Washington County (Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Forest Grove, etc.)

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Application submitted for mixed use right in front of Beaverton Creek MAX station: https://apps3.beavertonoregon.gov/Develo...ton%20Creek%20MU_Mail%20Notice_wMaps.pdf

The applicant, High Street Portland, Inc., requests approval of a Design Review Three (DR32025-00916) application to construct a mixed-use development consisting of approximately 341 residential units and approximately 5,776 square feet of commercial floor area. The proposal also includes a Property Line Adjustment (PLA12025-00930) to adjust the boundary of the site to incorporate approximately 0.762 acres of adjacent property owned by Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) and a Replat Two (RP22025-00931) application to consolidate Lots 9 and 10 of the Technology Centre on Beaverton Creek plat as well as the approximately 0.762 acre of adjacent TriMet-owned property into a single lot of record. TriMet is a co-applicant.

[subterranean]

I'm happy to see this site being developed. I hope whatever commercial they put there can be successful because the apartments adjacent to the park and ride at that location also included commercial and there has never been anything in those spaces AFAIK. They do suffer from a lack of visibility, but this site does not.

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Originally Posted by subterranean

I'm happy to see this site being developed. I hope whatever commercial they put there can be successful because the apartments adjacent to the park and ride at that location also included commercial and there has never been anything in those spaces AFAIK. They do suffer from a lack of visibility, but this site does not.

You think there's a possibility to restore those ground floor spaces back to retail one day? (idk how it works)

[subterranean]

THPRD submitted a Design Review II application for the long-anticipated Beaverton Creek Trail extension, which will connect the Westside trail to Cedar Hills Crossing.

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^^Good news, but I remain baffled by the poor planning of Cedar Hills Crossing. It's not even fully developed, and yet there are many hours of the weekday where traffic approaches gridlock. I know hindsight's 20/20, but there are such scant provisions for accommodating people outside of cars--the 20 bus has to cope with the congestion at this tail-end of its route--and so many traffic lights close together just has my brain wondering why roundabouts weren't used (I wonder the same two things at the other end of Cedar Hills Blvd where it meets Barnes).

[subterranean]

I dislike Cedar Hills crossing as much as anyone, but New Seasons is .5 miles from the Beaverton Round, which is a 12-minute walk and a 3-minute bike ride from the blue and red lines. I walked a mile each way to school until 6th trade.

I’ve emailed New Seasons, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s for years trying to sell them on Elmonica and I always get a canned response about parking this or hand selected locations that. Private decisions are not publicly malleable unless they’re incentivized and even then they’re skeptical of anything that isn’t their traditional business model.

[aquaticko]

I don't dislike Cedar Hills, per se. There are a so many shopping options in the area, and the proximity of it to Beaverton's center means that there is--was--a great opportunity to help expand Beaverton's active core north of the 8/10 local highway pairing that so sharply divides the city. There just seems to have been so little effort to cultivate its potential as both a busy place in its own right and Portland's 2nd city on the westside.

Cedar Hills could've fed into this if was a more mixed development with less surface parking; maybe this was attempted and failed for whatever reason, I don't know. I know that parking mandates only went away very recently. But e.g., it'd have been a lot easier for Beaverton to have more intensively developed, just topographically speaking, in these flatter areas with lots of local drainage in the area (Beaverton Creek, Hall Creek; lots of pocket parks; the sewers are already here), along a MAX line with several bus routes around.

I'm sure this is just more hindsight 20/20 wish-casting, and there's not no future for places like Cedar Hills Crossing to be redeveloped. It's just that especially with the local example of Cedar Hills Shopping Center close Sunset TC (and yes, 26), it's something that should be long-range planned for, barring actual economic catastrope for the metro.

[maccoinnich]

This must be one of the largest local projects to break ground in years—if not the largest.

369-unit apartment complex to break ground in Beaverton (Renderings)



A 369-unit apartment community is getting ready to break ground in the Cedar Hills neighborhood.

High Street Residential, the residential subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company, and a joint venture between SCOA Real Estate Partners and Lease Crutcher Lewis will build 369 apartments in Beaverton on a 5.82-acre site between Southwest Wilshire Street and Park Way.

It will replace a portion of the Cedar Hills Shopping Center with underused surface parking.

The transit-oriented complex will have three four- and five-story buildings with 5,040 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

The three buildings will have apartments ranging from studio to three-bedroom units sized between 483 and 1,528 square feet. The complex will also have an extensive offering of amenities including indoor and outdoor fitness areas, a full spa with outdoor sauna and cold plunge, a residents-only speakeasy and sports bar, a community greenhouse, a sports simulator and a coworking area with conference rooms.

...continues at the Portland Business Journal ($).

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While great, that project has notably downsized from 509 units and 6 buildings. With the redesign, the developer asked for a modification in 2024 to eliminate a fourth building on the SE corner and add a 6th floor to buildings C and D, supposed to be a total of 398 units...

Anyway, with all those amenities, I'm sure the rent is going to be stellar.

[subterranean]

Thanks for sharing. We have one larger that broke ground recently, most notably Panzer nursery at 533 units, which is under construction right now.

[subterranean]

2076 units recently built, under construction, or planned between Willow Creek and Beaverton Creek stations.

[urbanlife]

That area is really turning into some dense suburbia

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Don't forget Amberglen. I haven't been in a while but looks like that project east of the park is finished. 594 units.

Reviewing Metro's high-capacity transit plan, seems they still want to build a streetcar in this area... someday.



Source: https://www.costar.com/article/166342216...infrastructure-in-oregons-silicon-forest

[subterranean]

Oh yeah, AmberGlen is really getting built out. I was there on Thursday for the grand opening of the Family Peace Center.

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They've torn down the old community center in front of Beaverton Library in prep for Meadowlark Place (affordable senior housing)

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/what-metro-d...ing-bond/affordable-homes/senior-housing

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Meadowlark Place 05/25/2026

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More housing in Beaverton. Henry St. Apartments, 52 units.

Plans: https://apps3.beavertonoregon.gov/Develo...hibit%203.3%20Plans%20and%20Graphics.pdf