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It’s one of the most visible construction projects currently under way anywhere in the Portland metro area 鈥� and one of the largest of its kind.

Located at the junction of Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard and Holladay Street, the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center is the tri-county Metro government’s long-awaited hospitality addition to the inner eastside of Portland. The 600-room hotel will be 14 stories and have substantial meeting space of its own, including a pair of ballrooms. When it’s finished at the end of 2019, it will have helped to dramatically redraw the city’s eastside skyline.

Right now, however, that vision remains an architectural rendering as roughly 100 to 150 trades workers swarm daily over the post-tensioned concrete skeleton of the building. With seven concrete decks now in place, the project’s superstructure is now about half finished.

鈥淚t’s about good communication,鈥� said Dan Sizemore, construction superintendent for Mortenson Construction. 聽鈥淲e’re coordinating everything from deliveries to where we’re going to be each and every day, probably to a level of detail a lot of folks aren’t used to, but that’s what it takes to get a big project like this pulled together.鈥�

Mortenson is both the developer and general contractor for the $240 million project. ESG Architects, Mayer/Reed, Hyatt and Metro round out the project team.

Construction of the hotel started last year. Now, the concrete decks are rapidly stacking up inside a pork chop-shaped piece of land just east of Interstate 5 and Trimet’s Rose Quarter MAX Station. The light-rail line hems in the job site on the south side and makes logistics for the project a substantial challenge, Sizemore said.

鈥淭he balance of the site, everybody has a designated area where they can lay down their space, and nobody ever has as much as they wish they could, right?鈥� he said.

It takes daily meetings with subcontractors to confirm delivery schedules, as well as newer technology such as the mobile app Teamup to ensure that the entire construction crew remains on the same page and on time with their work.

鈥淚t sounds like a clich茅, but its communication,鈥� Sizemore said. 鈥淓verybody has to be continuously talking to each other, and as soon as that’s not happening, the problems are pretty evident.鈥�

For Mortenson construction executive Mike Clifford, the biggest project challenge so far has been managing communications between myriad project team members and stakeholders, as well as businesses and property owners located around or near the job site.

鈥淚t’s been known about for a long time, and there are a lot of people who have interest in the project,鈥� Clifford said. 鈥淎nd trying to get alignment among those interests is probably where the biggest challenge lays.鈥�

In conjunction with the hotel, a 175,000-square-foot parking garage is being built at the west end of the property. It will feature 447 automobile parking spaces and 130 bicycle spaces, and14,000 square feet will be dedicated to commercial lease space.

鈥淲e’ve got lots of bike parking in the project,鈥� Clifford said. 鈥淲e had to connect to a lot of different users, so it makes for an interesting program for the hotel. But it works out well for how it works in an urban context.鈥�

Currently, concrete is being poured on the structure’s seventh deck. Meanwhile, ironworkers are piecing together the building’s steel-framed ballroom on the project’s north side.

On the interior, the first pre-fabricated wall panels are being put in place, with drywall work about to commence.

鈥淥nce we get the building to a dryer state on some of the lower floors we’ll cut drywall loose,鈥� Sizemore said. 鈥淵ou’ll see on levels one, two, three, we’re starting to frame walls and get the overhead roughed in, and you’ll see a lot of the interior spaces are starting to take shape and define themselves. We’re really starting to touch on most of the scopes of work, with the exception of the finish trades.鈥�