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A mixed-use facility combining affordable housing with a community wellness center, primary care and behavioral health and wellness services for those suffering from mental illness, addiction, and homelessness is under construction in Northeast Portland.

The Garlington Center is being built by Colas Construction for Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare on a 1.41-acre site on Northeast Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. between Northeast Morris and Monroe streets. Scott | Edwards Architecture is the designer of the project.

Crews with Timber Technologies are installing wall panels fabricated offsite on the housing building, which will have four floors of wood framing on a slab-on-grade foundation. It will contain 52 residential units with studios, one- and two-bedroom floor plans. The two-story wellness center is steel and wood framed, also with a slab-on-grade foundation.

Engineers on the project are ABHT Structural Engineering, Interface Engineering, and Janet Turner Engineering, and 2.Ink Studio is serving as the landscape architect. Completion is slated for February 2018 on the housing portion of the project, and work on the clinic is expected to wrap the following month.