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The 16^th and final concrete deck has been poured at the top of the Holland Partner Group’s new 174-foot mixed-use tower at Northwest 14^th Avenue and Glisan Street in Portland’s Pearl District.

Crews from LaRusso Concrete smoothed the surface of the wet concrete, marking the topping out of yet another mixed-use high-rise building in Portland. The building will feature 230 apartments, 20 percent of which will be marketed as affordable housing, as well as at-grade retail space and four levels of underground parking.

Developed and built by Holland Partner Group of Vancouver, the $80-million tower will be the latest addition to the Pearl at a time when similar projects are coming online at a dizzying pace.

The project team also includes Ankrom Moisan Architects of Portland and Cary Kopcynski and Co. Structural Engineers of Bellevue, Washington.

Early on, Holland Partner Group decided it would utilize Portland’s Multiple-Unit Limited Tax Exemption (MULTE) program to make a percentage of the building’s apartments available to people making up to 80 percent of the area median family income. In return, the developer gets a 10-year property-tax exemption for those affordable units.

Doug Burges is a senior development manager with Holland Partner Group. He said the ground-floor commercial space will be used for restaurant or retail tenants that are consistent with the surrounding neighborhood, which already includes a number of similar high-rise residential towers as well as several other buildings in various stages of development.

The residential units in the Holland Partner Group building will be split among 44 studio units, and 146 one-bedroom and 40 two-bedroom apartments. 聽Burges said the building also will feature a roof-top sky lounge for residents to enjoy.

The new tower was built with cast in place post-tensioned concrete. Exterior cladding features Equitone panels, brick veneer, composite metal panels, aluminum storefront glazing, and opaque canopies made from steel plates.

Issac Johnson, principal-in-charge for Ankrom Moisan Architects, said the materials used help reflect the heritage of Portland’s earlier buildings.

鈥淥ur goal is to recollect the heritage of concrete buildings that are prevalent at the west edge of the Pearl District, while adding a fresh and modern voice,鈥� Johnson said.

Construction is expected to be complete later this fall and the building should be open to new residents sometime in the first quarter of 2019.