Weekly Roundup: Bob Frasca, George Besaw Apartments and the Broadway Tower

Posted on January 15, 2018 by nextportland

Pine State Biscuits is moving into Northwest, with a lease signed at the George Besaw Apartments

Bob Frasca of ZGF Architects, who “helped define Portland’s skyline“, passed away at the age of 84.

Eater Portland reported that Pine State Biscuits, Life of Pie Pizza and Moberi will be moving into the George Besaw Apartments, currently under construction on the site that was formerly home to Besaw’s Restaurant.

According to the Portland Business Journal Amazon will nearly double its current Portland footprint by taking 85,000 sq ft in the Broadway Tower.

Weekly Roundup: Lloyd East Anchor, 1515 SW Morrison St, Framework, and more

Posted on January 9, 2018 by nextportland

The new theater at the Lloyd Center, designed by LDA Design Group, is set to go in front of the Design Commission later this month.

The Oregonian confirmed that the Lloyd Center Sears will close. The Lloyd East Anchor Remodel project will replace the store with a new 14 screen theater.

The Willamette Week reported that the affordable housing at Framework, the Pearl District cross-laminated timber tower, will come at a high price.

In order to pay down debt the Artists Repertory Theatre plans to sell half of its property at 1515 SW Morrison St to a developer of a 218-foot residential tower with 296 units, writes the Willamette Week.

The Business Tribune reported that The Thornton apartments, previously known as the Tess O’Brien Apartments have been sold to San Diego based commercial real estate investment firm SENTRE.

Metro Reports: 1537 SE Morrison, 1631 SE Reedway, Harbor Sky Lot I, and more

Posted on January 3, 2018 by nextportland

Every week, the Bureau of Development Services publishes lists of Early Assistance applications, Land Use Reviews and Building Permits processed in the previous week. We publish the highlights. This post covers December 11th to December 17th, 2017.

Design Advice has been requested by Mackenzie for a project at 718 NE 12th Ave:

Current Code: Request for DA for multi-story urban self-storage building with ground floor commercial space.

Early Assistance has been requested by Bama Architecture and Design for a project at 1537 SE Morrison St:

Future Code: Project is to evaluate options on this property which include an apartment building, a mixed use building both with or without parking and doing a land division.

Early Assistance has been requested for a project at 5216 SE 17th Ave:

Current Code: Project is to construct a new four story 18 unit apartment complex. Existing structure will be removed.

A project at 1731 SE Insley St has been submitted for building permit review by Fosler Portland Architecture:

New 12 unit 2 story apartment building.

A project at 1631 SE Reedway St has been submitted for building permit review by Fosler Portland Architecture:

New 12 unit 2 story apartment building.

A project at 8334 SE 17th Ave has been submitted for building permit review:

New construction of three story, 12 unit apartment complex with attached covered trash room and associated site work***w/17-281716-MT***

Harbor Sky Lot 1 at 1231 N Anchor Way has been submitted for building permit review:

5 story on above grade parking , 113 apartments over a podium level containing 101 parking spaces, 2 loading spaces.

Focus: Our 25 Most Popular Posts of 2017

Posted on December 31, 2017 by nextportland

The Block 20 condominium tower, now known as Vista Pearl, was the subject of our most popular post of the year

2017 is the third full year Next Portland has been in operation. Although the onset of Inclusionary Zoning has slowed down the number of new applications submitted, there was a lot to write about in 2017 while the projects submitted in late last year and early this year worked their way through the development review process.

Over the course of the year we published 176 new blog posts, and our development map now has over 1,000 unique projects listed (including completed and cancelled projects). In 2017 Next Portland had over 900,000 page views, a slight increase from the previous year.

Sixteen of the articles that made the top 25 most viewed posts were published this year; seven were published in 2016; and one was published in 2015. Our second most popular article from the 2015 list and fourth most popular article from the 2016 list—about the Goat Blocks—was still the fifteenth most popular article of 2017 despite having been written in December 2014. The 2016 roundup of the tallest buildings planned in 2016 was the third most popular article of the year, and although there wasn’t an equivalent list published in 2017 we hope to write one in early 2018.

So, with that Happy New Year to all. In reverse order, here are our 25 most popular posts of the year:

Metro Reports: Adidas Campus Expansion, Robert & Ann Sacks House, 7 Southeast Stark, and more

Posted on December 31, 2017 by nextportland

A building permit was issued for Harsch Investment Properties’ 7 Southeast Stark development, designed by Works Progress Architecture

Early Assistance has been requested by Barghausen Consulting Engineers Inc for a project at 8123 SE 17th Ave:

Future code – Construction of a 13,292 square foot retail pharmacy with parking for 20 vehicles.

Early Assistance has been requested for a project at 7119 SE Knight St:

Current Code – Proposal is for a Type 2 Conditional Use review to remove properties from the boundary (approved through LUR 96-00181 CU) for a future multi-dwelling development.

Early Assistance has been requested for the Adidas Campus Expansion at 5060 N Greeley Ave:

Future code: Proposal is for a new office building, new amenity building, new underground parking garage, right-of-way work; new site work and landscape at existing campus.

Early Assistance has been requested by Baysinger Partners for a project at SE 24th & Tacoma:

Current code: Construction of two (2) commercial pad buildings, one with drive-through, 33 vehicular parking stalls, landscaping, and ped walkways/plazas and two (2) accesses to SE Tacoma St. One access is full ingress/egress, the second is drive-through egress only.

A Pre-Application Conference has been scheduled to discuss a project at 1512 SW 58th Ave:

Site zone will change to R2 under new code. 11 new condos, both existing homes to remain. PLA adjustment may be submitted to separate existing homes from remainder of the site. There is no Type III but applicant still wants to do this as a PC.

A building permit was issued to Allied Works Architecture for the rebuild of the Robert and Ann Sacks House at 2281 NW Glisan St:

Repair to 5-story building damaged by explosion – repair damaged structural members, terrace, & roof; install new MEP systems, exterior cladding, elevator, interior walls, fixtures, & finishes; no change to footprint *** mech separate ***

A building permit was issued to Siteworks Design | Build for the final building of the Sunshine Portland development at 3680 SE 29th Ave:

New 15 unit four story apartment building. ( building 4 of complex) with associated site work

A building permit was issued to Works Progress Architecture for 7 Southeast Stark:

New core and shell development of 5 story CIP concrete slabs and columns, 5 story steel frame with composite steel floor decks, mixed-use with ground floor industrial service, 6 floors of commercial parking and 4 floors of industrial and traditional office.

Metro Reports: 5325 N Interstate Ave, 2789 NE Halsey, 610 NE Prescott, and more

Posted on December 30, 2017 by nextportland

A building permit was issued for a 140 unit project at 5325 N Interstate Ave, which is being developed by Fairfield Residential

A project at 9809 SE Holgate Blvd has been submitted for building permit review by Wynn Design:

New 3 story, 6 unit multi-family attached with a breezeway to a 6 dwelling unit apartment with no onsite parking, includes associated sitework *** elec, plum, mech, fs, fa steel guardrails, steel stairs and security deferred submittals***; <120 sq ft detached trash enclosure

A project at 2789 NE Halsey St has been re-submitted for building permit review by Urban Development Group:

New constuction of 3-story apartment building with 53 studio and one-bedroom units, interior trash room, dog wash, and bike parking. Separate mechanical and fire sprinklers

A project at 1823 NE 2nd Ave has been submitted for building permit review by Allusa Architecture:

Construct new 2 story 8 unit townhouse style apartments units; 2 bed/2 bath; includes trash enclosre under 120 sq; no parking; includes site utilities

A building permit was issued to Ankrom Moisan Architects for a project at 5325 N Interstate Ave:

New 7 story 140 unit apartment building with underground parking garage, bike parking and retail on 1st floor

A building permit was issued to SERA Architects for a project at 610 NE Prescott St (previously 602 NE Prescott St):

New construction of one story 1465 sf building for rehearsal studio and prop shop at east elevation; and 4 foot retaining wall septic decommissioning required. Call for inspection 842.

A building permit was issued to SG Architecture for a project at 3850 SE 11th Ave (previously 3926 SE 11th Ave):

New 1-story fellowship center with mezzanine and basement; main floor – multi-purpose area, commercial kitchen, restrooms, storage; basement – storage, mechanical equip, trash enclosure. Mezzanine for storage; exterior stairs/driveway on north elevation, new ADA ramp and stairs on west elevation, new parking lot on east elevation ***mechanical permit 17-174944MT ***

Design Commission Approves N Richmond Apartments (images)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by nextportland

The Design Commission has upheld the staff level approval of the N Richmond Apartments at an appeal by the Cathedral Park Neighborhood Association. The project is being by SERA Architects for Mainland Northwest, and will include 96 residential units. 46 vehicular parking spaces are proposed in a partially buried garage.

6620 N Richmond Ave

Weekly Roundup: Overlook Apartments, Multnomah County Health Dept HQ, Rothko Pavilion, and more

Posted on December 19, 2017 by nextportland

The Multnomah County Health Department HQ has reached its full height

The Willamette Week reported that the Overlook Restaurant will close on January 21st. The diner at 1332 N Skidmore St will be replaced by the Overlook apartments, which will include 158 residential units.

The first new build affordable housing project financed with the voter approved $258 million housing bond will be on the site of the former Safari Showclub at 3000 SE Powell, writes the Oregonian.

The Multnomah County Health Department HQ has topped out, according to the Business Tribune. Completion is scheduled for early 2019.

By a 3-1 vote the Portland Art Museum received city council blessing to enclosure a pedestrian plaza and move forward with the Rothko Pavilion.

Design Commission Approves Eleven West (Images)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by nextportland

The Design Commission has approved Eleven West, a 290′-6″ tall tower planned for SW 11th & Washington St. The 24 story building is being designed by ZGF Architects for Gerding Edlen Development and Downtown Development Group. At the ground level the building will include 7,816 sq ft of retail fronting onto all three streets surrounding it. Levels 2 to 7 of the tower will be offices, while levels 8 to 24 will include 222 residential units. Four levels of below grade parking will provide 258 vehicular parking stalls, accessed from SW 12th Ave. Long term parking for 365 bicycles will be provided.

Eleven West

Weekly Roundup: The Porter, Riverplace Parcel 3, Rothko Pavilion, and more

Posted on December 12, 2017 by nextportland

The Xport Rooftop Lounge will be one of the dining options in the Porter Hotel, currently nearing completition at SW 2nd and Jefferson

Eater Portland wrote about the four unique dining options planned at Hilton’s new downtown hotel, The Porter.

The Willamette Week covered 6 cities that are “smarter than Portland about housing.”

A 200 bed shelter at 320 NW Hoyt St is inching forward, reports the Portland Mercury.

The Oregonian wrote about a city council vote on whether to subsidize affordable housing at Riverplace Parcel 3. Later that day the council voted 4-0 to move forward with the development.

Mayor Wheeler ousted the director of the Portland Housing Bureau, Kurt Creager.

BikePortland wrote about the Portland Art Museum’s return in front of city council, in order to ask permission to modify an easement and allow construction of the Rothko Pavilion.