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I hope this is the right project.
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That's it. The title should be changed to reflect (1) 5 story office building and (1) 6 story residential building. The latter of which will reside one block to the West.
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That's it. The title should be changed to reflect (1) 5 story office building and (1) 6 story residential building. The latter of which will reside one block to the West.
I thought the building next door was supposed to be mixed use, replacing the existing retail with new first floor retail? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong project there, but I thought the Columbian mentioned it a while back.
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I thought the building next door was supposed to be mixed use, replacing the existing retail with new first floor retail? Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong project there, but I thought the Columbian mentioned it a while back.
I think you are right. I think both the office and the resi buildings will have ground floor retail.
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I think you are right. I think both the office and the resi buildings will have ground floor retail.
I'm pretty sure the current building will not, due to concerns about patronage of any ground floor retail. Next door will get it, and I think the site southwest of it (behind the Burgerville) will, but not the current project.
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Architect offers new ‘Twist’ on waterfront

Developers hire Seattle man as lead designer for $1.1 billion project

Monday, January 19 | 5:19 p.m.

BY JULIA ANDERSON
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER


Architects at Twist Architecture have produced new renderings of how the Boise Cascade site might be redeveloped. (Twist Architecture & Design)

Developers of the former Boise Cascade property on the Vancouver waterfront have retained a new architect for the $1 billion project.

David Hansen, a partner in the Seattle design firm Twist Architecture & Design, is the new lead designer for the development planned on 32 acres downriver from the Interstate 5 Bridge. In documents filed last month with the city of Vancouver, developers describe the project as including 2,500 to 2,700 residential units, 200,000 square feet of retail space, 800,000 square feet of commercial space and 400 hotel rooms. The buildings would go up over 10 to 15 years depending on market demand.

Hansen had worked at Ankrom Moisan Architects of Portland, which provided initial design work on the Boise project. Now he has been independently retained by Gramor Development Inc. and Columbia Waterfront LLC to take the project through master planning with the city of Vancouver.

Gramor and Columbia Waterfront investors bought the Boise property a year ago.

As part of the new alignment with Twist, the architectural firm has released updated artist’s renderings of the site.

“One of the key elements in the Twist design process is place-making to align the project within its culture and environment,” Hansen said.

David Copenhaver, vice president of Gramor, said that the new affiliation with Twist will give his development firm a “fun, refreshing and collaborative” opportunity to take the project forward.

Twist Architecture was founded in October by Hansen and Kirk Callison of Seattle.
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^^ Here's the only new rendering I could find (taken from the linked pic in the Columbian article, and the max size changed in the URL).

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Thanks 360Rich

My company decided to ban flickr, so I am shut out of posting pics from work.
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This week C St went back to 2-way traffic, and it has become quite convenient. I'll try to stop and get pictures on lunch next week, the building is coming along as well. There's also a few other projects that have seemed to start up, like the Credit Union face-lift, so I'll see what I can do.

Oddly, this was one of the things that had to happen to make the Vancouver Streetcar possible, and it happened fairly quickly. Maybe they'll try to get some economic stimulus funds to make it happen.
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Pic from today's Columbian:


This $18 million, five-level building is being developed by The Al Angelo Co. of Vancouver. The company expects to move into offices in the building’s top floor in June. The project will house other office tenants and a ground-floor retail business. It will eventually face a companion building, planned to occupy the block directly west of it. (Photos by Cami Joner/The Columbian)
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Baird is proud of ‘righteous earmark’

Infrastructure work on waterfront will pay for itself, says congressman
By Jeffrey Mize
Columbian staff writer
Congressman Brian Baird had finished the polite introductions and obligatory thanks.

Then, the Vancouver Democrat moved closer to a clay model depicting the high-rise waterfront community that Gramor Development and its local investors want to build on the Columbia River waterfront.

"The infrastructure money leverages so much more," Baird told Gramor President Barry Cain late Friday morning as he examined the model. "They’re not building waterfront. They’re not building Columbia Rivers anywhere."

The waterfront project, proposed for a barren former industrial site west of the Interstate 5 Bridge, will benefit from two federal contributions: $2.5 million in stimulus money and another $3.09 million from the 2009 spending bill President Barack Obama signed this week.

"Everyone bashes us for earmarks," Baird said, standing where a cluster of office buildings, condominiums, apartments, stores and restaurants could pop up in the next 10 to 15 years. "This is a righteous earmark. You get a 30-to-1 return on our investment. Bash us for that earmark, Bobby Jindal."

Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, delivered the GOP’s response to Obama’s Feb. 24 joint address before Congress and criticized federal officials for what he called an "eruption of spending in Washington, D.C."

As for the 30-to-1 figure, Baird used an estimate developed by the city of Vancouver of how much every public dollar — city, state and federal — spent on infrastructure will return in higher tax revenues.

Baird attended a Friday gathering with representatives of Gramor and its investors, along with city, Port of Vancouver and Clark County representatives, to show his support for the project and boost its community standing. A push pin in the clay model indicated where organizers had set a small tent, chairs and podium for the event.

Gramor’s preliminary plans call for 2,500 to 2,700 condos and apartments, 200,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 800,000 square feet of office space and 400 hotel rooms.

Mayor Royce Pollard described the waterfront development as "the most significant project in the history of our city and probably Clark County."

"The daytime population of this little city will be about 10,000 people," he said, referring to the 32-acre mixed-use project.

Vancouver has identified $42.3 million in rail, road and utility improvements that would be needed to support the development and pledged $15.5 million to the project. Developers have agreed to chip in $8 million, not counting the money they will spend on internal streets within the waterfront site itself.

Baird said money spent on infrastructure, investing in roads, bridges and ports, will create jobs and get the local economy moving again.

"Yes, we’re facing a challenge," he said. "Our unemployment rate, as you know, is in double digits. But it’s projects like this that are going to turn this around."

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Animation of said development...

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I wish it was a bit taller, maybe with a couple of the blockier towers away from the river instead turned into park blocks to not overwhelm.

Overall, I really hope this goes up!
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New library planned for downtown Vancouver, Wash.

Howard S. Wright Constructors this summer will begin work on $37 million building
POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Wednesday, April 29, 2009
BY JUSTIN CARINCI

Vancouver’s central library, built in the 1960s, has limped its way out of the 20th century.

Construction will begin this summer on a new downtown library, which district officials hope will be a proud 21st-century building.

“This is a tired, old building,” Sue Vanlaanen of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District said of the Mill Plain Boulevard library. “It was built before computers were even imagined.”

The new building, which will go up at the corner of East Evergreen Boulevard and C Street, promises to be everything that the old library isn’t – spacious, up-to-date, elegant and part of a pedestrian-friendly downtown.

“We knew we were going for something that was modern yet timeless,” said Karin Ford, manager of the Vancouver library. “We want this building to have a 50-year or longer life, so we wanted a design that doesn’t look too dated.”

Seattle’s Miller Hull Partnership designed the five-level building to let in daylight and offer panoramas of downtown. A panel along C Street could display words or video.

Ken Maheu, project executive with general contractor-construction manager Howard S. Wright Constructors, said the building will have a unique façade. “It’s got a pretty distinct exterior skin system,” he said. “There’s an awful lot of curtain wall in combination with a terra-cotta skin system.”

Compared to the existing 36,000-square-foot building, there’s an awful lot of everything. At 83,000 square feet, the new library will offer more room for collections, meetings, programs and displays. Patrons can use on-site computer terminals or connect wirelessly with personal devices. An upper-floor reading room will open onto a rooftop terrace.

Currently, the library district rents space in two buildings from the city of Vancouver because it doesn’t have enough room, Vanlaanen said. The new building would allow the district to consolidate its operations.

The design of the new library provides the flexibility to adapt to new uses in the future, Ford said. “The nature of the public library is continuously changing. It’s hard trying to anticipate what library services and collections will be like in 10 years, much less 50 years.”

The library is the first project in the planned mixed-use Riverwest development. The developer, Killian Pacific, put that $160 million project on hold last fall as the market deteriorated.

That delay isn’t expected to affect the library, funded with a bond measure passed in 2006 and a $5 million anonymous donation. Killian Pacific donated the land for library.

Library officials expect the project to cost $37 million. No more than $23.5 million of that amount can go to construction. Howard S. Wright is prequalifying subcontractors who will be allowed to bid on the project.

Another library project, alongside the Firstenburg Community Center in Cascade Park, is scheduled to open in late 2009 or early 2010. That project also drew funding from the 2006 $43 million bond measure.

Construction on the downtown library is scheduled to begin in August. The new library would open in 2011.

Killian Pacific is clearing existing buildings from the site to make way for the library. The historic Kiggins House on Evergreen Boulevard was moved uptown last year.

The new building will serve more than just Vancouver, Vanlaanen said. It will be the hub of a 4,200-square-mile district that stretches all the way to Klickitat County.

“It’s going to be a pretty important portion of Vancouver’s downtown,” she said. “But this is a library for the entire library district.”

http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDeta...er-will-begin-
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Waterfront plan filed

Developer envisions 5,000 residents on former industrial site
Wednesday, June 10 | 7:27 p.m.

BY JEFFREY MIZE AND JULIA ANDERSON
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITERS



Twist Architecture and Design This rendering released Wednesday is the latest depiction of a high-rise waterfront community that could be built west of the Interstate 5 Bridge.

A formal plan to build a Vancouver waterfront community with almost 5,000 residents and 3,500 workers was submitted Wednesday to city planners.

Gramor Development of Tualatin, Ore., and its local investors, doing business as Columbia Waterfront LLC, filed a master plan for redeveloping the former Boise Cascade paper mill site along the Columbia River.

Gramor President Barry Cain called the project "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to connect the community with the river."

The waterfront project could represent almost $1.3 billion worth of construction and create 12,000 construction jobs over its development timeline, set to start in 2011.

Cain and David Copenhaver, Gramor's vice president of development, acknowledged that obstacles remain, including signing up development partners who can secure construction financing, experiencing a turnaround in the housing and office markets and winning continued support from the city of Vancouver for parks and other amenities.

"The economy is starting to turn, so we feel that by the time we are ready to begin construction, things will be on the upswing," Cain said. "Financial markets are not where they need to be, but they are going in the right direction. We're confident about the Northwest (economy) and about Vancouver."

The master plan was filed with the city Wednesday afternoon. City officials have long coveted the waterfront project, not only for its potential to create jobs and generate taxes, but also for the prestige of having a prominent project on the West's mightiest river.

The overall project would include:

n More than 1 million square feet of office space.

n 250,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

n 3,000 to 3,300 residential units.

n A 160-room hotel.

n Ten acres of trails, parks and other open space.

Residential units would be a mix of condominiums, apartments, senior housing and so-called "affordable" work force housing for people earning modest wages.

Cain said the first phase of construction likely would include five or six buildings offering 1 million square feet focusing on affordable and senior housing, a reflection of a sour market for luxury condominiums.

"No one is going to plan on … regular condos right now," he said. "We are probably a few years away."

The city intends to extend Esther and Grant streets south though the railroad berm to open up the 32-acre site, just west of the Interstate 5 Bridge. The land has been cleared of the old paper mill and is now fenced off from the public.

The developer and the city both want to see a waterfront park along the length of the project.

Gramor intends to create a "festival" street along a section of the waterfront that could be closed for street fairs and other events. It's all part of fostering an environment that encourages restaurants, shops, nightlife and pedestrian-oriented development.

"The waterfront can't be the sole attraction," Copenhaver said. "This project really is an extension of downtown offering a diversity of uses. The waterfront is an amenity, but this can't be a standalone development. It's got to connect with the rest of downtown."

Buildings in the first phase likely would be five to seven stories tall. As construction progresses farther to the west, away from Pearson Field, buildings could rise to 20 stories, which would make them the tallest in Clark County.

"It will completely transform the downtown," Cain said. "That's what we want to do."

Gramor has developed more than 40 retail projects valued in excess of $700 million throughout the Portland-Vancouver area.


Down economy

Gramor officials say they are talking with development partners who would take on pieces of the project within the overall master plan submitted Wednesday.

George Diamond, with Real Estate Investment Group of Portland, is handling the sales and leasing. Diamond is also an investor in Columbia Waterfront.

Gramor officials say now, during a lousy economy, is precisely the time to lay the foundation for a major project that can proceed when the economy rebounds.

"Just as sure as there are down times, there are up times," Cain said. "This is the best site in the world. You look back in a few years, you aren't going to be thinking about the bad times."

Vancouver already has spent $4.4 million on land and engineering to promote waterfront redevelopment and has lobbied state and federal officials to provide millions more.

The city, however, still has not signed a development agreement with Columbia Waterfront to ensure developers deliver on their project.

The agreement has been delayed for months as the different parties sort though final details. The latest plan calls for the city council to approve the agreement in early July.

The agreement would last for 20 years and require developers to hit minimum densities to ensure the city doesn't build infrastructure to support a high-rise waterfront community but end up with a low-density enclave.


Binding restriction

The city council last November agreed to spend $15.5 million toward more than $44 million in rail, road and utility improvements. Columbia Waterfront has pledged $8 million to this off-site infrastructure work, in addition to the $31 million the developer expects to spend on streets, street lights and utilities inside the 32-acre site.

Even if Gramor and its investors walk away from the project and sell the land, the agreement's conditions would be a deed restriction on the waterfront site that would obligate future owners.

For an additional layer of financial certainty, the development agreement would require Columbia Waterfront's investors to provide personal guarantees for the $8 million commitment.

That means that even if the limited liability company folds, the city could go to court to pry the $8 million loose from Gramor and its investors.

http://www.columbian.com/article/200...nt+plan+filed+
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^ If i'm reading this correctly, build out could take 20 years? Looks like an outstanding rendering. The Couv would have an urban canyon.
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That is a drool worthy rendering. Hope there is a MAX train in there somewhere.
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I fully believe that Vancouver will see densification over the next couple of decades. I don't know the plausibility of a project this large, but I am certain The Couv' is poised for lots of positive changes.
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That is a drool worthy rendering. Hope there is a MAX train in there somewhere.
It'll definitely have MAX access. An easy commute into Portland on the Yellow line will make this area boom.
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