Category Archives: Northwest

Tess O’Brien Apartments set for approval (updated)

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After one previous Design Review hearing, the Tess O’Brien Apartments are recommended for approval in a Revised Staff Report [PDF]. The design, by FFA Architecture and Interiors, is for two separate 6 story buildings with a shared courtyard. One building will face NW Overton St, while the other NW Pettygrove St. Together, they will have 126 units. No on-site parking is proposed.

December 4, 2014 LU 14-220722 DZM AD - Tess O’Brien Apartments - Drawings - 1

Perspective from NW Overton

The proposed street facing facades are primarily red brick, with fiber cement lap siding accents. The courtyard walls are fiber cement, and the gable walls stucco.

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1727 NW Hoyt Demolition Review

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The Bureau of Development Services has published its Staff Report and Recommendations to the Portland City Council [PDF] for the demolition of the Buck-Prager Building at 1727 NW Hoyt. If the review is approved, the applicant proposes to build a half-block residential building, with 82 units. The developer is Gerding Edlen and the architect is Holst.

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NW Portland International Youth Hostel & Guest House

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SERA Architects have scheduled a Pre-Application Conference [PDF] with the Bureau of Development Services to discuss the following proposal:

Pre-Application Conference to discuss Type III Historic Resource Review for a new 5-story, 15- room Hostel (Retail Use). The ground- floor will include a small café.

The site is currently a surface parking lot, located in the Alphabet Historic District. It is adjacent to the existing NW Portland Hostel, whose main building is also individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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