Wow, I used to wonder what this would look like back in 2006 when I was waiting at the streetcar stop to go to college. Great to finally see something happen with this site.

Drawings [43 MB] and Staff Report for a project at the SW Corner of Intersection: NW 17th Avenue and NW Couch Street

I have to say, I am a sucker for these small lot infill buildings that mimic old school brick apartment buildings.

Couple updates:

Early Assistance for 2631 NW Upshur St (currently the Elysian Garden Apartments at NW Upshur, between 26th & 27th):
Permits are now under review at 2375 NW Savier St (former US Post Office site) for the "Thesis Office Building":

The Dove Lewis Expansion at 1947 NW Overton St is now under review:
The Pettygrove Apartments at 1910 NW Pettygrove St (19th & Pettygrove) are now Approved to Issue:
Building permits were issued in early June for the North 18 Apartments at 1784 NW Northrup St:

A rendering in the Portland Business Journal (subscription needed) of the upcoming Thesis headquarters in NW Portland, 2350 NW Savier. To be completed 2023. A nice replacement for the post office :)

https://www.bizjournals.com/portland...dquarters.html


Screen Shot 2022-08-27 at 3.37.16 PM by Ryan Miller, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2022-08-27 at 3.42.23 PM by Ryan Miller, on Flickr

Just realized pdxsg34 posted a link to this rendering above... anyway it'll be a nice addition!

The small wooden office complex burned last year.

https://www.portlandmaps.com/detail/...did/?p=R198616

The Northbound 30 Collaborative project on NW 29th/30th & Nicolai has several buildings currently under review, Additional renderings here: Link, Link:
There is also Early Assistance across the street to the east at 2142-2150 NW 29th Ave:

Sera is the applicant... :sleep:

Notice of a Pre-Application Conference for 425 NW 23RD AVE

Drawings [20 MB] for the adaptive reuse / addition to the former Northwest Cultural Center at 1819 NW Everett.

Personally, I don't care for the design of the new building at all, but think the plans for the historic building show a lot of potential.

Not what I was expecting at all. A fairly large spa in the Cultural Center and a social "Club/Event Space" on the upper floors? I'm dying to know what flag the hotel will carry. Only 80 rooms and looks high end. I don't love the new hotel building but I think the neighborhood will approve.

The hotel rendering:

http://i.imgur.com/CnIzYDyl.jpg

Just looking at the drawings and descriptions, this looks likely to be an Independant Boutique Hotel and the Cultural Center layout looks to be used primarily for event space/conference, which a lot of Downtown hotels feature. Definitely an interesting development that I'll be keeping an eye on. Founders Developments work on some pretty big projects.

Actually, NW Portland neighbors and planning committee folks at yesterday's DAR by the Landmarks Commission did not like the latest version of the new quarter-block hotel building nor did the City staff. So it is refreshing to know that the Landmarks Commission sent the architects back to the drawing board. Actually the designers had presented a more coherent new hotel design earlier in the summer, but the Landmarks Commission had requested a more prominent corner with an entrance at that location, so we can see how that made the design go off track.

I just saw this in the NW Examiner's October edition. I'm thinking this was the original hotel plan?

http://i.imgur.com/ns07ikNl.jpg
https://nwexaminer.com/

Yesterday was their first meeting in front of the Landmarks Commission. They must have made revisions based on what they heard (or thought they heard) from a planner.

Northwest has lots of great precedents for buildings with this approximate massing, and typically the entrance is at the center of the most prominent facade. I know planners love celebrating a corner, but I don't think I can think of any historic buildings in Northwest with the entrance at the corner...?

I'm not sure what'd be considered historic, but these are a handful of old buildings: 1639 NW Glisan, 1640 NW Irving, 1700 NW Marshall, 1801 NW Northrup, 431 NW 21st, 1201 NW 21st, 1400 NW 22nd, 2300 NW Thurman, 333 NW 23rd, 638 NW 23rd, 701 NW 23rd, 801 NW 23rd, 831 NW 23rd, 950 NW 23rd, 1001 NW 23rd, 1137 NW 23rd, 1438 NW 23rd, 1848 NW 23rd, 2390 NW Quimby, 1900 NW 27th.

I didn't make it through the entire list on a Google Maps tour of Northwest, but the first half is mostly streetcar era retail buildings, which is a pretty different typology than what I was talking about. Admittedly, there aren't a lot of old apartment buildings in Northwest with ground floor retail (even on NW 21st, the 4/5 story apartment buildings mostly have residential units at the ground floor), but the whole treatment of that corner is pretty hard to find a precedent for in the district.

...continues at the Building on History.