Hundreds of people turned out for a celebration held Wednesday to mark the opening of the Asian Health and Service Center, a cultural, educational, health and social service hub in the Lents neighborhood. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot building contains treatment space for physical and behavioral health, the Asian Cancer Resource and Support Center, a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose room, a healing garden, and small multipurpose rooms for classes and group programs. The building also holds a ground-floor commercial space occupied by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic.

The Holst Architecture-designed project was built by O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders, which broke ground in early 2017. The building features a distinctive metal sunscreen structure along the south façade consisting of prefinished aluminum attached to color-matched steel columns. The building’s southwest corner contains a three-story curtainwall system, which provides ample daylight for a stairway from the ground-floor lobby to the third-floor public spaces.

The building is one of four in the Lents Town Center urban renewal area to receive partial funding from Prosper Portland. Others include the now-complete Lents Commons and Oliver Station mixed-use projects as well as Woody Guthrie Place, a mixed-income apartment project now under construction.

The development team includes Asian Health and Service Center, Housing Development Center, Mark Sherman Consulting and Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. The project team includes civil engineers KPFF Consulting Engineers, ABHT Structural Engineers, MEP engineers MFIA Inc., and NNA Landscape Architecture.

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A new 101-unit affordable housing development is rising on Southeast Foster Road in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood. LMC Construction is building 72Foster – a four-story mixed-use building designed by Holst Architecture for REACH Community Development. The building will feature three stories of wood-framed apartments over a concrete podium that will hold commercial and residential amenity space.

Carpenters with framing contractor Wood Mechanix are nearly finished framing the building’s fourth floor. Installation of roof trusses and the weather-resistant barrier will begin next week, and windows will follow starting next month. The building will be topped out in early June.

72Foster’s 101 apartments will range in size from studios to three-bedrooms to primarily serve seniors and families. The units will be available to people earning 60 percent of median household income; 20 units will be occupied by residents with Project Based Section 8 vouchers. REACH is partnering with Asian Health & Service Center to provide outreach and on-site programs and services to residents.

The ground floor will hold five commercial spaces totaling 8,900 square feet, as well as residential amenities including a community room and bicycle storage. A breezeway will connect the corner of Southeast 72nd Avenue and Foster Road with a public courtyard on the property.

The building will have two parking lots – one with 23 stalls and another with 12. The $24 million project also includes right-of-way work and frontage improvements, including new sidewalks, lighting and vegetation. Crews began work on the site, a former parking lot owned by Prosper Portland, in September 2017. The building is slated to open in February 2019.

The project team also includes development consultant Housing Development Center, landscape architect PLACE Studio, civil engineer Humber Design Group, and ABHT Structural Engineers.

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Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare is planning for a new facility that combines treatment, resources and housing.

Ground is scheduled to be broken this summer on 1.5 acres in Northeast Portland. A two-story, 29,000-square-foot center will provide integrated primary care, behavioral health and wellness services. Next door, a four-story apartment building will hold 52 units – including about 10 for individuals with mental illness and 10 others for veterans; the remaining ones will be available to low-income residents.

Cascadia’s CEO, Derald Walker, said the Garlington Health and Wellness Center and Cascadia Affordable Housing will provide “a new model of integrated care for those most in need.” That ties in with Cascadia’s mission “to provide healing, homes and hope for people living with mental health and addiction challenges.”

Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare manages about 600 Portland-area apartments for the mentally ill, but Garlington Center will be the first to provide on-site services to the mentally ill as well as low-income housing for the general population.

“This is the first clinic to combine both services in this specific model that I know of,” Walker said in a statement.

Cascadia’s other developments are solely for people with mental illness and this is the first development that also includes affordable housing, which Walker said is needed in the area.

The $21 million project is receiving $500,000 from FamilyCare Health, $250,000 from an anonymous donor, $250,000 from Meyer Memorial Trust, $100,000 from the Mitzvah Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation as well many smaller contributions.

The foundation has raised about $1.7 million of its own. Officials expect to secure in six months approximately $1.8 million more so that construction can finish by fall 2017, Walker said.

Architectural plans for the Garlington Center, at 3034 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., were released last week by Scott | Edwards Architecture. Principal Lisa McClellan described the project.

“The site is like a series of several rooms with a courtyard between the housing and clinic, which was a community garden site,” McClellan said. “We will recreate the community garden and also have outdoor plaza areas as an extension of the wellness center.”

The two-story wellness center will have a through lobby from the parking lot to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, she said.

“The wellness center will be primarily on the ground floor with the integrated behavioral health center on the second floor,” she said.

The new center will offer medical and counseling teams and preventative care and healthy lifestyle classes as well as a kitchen, food pantry and exercise room.

The apartments not filled by mentally ill residents or veterans will be open to the “general affordable population,” McClellan said.

The fourth floor of the four-story apartment building will be a common room for residents, she said. Support offices will occupy the ground floor.

“There is also potentially a small retail component on the northwest corner between Morrison and Monroe (streets),” she said.

The apartments will be comprised of six studios, six two-bedroom units and 40 one-bedroom units, McClellan said.

“There is also a strong desire to incorporate public art … visible from the southwest corner of Martin Luther King” Jr. Boulevard, she said.

McClellan said she is excited to work on the all-new project.

“They’ve been there about 14 years and they want to expand their services and provide wellness as well,” she said. “It’s designed to front on a prominent corner of MLK, the public face of the Garlington Center complex. I’m excited to have been able to create an integrated campus with a courtyard in between.”

Garlington Health and Wellness Center and Cascadia Affordable Housing

Location: 3034 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Cost: $21 million

Anticipated construction start: fall 2016

Anticipated construction finish: fall 2017

Owner and developer: Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare

Architect: Scott | Edwards Architecture

Engineers: ABHT Structural Engineers, Capital Engineering, Interface Engineering

Landscape architect: 2.ink Studio

General contractor: Colas Construction

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