Portland State University (PSU) Development News - Page 22

urbanlife · #**421** Posted **Nov 21, 2010, 7:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by bvpcvm

So, maybe I missed something here, but are they tearing down the Candlelight and Budget rent a car right now? I thought this wasn't supposed to get underway for another year or so.

As of today, nothing has closed or come down. This is basically in my neighborhood, and I have yet to see anything with this, which is why it surprised me to hear about this.

dintares · #**422** Posted **Nov 21, 2010, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by bvpcvm

So, maybe I missed something here, but are they tearing down the Candlelight and Budget rent a car right now? I thought this wasn't supposed to get underway for another year or so.

I work for the rental car company. They have already agreed to move and the city is in the process of finding new locations for both businesses. Employees at C.L. havent been happy with the alternate locations. I heard we were closing anywhere from 6 months to 2 years, so who knows. City has constantly been tearing up our parking lot (soil samples, underground gas tank locals, etc.)

2oh1 · #**423** Posted **Nov 21, 2010, 11:21 PM**

From The Candlelight Room page on barflymag.com, fyi:

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We have been serving Portlands finest music at the lowest price (free)for as long as I have owned the Bar. Since 1984. Amazes me. Tri-Met is going to be running the new Milwaukee line right down Lincoln street. This means the candlelight building, one day will be a passenger stop. As much as we promised Tri Met to serve their pasengers inside the bar and not let them "miss the bus", they declined our offer. So, It looks like at the end of 2012 the CandleLight building will be benches and trees for the train goers. That leaves just 2 YEARS!! So, until the "bus stops here" we will continue to play LIVE MUSIC, 7 Nites A WEEK, for your enjoyment!!! So, Put on your dancing shoes. Thanks Joe

Reviewed Anonymously by Joe on May 15, 2010, 5:29 pm

Sioux612 · #**424** Posted **Nov 22, 2010, 1:19 AM**

2oh1 · #**425** Posted **Nov 22, 2010, 8:09 AM**

The more I look at that picture, the more fascinated I become with that house! It's not even on a street anymore. Well, it's probably more of an office than a house, really.

WestCoast · #**426** Posted **Nov 23, 2010, 3:50 AM**

dude, that's cool, very nice.

Sioux612 · #**427** Posted **Dec 2, 2010, 5:43 AM**

I was down by PSU today and this building still strikes me as one of the ugliest 10+ floor buildings I've ever seen in my life. EVER. I know College Station is going up around this atrocity but I really wish the school had some sort of plan for this building. At least re-clad the building!

bvpcvm · #**428** Posted **Dec 2, 2010, 6:32 AM**

i've lived in this building - twice. it is truly awful. and unless things have changed, it's overrun with cockroaches.

zilfondel · #**429** Posted **Dec 3, 2010, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sioux612

I was down by PSU today and this building still strikes me as one of the ugliest 10+ floor buildings I've ever seen in my life. EVER. I know College Station is going up around this atrocity but I really wish the school had some sort of plan for this building. At least re-clad the building!

I think that concrete is structural. So technically its not clad at all.

They did renovate the first floor, which is like 12 feet off the street level on the downhill side. Much worse (and would be renovatable) is the movie theatre on the NE corner of the block. Its horribly screwed-up architecture needs a remodel.

nobody · #**430** Posted **Dec 3, 2010, 7:04 AM**

I look at that building every day from my apartment. View killer, that one is.

urbanlife · #**431** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 2:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

Daily Vanguard
College Station Apartments approved
When completed, 16-story building will house 900 students
By Catrice Stanley
Vanguard staff
Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Student housing at Portland State will dramatically increase in the coming year as the result of the Portland Design Commission’s approval for the College Station Apartments. The structure was approved on May 20 by a 4-1 vote.

The College Station Apartments will be a 16-story, 280-plus room multi-use building, and will encompass an entire block, according to an article in The Oregonian.

Located at 1965 SW Fifth Ave., the College Station Apartments will provide space for an additional 900 student beds. Currently, the PSU campus only has about 2,200 beds available for students.

From what I can tell, I would say this building can be considered as canceled because the little convenient store that has been sitting vacant on that spot currently has drywall guys installing drywall in the building...which explains why the wood handrail for the building had been fixed a few days earlier. Which originally I thought was an odd thing to do for a building to be torn down.

So out of the three possible buildings that could be built right in that area, it looks like only the one PSU is constructing going to happen any time soon, which the one PSU is building currently has the base of the crane installed and they are currently drilling the holes for the piles to be driven....which is a sound I am not looking forward to hearing....

zilfondel · #**432** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 3:51 AM**

They aren't going to do pile driving, they are using those screw piles. The auger is several stories tall.

65MAX · #**433** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 3:52 AM**

The picture with that article is wrong.... it's for the 1/4 block tower that goes where the old restaurant (convenience store??) is sitting vacant. But the article itself is correct, that building (where the crane is) is now under construction.

urbanlife · #**434** Posted **Jan 6, 2011, 6:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by zilfondel

They aren't going to do pile driving, they are using those screw piles. The auger is several stories tall.

Well that is good news, I was totally expecting to start hearing the piles being driven into the ground soon.

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Originally Posted by 65MAX

The picture with that article is wrong.... it's for the 1/4 block tower that goes where the old restaurant (convenience store??) is sitting vacant. But the article itself is correct, that building (where the crane is) is now under construction.

The photo looks accurate to me, I see the Broadway building in the background and the Cheerful Tortoise in the foreground. I think you are mistaken, I am saying that vacant convenient store is currently being renovated, thus means this building isn't happening. Unless it is common practice to add drywall to a building before knocking it down, but I seriously doubt that.

Nevermind, I got what you are saying...the article is about the building that is currently under construction, but the building in the photo is what isn't going to be built now...I saw the photo when I was going for an image to post with the statement and didn't read the article close enough to realize it was talking about a different building...which does that mean the kids at the Vanguard's proofreading department dropped the ball on that one?

zilfondel · #**435** Posted **Jan 7, 2011, 8:12 AM**

Pile augers - my pic

65MAX · #**436** Posted **Jan 15, 2011, 5:57 PM**

Crane going up today....

Nice to finally see a new crane downtown.

urbanlife · #**437** Posted **Jan 16, 2011, 9:04 PM**

Cranes up, can definitely see it from my house. This is going to be fun to watch go up over this next couple years. And yes, it is good to see a new crane going up in downtown finally to actually build something new.

philopdx · #**438** Posted **Jan 19, 2011, 3:00 PM**

Update from 01-16-2011:

urbanlife · #**439** Posted **Jan 20, 2011, 8:02 AM**

from the looks of it, the closed down convenient store has actually been converted into the construction office for this new building going up.

philopdx · #**440** Posted **Jan 23, 2011, 4:11 AM**

Update from Jan 21st, 2011: