Portland Infill | Northwest Portland

[zilfondel]

Sweet! Sweet! Sweet!

This is all great news - it's like Christmas all over again!

Perhaps we should have a meet over burgers once the Hungry Tiger Too opens? That'd be kind of cool...

And the fact that backbridgestation & the bakery development are continuing is just awesome for the Mississippi neighborhood & Nopo.

From what I've learned recently of the development industry, most new projects don't really get started at the end of the year... they just go dormant until the beginning of the new year due to accounting & time schedules of gettin' stuff done. This explains why a lot of projects enter 'limbo' status during Fall & Winter...

[MarkDaMan]

Brewery Blocks, than Montgomery Blocks, now Bakery Blocks...Is this like the NoPo, SoWa, NoLo, LoBu?

[der Reisender]

Found this on the Myhre Group site whilst bored at work, called City Plaza. Will be mixed use with office, retail, and 90 affordable housing units. I can't for the life of me figure out where this will be though...has anybody heard of it?

[bvpcvm]

found it. i'm such a nerd.

i noticed it's on a 4-lane street, and based on the shadows i figured it must be oriented N-S. then i just checked for locations on major N-S streets with an L-shaped building with a white roof facing the NE corner of the block opposite (based on the "bird's eye" view). the apparent street grid had me confused; spent a long time looking around gateway. ah, google earth!

so here you go - large vacant lot at 181st just N of Burnside:

[der Reisender]

wow, i'm impressed you were able to find it! impressed too to see this level of density and what appears to be pretty decent design so very far out. hope to see this built sometime

[sirsimon]

That *is* impressive! You gave it far more thought than I did. I just thought, "hmmm, I wonder if this design is intended for Portland or somewhere else."

[Urbanpdx]

Wow, that is great detective work. I thought I was good at that stuff but I am humbled.

[der Reisender]

was out biking for several hours today and found the poetically named 'Sophia's View' project, located off of Macadam on SW Seymour Court. Though the name is painful, it looks like it will be a pretty decent little project altogther...plus they have broken ground and are stirring up mud as we speak

[Dougall5505]

dang beat me too it i took those same pictures today!

[mcbaby]

very interesting.. will there be bioswales?

[sirsimon]

^ Not bad. In the renderings it makes me think of 1980s "futuristic". It will be interesting to see what the finished product looks like. I love buildings that are built on a hill.

[zilfondel]

CTLH neighborhood is going to be quite the dense, mid-to-low rise neighborhood...

[der Reisender]

mcbaby, i have no idea about bioswales. the website didn't offer much info about it. my biggest concern about the site itself was connectivity. it backs up to the hill on a dead-end road off macadam, though the renderings make it look like they might connect to Corbett and people will be able to walk then

[zilfondel]

^^^ Wouldn't ADA make that illegal tho? If you create a pedestrian connection it's illegal if it doesn't meet ADA, although stairways can be used outdoors as a shortcut, as long as there is also a ramp or elevator that provides access.

[der Reisender]

so i looked in more detail at the condo building on their website (www.sophiasview.com). the floor plan details show that the lobby will be on the 2nd floor, with a little entry area fronting onto Corbett connected by 3-4 steps and what looks like a ramp. meant to post the link sooner, but i spaced on it

[der Reisender]

on another note, the Trib ran this in the paper today:

SOUTHWEST
Watershed’s in progress

Work has started in earnest on the Watershed, the mixed-use development in the Bertha Triangle in Hillsdale.

The project is being built by the nonprofit Community Partners for Affordable Housing Inc. at the intersection of Southwest Capitol Highway, Bertha Court and Bertha Boulevard.

When finished, the project will offer 51 units of rental housing for seniors, with 40 of them available to those with incomes at or below 30 percent of median income, currently $15,270 per year. The project also will include a 2,000-square-foot community center along with market-rate office and commercial space.

The Watershed features several green-building techniques, including rooftop plantings and an energy-efficient gas heating system. Landscaping will include native plants, and storm water will be stored and treated to help maintain water quality in local creeks’ watersheds.

[tworivers]

According to http://www.worksarchitecture.net, Bside6 is scheduled to begin construction as expected in "early spring 2007", and even the Yamhill building is listed as starting "early 2007".

Previous Bside6 discussion here.
I am salivating. I hope this is a harbinger of things to come in PDX.

[MarkDaMan]

Bside6 is probably in my top 3 most anticipated projects.

[zilfondel]

Like I said before, most projects don't get started until the beginning of the year...

[WonderlandPark]

Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

Bside6 is probably in my top 3 most anticipated projects.

Same here, drive by it on the way to work every day and keep hoping to see a backhoe or something parked there ready to dig.