Eleven West | 291' | 24 floors | Complete

[innovativethinking]

Originally Posted by MarkDaMan

Rumor has it that it will be a 4 story apartment tower! *wink*wink*

Hahaha

[maccoinnich]

On Design Commission agenda for August 31st:

The proposal is for a new half-block, 24-story, 291’ tall mixed-use building in the West End Sub-area and Downtown Sub-district of the Central City Plan District. Proposal consists of approximately 7,500 square feet of ground floor retail, 110,000 square feet of office/retail (levels 2-7), 222 market-rate apartments (levels 8-24), and 260 below-grade auto parking spaces.

[QAtheSky]

This small part of town is becoming a really interesting mix of mostly 3-5 story buildings with these 20ish story projects jutting out of it.

[maccoinnich]

Request for Response

[cityscapes]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Request for Response

Why do the plans start at a height of 67' feet it makes the tower look like its 360 something feet tall rather than 291?

[AdamUrbanist]

Level 1 is at 69'-4". Subtract that from 367 and you're just about there.

[eric cantona]

Originally Posted by cityscapes

Why do the plans start at a height of 67' feet it makes the tower look like its 360 something feet tall rather than 291?

67' is the elevation above sea level, presumably.

[cityscapes]

Originally Posted by eric cantona

67' is the elevation above sea level, presumably.

I'm aware of that, my question is why they start the plans at height above sea level rather than 0.

[AdamNorthwest]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Request for Response

It seems promising. Does anyone have any background info on 11 West? Was it always supposed to be the larger sibling to 12 West? Was it sidelined by the recession?

[Socinus]

Originally Posted by cityscapes

I'm aware of that, my question is why they start the plans at height above sea level rather than 0.

Since there is slope to the site it does allow us to better compare the scale of the building to those near it which are at different elevations.

[pdxtraveler]

I wonder how the slow down in demand for the upper price point apartments will effect this? Especially since Goodman has the Ash St project going as well.

[MarkDaMan]

24-story tower with swimming pool planned for downtown Portland's West End
Updated on July 22, 2017 at 7:57 AM Posted on July 22, 2017 at 7:04 AM
By Anna Marum amarum@oregonian.com
The Oregonian/OregonLive

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...art_river_home

Twelve West – the downtown Portland tower crowned with windmills – is getting a sister.

At 24 stories, Eleven West will be slightly taller, and bronze instead of silver, but both towers will share an architect and developer.

In the past several years, the Goodman family's Downtown Development Group has capitalized on the city's influx of new workers and residents by starting to develop the many parking lots it owns. In Portland's West End, the half-block along Washington Street between 11th and 12th avenues, is one of the last remaining empty lots in the trendy neighborhood.

Over the next three years, the Eleven West site – now half parking lot, half grass and dirt – will be transformed into a 225-unit apartment tower with 110,000 square feet of office space, ground-floor retail and four levels of underground parking.

Developer Greg Goodman says the building also will feature an outdoor swimming pool on the eighth level, which will extend over the adjacent building occupied by Tasty & Alder, 150 feet in the air. Instead of windmills, the roof will offer a deck, complete with a chef's kitchen for events.

Though the development will cover up the horizontal mural of a woman's face near 12th Avenue, Goodman said ZGF Architects has gone to great lengths – cutting back the building's façade – so the "Capax Infiniti" mural on 11th Avenue, depicting a woman standing in a dress, is still visible.

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[bvpcvm]

This sounds really cool.

[58rhodes]

real nice addition to that area

[2oh1]

Hopefully, it'll go through some revisions. This side looks like a mess to me, especially the bottom third where parts of it stick out for no apparent rhyme or reason.



I don't know. The whole thing looks clunky and dirty to me.



I sure will be glad to see something like this built on that lot - I just hope some revisions improve it, and I suspect they will.

[58rhodes]

looks pretty good to me--hope it stays just the way it is

[RainDog]

Originally Posted by 2oh1

Hopefully, it'll go through some revisions. This side looks like a mess to me, especially the bottom third where parts of it stick out for no apparent rhyme or reason.

I agree. That part of the building looks a bit sloppy. It looks to be about the 8th story... perhaps that is where the "outdoor" pool is supposed to be?

[MarkDaMan]

Originally Posted by RainDog

I agree. That part of the building looks a bit sloppy. It looks to be about the 8th story... perhaps that is where the "outdoor" pool is supposed to be?

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/i...art_river_home

Originally Posted by Oregonian

Developer Greg Goodman says the building also will feature an outdoor swimming pool on the eighth level, which will extend over the adjacent building occupied by Tasty & Alder, 150 feet in the air. Instead of windmills, the roof will offer a deck, complete with a chef's kitchen for events.

[maccoinnich]

Notice of a Public Hearing

[maccoinnich]

Staff Report, which does not yet recommend approval (for technical, not design, reasons) and drawings [138 MB].