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The Louisa Flowers
Submitting Company: LEVER Architecture

Location: Portland
Start Date: April 2016
Completion Date: November 2019
Owner/Developer: Home Forward
Architect: LEVER Architecture, LRS Architects
Engineer: KPFF
Additional Engineering Firms: Glumac, DOWL
General Contractor: O鈥橬eill/Walsh Community Builders
Subcontractors: 2C Building Services, Academy Specialties, American Direct Procurement, Andersen Heating, Artector, B&B Tile & Masonry, Biella Lighting, Brand Energy Services, Carrillo鈥檚 Janitorial Service, Cascade Radon, Cedar Landscape Construction, Coin Meter dba Cleaning and Laundry Equipment, Crown Fire Systems dba Discount Fire Systems, Culver Glass, Custom Cabinets by Don dba Euro American Design, Customline Shower, D&H Flagging, De-El Enterprises, EC Co., General Sheet Metal Works, Gibson Door & Millwork, Gregory Law Landscaping, Hillebrand Construction, Innotech Windows + Doors, Instafab, Interior Exterior Specialist, Interior Technology, KONE, McDonald & Wetle, McNulty Flooring, Metro Overhead Door, Mt. Hood Corporations, Ness & Campbell Crane, Northwest Infrastructure, Northwest Masonry Restoration, Northwest Tower Crane Service, Nystrom, O鈥橬eill Construction Group, Omega Morgan, Pac-Van, Pacific Foundation, Pacific Mobile Structures, Pacific Stair, Peninsula Plumbing, PLACE Studio, Pro-Bel Enterprises, QED Lab, RC Building Specialties, RDF Builders, Samata Engineers, Sign Wizards, Snell Crane Service, SR Design, Sun Scaffold & Supply dba J&S Masonry, Studio Pacifica, Temp-Air, Topline Counters, Vanport Marine, Wessco, West Coast Air Products, WH Cress, Williamsen & Bleid

The Louisa Flowers, Home Forward鈥檚 new affordable, multifamily housing in the Lloyd District, is named in honor of civic leader Louisa Flowers (1849-1928). She, her husband Allen and their four sons were instrumental in establishing Portland鈥檚 Black community on the east side of the Willamette River and developing lower Albina.

With 240 apartments available for households earning at or below 60 percent of the median income, The Louisa Flowers is the largest, single affordable housing building constructed in Portland in 50 years.

Julie Livingston, senior project manager with Home Forward, said the project鈥檚 initial proforma called for a mixed-income building program with just 124 affordable apartments. 鈥淭he development team quickly realized this site, adjacent to both the MAX light rail and the Portland Streetcar, was a prime opportunity for affordable family housing in the amenity-rich central city, and revised the program to be 100 percent affordable with 43 apartments sized for families and 20 units set aside for women at risk of homelessness as they flee domestic violence.鈥�

The 12-story building is designed to bring enclosure and definition to Northeast Grand Avenue. It uses an undulating exterior wall and landscaping improvements in the right-of-way as a place-making strategy that doubles as a buffer to pedestrians as well as the ground-floor, active use space from nearby traffic.

The exterior skin, a panelized thin-brick system, was a collective effort to design an innovative, affordable response to the Lloyd District design guidelines that specify the use of light-colored masonry throughout the district.

The ground-level courtyard, which is accessible to the public, acknowledges past, present and future contexts with a historical display about Louisa Flowers鈥� family and the circumstances of their lives, created by Oregon Black Pioneers and a mural created by artist Baba Wague Diakite.
Pre-construction services were led by a team of four women: Ali O鈥橬eill and Meghan Herteg of O鈥橬eill/Walsh Community Builders; Calista Fitzgerald of LRS Architects; and Livingston. The project鈥檚 team of subcontractors achieved 30 percent COBID business participation.

Designed for LEED for Homes Platinum, The Louisa Flowers earned Gold Nugget Awards, Award of Merit, Best Innovative Energy Design and Earth Advantage Green Builder of the Year Awards, LEED for Homes Project Team.

Financial support from the city of Portland totaled $5.1 million and the half-block site. Multnomah County contributed $500,000. Bank of America and Home Forward were Low Income Tax Credit Partnership Limited Partners, and Home Forward provided capital investment.