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An updated proposal for the Town Center North mixed-use project at Reed’s Crossing has gained the Hillsboro Planning Commission‘s approval.

There will be 301 apartments between the Town Center North apartments and the adjacent row house site, 14 live/work units, and 9,000 square feet of retail space and indoor and outdoor common space. Amenities will include an outdoor pool and spa, a clubroom with a full catering kitchen, a fitness center and yoga studio, coworking space, a dog run, a community garden, and a public plaza.

Holland Partner Group is partnering with North America Sekisui House LLC to develop the project. LRS Architects is the designer, and Holland Construction is the general contractor.

The site is located north of Southeast Blanton Street, south of Southeast Circuit Drive, east of Southeast 72nd Avenue, and west of Southeast Reed Drive. Both the site plan and the building design were revised to provide more usable open space.

The changes include: providing sliding or folding full-glass doors between the pool area and the clubroom, providing three overhead doors and a raised deck at the site’s southwest corner to create a seating area along the street front, enlarging patios for the live-work units along the Blanton Street frontage, shifting the east-west pedestrian path through the site to the south, creating a community garden space in the island, and redesigning the large plaza at the corner of Reed Drive and Blanton Street to incorporate permanent seating separate from the cafe. Also, the pool area will now have interior exercise and flex space.

The community garden will have six raised beds and benches, Brian Cho, senior manager of development at Holland Partner Group, stated during the hearing before the Planning Commission earlier this month. The garden will be accessible and have ornamental fencing.

The proposal’s target is a National Green Building Standard gold rating. It’s about 10 percent above state code, Hillsboro urban design planner David McIInay said, adding that Oregon’s code is among the highest for energy use. The scheduling process for this standard is friendly for development, according to McIlnay. The standard has been fully vetted by staff.

The coworking area will have pods for people to take calls, work, or chat with friends. Colored concrete banding will better define the plaza, Cho added. There will be a vertical separation near the coworking area.

Reed’s Crossing is the largest master-planned community by density in the Portland-metro area, at 463 acres, according to its website. Residents will have access to shopping, dining, recreation and more within the community.

Construction of Town Center North is set to begin this fall. It’s expected to finish within two years.