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Old Posted Jan 20, 2012, 5:55 PM
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from the article about the Pearl Marriott...

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Also at the meeting, with considerably less discussion, the commission approved plans for the OHSU/OUS Collaborative Life Sciences Building in Portland’s South Waterfront neighborhood.

The commission has jurisdiction over the exterior look and massing of the building – including height, color, finishes and landscaping – and with the approval, construction of the building can now continue.

“I think it’s been almost eight months since our first design advisory review,” said Brian Newman with OHSU’s Campus Planning, Development & Real Estate department. “It’s been quite a journey from then to here and we all feel that the project has improved significantly because of your participation.”

During the presentation, Arnold Swanborn with CO Architects out of Los Angeles, and Lisa Peterson with SERA Architects, addressed some of the commission’s questions from an earlier meeting that had to do with the external façade and lighting in the parking garage.

Approval passed unanimously among the commissioners.


http://djcoregon.com/dailyblog/2012/...gn-commission/
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Cost cutting...

It definitely looks cheaper.

Like the generic version of the orig. rendering.
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Little Big Burger

So how do Little Big Burger's burgers compare to the nearby burger pod cart on Macadam?
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Can we get the title updated to "U/C?"
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Post "Final Renderings" 1/20/12

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Also online is the site plan (pg 28) and design commission documents outlining building details. If you've got some time it was interesting to read the response by the AIA Urban Design Panel to the proposed design (page 10).

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Old Posted Jan 21, 2012, 5:02 PM
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So how do Little Big Burger's burgers compare to the nearby burger pod cart on Macadam?
It helps to get the streets right. There are about 4 food carts on SW Moody,
north of SW Lowell. We like the burger cart, when it's open. How does it compare to Little Big Burgers, if anyone knows.

It's good to see construction in South Waterfront continue. This is a wonderful community.
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Jay Zidell plans to develop Portland’s largest riverfront property
Premium content from Portland Business Journal by Andy Giegerich , Business Journal staff writer
Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:00am PST - Last Modified: Friday, February 3, 2012, 9:08am PST

Jay Zidell is best known as a third-generation Portland industrialist.

He’ll soon add the term “developer” to his resume. Zidell, the president of Zidell Marine Corp. , confirmed publicly for the first time this week that he’ll develop the 30 riverside acres his family holds on both sides of the Ross Island Bridge.

The land will soon be home to buildings that complement the new incoming $1.4 billion MAX light-rail line to Milwaukie, two adjacent Oregon Health & Science University buildings and nearby South Waterfront mixed-use projects. Zidell’s property currently holds the company’s barge-making and dismantling facility and small office buildings.

Zidell’s property immediately becomes central Portland’s largest developable site, easily topping the U.S. Postal Service land, near the Broadway Bridge (14 acres) and the Con-way trucking facility, also in Northwest Portland (15 developable acres). Commercial real estate experts said the site’s availability will easily generate hundreds of millions worth of building projects alone.

“This is huge. It’s a game-changer,” said Portland Mayor Sam Adams. “It’s a continuation of the family’s great work on their site that’s built on a foundation of civic improvement. They can do a lot of things with their land, and they can continue to set a high bar for cleanup, restoration and redevelopment.”

Zidell’s nephew Matt French will oversee the property’s development. Zidell and the city are working on development agreements that will dictate uses for the land, currently zoned for commercial and industrial uses.

Zidell is “substantially done” with a Willamette River clean-up process that began 25 years ago. The work cost Zidell far more than the $20 million he’d originally planned to spend to rid the site of hazardous metals and other contaminants.

“The clean-up project took a long time and it cost a lot of money,” said Zidell. “But we’re delighted it’s done. We have a completely blank palette to work with. It’s exciting to have such a large piece of real estate downtown, and on the river, that we can do anything we want with.”

Those possibilities include transit-oriented developments that offer a mix of office, housing and retail sites.

The strategies don’t immediately include building on the lot that holds Zidell Marine, which employs 50 workers. It’s the last remaining waterfront manufacturing facility between Sellwood and the Northwest Industrial District.

“We expect to keep building barges on the site as far as we can see into the future,” Zidell said. “But decades from now, if I could come back to earth, I’d expect to see everything redeveloped in 40 or 50 years.”

The Zidell team is still determining whether it will build projects on the property itself or work with other developers.
Lots of suggestions

No matter what the team decides, “Our intent is to have a long-term interest in this property and stay involved, and to some extent control what happens down here,” said French.

Local development analysts have a few suggestions. Chris Johnson, president of NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson, foresees towers similar to the Matisse and the Mirabella housing structures in the South Waterfront district. Zidell could even build living spaces for students who attend classes at nearby OHSU and Portland State University.

“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when it’s going to work,” Johnson said. “It’ll take a lot of equity to get something built today, but it’s a great opportunity.”

Lew Bowers, a Portland Development Commission project manager, added the Zidell site could even host a business campus, such as the Nike Inc. and Intel Corp. facilities west of town.

Bowers’ city-backed economic development agency wants Zidell to consider projects that would either attract a large relocating company or encourage a local business to greatly expand.

The Zidell property itself has a market value of more than $23 million. It sits between OHSU’s Center for Health and Healing, which cost $140 million to build in 2007, and the university’s under-construction $295 million Life Sciences Center.

Other privately built structures in the neighborhood have fared well. The Matisse apartments project, which sits on 1.5 acres at 0677 S.W. Lowell St., has a market value of $43.5 million.

While attorneys for OHSU and Zidell squabbled several years ago over a tax increase related to OHSU’s aerial tram, OHSU officials and Jay Zidell both say issues are resolved.

“We’ve worked cooperatively with them and we’re very supportive of (Jay Zidell’s) efforts,” said Mark Williams. OHSU’s associate vice president for campus development. “These properties are extremely important, and one of these days, this area is really going to be part of downtown (Portland). There’s a lot of good that can come from this development.”

However, environmental groups fear that Zidell’s river restoration techniques could affect future property users. The company chose to cap river-bottom sediment around and near its facility, rather than remove the sediment and contaminants outright.

The Audubon Society of Portland had considered suing Zidell to force him to spend more money — between $5 million, according to the Audubon group, and $80 million, Zidell projected last summer — to eliminate the contaminants.

“The restoration that was planned won’t come to fruition now, and that will put pressure on every other industrial site up and down the river when other manufacturers eventually restore their sites,” said Bob Sallinger, the Audubon Society of Portland’s conservation director.

As he’s worked to restore the river and the surrounding banks, Zidell has slowly raised his low public profile. He made a rare appearance last month, speaking during a press event to federal transportation officials who toured South Waterfront.

“Am I going to be more visible? Well, that’s a relative term,” Zidell said. “The answer is ‘yes,’ but being in the barge and steel pipe fitting business is very different than developing real estate. There’s a lot of public process that goes on in real estate, and while that’s something we’d not been doing in the past, we expect to be involved in more public conversations.”
Fast Facts

The Zidell Co. has completed the bulk of its site clean-up, as agreed to with the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The site contained contaminants from operations, by Zidell and other companies, on the site between 1926 and the mid-1960s.

Zidell Marine Corp.
Headquarters: Portland
Ownership: Privately held
President/CEO: Jay Zidell

Employees: 50 at the company’s barge facility, another 200 at Zidell’s Tube Forages of America plant in Northwest Portland.

Revenue: Not disclosed.
Website: www.zidell.com

Andy Giegerich covers government, law, health care and sports business.

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...=e_ph&page=all
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The Zidell's don't seem to be wasting any time. From the pre-application list:
http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/in...47126&a=384422
7 floors no car parking, lots of bike parking.
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Old Posted Feb 7, 2012, 12:37 AM
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The Zidell's don't seem to be wasting any time. From the pre-application list:
http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/in...47126&a=384422
7 floors no car parking, lots of bike parking.
Wow, this is so exciting! And an interesting pick for the first building.
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Old Posted Feb 7, 2012, 1:35 AM
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Yeah, very interesting. Not at all where I imagined them building. It'll be interesting to see what that feels like to have a 7-story wall on the west side of Moody next to the bridge. Very cool. Also, I have to say...love the mid-rise. I wish Prometheus and Homer would adjust their expectations and build lower in other parts of SoWa. That area needs variety in scale, among other things.
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Speaking of mid-rise, block 49 is coming along:
http://oxblue.com/pro/open/REACH/Block49
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On top of the Zidell application hasving zero car parking spots and 152 indoor bike parking spots, the ground floor retail consists of 4 general retail and 2 restaurant spaces. This project looks promising from the start!
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zero car parking spots
Yeah, and there's zero street parking on the new Moody Avenue right there.
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Wow, interesting that they would put that building there. I'm assuming it is apartments and not condos? I don't believe it said in the pre-application. Two more restaurants down here would be nice!

It looks like Little Big Burger took down the "For Lease" signs in their space and put up red paper in the windows. Must be getting ready for construction.
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OHSU master plan confirms plans to shift campuses
Academic programs scheduled to move to South Waterfront area

By Jim Redden
The Portland Tribune, Feb 13, 2012

Oregon Health and Science University’s Center for Health and Healing is going to be joined by a new building as OHSU expands its South Waterfront campus.

Oregon Health and Science University reaffirmed its commitment to expanding in the South Waterfront area in its new 20-year master plan.

Brian Newman, OHSU’s director of campus planning development and real estate, presented the plan to the TriMet board at its Feb. 8 meeting. Newman told board members that OHSU was still committed to moving its academic programs off Marquam Hill and into new facilities in South Waterfront, in large part because of the transit lines being constructed there.

“It will become one of the most accessible spots in the region,” Newman said of the area when TriMet, the city of Portland and other jurisdictions are being new MAX and Portland Streetcar lines.

He estimated that approximately $600 million is being spent to create a “transit nexus” in the area.

OHSU has already built its Center for Health and Healing along the Portland Streetcar line at the eastern end of the aerial tram from Marquam Hill. It is building the Collaborative Life Sciences Building in partnership with the Oregon University System at the intersection of the streetcar line and the coming Portland-to-Milwaukie MAX line.

And OHSU is moving ahead with plans to build and open a satellite campus on land donated by the Schnitizer family just south of the Marquam Bridge. All acedmic schools and programs will be relocated to the Schnitzer Campus during the next 25 years.

“As part of the master plan, OHSU confirmed it is still committed to the Schnitzer Campus,” Newman told the board.

According to Newman, as part of the transition, OHSU will demolish a number of older, non-historic buildings on its Marquam Hill site. He said they will include the one that houses the dental school, which will be relocated to the Schnitzer Campus. Newman said some of the buildings that are demolished will be converted into much-needed open space for relaxing between classes, something he termed “campus repair.”

OHSU operates on 118 acres on Marquam Hill. It owns seven acres in the South Waterfront central district, where it has built the Center for Health and Healing and is considering the construction of two other buildings. The Schnitzer family donated 18 acres for the satellite campus.

In 2012, OHSU had an annual operating budget of nearly $2 billion and employed 13,542 people. It had 2,045 faculty members, 2,721 students and awarded 946 degrees.

The vast majority of OHSU’s budget is privately raised, with the state only providing a little more than two percent of the total in 2012. Newman said OHSU raised nearly $400 million in research grants and awards in 2010, with the vast majority coming from out of state.
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As an employee of OHSU, the rumor has always been, "tear down the dental school and re-build the emergency room there." This would actually make a lot of sense because patients would enter on the 1st floor, rather now they enter on the 9th floor and constantly get confused. Our emergency department is always overcrowded and incredibly inefficient, the hallways are full of crap! I once had to take a lady into the heli-pad elevador to do an EKG because that was the only privacy we could find... We could really use an entire new layout! A place to put things! They're redoing the floors and painting right now, so any big changes are at least five years off.
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Wow, in the master plan they want to demolish Sam Jackson hall! That's pretty crazy... I doubt it'll happen.
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Old Posted Feb 15, 2012, 7:19 AM
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Ok, the expansion Doernbecher Children's Hospital (DCH) Center for Mothers & Babies is not likely to happen before 2020 because, the mother baby unit just finalized plans to combine their two floors into one over a three year renovation (going from approx. 40 beds to 30 private rooms). The cost is over $5 million. Unless the plans have changed in the last few weeks, because the master plan does explain what those former floors would be used for (e.g. surgical units).

In phase 2: the new patient tower looks as though it mirrors the Kohler Pavilion (creating a U shaped within the two buildings). Very cool.

Between the DCH extension and Patient tower, I think the DCH extension is the most important. By building the DCH extension it frees up three floors in the main hospital for adult acute care and this could result in not needing the patient tower for many more years.
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I like how the rendering of the completed OHSU 2030 plan still has the 2 temporary surface parking lots in SoWa. Here, I thought permanent surface parking was banned from the district... silly me.
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