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On the rise in Portland’s Gateway area is a mixed-use development that will certainly be exactly that. Halsey 106 will have affordable housing units, market-rate housing units, administrative space for owner/operator Human Solutions, space for community services, and ground-floor retail space.

Oh, and the building will be adjacent to Gateway Discovery Park, which opened in 2018.

LMC Construction is building Halsey 106, which was designed by Holst Architecture. Offices and commercial space will be in a two-story business wing along Northeast Halsey Street, near the intersection of 106th Avenue. A six-story residential wing with 75 apartments will rise behind. Both sides of the building will connect to a courtyard that is open on the west end for vehicle access.

The Portland Housing Bureau is providing money for the inclusion of 40 affordable units scattered throughout the residential portion. However, 12 additional units will be affordable as well. Rents for the remaining units will be market rate. All apartments will be studios, one-bedroom units or two-bedroom units.

The residential common area will include a computer room, a community trash area, a dog wash station, and a lounge with kitchen facilities. There will be 50 tuck-under parking spaces for motor vehicles and 81 covered parking spaces for bicycles.

Prosper Portland will manage the 11,000 total square feet of commercial space in the business wing, while Human Solutions will manage the residential units as well as relocate its business operations to the new building. Human Solutions and Gerding Edlen are co-developers of the project.

鈥淭he tenants will be small businesses 鈥� probably some restaurants,鈥� LMC Construction project manager Ken Bello said. 鈥淧rosper Portland invested a lot of money in upgrading the shell space. We’re doing more than just a warm shell, so they don’t have to do a lot of improvements themselves. The building and the park were supposed to be done about the same time, but the building got delayed a couple of years ago so now we’re coming back.鈥�

Right now, crews with Wood Mechanix are framing the fourth story of the residential wing, while MEP and carpentry crews with B&I Construction, Andersen Mechanical, Jet Industries, Polaris Electrical and other companies are roughing in the nine separate commercial spaces and the second-story office space. Both sections of the building feature wood framing atop a post-tensioned concrete podium.

鈥淲e had to do a lot of negotiation with the (Portland Parks & Recreation) people, because you can’t get the cladding on the back side without going onto the park property,鈥� Bello said. 鈥淏ut it’s already looking very distinct.鈥�

Ground was broken in September 2019 and completion is expected in spring 2021.

鈥淭he business section is all but complete in terms of framing,鈥� Bello said. 鈥淎nd we’ll start roofing May 4. So we’re getting the roof prep work done, the parapets. We should start our exterior building wrap next week and right now we’re scheduled to top out by June.鈥�

Halsey 106 is one project site where LMC Construction has been able to continue working. When the coronavirus crisis hit, the firm halted all work in occupied units.

鈥淲hen this whole thing got started we started a tracking sheet where we track all our current and upcoming projects,鈥� LMC Construction Vice President Kyle Anderson said. 鈥淪o I started tracking the actual delays we’ve hit, and this was meant to track anything we’re hearing in the industry, like hey, this supplier is slow. As far as what’s actually hit our projects, the only substantive impact we’ve had is on our occupied renovations.鈥�

The good news for LMC Construction is that the impact has not been significant, Anderson said.

鈥淣ormally we’re in occupied units all the time,鈥� he said. 鈥淟uckily, we happen to be at a point where we have very few projects that were affected by that.鈥�