Pearl District News - Page 36

tworivers · #**701** Posted: **Jul 31, 2008, 1:55 AM**

Click here for a bunch of info from the BTA blog about making the Pearl a "bicycle district".

bvpcvm · #**702** Posted: **Sep 4, 2008, 3:49 AM**

New six story project way north at 1350 NW Raleigh, designed "for families" (2- and 3- br units).

more info

Okstate · #**703** Posted: **Sep 4, 2008, 4:06 AM**

It's a good location for "families". There are all the children's stores around Jamison & to the north of that location is a great Montessori school alongside a "child-friendly" cafe across the street. www.sydneysportland.com

CouvScott · #**704** Posted: **Sep 5, 2008, 3:25 PM**

POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Friday, September 5, 2008
BY DJC STAFF

An effort to locate a new six-story family housing development in the Pearl District is underway by developer Ed McNamara.

The developer of the Sitka Apartments has been working for two years on the affordable housing project, which would place 135 apartments designed for families with children at a recently secured site at Northwest 13th Avenue and Quimby Street, the Benson Glass Building.

The Portland Development Commission has provided a loan to help McNamara with pre-development services for the project, which is two months into its design phase.

As of now, the building will be six stories with a full level of underground parking, and the apartments will be two- and three-bedroom units. McNamara wants to locate childcare and early education programs in the building’s ground floor.

Residents would be households earning up to 60 percent of median income, or $41,000 per year for four people.

The building would be converted to a limited-equity cooperative after 15 years, allowing tenants to become shareholders of a corporation that would own the building. The housing would remain affordable for the next 60 years.

A pre-application conference for the project will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 10:30 a.m. at 1900 S.W. Fourth Ave., Fourth Floor, Room 4a.

bvpcvm · #**705** Posted: **Oct 12, 2008, 4:15 AM**

looks like the 5-story apt project at 14th and lovejoy has started. the warehouse in that location is being dismantled.

NewUrbanist · #**706** Posted: **Oct 13, 2008, 11:56 PM**

Portlandmaps lists the demolition, but they are leaving the basement diaphram intact. I don't expect this one to be anymore than a vacant lot for a while. But that is the pessimist in me.

I would love to see this project move forward soon. Does anyone know who the developer/designer is on this project?

PDX City-State · #**707** Posted: **Oct 14, 2008, 3:35 PM**

There were images posted on this a few months back. It's designed by the Myhre Group, which does pretty shitty work IMHO. It will be apartments, and I bet it moves forward.

bvpcvm · #**708** Posted: **Oct 14, 2008, 6:36 PM**

apparently the project is called "Enso".

http://www.myhregroup.com/portfolio_...107&ctgry_id=1

pdxman · #**709** Posted: **Oct 14, 2008, 6:52 PM**

It doesn't look THAT bad, but as we all know renderings can be very deceiving.

NewUrbanist · #**710** Posted: **Oct 17, 2008, 6:18 PM**

There seems to be a fair amount of mid rise buildings in the Pearl District that are not maximizing their FAR. Maybe we could sell off some of those air rights and get the new tallest in the district to appease the clamoring from the bloggers on this site.

NJD · #**711** Posted: **Oct 17, 2008, 7:01 PM**

^ Hoyt Street, the largest Pearl land owner, is asking the city for a height and density bonus for the area because the current FAR and height limits are maximized.

NewUrbanist · #**712** Posted: **Oct 17, 2008, 8:39 PM**

Whoa! I had to pull out my FAR and buildable height maps to verify this... and you are right. I was under the impression that the pearl had similar maximums to Old Town - which by the way has impressive heights of 350' and bonuses that bump up to 425'' allowable with 9:1 FAR's. Instead they have heights as low as 75' and a 4:1 FAR for most of the pearl.

I would have thought that in planning the pearl district, that the ideal would be to build as high and as dense as financially feasible. It seems so wasteful now that the city did not to capitalize on the original cache this district carried. This planning code must have wanted to preserve waterfront views of homes from the NW hillside.

Does anyone know if this will be addressed in the Central City Plan or if Hoyt Street is pursuing a LUBA appeal?

zilfondel · #**713** Posted: **Oct 18, 2008, 8:21 AM**

^ weird, because you cannot see the river from the hills. I've been up there... no way. Mt Hood/Mt St Helens yes, but no river view except for the bridges.

Dont forget the Pearl Plan was developed by citizen groups as well... they were shooting for moderate density, and noone believed at the time that there would be a demand for highrise housing.

bvpcvm · #**714** Posted: **Oct 18, 2008, 3:30 PM**

pre-app for the powell's remodel. i will miss the grit.

NJD · #**715** Posted: **Oct 18, 2008, 4:15 PM**

^ I like the open design, especially the rooftop garden and the stepped back ground floor entrance. There will be plenty of grit left until they get rid of the parking garage

pdx2m2 · #**716** Posted: **Oct 18, 2008, 4:16 PM**

The new North Pearl plan goes to City Council next week for approval.

It includes an increase in base FAR from 2:1 to 4:1 and allows a maximum FAR of 9:1 with bonus FAR. The new plan also allows unlimited height west of the train tracks. Height is limited only by available FAR and by some floor plate and facade length limitations for taller buildings.

RED_PDXer · #**717** Posted: **Oct 18, 2008, 7:04 PM**

The higher base density in the North Pearl Plan are sufficient. It's on the edge of the downtown and not as well served by transit. Plus, if developers want more density, they will participate in the bonus densities allowed by providing public amenities. Make 'em work for the additional development potential..

bvpcvm · #**718** Posted: **Oct 23, 2008, 2:33 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewUrbanist

Portlandmaps lists the demolition, but they are leaving the basement diaphram intact. I don't expect this one to be anymore than a vacant lot for a while. But that is the pessimist in me.

I would love to see this project move forward soon. Does anyone know who the developer/designer is on this project?

(re: the Enso, 14th and Lovejoy)

well... the building is being demolished, and the sign on the fence says "york and curtis residential" - that sounds to me like it means something...

NewUrbanist · #**719** Posted: **Oct 23, 2008, 9:38 PM**

I walk past the demolition every day to work. The contractors have moved quickly during this project. Its promising to see so much construction close to lovejoy. I am looking forward to my afternoon strolls on the new sidewalks next to the new buildings.

sowat · #**720** Posted: **Oct 28, 2008, 3:07 PM**

More luxury apartments headed to Pearl
by Ryan Frank, The Oregonian
Monday October 27, 2008, 4:18 PM

A Phoenix apartment developer says it will break ground next month on a 152-unit luxury apartment project at Northwest 14th Avenue and Lovejoy Street in the Pearl District.

Alliance Residential Co.'s six-story project, named Broadstone Enso, will add to a growing list of high-end apartment buildings in downtown Portland, a market niche that barely existed five years ago. The project will include studio and one and two-bedroom units from 524 to 1,305 square feet.

Amid the worldwide financial crisis and a flooded Portland condo market, Alliance Residential expects to target young professionals and empty nesters with high-end features typically found in Pearl condo buildings: stone kitchen countertops, wood-plank style flooring, nine-foot ceilings and "exclusive resident wine storage with tasting area," according to a news release.

Myhre Group Architects of Portland designed the modern building. Broadstone Enso is scheduled to be finished in the first quarter of 2010. Luxury apartments in Portland typically rent for more than $2 per square foot. Greg Spezzano, the company's director of marketing and design for the Northwest, said the company hadn't set rents yet.

Alliance Residential, launched by a former Trammell Crow Residential executive, says it's the third-largest apartment developer in the country. The company also manages $3 billion worth of apartments in 11 states. The firm is hoping to expand in Portland after the Broadstone Enso, its first project in the area, Spezzano said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...ts_headed.html