Central Eastside News - Page 5

PDX City-State · #81 Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 3:32 AM**

Nothing new here for us, but good to see someone's paying attention.

Damn! Check This Building Out!
Willamette Week
March 8, 2007
Mike Thelin

Lower East Burnside is about to be stunned and shocked, but mostly just straight prettified. Next door to the Plaid Pantry on a once cracked-out corner along the busy thoroughfare, a spankin’ new seven-story building will rise from an empty lot later this spring. Designed by Portland’s Works Architecture Partnership, Bside6 may be tiny, but doesn't it look cool as all hell?

With a pocket-sized footprint of 3,800 square feet, Bside6 is dinky as commercial buildings go, covering less ground than an average residential lot in Portland (5,000 feet). Its north face will showcase a number of protruding glass bays that extend eight feet over the sidewalk, forming a dialogue with the arcades of existing historic buildings along the street. Their dispersed placement creates an asymmetrical pattern that appears to diminish the larger facade of the building, as Bside6 is a bit taller than anything around it, for now. If the PDC’s long-stalled dinosaur, the Burnside Bridgehead Mega-Complex Super Center, ever breaks ground, buildings as tall as 20 stories may pop up several blocks to the west.

The ground level of the building is slated for retail space, and Works Principal Bill Neburka says it’s well suited for a local fashion retailer or similar merchant. A number of the office spaces are already leased.

Certainly one of the most courageous pieces of pending Eastside PDX architecture, B-Side 6 will likely also be one of the most visible. Not only will you see it from various Westside vantage points, more than 40,000 cars pass the busy corner each day.

Snowden352 · #82 Posted **Mar 10, 2007, 10:58 PM**

Just found on Colab's website some images of the old BEAM proposal for the Burnside Bridgehead I hadn't seen before.

If only...

http://www.colabarchitecture.com/urb...Bridgehead.htm

pdxman · #83 Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 4:12 AM**

Those are some sweet renderings...

mcbaby · #84 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 12:13 PM**

too bad the pdc had to quelch the voice of the people.

der Reisender · #85 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 3:21 PM**

what exactly is the holdup on the bridgehead anyway?

MarkDaMan · #86 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 3:24 PM**

^PDC wasn't expecting it to start until fall 2008 so I don't think it is even behind schedule.

PDX City-State · #87 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 4:25 PM**

Originally they had hinted at breaking ground in early 2006. Reasons for the stall have been attributed to Opus.

CouvScott · #88 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 4:59 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by PDX City-State

Originally they had hinted at breaking ground in early 2006. Reasons for the stall have been attributed to Opus.

Well, if they would take a break from building lifestyle centers for a while...

tworivers · #89 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 5:03 PM**

Aren't they also unable to proceed until the couplet plans are finalized? I thought that was part of the reason that the eastside couplet segment was originally given the go-ahead before the westside. Though now it seems like
Adams has unified them again??

PDX City-State · #90 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 5:06 PM**

I heard they were squaking about the traffic flows and said they would break ground once the Couplet was approved. In reality, they're probably retooling a bit as their proposal was heavy on residential. The residential market is a bit softer and may be softer yet in two years once build out is complete. I wouldn't be surprised if their adding more small-tenant industrial space--that's stuff's pretty hot on the Eastside right now.

MarkDaMan · #91 Posted **Mar 15, 2007, 5:41 PM**

According to the PDC they have been negotiating leases in the Convention Plaza Building up until December 2007. The funding commitments aren't even schedule to be in place until later this year, with construction beginning mid 2008. In some of their earlier paperwork it did say they preferred construction to begin no later than 2007, but that was changed during the RFP I believe.

latest plan update:
http://www.pdc.us/pdf/ura/central_ea...date-sheet.pdf

65MAX · #92 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 7:47 AM**

This is AMAZING!!!! Another Portland first..... Thanks to Zilfondel for bringing this to our attention.

http://portlandcitystorage.com/index.html and the Land Use Review

bgwah · #93 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 9:03 AM**

Very interesting.

pdxskyline · #94 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 1:58 PM**

Not only are these things useful, they're really really gorgeous!

On the first picture, the taller tower reflects Downtown, but the shorter one's reflecting some red Smith Tower-looking thing. Something at SOWA in the works?

AJphx · #95 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 2:59 PM**

thats awesome. im surprised places like new york havent done something like this already.

NW Mike · #96 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 3:26 PM**

That is Freaking Sweet!!
I've never seen a storage Facility like that...Oh my god, I want it

WonderlandPark · #97 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 3:30 PM**

Looks like a car is coming down one of those ramps into the river.

Like I said before:

drool, please build this

NW Mike · #98 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 3:32 PM**

or a silver bayliner

65MAX · #99 Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 3:39 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WonderlandPark

Looks like a car is coming down one of those ramps into the river.

That's what I thought at first, but it's a ski boat being backed down the ramp (or going bow-first up the ramp). Just like you would with a boat trailer.

Dougall5505 · #**100** Posted **Mar 17, 2007, 4:42 PM**

amazing. first storage tower in the united states?