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The Fair-Haired Dumbbell was built to evoke a reaction, so Guerrilla Development‘s Kevin Cavenaugh welcomes criticism of its unique design.

鈥淚t’s okay if you don’t like it, that’s the idea. It’s a what-the-[expletive] building,鈥� Cavenaugh said last week, while leading a tour of the project.

Andersen Construction has reached substantial completion on the $17.5 million project, which features five stories of heavy timber-framed creative office space over ground-floor retail. Painting of the building’s defining feature, a custom fa莽ade designed by Los Angeles-based artist James Jean, is slated for completion next month. Because the Dumbbell is shorter than surrounding structures at the Burnside bridgehead, the design will also be painted on the building’s roof.

The building consists of two towers connected on the upper floors by a sky bridge. Each office floor has a footprint of around 4,000 square feet, intended to meet demand for small creative firms with less than 15 employees. The building’s three commercial tenants will be Crema Coffee, a restaurant run by an unnamed James Beard Award-winning chef, and an 鈥渁rt bar鈥� that will be repainted every few months by different international artists.

The building is unique not only in design, but in funding, as well 鈥� it was the first in the country to use Regulation A funding, which allows non-accredited investors to put in a minimum of $3,000 in the project. A total of $1.5 million was raised through 111 different Regulation A investors, the bulk of whom contributed the minimum amount.