A new mixed-use building with an intergenerational focus will provide permanently affordable housing to families and senior citizens in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood. 72Foster, recently opened by REACH Community Development, features 101 apartments – ranging from studios to three-bedroom units – over a ground floor with resident amenities and 8,900 square feet of commercial space.

The Holst Architecture-designed project was completed last month by general contractor LMC Construction. The 80,000-square-foot building features three levels of wood-framed apartments over a concrete podium. Tenant amenity space includes a ground-floor community room that opens onto a public courtyard, which is accessible via a breezeway connected to the corner of Southeast Foster Road and 72nd Avenue, as well as a bicycle storage room and a fourth-floor lounge and outdoor terrace.

REACH partnered with the Asian Health and Service Center (AHSC), which conducted outreach to the Asian community to solicit input on the building’s design. The nonprofit also is providing leasing assistance as well as on-site programs and services to building residents. The goal is to provide a vehicle for lower-income community members to remain in the neighborhood amid escalating housing prices; create a hub for cultural activities, language and skill-building; and improve access to health care.

“Through affordable rents at 72Foster, many new immigrants can build up assets to acquire their permanent home,” Dr. Erik Szeto, AHSC board chairman, stated in a press release. “Moreover, isolated seniors can move into this project and enjoy culturally appropriate services provided by AHSC and develop new friendships with new neighbors in their new home.”

The residences are available to tenants earning 60 percent of median family income, and 20 apartments will be set aside for those with Project Based Section 8 vouchers.

The team for the $24 million project included construction manager Housing Development Center, landscape architect PLACE Studio, civil engineer Humber Design Group, and ABHT Structural Engineers.

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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 nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between Asian and American cultures is building its first permanent home in the Lents neighborhood. The Asian Health & Service Center will contain physical and mental health care space, offices, and community and event space. The project is one of several in the Lents Town Center Urban Renewal Area that have received partial funding from Prosper Portland.

O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders began work this past spring on the Holst Architecture-designed project, at Southeast 91st Avenue and Foster Road. The building consists of three stories of structural steel over a slab-on-grade, post-tensioned concrete foundation. Crews are slated to top out the building late next week. They will then begin concrete deck pours, to be followed by commencement of steel stud framing in early 2018.

The 28,000-square-foot building’s ground floor will house a commercial space to be occupied by a Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, as well as multiple consulting rooms, a waiting room and a main lobby. Its second floor will contain open-office desk pods, office space and conference rooms, which will be made available for community use.

The top floor will feature a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose hall for community events as well as consulting rooms, a resource library, a commercial kitchen and an outdoor terrace with a movable storefront for all-season use.

Completion of the project is slated for May 2018, at which point the ground-floor tenant improvement will begin. O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders and Holst Architecture are also serving as the respective general contractor and architect for the build-out, which is expected to require one month of work.

The project team also includes ABHT Structural Engineers, MFIA Inc. Consulting Engineers (mechanical, electrical and plumbing design), KPFF Consulting Engineers (civil engineering) and Nevue Ngan Associates (landscape architecture).

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