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The Portland Design Commission on Tuesday gave conditional approval for design of a building planned on Block 8L in Old Town Chinatown.

Construction of the Gerding Edlen project is scheduled to begin next week, according to Kara Fioravanti with the Portland Bureau of Development Services. When completed, the mixed-use building will house Ankrom Moisan Architects‘ Portland office.

The $37 million, six-story building will occupy three-quarters of the block at the corner of Northwest First Avenue and Davis Street.

The firm will occupy about 40,000 square feet of space on the third and fourth floors. The 141,000-square-foot building will also have approximately 4,800 square feet of ground-floor retail space, 20,000 square feet of office space on the second floor and 65 units of workforce housing on the fifth and sixth floors.

The L-shaped building will have a courtyard that wraps around the back. No vehicle parking spots are planned, but 109 long-term bike parking spaces and 12 short-term bike parking spaces are.

The commission approved an alternative bicycle parking design that does not meet city code. Code requires that each long-term bike space measure 2 feet by 6 feet, but the design commission approved an alternate design in which bikes in long-term parking will be wall-mounted on 27-inch hooks spaced 18 inches on center with a vertical 6-inch stagger.

A building was erected on the site in the 1880s to serve as the headquarters for Northern Pacific Railroad and Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. That building was demolished in the 1930s, and the site is currently used as a surface parking lot.