Lloyd District News

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by 58rhodes

Not to derail the thread but the post office made up their mind 20 plus years ago to move their facility near to the airport.----Back to the subject----

Lloyd center will struggle until its torn down and completely redeveloped.

Sort of, the USPS made up their minds to move to the airport 20 years ago, but the city didn't buy the site until 2016, and the USPS built a new sorting facility at the airport in 2018. So with those dates in mind, this hasn't officially been going on for as long as people think. It just happens to be that people have been thinking about the possibility of redeveloping that site.

Much like the Lloyd Center, the redevelopment of it will happen eventually but for now the new owners plan to make the mall limp along a little further until they can decide to do with the property. Looking at the company that bought it, my guess is they plan to sell it to a developer that is better suited to develop a large, complex site.

[MNTimberjack]

Five Guys is going into the former Prime Rib & Chocolate Cake location between Broadway and Weidler.

[sopdx]

https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/...A/4838046_did/

[CorbinWarrick]

Wow a Home Depot with apartments on top of it??

[PhillyPDX]

Explains the test borings on the site recently.

[uncommon.name]

Very interesting location for a Home Depot.

[MarkDaMan]

($)https://www.oregonlive.com/business/...yd-center.html

Home Depot, apartments proposed at parking lot near Lloyd Center
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022, 2:49 p.m.|Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 2:26 p.m.


An architectural rendering of what the new Home Depot and residential building may look like. Developers have acquired a previously empty parking lot across from the Lloyd Center for the project.

By Adriana Gutierrez | The Oregonian/OregonLive

A parking lot near the Lloyd Center mall could soon make way for a Home Depot and a residential building, according to city filing.

The project to repurpose the 7-acre parking lot at 1380 N.E. Multnomah St. in Portland is in early stages. The city’s Bureau of Development Services received a pre-application filing on Thursday. The project could go on to be built as proposed, change dramatically, or never be built at all.

City bureaus will review the proposal and make recommendations for how the project could meet city regulations before presenting the recommendations to the applicant at a meeting tentatively scheduled for Sept. 15.

The Home Depot would include a garden center and be built with an unspecified number of apartments and other ground-floor retail stores facing Northeast Multnomah Boulevard. Developers have not disclosed the number of housing units proposed.

A parking deck would be built atop the Home Depot, behind the housing units, and an underground parking garage would house a total 727 vehicles. The building would be about 80 feet high at its tallest point, according to Ross Caron, section manager for Portland’s Bureau of Development Services.

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[MarkDaMan]

^Other renderings from the Oregonian article.

[pdxsg34]

Interesting. Those south-facing apartment units will have a beautiful view of the parking lot and freeway. On one hand, its sad the Byline didn't work out, on the other, kinda nice having an HD so close (im in inner NE) rather than having to go to Beaverton or 122nd. IMHO, i wish they just demolished the entire lloyd center and made it all res, but i wish.

[CorbinWarrick]

Wow this can’t be real. This is terrible. This looks like a suburban plan not something that’s such an urban oriented area. Byline proposal was waaaay better

[Derek]

What a waste. Perfect location for a high density transit oriented project and we’re going to end up with this garbage.

[MarkDaMan]

It's time to renew, expand and update our urban renewal districts and untie the PDC, errr, Prosper Portland from City Council politics. With some inducements, we could support our developers in building a better development than this uninspired Home Depot, with 700+ parking spaces, no solar, no trees, an uninspired landscraper attachment, and where most residential views are parking.

There is no coordinating vision for the Lloyd District. In a city that loves planning it shouldn't be that difficult to engage the land owners of the large lots to create a neighborhood that could rival the Pearl. The inattention from City Hall is just madness. Are they really going to allow the Lloyd, that has the potential to be the neighborhood with the largest private developer investments outside of the CBD, to flounder and have its land squandered for things like this?

[2oh1]

I have to assume this is a concept an intern spent an hour whipping up. It can't be real.



The parking garage faces the park, rather than the apartments. What the WHUT? The apartments face an ugly-as-sin mall which is failing and will most likely get torn down someday. And as if that's not bad enough, the apartments are pushed away from mass transit instead of toward it. This whole thing is filled to the brim with the richness of GRIM.

This isn't just bad. It's bad to the point where anyone involved should be embarrassed by it. Obviously, the site comes with some challenges, but still... wow.

WOW.

[MarkDaMan]

^+1

[urbanlife]

My money is on it will look completely different or will not be built at all. This first attempt just looks poorly thought out, which tends to go over like a rancid fart in an elevator.

[maccoinnich]

This is a non-starter. The design doesn’t even begin to address the zoning code standards or design guidelines for superblocks.

[PhillyPDX]

This is such a weird area ripe with crazy potential, with the obvious utterly massive elephant in the room being the mall. What direction that goes has obvious huge repercussions of the choice of and success for what will work on this lot.

Assuming the current mall owner isn't bad with money, that site will be razed which will open the entire area for a concerted neighborhood development like slabtown, probably even better. Hopefully soon, because it's dead money at this point. Well, I did see an article last week about a record store being savior of the mall. Haha....

[CorbinWarrick]

Originally Posted by PhillyPDX

This is such a weird area ripe with crazy potential, with the obvious utterly massive elephant in the room being the mall. What direction that goes has obvious huge repercussions of the choice of and success for what will work on this lot.

Assuming the current mall owner isn't bad with money, that site will be razed which will open the entire area for a concerted neighborhood development like slabtown, probably even better. Hopefully soon, because it's dead money at this point. Well, I did see an article last week about a record store being savior of the mall. Haha....

Lloyd center will never be razed. Somehow it always survives. It’s been dead for years, made it thru a devastating pandemic and yet it’s still here. The new owners are even planning to “revitalizing” it with new ideas. Quite frankly, good for Lloyd Center. Ppl have been predicting it’s demise to be demolished for years now and it’s still breathing

[winstonLT5]

Originally Posted by 2oh1

I have to assume this is a concept an intern spent an hour whipping up. It can't be real.



The parking garage faces the park, rather than the apartments. What the WHUT? The apartments face an ugly-as-sin mall which is failing and will most likely get torn down someday. And as if that's not bad enough, the apartments are pushed away from mass transit instead of toward it. This whole thing is filled to the brim with the richness of GRIM.

This isn't just bad. It's bad to the point where anyone involved should be embarrassed by it. Obviously, the site comes with some challenges, but still... wow.

WOW.

Intern? How about an office temp with a bad attitude...

[MNTimberjack]

I'm afraid of "compromise" on this project where the apartments wrap along 13th, but then are lower in height.