Eliot Tower | Complete

[PacificNW]

Very nice! Thanks for taking those pics!

[brandonpdx]

only 14 units left or 93% sold
the cheapest unit left is $499,200

[edgepdx]

$80K for a model! Sheeze that's like a cost $500/Unit. I hope the home owners assoc. gets to keep it in the lobby of something afterwards!

However, Mr. Caroll does indeed seem to have a golden touch. I think the Eliot will be the best in Portland unless the John Ross lives up to the hype. However the Elizabeth looked better as a model than in reality. It looks quite massive during the day, almost gothic and grim.

Benson tower looks like a cool building, but disappointing details. 8' ceilings in a "luxury" condo ? With all the delays and long nonbinding reservation period my guess is the developer may not have as solid of financial backing as some of the others.

I think the current Lair Hill anger is probably a result of being screwed in the past by the freeways and South Auditorium project. In the end I think south waterfront and the tram will end up being good for their neighborhood. Given the history I definately understand their skepticism.

[bvpcvm]

I read long ago that van Dorninck (sp?) intended the Benson Tower to be more accessible to the middle class, thus the 8' (actually isn't it 8.5'?) ceilings, etc.

Interesting comments about how great the building is. What about the inside of the units? It looks like 50% are the "one bedroom" units, they are 18' wide and 45 to 50' deep with one window at the end. The "bedroom" is not enclosed it is a sleeping area or kind of like a hotel room with a strip kitchen? Is this great design? Only half the buildings units have out door space?

[pdxskyline]

Wow, those model shots are cool, thanks for taking them.

I thought the Elliott would be a lot skinnier, but I only had the ubiquitous rendering of it from the south that they spam out all over the place. The angles on it look great! I don't know why they didn't show off the east profile more.

BTW, they're about 3-4 stories up now!!

Now if they'd get the crane up for the Benson Tower...

[dkealoha]

Not too many units left in the Eliot Tower! This is what they sent me:



Residential Pricelist
December 28, 2005

Typical Units

------Unit-----Bd/Ba---SF------Price
E----1503----1/1------846----$449,000
W---1407----2/2------1,338--$633,000
SW--506-----2/2------1,574--$668,950
SW--806-----2/2------1,574--$679,000
NW--1113---2/2------1,496---$719,000
NE---401-----2/2.5---2,054---$885,000
SE---905-----2/2.5---2,145---$933,000
SE---1105---2/2.5----2,163---$970,000

Penthouses

W---1705----2/2------1,517---$873,810
W---1805----2/2------1,517---$889,660
W---1606----2/2------1,587---$912,340
NW-1707----2/2.5----2,348---$1,332,950
SE--1703----2/2.5----2,608---$1,490,060
SW-1604----3/3------2,977----$1,570,255
SW-1704----3/3------2,977----$1,592,795

[awg]

These are mostly the same skinny shotgun units / no bedroom John Carroll built in the Pearl aren't they? Hard to imagine paying half a million dollars for one of them.

[edgepdx]

As a resident of one of Mr. Carroll's shotgun units I can testify that the floor plans aren't as bad as everyone thinks. They feel quite spacious. Now paying $500K for one ... I'm not sure they're worth that much.

[awg]

Wasn't a knock on the shotgun unit per se, so much as surprise at the cost. I have felt that $200,000 - $300,000 is an amount of money a young(ish) single person or new couple could come up with, but much more than that and it seems to require the dual income, 40+ demographic. And I figured that demographic looks for the more traditional one bedroom unit. If it sells, I've got no problem with it--the more in the city, the better.

[edirp]

$449,000 for 846 square feet?!

Absolutely crazy!


Out of 223 units, only 15 remain available, with 7 of those being penthouses.


The floorplans can be viewed on The Eliot Tower website.

[edgepdx]

I agree $449,000 is nuts. I think this is why we're seeing lots of wealthy boomers using these units as weekend crash pads when they're in town. That's not healthy for downtown.

[bvpcvm]

Oh BTW, speaking of the Eliot Tower...













Those are all from a couple months ago.

[MitchE]

contd from http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...t=77755&page=2

Originally Posted by brandonpdx

I agree that most of the 11th Ave side looks like the back of a building, much like the library on 11th. However, I like how the Eliot gets narrower for the top 3 "penthouse" floors. I also like the fishbowl units where the Eliot only rises a few floors on 11th & jefferson. What do you guys think about those units?

I'm torn on how the townhouses look. They look good materials wise (especially that stone work) but the way they are oriented again reinforces the idea that the building's back is facing 11th Ave. I wish the front doors to those units were placed perpendicular to the street.

I hadn't really noticed the penthouses. It does get a little bit narrower up there doesn't it.

[MarkDaMan]

taken 2/11, sorry about the date stamp, still trying to get rid of it.

[Method101]

beautfiul building, still hope to visit portland one day, other than just drive by it on I-5 lol

[awg]

Images from the model unit

Elliot Living Room



Elliot Kitchen



Elliot Dining



Elliot Bedroom

[awg]

Trying out some new photo software and made these photo-collages with trial software (so forgive the propietary stamp all over the images--haven't decided whether to purchase it or not).

View of the Northeast corner of the Elliot


View of the Southwest corner of the Elliot

[awg]

One more.

View of the Northwest corner of the Elliot

[zilfondel]

Awg - try using the freeware autostitch program. Doesn't put any watermarks on your photos.

Also, photoshop version 7+ has an autostitch capability under the File --> Automate section.

Nice pics, tho. I ride the streetcar by that building twice everyday...