Central Eastside News

[MarkDaMan]

We were just talking about this in the other thread. Since when did the Central Eastside become the Produce Row District?

Sep 17, 2013, 8:45am PDT UPDATED: Sep 17, 2013, 10:53am PDT
Coaxis changes name, expands HQ near OMSI
Erik Siemers
Managing editor-
Portland Business Journal

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog...?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2013-09-17

The software company once known as Coaxis on Tuesday said it will now go by the name of its primary product, Viewpoint Construction Software, and plans to expand its headquarters along Portland's Produce Row district.

[Photogeric]

Good news for the Burnside Bridgehead Project?

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog...rnside-bridgehead-finally-notches-a.html

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

We were just talking about this in the other thread. Since when did the Central Eastside become the Produce Row District?

Sep 17, 2013, 8:45am PDT UPDATED: Sep 17, 2013, 10:53am PDT
Coaxis changes name, expands HQ near OMSI
Erik Siemers
Managing editor-
Portland Business Journal

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog...?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2013-09-17

It hasn't become Produce Row District, in actuality the Produce Row District is a network within the Central Eastside.
Produce Row District

[MarkDaMan]

Meet The Dumbbell
Guerrilla Development hopes to use crowdfunding to finance its next eye-catching pOrtland project
Wendy Culverwell
Real Estate Daily editor- Portland Business Journal

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2013/10/04/meet-the-dumbbell.html

One of Portland’s most innovative developers is literally gift wrapping his latest project and hand delivering it to local investors, $100 at a time.

Kevin Cavenaugh’s Guerrilla Development developed The Burnside Rocket, one of the east side’s most eye catching projects. Now Guerrilla wants to construct a pair of box-like creative office buildings linked by sky-bridges on a sliver of land at the Burnside Bridgehead.

Guerrilla is under contract to buy the site from the Portland Development Commission.

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Cavenaugh is teaming with Fundrise, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that uses crowdfunding-like techniques to raise capital for neighborhood-scale real estate projects.

Fundrise co-founder Dan Miller has been looking for a project in Portland and found it in Guerrilla’s plan, dubbed “The Dumbbell” for the shape of its footprint.

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[bvpcvm]

Not sure if this project has been mentioned before - 419 E Burnside, on the site of an old car dealership that I'll be thrilled to see go.

East Portland property snatched up for multifamily project

Texas-based Trinsic Residential Group is planning to purchase and redevelop the former Falcon auto lot at 419 E. Burnside St. Red Hills Holdings, a Portland-based private equity firm, purchased the site in April and flipped it within months; however, the buyer's identity wasn't released immediately.

Read more: http://djcoregon.com/news/2013/10/08/eas...p-for-multifamily-project/#ixzz2hBryU9bk

[Derek]

Ohhhh that's a fantastic location!

[Shilo Rune 96]

Larger image:

[pdxtraveler]

Yeah, that one has been on here. But that is the first decent rendering. I like it. That intersection is going to be amazing in a couple years. Though I really think the 21 story apartment at the bridgehead will drop to 13 as all the preapp stuff stresses the option to visibly. 13 still good in that area. Look for the positive!

[urbanlife]

I like this new rendering, I am really excited to see the East Burnside area really start building up more dense. Some height would be nice so that it could develop its own skyline, but the density along the street level is what is more important.

[2oh1]

I like the concept, but I really hate cartoonish renders. They do a poor job of reflecting what the completed building will actually look like. This could be a really good project though. And I'll echo urbanlife's comment about being excited to see more density coming to this part of east Burnside. Hooray for that!

[tworivers]

I like the concept, but I really hate cartoonish renders.

Amen. That one is like the Kmart of renderings.

Hoping that it's just preliminary, i.e. something between a massing study and a full rendering.

[BrG]

Just a view of the study model (most likely done in SketchUp). It's not 'rendered' at all. Very common state to be in, early. I would not take it too literally in terms of texures, lighting and finishes. Disregarding the method to create the study, from a design standpoint, the facades have quite a bit going on.

[MarkDaMan]

Nov 14, 2013, 10:50am PST
Who's the Dumbbell now? Burnside Bridgehead crowd-funding campaign is a win
Wendy Culverwell
Staff reporter-
Portland Business Journal

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog...na=e_ptl_real&s=newsletter&ed=2013-11-14

Portlanders really want to get involved with Guerrilla Development’s striking office project at the Burnside Bridgehead.

A crowdfunding campaign to raise equity for Kevin Cavenaugh’s $8.5 million Dumbbell project easily beat its $1.5 million goal this week.

The campaign is being conducted by Fundrise Inc., a Washington, D.C. firm that uses crowdfunding-like strategies to raise capital for unusual projects. It reached $1.72 million this week.

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Cavenaugh and his firm, Guerrilla, intends to construct a two-building project on a sliver of land at 333 E. Burnside St., at the Burnside Bridgehead.

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[zilfondel]

Kevin spoke earlier this year at PSU's architecture dept. Pretty funny guy - very interesting character.

[urbanlife]

Originally Posted by zilfondel

Kevin spoke earlier this year at PSU's architecture dept. Pretty funny guy - very interesting character.

Yeah he is, I ran into him and got to chat with him for a bit at my wife's niece's birthday party. He is definitely a really great guy, I love seeing people like him becoming bigger names in Portland.

[NJD]

http://vimeo.com/77603516

Guerrilla Development's Dumbbell video.

[Derek]

I envision the CEID looking like Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, with a healthy mix of light industrial and quirky mid rise buildings. That rendering looks awesome.

[maccoinnich]

Burnside Bridgehead: Designer's Disneyland

Portland's most adventurous architecture firms have imagine four new buildings for the crossroads of E Burnside Street and Grand Avenue.

Published Apr 2, 2014, 9:00am
By Randy Gragg



For more than three decades, Portland has painstakingly regulated the central city’s architecture, making decisions the way old-school Stumptowners choose their rain jackets: good fit and weather protection over style. Architects, much less developers, rarely challenged the practical, no-frills conformity. Until now. Three of the city’s most adventurous architecture firms have concocted a quartet of new buildings for the crossroads of E Burnside Street and Grand Avenue, or the “Burnside Bridgehead”—all destined to widen eyes and quicken the pulse.

Mayor Vera Katz first proposed aggressive new development at the bridgehead more than a decade ago. After buying up five contiguous blocks, the Portland Development Commission hatched three different major schemes for apartments, condos, and live-work spaces. (One plan, notoriously, called for a Home Depot.) None happened. The agency has been selling off the parcels, separately, to a trio of developers, leaving only the city’s Design Commission to oversee how future buildings might fit together.

...continues at Portland Monthly.

Also this, "developer Dennis Sakloff and Myhre Group Architects are readying yet another of the cheaply designed and built apartment blocks that have become that firm’s citywide signature, this one six stories and L-shaped." meowwww

[NewUrbanist]

"meowwww"

I actually gasped. Scathing critique of their work - which is very appropriate. They tend to design unremarkable buildings. Perhaps they are very affordable?

[bvpcvm]

whoever runs that awesome "places over time" blog has new info about the development at MLK and Burnside (419 E Burnside).