Portland Infill | Southwest Portland

[maccoinnich]

Design Advice has been requested for a project at 3207 SW 1st Ave:

Warehouse to office conversion.

[maccoinnich]

Step Inside Tree House, the New Woodsy-Modernist Microapartments by OHSU

Lever Architecture's octagonal wedge looks out into the forest but serves an urban agenda.



It’s one of Portland’s notable urban paradoxes: Oregon Health Sciences University, the city’s largest single employer and one of it most important institutions, sits atop lofty Marquam Hill. Housing options in the immediate area are few in number and, aesthetically, limited largely to aging last-century apartment complexes. (Transportation is a whole other story—the Hill’s relative isolation motivated the controversial 2006 launch of the aerial tram to OHSU’s South Waterfront expansion.)

Enter Tree House, a new 69-unit rental apartment building with modest floor plans and outsized design ambitions. Currently under construction, the octagonal wedge clad in a vaguely arboreal metal skin nods to Marquam’s woodsy surroundings, but is tailored to a highly urban live/work/no-commute lifestyle.

“It’s the only privately owned piece of property within the OHSU zoning district,” says Anyeley Hallova of the development firm project^, which remade the former site of the Ronald McDonald House after the latter organization moved to new digs last year. “Some people who work in a hospital setting really need immediate access.” The building sits on well-trafficked US Veterans Hospital Road, and aims to strike a balance between the natural bustle of a teaching hospital and the surrounding second-growth forest.

...continues at Portland Monthly.

[maccoinnich]

SW Capitol Highway and 33rd.

[maccoinnich]

'TreeHouse' apartment building takes shape near OHSU



OHSU spends a lot of time, effort and money getting its staff and students to its campus on the top of Marquam Hill.

Now an apartment developer is wrapping up construction on TreeHouse, a 69-unit apartment building that will offer another option to live on the hill near the Oregon Health & Science University and affiliated institutions.

"The real amenity of this project is being able to jump out of bed and go to work without the commute," said Anyeley Hallova, a partner at the development firm Project^.

...continues at the Oregonian.

[babs]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

...continues at the Oregonian.

This is looking really good. I like how it's turning out.

[maccoinnich]

Early Assistance has been requested by Jivanjee Circosta Architecture for a project at 5833 SW Macadam Ave:

Mixed Use 57-60 residential units with retail/commercial surface and tuck under parking. Proposal includes 2 buildings and 36 parking spaces. Looking to meet Community Design Standards.

Siteworks Design Build have submitted their renovation of 2815 SW Barbur Blvd into Under Armour’s new home for Design Review:

Complete renovation of current YMCA building with perimeter landscaping.

[Abide]

http://www.kgw.com/story/news/invest...owth/30164201/

The proposed apartment building at SW Capitol Hwy and 33rd has been nicknamed "The Tower" by opponents because of it's lofty 4-story height! I'm gonna die laughing!

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by Abide

http://www.kgw.com/story/news/invest...owth/30164201/

The proposed apartment building at SW Capitol Hwy and 33rd has been nicknamed "The Tower" by opponents because of it's lofty 4-story height! I'm gonna die laughing!

I swear, some NIMBYs are just idiots. So people are opposed of building a small urban building in an already urban village....

[maccoinnich]

Images courtesy of Guardian Real Estate Services.

[zilfondel]

^ Where is that project located?

[maccoinnich]

John's Landing. The street at the top of the photo is SW Macadam.

[maccoinnich]

Building permits were issued for the two buildings that will comprise the Macadam Apartments at 4920 and 4940 SW Landing Drive, by SERA Architects:

New 116,000 sf apartment building containing 106 market rate apartments

New 69,000 sf apartment building containing 76 market rate apartments, 5 story wood framed construction over ground floor podium built of reinforced concrete, building sits on a concrete slab on grade

[maccoinnich]

Nice.

Photos: SW Portland multifamily nears completion

Pavilion Construction is nearly finished building a 4-story, 12-unit apartment building in Southwest Portland’s Homestead neighborhood. The 3939 S.W. View Point Terrace Apartments were designed by COLAB Architecture for owner VPT, LLC, a partnership between fourth-generation members of the Schlesinger family and COLAB founding principal Mark Engberg.

Ground was broken on the $2.146 million project last November. Extensive excavation work was required due to the steep grade of the site and the prevalence of rock at the site, which had to be broken up for construction of the foundation and the elevator shaft. Excavation and construction of the foundation lasted until late March of this year, at which point wood framing started.

The building features ten 1-bedroom units and two 2-bedroom apartments, as well as individual storage spaces for each unit and a 500-square-foot outdoor patio area. It is clad in 4-inch Longboard vertical aluminum siding and fiber cement paneling. The units feature open floorplans, quarts countertops, and stainless appliances. Construction is slated for completion in the coming weeks, with leasing handled by 45 North Properties.

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

[65MAX]

Hmmm, "quarts countertops"? How many quarts are there in a countertop?

[2oh1]

Originally Posted by 65MAX

Hmmm, "quarts countertops"? How many quarts are there in a countertop?

0.946353 liters.

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Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Nice.



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

I live on this street, and l have to say that this development looks pretty bad in the context of the street (especially compared to the infill to its right, which is very contemporary but looks great with the Victorians and Queen Anne's nearby). l am also pretty shocked at the rental rate of 1795 for a 1 bedroom, and the fact that the landscaping plans do not include street trees.

[65MAX]

How much square footage do you get for $1795? And how much are the 2 bedrooms? It doesn't look like there's any parking either.

[maccoinnich]

Multnomah Development: Neighbors take action



The Multnomah Neighborhood Association isn’t after a fight, chairwoman Carol McCarthy says — but the group may have found itself in the middle of one, nonetheless.

“We’re a friendly neighborhood,” she says. “We just want to preserve what we love.”

For McCarthy and many Multnomah residents, that means opposing Urban Asset Advisors’ planned four-story apartment and retail complex at the corner of Southwest 33rd Avenue and Southwest Capitol Highway in the Village.

Preliminary sketches of the building show plans for an estimated 70 market-rate residential units — 35 studio, 17 one-bedroom and 18 two-bedroom apartments; two ground-floor retail spaces — one an estimated 2,500 square feet, the other an estimated 1,600 square feet; and roughly 43 parking spaces, with the option to add up to 17 tuck-under spaces through a potential easement with the adjacent property owner on the west side of the building.

While the area’s zoning allows developers to build up to four stories high, neighbors at the forefront of a campaign to “save Multnomah Village” believe it doesn’t fit with the Village’s small-town character.

...continues at the Portland Tribune.

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

...continues at the Portland Tribune.

If it meets the current zoning requirements, then it does fit in with their "village feel." What were they thinking would go up if zoning allowed these types of buildings? Seems like they are fighting a losing battle unless the association wants to buy up the site that the developer wants to build on, and then not use it for anything more than it currently is. That is cool too, but until the association owns that site, the developer should be free to build what they want as long as it is within the zoning requirements.

As the saying should go, don't like it, then buy it.

[maccoinnich]

SERA Architects have requested Early Assistance for a project at 2031 SW 10th Ave:

New 144-unit apartment building

A building permit was issued for the RAM Apartments at 5075 SW 56th ave:

3 story, 22 unit multifamily apartment building. Detached trash enclosure, and sitework for parking area, and grading/utilities