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With the goal of providing a place where guests can hang out with Portland residents in vibrant, welcoming public places, developers of the Hoxton Hotel launched a $28 million renovation of the former Grove Hotel in March 2017.

The three-story structure at the corner of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Burnside Street was built in 1905 and had 22 feet of the south elevation removed for the widening of Burnside in the 1930s, creating a unique floor print and small room sizes.

Hoxton Hotel, completed last September, added to the renovation of the three-story building with a nine-story point tower.
Standing at the entry gate to Chinatown, the hotel features 122 boutique guestrooms, a coffee shop, lobby bar, rooftop terrace and bar, restaurant and a speakeasy. The Apartment is a meetings and events space with four rooms and a pantry kitchen. The hotel鈥檚 lobby furniture and artwork were created locally.

Doug Greenwalt, senior project manager for general contractor Howard S. Wright, said the project was interesting for several reasons.

鈥淭he Hoxton Hotel represented an opportunity to preserve and renovate a historic landmark in Portland and expand it into a modern boutique hotel,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he project also provided an opportunity to work with Naito Development.鈥�

Naito Development sold the project to Ennismore when it was about 90 percent completed. The Portland Hoxton is the first Hoxton brand hotel on the West Coast and the second to open in the United States.

Greenwalt聽said integrating a renovation project with a new hotel tower being built concurrently with shared building systems required detailed planning to ensure both would progress efficiently. One example of the planning included lowering a floor in a basement with low overhead clearance, which involved shoring of the diaphragm, off-loading of the spoils and integration of under-slab MEP. Another was the installation of micro-piles in the basement while simultaneously lowering the floor elevation to increase the ceiling heights.

鈥淭he site configuration created some unique challenges,鈥� he noted. 鈥淎ll access into and out of the site was through a 50-foot section of Fourth Avenue adjacent to the Chinatown gates.聽This is a congested spot to work from with heavy vehicle traffic patterns at times, a large volume of tourist traffic, and working around and protecting the Chinatown gates.鈥�

Part of the project involved demolishing a building with three-party walls to the neighboring buildings, shoring existing structures for the basement excavation, and finding a location for a tower crane and installation of the foundation.

鈥淭he most rewarding part is seeing the transformation of the local area, the changing of the neighborhood and having been part of something special,鈥� Greenwalt said. 鈥淩eflecting back on the first few times I walked the site and street, and now observing the positive energy around the hotel and restaurant is very rewarding. Being part of such a great collaborative team also makes the project special.鈥�

In addition to Howard S. Wright, Naito Development and Ennismore, the project team included Surround Architecture, KPFF Consulting Engineers and Filament.