I can now report that PAW casts a shadow on the west end of Departure at about 6:30-6:45 PM. I was going to get a picture of that, but was too engrossed in a conversation with two girls I met from northern England to do so. :-D
Unfinished Park Avenue West Tower signs another office tenant
Washington Trust Bank said Friday it had signed a lease for the 18th floor of the under-construction Park Avenue West Tower in downtown Portland.
The new lease is the first for the previously recession-stalled tower since work restarted in October, kick-started by a lease from law firm Stoel Rives. The 30-story building will comprise 13 floors of office, two of retail and 15 of high-end apartments.
The Spokane-based bank will be moving its Oregon regional headquarters from the Public Service Building on Southwest Sixth Avenue. It's more than doubling its space, from 7,500 square feet to 15,725 square feet.
There was a core bump a few days ago. The top of the work platform is at 361 feet. The building is at about 72% to final height and 79% to roof height. PAW didn't surpass any other buildings in height this week, but the next bump will be noteworthy. :-D
Construction on Portland's Park Avenue West Tower reaches 20 stories poking through Portland's skyline (photos & video)
Portland's best-known unfinished skyscraper is starting to take shape. Eventually the 30-story building will be about 500 feet tall, with two floors of retail, 15 of high-end apartments and 13 of offices covering 474,000 square feet of space. The structure is expected to reach its full height near the beginning of next year and open in 2016. When finished, it will be the fourth-tallest building in Portland.
After the recession forced a hiatus of more than four years, construction on the Park Avenue West Tower, which sits between Park Avenue and 9th, started again at the beginning of 2014. On Wednesday, workers started to erect the steel frame of the tower, and its concrete core — the backbone that will contain its elevators and utilities — had reached 10 stories high.
"On Wednesday, workers started to erect the steel frame of the tower, and its concrete core — the backbone that will contain its elevators and utilities — had reached 10 stories high."
-August 28, 2014 at 4:00 PM, updated August 28, 2014 at 5:34 PM
Actually we jack the crane up around the mid section, and add 20' sections to the tower one at a time. The next scheduled jump will take place on Saturday and Sunday the 13 & 14 of September. Feel free to come down to the Park and watch it is pretty cool if you've never seen it in person.
Why Park Avenue West is seeking both LEED and Green Globes certification
In a nutshell: It’s about the tenant.
TMT Development is pursuing dual green certification for its 30-story Park Avenue West tower, now under construction at 729 S.W. Ninth Ave., a block west of Nordstrom.
Dual certification is a relative rarity but TMTs decision is further evidence of how far the Portland-based Green Building Institute has come in winning acceptance for its rating system since the U.S. General Services Administration approved it for federal ratings purposes.
The height is not right in that render. In reality, it's a little shorter. Here is a very crude edit. (I didn't feel like going into photoshop to do a proper clone job)
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