Central Eastside News

[AdamUrbanist]

Originally Posted by tworivers

It's obviously the first volley in a negotiation where the regulated party has an incentive to offer up their worst possible proposal first, knowing that the other side is going to insist that they do better – in this case with suburban-style surface POV parking that would no doubt be a lot cheaper.

The surface parking is not actually a significant amount of parking for a project of this size and they seem to be indicating underground parking as well. I suspect the reason for the mid block parking is they want to attract a large retailer (probably a grocery store) who wants visible convenient parking at their front door. Unfortunately this tends to flip the layout of the whole store around and you end up with a design that feels like it's mooning the street with a sad, secondary pedestrian entrance on the non-parking side. i.e. Hawthorn Fred Meyer

[PDX City-State]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Notice of a Pre-Application Conference for 236 NE 12th Ave.

This is such a good site. I remember seeing a broker friend sharing a redevelopment plan for this site with me back in like 2007. It never saw the light of day due to the real estate meltdown. Back then, they referred to this site as the "7-up blocks" and it was planned before the Burnside and Couch Couplet. Looks like this will include a grocery store.

[pdxsg34]

Originally Posted by PDX City-State

This is such a good site. I remember seeing a broker friend sharing a redevelopment plan for this site with me back in like 2007. It never saw the light of day due to the real estate meltdown. Back then, they referred to this site as the "7-up blocks" and it was planned before the Burnside and Couch Couplet. Looks like this will include a grocery store.

It will be very interesting to see how this is developed. It appears there was some recent traction for a new grocery store nearby too..

[pdxsg34]

Staff Denial of Arcoa 8-Story at 1006 SE Grand. Here are the Drawings.

[stan]

Modera Morrison site fenced off. Look like building demo about to start.

[maccoinnich]

Drawings [240 MB] and Final Findings And Decision By The Landmarks Commission for the ARCOA Mixed Use.

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Drawings [240 MB] and Final Findings And Decision By The Landmarks Commission for the ARCOA Mixed Use.

Glad this got approved, it will make for some really good infill in that area. Though shame on whoever did the renderings for putting up the generic address of "1234" without bothering to do a two second google maps search to see the address be something like "1012."

[cityscapes]

I didn't expect the Grand Ave Mixed Use project to be so visible.

[urbanlife]

East Burnside is really developing quite an interesting little skyline. I really hope it keeps growing, even though zoning only really allows for buildings to go as tall as the Yard.

[AdamUrbanist]

Hard to see an image like this and not think about tearing down that freeway

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Hard to see an image like this and not think about tearing down that freeway

Running freeways through the center of a city was really a bad idea. The eastside of downtown would look so different without it.

[maccoinnich]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Hard to see an image like this and not think about tearing down that freeway

Except if you're ODOT, who were planning on widening the freeway over the Esplanade, as part of the I-5 Rose Quarter expansion project. They had to cancel that idea, because they forgot to disclose it in their Environmental Assessment, which is a pretty big error under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

[uncommon.name]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Hard to see an image like this and not think about tearing down that freeway

Or bury it under ground like some other Cities have done (Boston's big dig, Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct & portion of I-5).

[tworivers]

Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist

Hard to see an image like this and not think about tearing down that freeway

My first thought upon seeing that photo. Easy to imagine what the fruits of such an endeavor would be; harder to imagine shifting the powers-that-be that stand in the way, especially given our current condition as a city, our mayor, and the outrageous expansion plans.

[AdamNorthwest]

Isn't ODOT still planning to widen I-5 through the Rose Quarter?

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by AdamNorthwest

Isn't ODOT still planning to widen I-5 through the Rose Quarter?

Yep, they are still trying to flush a billion dollars down the toilet to do nothing.

[eric cantona]

Originally Posted by urbanlife

Yep, they are still trying to flush a billion dollars down the toilet to do nothing.

well, they WILL get the induced demand, so there's that!

[CorbinWarrick]

Originally Posted by urbanlife

Yep, they are still trying to flush a billion dollars down the toilet to do nothing.

Is that a done deal? Or still up in the air? Maybe it’ll be cancelled

[maccoinnich]

Drawings [4 MB] for YBP Ankeny (site of the previous Ankeny Apartments, which were denied by the Design Commission before being approved by the City Council).

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Drawings [4 MB] for YBP Ankeny (site of the previous Ankeny Apartments, which were denied by the Design Commission before being approved by the City Council).

This design does look much better, and a simple infill. If I was just moving to Portland in my 20s, I would have totally been cool with living in one of these tiny studios since it is basically what I had when I lived on the edge of downtown for years.