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A weekly list of highlights from commercial land use review activity in Portland by Permitting & Development in the prior week.

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Address: 1849 S.W. Salmon St.
Applicant: Cameron Kraus of Gensler
Owner: Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club

Plans call for using five outdoor shipping containers to create an outdoor deck and patio amenity areas. Adjustments are sought to allow more than 5,000 square feet of retail space, and to navigate landscape requirements. Development would take place over an existing parking lot and not generate new impervious areas.

Early assistanceÌý – application
Address: 2815 S.E. 90th Place
Applicant: Gauri Rajbaidya of SERA Architects
Owner: Miriam Wheat of Tillamook

Plans call for construction of a four-story multifamily building with units holding one, two or three bedrooms. There would be a double-loaded corridor and a ground-floor community space. There would be on-site surface parking.

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Address: 14625 S.E. Stark St.
Applicant: Justin Cloyd of Ink:Built Architecture
Owner: Cultivate Initiatives

Plans call for construction of a temporary, 26-unit pod village outdoor shelter and trash enclosure. Interior tenant improvements would include preparing 5,000 square feet of the unused second floor for occupation. Egress stairs and an elevator would be added. Site work would include adding more than 1,000 square feet of impervious paving. On-site stormwater management would take place via a dry well or filtered catch basins. The work also would involve right-of-way improvements as required.

Design advice request– applicationÌý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Address: 610 S.W. Alder St.
Applicant: Lauren Antolin of COLAB Architecture + Urban Design
Owner: Ralph Schlesinger Company LLC

The renovation of the lowest two levels of the facade at 310 S.W. Alder St. and the entire facade at 622 S.W. Alder St. will reintroduce materials and forms that take design inspiration from the iconic mercantile storefronts of downtown Portland in the 1930s. Embossed metal cladding, dark granite bases and pilasters, back-painted glass, metal tracery trim and fabric awnings are planned to visually link both buildings’ ground floors as the new James Beard Public Market. The renovation of 610 S.W. Alder St. will include replacing the more modern granite cladding and aluminum windows on level 2 with terra cotta cladding and wood-framed windows to match the existing building and original design as well as reintroducing the original storefront rhythm of pilasters and windows on the ground floor. The proposed signage includes back-painted glass panels, a blade sign at the corner of Alder Street and Sixth Avenue, and a sign atop 622 S.W. Alder St. A new loading zone would be located on Alder Street.

Type 1x procedure – application Ìý Ìý Ìý
Address: 837 S.W. First Ave.
Applicant: Annabelle Lee of Cadium Design
Owner: Yamhill Partners LLC

New restaurant space is planned on the Mikado building’s first floor. Exterior work would include construction of new exterior doorways to comply with accessibility and egress requirements, installation of a new sign and ground-floor lighting, and application of wall paint. There would be no change to how stormwater is handled.

ÌýSource: Portland Permitting & DevelopmentÌý

See also:

• $23.6 million multifamily project in Portland building permits | March 31, 2025