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After two and a half years of work, Mortenson Construction is exactly where it wants to be with one of the most prominent projects under way in Portland.

Crews broke ground on the Hyatt Regency at the Oregon Convention Center hotel in early 2017. Now, as the team prepares to deliver the building this fall, executives with Mortenson, the project’s developer and design-builder, are starting to relax a bit.

鈥淗onestly the project is going really well, and we are about four hours ahead of schedule,鈥� Dan Mehls, general manager of Mortenson’s Portland office, said recently. 鈥淚t was a tough schedule, a challenging project and a challenging site in a very busy construction market, but we were lucky to have some of the best trade partners in the community contributing to the project.鈥�

The hotel sits along MAX light-rail tracks, across Northeast Holladay Street from the northern end of the convention center. The project team is on track to hit remaining milestones on schedule, Mehls said.

鈥淭he project is on track for getting the building to the point this fall where the Hyatt folks can start their training process and get acclimated to the building,鈥� he said. 鈥淭here are multiple steps in the late summer, early fall this year, and all of that is on track.鈥�

The hotel will hold 600 guest rooms as well as large meeting, food service and retail spaces. It will be owned and operated by Hyatt Hotels. Metro, the owner and operator of the Oregon Convention Center, has long sought a hospitality partner of this sort since the venue opened in 1990. The Hyatt Regency is tentatively scheduled to open in February 2020.

Currently, numerous finishing trades are on the site. Subcontractors include Delta AV, which is installing sound and video equipment; Otis Elevator, which is installing elevators; Oregon Electric Group, which is wrapping up electrical work; ISEC Inc., which is performing finish carpentry, and others. Elements remaining to be added include furniture, fixtures and equipment as well as carpeting, painting, landscaping, and more.

鈥淚t’s not super exciting to say the good news; it makes for an easy story,鈥� Mehls said. 鈥淔or us and the construction business, when so many projects have their challenges due to shortages in the marketplace right now, to say we’re right on schedule as planned two and a half years ago, we’re proud of that.鈥�