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Old Posted Jan 9, 2007, 4:18 PM
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Triangle plan requested

Members of the Hillsdale Neighborhood Association have asked the Portland Planning Bureau to prepare a master plan for the Hillsdale Triangle, an underdeveloped parcel bounded by Southwest 18th Avenue, Capitol Highway and Sunset Boulevard.

The request is prompted by triangle resident Lance Johnson’s plan to replace his house with 10 new homes.

Although the entire triangle is zoned for more homes, the association believes all of it should be redeveloped together – or at least in complementary stages. No other triangle property owners have proposed building any new homes yet.

Planning officials have yet to respond to the request.

A city hearings officer considered the case last month. One issue that arose was how Johnson planned to connect the new homes to the city sewer system.

Because much of the property lies below street level, he must either propose a pumping system or convince the city to reinstall the existing pipes at a lower level. Johnson has not yet submitted his proposed solution to the city.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/...29764907958800
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This is off-topic, but doesn't this rendering look almost like it was done it MS Paint?
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Old Posted Jan 10, 2007, 4:00 AM
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Thanks for lthe article Mark. I love that this guy has a list of 62 possible buyers. Also his prices are fair considering Pre-fab 4 story condos (the fulgy fake rowhouse look) in Happy Valley go for nearly 400,000. Hopefully this is a lesson to other developers and shows them that if projects are done right and with quality there well always be a market for your project.
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(Palmer says most of the high-density housing projects in Cathedral Park have been focused on quantity rather than quality.

“By and large we’re getting the density, but we haven’t gotten the quality of design and construction that we aspired to when we participated in the planning process,” he says.

Cowlishaw’s cottage-style project, Palmer says, is an exception.) From the Anna Johns/Portland Tribune article.

Exactly.(first two paragraphs) From that often irresistable temptation that developers can be susceptible to comes valid criticism of their tendency to take good ideas from various architectural design genres, and dumb them down until they become unappealing and even sometimes apalling when applied on a mass production short timeline.

That's why it's so very important for those who care to really encourage those who can, to search their minds and spirit and develop new ideas, and also to work to sustain the integrity if not the exact form of borrowed architectural genres when they're applied on a broad scale.
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multnmah village lofts not bad

http://www.multnomahvillagelofts.com/
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Hopes for new HOPE homes in Southwest
Thursday, January 11, 2007
By Stephen Beaven

With one project complete and another in the works, the Housing Authority of Portland hopes to build a third federally subsidized mixed-income development, this time in Southwest.

The community would include the Hillsdale Terrace apartment complex at 6775 S.W. 26th Ave. and the Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center at 2731 S.W. Multnomah Blvd., according to the authority, which has notified the Portland Development Commission of its interest.

The project would include market-rate homes as well as low-income housing. It would be financed in part by a federal grant from the HOPE VI program, which helped pay for New Columbia in North and the yet-to-be-constructed Humboldt Gardens in Northeast.

The plan remains in the embryonic stages. There are questions about the future of the HOPE VI program, and other groups are interested in developing the Sears property, which won't be available until 2011.

For now, the project is on the Housing Authority's long-term wish list.

"If you think about what we do with HOPE VI, it fits," says Steve Rudman, the Housing Authority executive director. "It's tailor-made."

And Hillsdale Terrace is ready for a makeover, Rudman adds. Built it 1970, it includes 60 apartments constructed of concrete masonry. The apartments have had moisture problems in recent years, Rudman says. Plus, the Housing Authority would like to expand its presence in Southwest.

New Columbia was built on the site of the old Columbia Villa housing project. The $155 million development includes low-income public housing and market-rate homes, a total of 854 units by the time it's finished this year. It also includes the new Rosa Parks Elementary School, a coffee shop and a grocery.

Humboldt Gardens, the second HOPE VI project, will be built at the old Iris Court site.

The Sears center is one of two U.S. military properties in Portland that will be vacated in four years and available for development. It's about a mile from Hillsdale Terrace; properties developed as part of HOPE VI don't have to be contiguous.

Residents at Hillsdale Terrace expressed mixed feelings about the Housing Authority's proposal.

Korlina Henson has lived at Hillsdale with her teenage son and daughter for four years. She acknowledges that some apartments have had moisture problems but says she wouldn't want to move while the site was torn down and rebuilt.

"It's an old place and everything," she says. "But a lot of families are already established."

Nicole Johnson lives at Hillsdale Terrace with her two young sons. She lived at Columbia Villa before its residents were relocated and says HOPE VI projects disrupt the lives of families who have to move to make way for construction.

But Brian Russell, chairman of the Multnomah Neighborhood Association, says the Housing Authority's proposal sounds promising, even though some neighbors worry about redevelopment of the Army Reserve Center.

"We do need to realize that we either have to deal with density or give way to sprawl," he wrote in an e-mail. "Our population is growing, and we must creatively address the problem."

Stephen Beaven: 503-294-7663; stevebeaven@news.oregonian.com
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for those who haven't checked out Portland Architecture recently, it sounds like the Mississippi Ave Lofts are finally gonna start up. Brian Libby did a write-up on them:

Mississippi Avenue Lofts Set To Break Ground

I have meant to write about the Mississippi Avenue Lofts for awhile, both because it's a significant mixed-use project in a burgeoning close-in Portland neighborhood and because the project has seen a fair amount of controversy.

The project, designed by the Portland office of San Francisco firm Michael WIllis Architects (which also partnered with Thomas Hacker Architects on the ill-fated Fire Station 1), is poised to earn a prestigous 'Gold' LEED rating from the US Green Building Council. The first LEED-rated residential project on the east side, It consists of 32 residential units and will occupy a site just north of the commercial district along Mississippi Avenue that includes The Rebuilding Center, Gravy restaurant, Video Verite, Fresh Pot coffee and other establishments. There will reportedly be a Pastaworks store on the ground floor. The MAL project replaces an old cinder-block warehouse.

The controversy, as many know, came in December of 2005 when the Boise Neighborhood Association voted to deny support for the project. Some believe the association was hijacked by a few neighbors objecting to the height and gentrification, but that's an argument we've already had here about the neighborhood's objection to another project, the Kurisu family's residential building designed by Holst. Besides, the Historic Mississippi Business Association gave the MAL project a strong endorsement.

Courtyard In the case of the Mississippi Avenue Lofts project, the original design was more of a continuous horizontal form, the idea being that it would de-emphasize the four-story height. But a revised plan for the building, breaks up its mass by emphasizing a series of smaller individual box-like forms emanating out of the larger whole.

I like how the building has turned out. One of its real strengths is the use of wood, which will help integrate the MAL project with the existing fabric of single-family homes off Mississippi Avenue while also celebrating Oregon's native materials and adding warmth to the overall sense of the building. It also features a tilt-up concrete construction method by general contractor Gray Purcell common in commercial projects but rare in residential that will help reduce construction time by 2-3 months. Additionally, the design features a coutyard plan that will provide ample natural light. And that 4th floor that seems to always freak out neighbors with these projects is set back significantly, not only giving the building a more modest presence on the street but creating a terrific rooftop deck for some lucky penthouse owners.

Developed by the trio of Bill Jackson, Peter Wilcox and David Yoho, this is a project that has had more than its fair share of hurdles to clear, but I'm told groundbreaking could come as soon as February. More and more, the land in North Portland between Interstate Avenue and Williams Street seems poised to explode with lots of new mixed-use housing projects, and many of them are turning out very handsome, such as the aforementioned Kurisu project, the and two projects developed by the Kaiser Group: Backbridge Station and the Backbridge Lofts.


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are these on the radar?
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H44 hawthorne and 44th



i like the first one but not the second one.
btw the way browsing sienna architecture's site there was very nice images of the cascadian tower is that project dead?
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I agree - the Beech is more appealing than the H44. I have not heard about these...
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Old Posted Jan 13, 2007, 6:56 PM
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Idk why, but i absolutely love these type of projects...i love the boxy design
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we talked about the H44 on another thread... the consensus was that the developer's an ass. something about how he was planning on running out the bars around it or something.

i think the "cascadian" is dead, isn't it called the cosmopolitan now?
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it might be but look at the renderings. it looks nice.
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The Beech 15 is going in at the corner of NE Beech and 15th. It will take up part of Wild Oat's parking lot.

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Housing boom starts brewing

TRIB TOWN: As projects percolate on Interstate, so does debate

By Anna Johns
The Portland Tribune 16 minutes ago



JIM CLARK / PORTLAND TRIBUNE

Along Interstate itself, developers (from left) Rick Johnson, Mark Kirchmeier, Adam Gnicwosz and Chris Gincwosz stand in front of a house that will be torn down.

Later this month, demolition begins on the old Marino Furniture store, 3970 N. Interstate Ave., to make room for condominiums.

It’s the first transit-oriented, high-density housing project along Interstate Avenue since the MAX light-rail line opened, even though that was three years ago – an eternity compared to how quickly housing sprouted along the Portland Streetcar route.

The four-story, 30-unit complex will feature lofts and one- to two-bedroom units, with 2,200 square feet of retail space on the ground floor at the intersection of Interstate and North Shaver Street. With unit prices ranging from $200,000 to $350,000, the developers expect buyers will be people who are priced out of the Pearl District. They plan to open in late fall.

Chris Gniewosz is one of the developers on the project. He says the entire process has been long and arduous because the city had neglected to change the zoning for the Interstate Avenue corridor, despite a multineighborhood plan in 2002 that called for an increase in high-density housing near the light-rail line.

“We had to go through a horrendous process,” Gniewosz said.
It cost him and his partners $30,000 for experts and paperwork, and took 12 months to get the zoning changed for their high-density housing project. It’s a headache they shouldn’t have had to endure, Gniewosz said.

“It’s something that should’ve been done when the MAX was finished,” Gniewosz said. “Zoning should have been part of that project.”
According to Julia Gisler, a project manager with the City’s Bureau of Planning, the money and manpower to change the zoning hasn’t been available until now. Gisler is leading a yearlong zoning study of the Interstate MAX corridor that is just getting under way this month.
She thinks the long, expensive zoning process is keeping transit-oriented business and housing away from the Interstate MAX corridor.

“There’s a disconnect between the neighborhood plan and the current zoning laws,” Gisler said. “We really think we can help the corridor.”

The light-rail study is in its infancy, with Gisler still taking applications from members of the public to sit on a community advisory board. Initial plans called for zoning recommendations to be made to the City Council by November 2007, but the study already is several months behind and a final date has not been rescheduled.

When it does get under way, participants in the study will use the 2002 multineighborhood plan as a base. The plan recommends developing high-density housing and transit-oriented businesses near five Interstate MAX stops at Lombard Street, Portland Boulevard, Killingsworth Street, Prescott Street and Overlook Boulevard.

One of the challenges that will be addressed in the study is how much high-density housing should spill into the surrounding neighborhoods. The neighborhood plan calls for higher density, but Gisler says she hopes the study will find a way to strike a balance so the neighborhoods don’t lose their character.

“A lot of people point to Northwest Portland, with high buildings and small buildings,” Gisler said. “This (light-rail) corridor is going to become more eclectic.”

Density’s good on Interstate

Chris Duffy, chairwoman of the Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association, said the bigger projects should be allowed only on Interstate Avenue.

She pointed to Gniewosz’s 30-condominium project as ideal because it is directly on the light-rail line and is not surrounded by single-family homes.
“I definitely support transit-oriented development,” Duffy said, “but the density should be stepped down as you move away from the transit stations.”

Case in point, Duffy said, is a six-story condominium complex planned for North Montana Avenue between Bryant and Buffalo streets. The land is one block back from the light-rail line and surrounded by single-family homes.

“It will loom over the neighborhood,” Duffy said.

But worse than its size in comparison with the nearby buildings, Duffy said, is what it already has done to the neighborhood. Two homeowners across the street from the planned project have moved away and rent out their former homes.

A next-door neighbor sold his home after living in it for three years, and two more are considering selling their homes to the developer.

“It destabilizes the neighborhood terribly,” Duffy said. “It puts a lot of stress and pressure on the people who live nearby.”

Some projects praised

Duffy points to a set of condominium projects further south on Montana Avenue as examples of the kind of high density she thinks is called for by the neighborhood plan.

Between North Shaver and Mason streets, there are a set of six-unit, three-story condominiums that are set back several feet from the street. Although they are significantly taller than the surrounding homes, Duffy says they are designed in a way that minimizes their visual impact.
She also applauds a family housing project planned for the current site of the Crown Motel, 5226 N. Interstate Ave. Reach Community Development, a nonprofit developer, will build a four-story, 54-unit apartment complex of affordable housing.

Demolition of the hotel is set to begin in late fall, and construction should be complete in 2008.

To apply for the community advisory group for the Interstate Light Rail Corridor Zoning Project, call Julia Gisler, 503-823-7624, or visit the Bureau of Planning Website, www.PortlandOnline.com/Planning.

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Beranger Condos, Downtown Gresham

http://www.burlingame.net/berangercondos.html

Sorry no current pictures of the construction. They are on the top floor at this point.

This building site is close to the condo infill on 3rd and Roberts. It is also on the opposite corner from the future Arts and Theater lot across Hood. Very nice location. Four blocks from MAX and the Central Bus Transit Station. Looks like the spendy units are taken. That top level corner unit (view from the unit is to the Southeast) should have really good Mt. Hood view.

Nice roof top garden too!

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Its terrible that it is such a hassle for the developer to build high density housing along Interstate. But it does look like theres beginning to be several new mixed use projects emerging.
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Hopefully the city gets the job done and the zoning changed to accom. higher density. It should have been done by the time MAX was completed in that area of the city.
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For the Feb 1st Design Review Agenda, they are showing a couple projects out by Gateway. The first is at 206 NE 102nd and is supposed to be 2 5-story buildings with ground retail, 100 units, and 105 parking spaces. The second is at 224 NE 99th and would be a 6-story, 58 units, and 54 parking spaces.

Does anyone know about development like this around Gateway? It feels like there are a bunch of proposed ones out there in the 5-6 story range but nothing ever gets built. Link to agenda is here: http://www.portlandonline.com/shared....cfm?id=144154
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Haven't seen "Lane 1919" on here yet. It's currently under construction at NW 19th between Savier and Raleigh.



Interestingly, the development will incorporate this older building.

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