Photos: Canstruction 2014
Employees of local architecture, engineering, and construction industries teamed up for the Canstruction charity design competition Monday at Pioneer Place in downtown Portland
Photos: Light rail bridge reaches land on east side
A small concrete pour Monday morning made for a major milestone in TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge project. The 45-cubic yard pour closed the gap between the structure’s deck and […]
A look inside Oregon City’s Blue Heron Paper Co. site
A recent tour of the former Blue Heron Paper Co. site in Oregon City was intended to spark creative ideas for redevelopment of the 23-acre site and restoring public access […]
Used car dealership under construction in Milwaukie
CSI Construction, a Colorado-based general contractor with a Portland office, is building a used car dealearship for Richmond, Va.-based Carmax on the site of a former K-Mart store in Milwaukie. […]
AGC Oregon-Columbia Chapter holds Annual Business Meeting
The Oregon-Columbia Chapter of the Associated General Contractors held its Annual Business Meeting Jan. 9-10 at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower. The event included presentations on the state of […]
Slideshow: Overton 19 takes shape
General contractor Rainier Pacific is expecting to complete work in late February on Overton 19, a development featuring seven live/work units and a retail space in Northwest Portland.
Historic downtown Portland building renovated for creative space
Bremik Construction recently completed an interior renovation of the 128-year-old Fechheimer & White Building on Southwest Naito Parkway for owner John Russell of Russell Development Company, Inc. The building’s floor […]
A look inside the 511 Federal Building
Demolition is slated to start this week on the 511 Federal Building, which will undergo a $32 million renovation to become the new home of the Pacific Northwest College of […]
Ground work under way at Pearl District apartment project
Crews with general contractor Lorentz Bruun Construction and Geotech Foundation West. worked this week on the installation of 165 rammed aggregate piers at the Pearl District site of the Janey […]
Substance abuse treatment and housing facility rising in NE Portland
O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders is building a drug and alcohol treatment and living facility in Northeast Portland for Home Forward and LifeWorks Northwest. The three-story treatment wing of the facility will […]
Aquatics center under construction in SE Portland
General contractor LCG Pence Construction is building a $6.1 million aquatics center at David Douglas High School in Southeast Portland. Work began this past summer on the SERA Architects-designed project, […]
Pair of apartment buildings rising on SE Division
General contractor KeyWay Corp. is building a pair of mixed-use apartment projects on Southeast Division Street for co-developers Green Light Development and Capstone Partners. Construction of the buildings is the […]
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