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A weekly list of the most notable commercial building and facility permits issued and received in Portland by Permitting & Development in the prior week.

Building Permits Issued:

None for any project with a value of $500,000 or greater.

Building Permit Intakes:

UNDER REVIEW
$600,000                          
Address: 11540 N.E. Inverness Drive
Applicant: Mary Fierros Bower of LRS Architects
Owner: Bank of America Oregon 
Contractor: out to bid

Plans call for repaving and restriping the parking lot at the Multnomah County Inverness Jail.

UNDER REVIEW
$931,126                          
Address: 5210 N. Kerby Ave. 
Applicant: Rashmi Vasavada of Bora Architecture & Interiors
Owner: School District No. 1 
Contractor: Colas Hoffman LLC of Lake Oswego

Plans call for demolishing a grandstand and clearing the Jefferson High School site for future construction of a new school building.

Facility Permits Issued:

UNDER INSPECTION
$911,670                             
Address: 1719 S.W. 10th Ave.
Applicant: Joseph Wuest of Portland State University
Owner: Oregon State Board of Higher Education
Contractor: Steve Paschal (Balfour Beatty Construction of Dallas, Texas)

Plans call for replacing classroom ceilings on B1 and the first and second floors of the Science Research and Teaching Center. The work will involve demolition as well as ceilings, finishes and electrical.

Facility Permit Intakes: 

UNDER REVIEW
$737,840                         
Address: 3905 S.E. 91st Ave. 
Applicant: Hannah Molla of Point Monitor Corporation of Lake Oswego
Owner: School District No.1 
Contractor: not listed

Plans call for a fire alarm upgrade. The work would involve replacing Marshall High School’s fire alarm system with a new code-compliant, addressable voice evacuation system, 438 smoke detectors, 101 heat detectors, 129 strobes, 53 pull stations and 428 speaker strobes.

UNDER REVIEW
$960,000                            
Address: 1895 N.W. Front Ave. 
Applicant: Megan Fischer of Mackenzie
Owner: Field Office Property Owner LLC of New York 
Contractor: out to bid

Plans call for a tenant improvement on the sixth floor for OneApp. The work would involve demolishing walls and adding new ones to create a waiting area, a server room, a wellness room, offices, phone rooms, a social lounge, a tenant lounge, a copy room, and a quiet zone. An office and a conference room would be remodeled. The work would also involve ceiling, flooring, finishes, plumbing and electrical.

UNDER REVIEW
$564,839                             
Address: 5000 N. Willamette Blvd. 
Applicant: Brandon Guzman of Yadon Mechanical of Vancouver, Washington
Owner: University of Portland 
Contractor: Yadon Mechanical

Plans call for HVAC work on five floors of the Buckley Center at the University of Portland. The work would involve installing mixing boxes and electrical items.

UNDER REVIEW
$750,000                            
Address: 5055 N. Greeley Ave. 
Applicant: Matt Atkins of BBL Architects of West Linn
Owner: Adidas Village Corporation 
Contractor: Brian Sabom (Turner Construction)

Plans call for reroofing Adidas’ entire Black Building. The work would include modifying the ladder, stair, landing and door opening; reinstalling fall protection and installing a new walk pad and roof curbs. The work would also involve finishes, plumbing and electrical.

Source: Portland Permitting & Development 

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