (Photos)

Looking for a way to bring its sustainable and ecological tenets to life in a revamped headquarters office, the Nature Conservancy has embarked on a one-of-a-kind renovation with two local partners.

The nonprofit is working with Portland's LEVER Architecture and project^ on the renovation of its state headquarters office at the corner of Southeast Belmont and 14th.

According to a release from the partners involved, the project incorporates local and natural resources and is one of the first to use U.S.-manufactured cross-laminated timber made from Forest Stewardship Council certified wood. Among the building materials being used are Oregon juniper, CLT, cedar, boulders, river rock and weathering steel.

...continues at the Portland Business Journal (no paywall).

[maccoinnich]

Tower developer scales down on Hawthorne



A new mixed-use building on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard marks the first mid-rise infill venture for TMT Development – a firm most known for building downtown towers including Park Avenue West, Fox Tower and 1000 Broadway.

The Marilyn is a four-story building with nearly 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 59 apartments, 12 of which are affordable to households earning 60 percent or less of the area median family income due to the developer utilizing Portland’s Multiple-Unit Limited Tax Exemption (MULTE) program. Residential amenities include a top-floor community room and outdoor patio, bike storage, a pet area, and an at-grade parking garage with 22 spaces.

The building is named after the late Marilyn Moyer; she was the wife of TMT Development founder Tom Moyer and grandmother of current President Vanessa Sturgeon. TMT has owned the property since the gasoline shortage of the 1970s, when Tom Moyer purchased what was then a filling station to ensure that supplies could reach his chain of movie theaters throughout the western United States. Most recently, the site was used by Kruger’s Farm as an open-air market and produce distribution point.

...continues at the DJC (no paywall).

[maccoinnich]

A natural Portland presence



For more than five decades, the Oregon chapter of the Nature Conservancy has been making a big difference across the state. But in Portland, where the chapter is based, its presence in a nondescript circa-1970s building on Southeast 14th Avenue was rarely noticed by passersby.

That will likely change next year, when the group moves into a building that's been designed and renovated to both support the organization's mission of conservation and stewardship.

...continues at the Business Tribune.

[pdxsg34]

Permits were issued to a new hostel last week on 1604 E Burnside St:

New 5-story, 88 room hostel with ground floor restaurant, coffee and bar, and public rooftop patio.

[tworivers]

Originally Posted by pdxsg34

Permits were issued to a new hostel last week on 1604 E Burnside St:

^^^ That looks like a work of art. /s

[2oh1]

Originally Posted by tworivers

^^^ That looks like a work of art. /s

But does it look hostile? ...because that would be... well... y'know...

[AdamUrbanist]

Holy shit. Who is the architect?

[tworivers]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Holy shit. Who is the architect?

On the drawings submitted for building permits it says the design process was a "special partnership between Mrs. Bailey's 9th grade architecture class at Benson Polytechnic and one of Portland's most acclaimed architecture firms, LRS".

[AdamUrbanist]

Originally Posted by tworivers

On the drawings submitted for building permits it says the design process was a "special partnership between Mrs. Bailey's 9th grade architecture class at Benson Polytechnic and one of Portland's most acclaimed architecture firms, LRS".

Sadly that completely explains this building

[DMH]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Sadly that completely explains this building

Are all of you joking? This is not funny. It is a monstrosity. Was there no Design Review at this close-in E. Burnside location? Bitch and complain about the Design Commission, as some often do.....you must admit that the Commission would protect us from something so hideous.

[RED_PDXer]

Originally Posted by pdxsg34

Permits were issued to a new hostel last week on 1604 E Burnside St:

If one looks at Google street view at this site, there's a much smaller utility pole out front that basically functions as a street light. How did the pole get "upgraded" too?

[maccoinnich]

Notice of a Pre-Application Conference for the Modera Woodstock at 4804 SE Woodstock Blvd.

[Inner Ring]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Notice of a Pre-Application Conference for the Modera Woodstock at 4804 SE Woodstock Blvd.

This building stays within the 45' CM2 height limit as it's not eligible for the bonus height because not in a d overlay. The partially below-grade floor opens onto a sunken central courtyard. I guess Mill Creek thinks they'll rent these way out in Woodstock. Is this their furthest-from-downtown building in Portland?

[Inner Ring]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Sadly that completely explains this building

Really that's just a snarky comment, right?