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Old Posted May 9, 2008, 3:05 PM
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Wait, is this the same project?

Where is it located?
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Old Posted May 10, 2008, 8:19 PM
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Yes

Zilfondel,

Yeah, this is the same project... just a different side. This would be the "front door".

It's on the corner of commercial and mission in Salem.

At the moment, this corner looks alright, but the stone that they are putting up looks terrible. We'll see how it turns out in the end.
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Salem | Marion Park | x Feet | 9 Floors? | Proposed

Proposed Mixed Use project with housing for Western Oregon University Foreign Exchange Students



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Old Posted May 21, 2008, 5:33 PM
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Wow! That doesn't look half bad and for salem that would be a BIG step in the right direction. Help me out on this Northeast79 but wouldn't this be located in downtown?
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^ Are you sure? That's 25 miles from Western Oregon University, which is in Monmouth, OR. Since most exchange students can't even drive, it would probably be located there. Oh yes... my hometown.
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^^^You're correct zilfondel, wou is in monmouth but I recall reading an article about westerns desire to put a satellite campus in salem and it involved housing for foreign exchange students so I would think it would be this?? I'll try and dig up an article...
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Here it is! It would be DT if it happens, and hopefully it does because it could do wonders for that corner.

Parkade could be transformed
Classroom space could be built on top of structure

BY JUSTIN MUCH • STATESMAN JOURNAL
May 7, 2008

During his 2007-08 school year State of the University Address, Western Oregon University President John Minahan suggested that the school needed a stronger presence in Salem.

What wasn't clear was the proximity of that presence.

If plans and ambitions unfold without a hitch, downtown Salem will see Marion Parkade transformed into a midrise building, complete with apartments, office and classroom space, by September 2009. Much of that new space is earmarked for WOU's Salem presence.

"It's an aggressive timetable and goal, but not unachievable," said WOU's Vice President for Finance and Administration Mark Weiss.

Weiss was clear that procedures endemic to this strategy are in their conceptual stages.

He said initial plans for the ancillary campus site included facilities for international and possibly nursing students along with a master's program for teachers. The school has seen a growth in international registration in recent years while it's fledgling nursing program begins this September.

An initial stage to the process occurred April 28, when Salem City Council voted unanimously to enter into exclusive negotiations with Kevin Lafky's group, Marion Park LLC.

Lafky and his wife, Ida, said they envisioned three key results in the project's first phase: space for WOU class, housing and offices; medium price range work force housing; budgetary benefits to the city as Marion Park assumes operating costs and provides needed seismic upgrades. Kevin Lafky estimated operational costs to be a half-million dollars annually, while upcoming necessary upgrades cost about $1.5 million.

"It sounds exciting. At least we can get into it and see if it's going to work," Salem Mayor Janet Taylor said.

"I'm positive it will," Lafky replied.

The Lafkys said discussion of the project had its roots Minahan's vision of giving the university a stronger presence in Salem.

School officials inquired about possibilities with Lafky's "The Rivers" project, an eight-story building with 24 condominiums under construction at NE Front Street.

Space with that project was not conducive to the university's needs, but Lafky requested an opportunity to develop other more suitable plans.

The first phase of the project is estimated to cost between $12 million and $15 million.

The school would lease much of the constructed space for a "mini campus," housing units and office space, primarily to serve international students.

The new spaces would be constructed on top of the current parking structure, while parking at the under-used garage would remain available.

The garage currently has 1,100 parking spaces. Lafky said contractual obligation requires that 600 spaces remain available.

Salem City Councilor TJ Sullivan asked about the effect on parking: Lafky said from initial estimates, he doesn't expect more than a net loss of 50 spaces.

The Lafkys' partner, Matt Sloan, drafted and completed a similar project in Portland's Pearl District, where he added five stories on top of a 1908 six-story structure. Sloan indicated that project, North Park Lofts at NW Eighth and Everett streets, posed more potential difficulty because of the age of the original structure.

The Marion Parkade was built in 1987.

jmuch@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6736

WHAT'S NEXT
-The Exclusive Negotiation Agreement allows the city to negotiate with Marion Park LLC regarding the transfer of the Marion Parkade and provides Urban Renewal Area funds to analyze the feasibility of the project and negotiate a Disposition and Development Agreement.

-Specific terms, including permit requirements and outreach strategy, are to be completed in the coming weeks.

- Development plans call for construction to begin by fall. Initial goals cite space to be available for WOU by fall 2009.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps...805070327/1117
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Nice work pdxman!
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This would be over the parkade across the street from the Salem Center Mall. A very good location. Downtown Salem needs a lot of work! It literally hasn't changed since 1994!
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Salem Center is a monstrosity. Just think of the DT Nordstroms x10. Nothing but brick walls and skybridges that kill the street activity. Not to mention that when the only GAP in the city leaves the largest mall you know something is wrong. Where I see the most potential for downtown salem is the old storefronts and shop spaces that line the downtown streets. There are a lot of cool old buildings that are currently being redone that could serve as the anchor to cool shops and restaurants. Salems DT could be a lot better if they utilized those spaces.
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I agree pdxman, but I do think that building new structures with a degree of mass is also critical too the identity of the city and the urban core. Actually, there isn't much of an urban core at the moment. The DT needs to reach a critical mass to keep those like the Gap.

I strongly agree that the Salem Center is probably the worst possible thing you could do to a downtown. It totally kills any vitality that would attract people to that area of the city.

I think the old storefronts will get filled once there is a stronger residential component in the DT.
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The downtown area has potential. Does the city still have the strict height restrictions? If I remember right, no new building can be taller than the state cptl. (173')
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Sioux612,
The cities height restrictions are all over the place. There is a zone called "downtown business district" that does not have a height restriction, but it is built out and has no where to park. This area is only a few blocks.

The only places where there is room to build have a height restriction of 70 feet.
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Salem | Waterplace | 80 feet? | 6 Floors | U/C







images from Sperry Van Ness' website.

This building is supposed to go up in the fall.

Last edited by Northeast79; Mar 5, 2009 at 8:27 PM. Reason: project is no longer in the demolition phase
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Thanks for post Northeast! It looks as though this is will be going in where the old Tudor Rose building was located, correct?
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Yes, you are correct. It will replace the Tudor Rose and City Center Motel.

Definetly an improvement.
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An improvement indeed! Anything is better than that roach motel.
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the view across the pond is pretty nice, but that parking ramp... ugh. what gets me about projects like this (there's one on interstate that does the same thing, just north of kaiser - 4 stories, but parking takes up half the block) is that the average density of this lot is probably 2 stories at most. so actually this doesn't do that much to actually urbanize the area. oh well.
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^ Look at the size of that ramp, I think its hardly one.
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