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The Portland Design Commission on Thursday reviewed three mixed-use projects, approving two and offering design advice for the other.

Commissioners unanimously approved both Carleton Hart Architecture‘s design for Miracles Central, a six-story, mixed-use building at 1306 N.E. Second Ave., and SERA Architects‘ design for the Goose Hollow Apartments, a six-story, mixed-use building at 1501 S.W. Taylor St. They also advised the YBA Architects design team working on Front 17, a two-building development at 2030 N.W. 17th Ave.

Thursday’s meeting was the second design review hearing for the Miracles Central affordable housing development. Crews with general contractor LMC Construction are scheduled to break ground in May 2015 on the $7.8 million project led by the Miracles Club, a nonprofit that supports individuals recovering from addiction, said Ben White, design director at Carleton Hart Architecture.

The Miracles Club is partnering with Central City Concern and Guardian Real Estate Services to build the new permanent housing complex that will cater to individuals recovering from alcohol and drug dependency. Plans call for 47 residential units over a community room and peer mentoring services on the ground floor. The units will be available to people earning 50 to 60 percent of the area’s median family income via $7 million in tax increment financing from the Portland Housing Bureau.

The L-shaped building will have a courtyard on the northeast corner, loading space on Northeast Second Avenue and bike parking spaces on all floors.

Design commissioners were pleased with minor design revisions made since they previously reviewed the project in October, White said.

鈥淲e really simplified the forms and materials (and) really simplified the massing,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e were looking at some of the details more so than the composition. They all complimented the changes we’d made.鈥�

Meanwhile, the SERA Architects design team returned for a second design review hearing for the Goose Hollow Apartments after seeking approval in October for a new mixed-use building between 1501 and 1517 S.W. Taylor St.

Langley Investment Properties earlier this year purchased a 15,262-square-foot office building at 1501 S.W. Taylor St. for $2.6 million and announced plans to demolish it and develop multifamily housing.

Plans submitted to the city call for 121 apartments, approximately 900 square feet of commercial space, a roof deck and 65 below-grade parking spaces. Exterior materials will include concrete, stucco, fiber cement panel, black vinyl windows, a black aluminum storefront and steel garage doors.

As for Front 17, commissioners in a three-hour discussion issued overwhelmingly positive comments on YBA Architects’ design, city planner Mark Walwood said.

The project involves redevelopment of an industrial site at 2030 N.W. 17th Ave. into a mixed-use complex with two six-story buildings 鈥� one with residential units and the other with offices. The residential building will have 220 apartments and 14,714 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The second building will hold 53,039 square feet of office space and 3,506 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

The design team is planning to next seek design review approval, but hasn’t scheduled a hearing yet, Walwood said.