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Burnside Living, a 132-unit senior living community, is being developed by the Foursquare Foundation of Los Angeles. The project is part of a move by the church to develop some of its underused property into senior housing. has worked with the church before, and is looking forward to the $29 million Portland project, principal Manny Gonzalez said.

鈥淎rchitecture in Portland has a very contemporary feel,鈥� he said. That suits senior housing, because 鈥渁ctive adults don鈥檛 want to move into the same kind of house their grandmother moved into. There鈥檚 a tendency to get away from traditional toward the more contemporary.鈥�

The building鈥檚 design is indeed contemporary 鈥� the large, multi-use space will have rooftop gardens, a courtyard and lots of daylighting, Gonzalez said.

One of the design challenges has been to create a building that relates to a busy commercial street 鈥� Burnside 鈥� on one side, and to a residential street 鈥� Ankeny 鈥� on the other. To respect that transition, KTGY Group has designed the building to be six stories along Burnside and decrease to four stories near the homes.

鈥淭he building is designed to create an urban edge on one side and respect neighborhood massing on the other,鈥� Gonzalez said.

Presently, the site is a parking lot for a nearby Foursquare church building. Some of that parking will be maintained in an underground lot, but on-site parking will be established for residents and street parking will accommodate planned ground-floor retail. Gonzalez believes a caf茅 or hair salon, in particular, would appeal to Burnside Living residents.

So far, the only other firm signed on to the project is KPFF Consulting Engineers, but Gonzalez said that KTGY Group will seek more local consultants and a local general contractor. KTGY Group plans to begin construction in spring 2012 and complete the project within 18 months.

Other design team members at KTGY Group include Laurel Gillette, studio director; Alan Scales, studio director and project designer; and Keith McCloskey, project manager.聽

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