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The largest single-building affordable housing project in Multnomah County in 50 years, according to developer Home Forward, is well on its way to completion.

The Grand Avenue Apartments, a 12-story, 240-unit building on the rise in the Lloyd area, is being constructed by O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders. The design by Lever Architecture and LRS Architects is intended to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold standards. When finished, the building will provide 88 studios, 109 one-bedroom apartments and 43 two-bedroom apartments; all will be affordable units. Ground-floor commercial space will include on-site property management and retail shops.

Work is currently about 60 percent complete at 1010 N.E. Grand Ave.

鈥淲e finished pouring concrete on the roof,鈥� Walsh Construction project manager Meghan Herteg said. 鈥淛anuary 11 was the last pour, and we are almost close to punching out the first units on the second floor. Those will be finished in the next three to four weeks.鈥�

Ground was broken in late 2017. The project team is expected to obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy by mid-October.

Calista Fitzgerald, an associate at LRS Architects, said outstanding communication among project team members has expedited progress on issues like materials and costs.

鈥淚 don’t think any of us approached this as a 鈥榝ind the cheapest solution’ project,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t’s 鈥榝ind the right solution for the context and make that solution affordable.’鈥�

Home Forward senior project manager Julie Livingston and O’Neill Construction Group project manager Ali O’Neill both said the construction manager-general contractor delivery method has played a big role in that communication.

The result, Livingston said, will be an attractive building that will improve the urban fabric of the surrounding district.

鈥淟loyd has a different urban development pattern than the rest of the Central City,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his building has an incredibly strong street wall, and this does a lot to create an active streetscape in a neighborhood that does not have a strong active ground floor from block to block. This is doing a lot to push Lloyd forward in its urban development.鈥�