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More work must still be done on the RiverPlace Central City master plan; however, most of that work involves final details.

The master plan, proposed by GBD Architects on behalf of site owner NBP Capital, calls for redevelopment of the 8-acre site in Portland between South Montgomery Street, River Parkway, Harbor Way and River Drive. During a review hearing on Thursday, Portland Design Commission members, city staffers and GBD Architects designers continued to discuss details and lingering issues.

At full build-out, the site could accommodate thousands of new residential units, substantial office space, a possible hotel, as many as six high-rise buildings, and 70,000 square feet of new open space. And a future regional destination 鈥� potentially a grocery store, food hall or entertainment venue 鈥� also is in the plan, GBD Architects principal Agustin Enriquez said.

Allowable building heights for the site range from 150 to 325 feet.

The plan is to build out the development in two phases, starting with Block 1 (70,763 square feet), Enriquez said. Then development of the other blocks would follow with the hope that Block 6 (the future park) could meet one of the blocks’ development requirements.

Many lingering issues brought up Thursday involved the building code language. A near snafu occurred when city planner Grace Jeffreys pointed out that shadow studies would not be required for individual buildings’ future design review hearings based on the current code language. This meant that the building massing conceptualized by GBD Architects for the shadow study would have to stay.

鈥淚 don’t think it’s practical to say that the massing that is shown at this stage is the massing that will be there in the future,鈥� Enriquez said.

The Bureau of Development Services agreed to pause the conversation for GBD Architects to come up with stricter language on the shadow study requirements for developments within the master plan.

Another code language issue involved the Block 1 development and open space requirements. As proposed Thursday, the percentage of bicycle and pedestrian pathway allowed was too high. Concerns were raised by design commissioners and city staffers that if phase one is the beginning and the end to the RiverPlace master plan, then it wouldn’t meet code.

Design commissioners opted to allow the proposed design to stay in hope that the full master plan’s vision could come to fruition.

Since more details are still needed, a second hearing has been scheduled for the RiverPlace master plan in three weeks.