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Sometimes I drive around Portland, see a crane or a big hole in the ground, and I say to myself: “I sure do wonder what is going in there!”

That happened to me recently as I drove by some construction on the southwest corner of Northeast 24^th Avenue and Glisan Street. Recently a sign went up in front of that lot that would seem to answer all my questions鈥攂ut it just raised more.

It’s the Glee Apartments!

The Glee Apartment building is one of many small, market-rate apartment projects going up right now in response to the high demand for rental housing in our fair city. It will have 33 units of studio, one- and two-bedroom units.

The Glee Apartments聽 are being built and developed by WDC Properties. There will be no parking spaces provided for residents, but each unit will come with 鈥渙ne and a half to two bike parking stalls,鈥� said Construction Manager Rich Grimes.

The project is located right across the street from the megablock where the Voodoo Doughnut’s “” and Kevin Cavenaugh’s “Ocean” are slated to soon open, each with their own inspired name choices.

To be fair, the Glee! Apartments name comes from the project’s location on Glisan Street, said Grimes. (Get it?) A smaller WDC Project on Southeast 11^th Avenue and Lincoln Street is going to be called 鈥淟ink,鈥� according to the same naming style.

I still have hopes, however mundane the true origins of the Glee name are, that the Glee Apartments will be a magical place where suspiciously old high schoolers wear crisp, colorful clothes and worry fervently about making it to regionals.