PROJECT: The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing

LOCATION: Hillsboro

SIZE:��182 residential units

COST:��not provided

START DATE: August 2021

ANTICIPATED END DATE: early 2023

DEVELOPER: Rembold

ARCHITECT: Ankrom Moisan Architects

ENGINEERS: AAI Engineering (civil), Kramer Gehlen & Associates (structural)

CONTRACTOR:��Pence Construction

OTHER ASSOCIATES: Angelo Planning Group (land use), Marx|Okubo (accessibility), Mayer/Reed (landscape), Morrison Hershfield (envelope)

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing will feature a total of 182 units – 89 independent living, 65 assisted living and 28 boutique-style memory care units. Planned amenities include multiple dining venues, a theater, a library and game room, fitness and wellness spaces, a salon, a gourmet bistro with on-site chef’s garden and more. Residents also will have access to Reed’s Crossing’s parks, trails and green spaces, including the 23-acre greenway that runs through the community.

“The pandemic has taught us how important it is to keep family close,” said Eric Peterson, vice president of operations at Reed’s Crossing. “With the addition of The Ackerly at Reed’s Crossing, older adults can live near their children and grandchildren while still retaining their independence, giving everyone what they need to thrive.”

Reed’s Crossing by Newland, owned in a joint venture partnership between North America Sekisui House LLC (NASH) and , is a 463-acre mixed-use, master-planned community. It is managed by Brookfield Properties. Once completed, Reed’s Crossing will include 3,300 new homes from an array of builders. Built with lifestyle in mind, the community features housing options for all life stages, green spaces with outdoor seating and picnic areas, and a number of proposed elementary and middle schools. The Ackerly is located in Reed’s Crossing’s 34-acre Town Center, which is planned to include restaurants, a grocery store, shops and services as well as a Providence Health Center, which is set for completion in summer 2022.

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PROJECT: Grace Chapel

LOCATION: 27501 S.W. Parkway Ave., Wilsonville

SIZE:��34,600 square feet (20,000-square-foot original building plus a 14,600-square-foot addition)

COST:��not provided

START DATE: April 2020

END DATE: May 2021

OWNER: Grace Chapel

ARCHITECT: CIDA

ENGINEER: AAI Engineering

CONTRACTOR:��Yorke & Curtis

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: This project involved the complete renovation of an existing, two-story, concrete, tilt-panel office building (most recently used by Pioneer Pacific College) for the church’s teen and children’s ministry programs. Also, a new 14,600-square-foot addition was constructed to provide entry and chapel space. The chapel area is able to accommodate more than 700 people for worship services as well as basketball and volleyball events.

In addition to blending a new space with an existing one, the project team brought together three different structural systems. The entry flows into the open reception area and lobbies in the original building with a coffee counter in the hub between the new and existing structures. The lobby features two large overhead doors to allow flow into and out of the chapel as well as possible overflow.

The project started at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and neared its finish just as restrictions began to loosen, allowing the church to welcome back its congregation.

“CIDA has been working with Grace Chapel in the Wilsonville area for over a decade at their previous facilities where they were tenants,” CIDA principal architect Chris Walker stated. “We’ve helped Grace evaluate properties and look for a permanent home for their growing church and outpouring ministry to the community. This building is the culmination of their long-term dreams for Grace Chapel and opens the doors to the next chapter to all that Grace offers both their congregation and the Greater Wilsonville community and Portland-metro area. Walking through the building you can feel like this was built exactly for Grace and their style. It’s both warm and inviting while modern and innovative. It’s great to see it coming to fruition and (to have) seen it through from the early stages.”

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In Beaverton, an unusual transformation is taking place: a former restaurant is becoming a school.

General contractor Joseph Hughes Construction is finishing a renovation of a single-story, 4,000-square-foot, wood-framed building that previously held McCormick & Schmick’s. The building, at 9945 S.W. Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, will soon hold the Guidepost Montessori School.

“It’s absolutely as far away from it as you can get from the original,” Joseph Hughes Construction President Joe Hughes said.

Illinois-based Quattro Development is developing the project, while CIDA is the designer. AAI Engineering is the civil engineer, and CIDA is the structural engineer.

The building was constructed in 1973 to hold the Rusty Grill restaurant. Then several storage rooms were added over the years. As a result, the construction team has encountered challenges.

“The original building was built fine,” Hughes said, “but they did a couple of additions to it kind of on the cheap.”

In addition, the building’s original layout – including a kitchen and a bar with a massive stone fireplace – was not suitable for use as classroom and administrative space.

“A lot of the structural support – the steel beams – is new,” Hughes said. “The original roof structure and framing structure was kind of a mess. There was a structure under a structure, and through this hallway it was vaulted with leaded glass panels.”

“It had fake vaults everywhere,” project superintendent Shea Rue added.

Structural steel beams had to replace load-bearing walls in some areas. Other solutions were used elsewhere.

“The thing with seismic upgrades is the buildings are strong vertically, but it’s the back and forth that’s a problem,” Hughes said. “So we added shear (walls) in several areas. In this case it was with wood framing and plywood and some steel. Glulams and other ceiling beams are then being used in a post and beam arrangement. The trick is to open it up and not have it fall down.”

The kitchen presented a unique challenge. After 40 years of accumulating grease, steam and humidity, some of the walls – both steel and wood – were completely rotten and required replacement.

“This was all kitchen back here, and all the studs were rotted out from the base up about three feet, so we had to replace all the studs,” Rue said. “It was nasty.”

Work started at the end of April and delivery is scheduled for this month.

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A new mixed-use building on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard marks the first mid-rise infill venture for TMT Development – a firm most known for building downtown towers including Park Avenue West, Fox Tower and 1000 Broadway.

The Marilyn is a four-story building with nearly 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 59 apartments, 12 of which are affordable to households earning 60 percent or less of the area median family income due to the developer utilizing Portland’s Multiple-Unit Limited Tax Exemption (MULTE) program. Residential amenities include a top-floor community room and outdoor patio, bike storage, a pet area, and an at-grade parking garage with 22 spaces.

The building is named after the late Marilyn Moyer; she was the wife of TMT Development founder Tom Moyer and grandmother of current President Vanessa Sturgeon. TMT has owned the property since the gasoline shortage of the 1970s, when Tom Moyer purchased what was then a filling station to ensure that supplies could reach his chain of movie theaters throughout the western United States. Most recently, the site was used by Kruger’s Farm as an open-air market and produce distribution point.

LRS Architects designed the building, which includes lower, set-back corners in order to fit with the scale of the neighborhood. The project team spent a lot of time with neighbors discussing the design, and Sturgeon says there’s potential for TMT to tackle more developments like this one.

“This project has gone much better than we would have expected,” she said. “You have to be very careful in a residential neighborhood like this, and we don’t want to disrupt people’s lives. But this project has gone very well in that way, so I think we might be ready to try it again.”

Bremik Construction served as general contractor for the project, which has a slab-on-grade foundation, second-floor post-tensioned concrete deck, and wood framing on the upper floors. AAI Engineering was the structural engineer, Humber Design Group was the civil engineer, and Shapiro Didway served as the landscape architect. Commercial Realty Advisors NW is representing the commercial space, and Guardian Real Estate Services is managing the residential portion.

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