Project: The Spot

Location: 225 S. Fifth St., Madras

Size: 3,150 square feet

Start date: March 2024

Completion date: November 2024 (event center will be complete at a later date)

Cost: Not disclosed

Owner/developer: Andre Jackson

General Contractor: O’Brien & Company

Architect: Open Concept Architecture

Engineers: Eclipse Engineering, H.A. McCoy Engineering & Surveying

Project Description: The Spot opened in November as a new community hub in downtown Madras. It features a taphouse with a second-story balcony area, three food carts, outdoor heated seating with fire pots and an adjacent event center.

The building and site amenities are designed for seamless indoor/outdoor activities and year-round enjoyment regardless of weather conditions. Warm wood and clean modern details create a space for people to interact while enjoying food, drinks, music and other entertainment activities.

The John Brown Event Center, named after the first African-American to move to and homestead in Central and Eastern Oregon, is a tented area being raised alongside the taphouse. Entertainment bookings are now under way.

The city of Madras and the Madras Redevelopment Commission played a key role in bringing the project to life. Since 2022, MRC has provided $60,000 in grant funding and $450,000 in loan funding to help transform the site, formerly the location of the Wild Bleu, according to the MRC website.

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PROJECT: Meadowlark Industrial Center

LOCATION: North Holladay Street and North Fourth Avenue, Cornelius

SIZE: 154,643 square feet

START DATE: June 2023

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: March 2024

COST: undisclosed

OWNER/DEVELOPER: AltaBird Investments (with a private investor)

BROKERAGE: Colliers International

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Sierra Construction

ARCHITECT: MDG Architecture | Interiors

ENGINEERS: T.M. Rippey Consulting Engineers, WDY Inc.

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: First Forty Feet (planner)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: Officials broke ground on the Meadowlark Industrial Center on June 16. More than $20 million is being invested to deliver the new building, which will hold manufacturing and warehouse space.

The project site is the last remaining available industrial parcel in Cornelius. Upon completion, the building will be able to accommodate up to four tenants; spaces will be for either lease or sale.

Features will include 32-foot clear height, 29 dock-high doors, two grade-level drive-in doors, 102 car parking spaces, and 3,000-amp electrical power service. The concrete, tilt-up building will include skylights to reduce dependence on electrical lighting. Also, a stormwater vault detection system under the truck court will filter on-site rainwater before it’s released into the regional stormwater system.

“After careful planning, consideration, and with a close working relationship with the city of Cornelius, we were thrilled to break ground and begin developing the Meadowlark Industrial Center,” AltaBird Investments principal and CEO Brendan Mason stated in a news release.

AltaBird Investments partnered with a private investor for this project and prioritized the use of local consultants for the work.

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PROJECT: Liberty High School solar array

LOCATION: 7445 N.E. Wagon Drive, Hillsboro

START DATE: fall 2022

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: March 2023

COST: $2,040,792

OWNER: Hillsboro School District

PROJECT MANAGER: Cornerstone Management Group

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Ross Builders Northwest

ARCHITECT: DLR Group

ENGINEERS: DLR Group (structural, mechanical, electrical), 3J Consulting (civil)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: A photovoltaic canopy structure is being built at Liberty High School, enhancing education on sustainable technologies. Work started in fall 2022 and is expected to finish in March. The project was delayed from its original summer schedule because of an extended permit process. A significant portion of the project budget is expected to be offset by funding from the state’s Green Energy Technology program.

The 18-foot-long, 5,500-square-foot, building-integrated photovoltaic canopy will have 176 panels next to the sustainable agriculture/design building on the north side of the Liberty campus. Under the canopy, a 3,600-square-foot open gravel yard will provide space for students to fabricate educational projects.

In addition, the canopy will cover a 900-square-foot unconditioned photovoltaic equipment room. It will house the mechanical and electrical components running the canopy, allowing students to directly learn about sustainable systems and solar power generation as they manage, maintain, and analyze data from the array as part of their studies. The approximately 55 kilowatts of power generated will be fed into the electric utility system.

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PROJECT: The Lodge at Black Butte Ranch

LOCATION: Sisters

START DATE: November 2021

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: early 2023

COST: undisclosed

OWNER/DEVELOPER: Black Butte Ranch

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co.

ARCHITECT: Hacker

ENGINEERS: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis (civil), Madden & Baughman Engineering (structural), PAE (mechanical, electrical and plumbing)

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: Walker Macy (landscape architecture), Bargreen Ellingson Restaurant Supply and Design (kitchen design), Luma Lighting Design (lighting), Listen Acoustics (acoustical engineering), Straight Edge Designs (custom tables and benches), Pioneer Millworks (interior wood siding, flooring, ceiling), Portland Direct Tile & Marble (Brazilian black slate flooring), Rasmussen Masonry (stone fireplace)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: Black Butte Ranch, on 1,800 acres in Central Oregon, serves as a home for year-round residents and a popular vacation destination. The ranch community began a comprehensive redevelopment plan in 2013, and after working with Hacker on the new Lakeside recreation and dining complex (completed in 2016) and a new general store (completed in 2021), the team turned its attention to the resort’s 50-year-old lodge. After an analysis determined a renovation of the lodge would be impractical, Hacker began an extensive, yearlong outreach process to understand the community’s vision and priorities for the lodge’s replacement.

A new 28,000-square-foot structure (including an exterior deck) was designed to honor and evolve the original ranch buildings’ designs while providing careful framing and layering of views as well as a sensitive interpretation of regional materials and forms.

The interior will feature contrasting tones of native wood species to create a sense of both warmth and openness. Crews salvaged as much of the original lodge’s wood as possible to create guardrails, screens, furniture, and wall finishes. An established pine tree on the site could not be saved, so it was transformed into custom tabletops for the restaurant and bar. There will also be a uniquely textured, double-height stone fireplace.

The exterior will be clad in charred cedar created via a traditional Japanese wood treatment that maintains the previous building’s weathered look while providing additional resistance to insects and fire. The focus on local resources also will be visible in the landscape design, which calls for drought-tolerant native plants. Building materials will be sourced regionally.

The new building will have twice as much space as the existing one, and be divided into three main sections: public spaces, including the 70-seat lodge restaurant and bar, 12-seat Fireside lounge, 50-seat Aspen lounge/deck/bar, and 16-seat Ponderosa private dining room and outside lounge; the Three Sisters private area with a 210-seat-capacity event room, large dressing room, and meeting room; and a state-of-the-art kitchen with expanded catering services.

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PROJECT: 138 Logistics Center

LOCATION: 4600 N.E. 138th Ave., Portland

SIZE: 489,700 square feet (Building A: 273,500 square feet; Building B: 216,200 square feet)

START DATE: June 2022

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: May 2023

COST: undisclosed

OWNERS: Clarion Partners and Phelan Development

DEVELOPER: Phelan Development

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE/LISTING BROKER: Macadam Forbes

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Sierra Construction

ARCHITECT: Calvin J. Coatsworth Architects

ENGINEERS: TM Rippey Consulting Engineers (structural), AAI Engineering (civil), Geotech Solutions (geotechnical)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: At a time when Portland’s industrial land readiness is critically low, and the region’s industrial vacancy rate is below 3.3 percent, Clarion Partners and Phalen Development have teamed up to transform a large, underutilized site into a state-of-the-art development. 138 Logistics Center is rising on Northeast 138th Avenue, between Airport Way and Sandy Boulevard, in an enterprise zone, which offers new business tax incentives. The site is near major transportation arterials and interstates.

The two new distribution warehouses will total 489,700 square feet on 25.56 acres. The buildings are designed to attract and retain large industrial users in logistics, distribution, and manufacturing.

With a 36-foot clear height, 138 Logistics Center can offer cube capacity 10 percent to 25 percent greater than the same footprint with a 32-foot clear height. These will be the only buildings in the Airport Way industrial area with 36-foot clear heights. Each building’s power will be 1,600 amps. Building A will have 48 dock doors, 142 parking spaces and 52 trailer stalls. Building B will have 35 dock doors, 113 parking spaces and 43 trailer stalls.

Despite permitting delays, the project has been ahead of schedule regarding supplies and labor. Approximately 125 workers are being employed. Construction is expected to finish on time, in the second quarter of 2023.

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PROJECT: AFC Urgent Care Medical Facility

LOCATION: 1071 S.E. Tualatin Valley Highway, Hillsboro

START DATE: May 2022

COMPLETION DATE: August 2022

COST: $995,000

OWNER: Guru Sankar

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Joseph Hughes Construction

ARCHITECT: SSOE Group

ENGINEER: DCI Engineers

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: PacWest Drywall & Painting, Sun Glow Heating & Cooling, DP Plumbing

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: A 4,800-square-foot former restaurant was transformed into an eight-room medical facility. Among the spaces are an X-ray room, pre-employment testing/screening rooms, and a training room. ADA parking lot upgrades also were performed.

The project included many challenges, including the previous tenant’s deferred roofing repairs, which resulted in the need to replace trusses, decking and rotted framing. A compressed construction schedule required pre-ordering all casework, doors and built-in furniture before the job began. This change required detailed layout and adjustment, as typically these items are ordered and manufactured after framing is completed.

In addition, to accommodate the opening date and the material delay of the project’s specified air handling unit, two smaller units were installed that combined have the same/greater air handling capabilities. They now work in unison and are ducted together to provide the same output of the original delayed unit.

AFC Urgent Care has been a client of Joseph Hughes Construction since 2011. JHC originally built four clinics under the Doctor’s Express brand in Lake Oswego, Northwest Portland, Southeast Portland, and Beaverton. In 2016, Doctor’s Express was purchased and rebranded AFC Urgent Care, and JHC went on to build clinics in Oregon City, Beaverton, Tigard, and now Hillsboro. JHC will start building another clinic in the Beaverton/Cedar Mill area in around 60 days.

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PROJECT: Aloha Family Housing

LOCATION: Southwest Alexander Street and 174th Avenue, Beaverton

START DATE: March 2022

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: fall 2023

DEVELOPMENT COST: $34.39 million

OWNER/DEVELOPER: BRIDGE Housing Corp.

RESIDENT SERVICES/OUTREACH PROVIDER: Hacienda CDC

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: LMC Construction

ARCHITECT: Scott Edwards Architecture

ENGINEERS: Stonewood Structural Engineers, Macdonald Environmental Planning, Vega Civil Engineering, Interface Engineering

FINANCING PARTNERS: Oregon Housing and Community Services, Washington County, Metro, Union Bank, National Affordable Housing Trust/SAHF Affordable Communities Fund, Energy Trust of Oregon

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: Otak Construction Management, Qualified Enclosure Consultants, QED Lab, Cascade Radon, Sunbreak Energy Advisors, GRI, AKS Engineering & Forestry, Carlson Testing, Chameleon Design, Hahn and Associates, MSC Construction, TMG Wall Systems, Express Fire, Jet Industries, Polaris Electric, Lauzon Contracting

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: Aloha Family Housing will provide 81 apartments – a mix of studios, one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units – at affordable rates for families earning 30 percent to 60 percent of area median income (currently $31,950 to $63,900 for a four-person household). The facility also will hold a manager’s unit. The site is close to transit, parks/natural areas, schools, large employers, medical facilities, and retail businesses.

Planned amenities include private bike storage, a laundry room, a community room with a kitchen, on-site offices for property management and resident services, and a courtyard with a playground, raised garden beds, barbecue grills and outdoor seating. A full rooftop solar array will be installed; the complex is designed to receive Earth Advantage platinum certification.

BRIDGE is committed to 20 percent to 30 percent participation by subcontractors and professional service providers with COBID (Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity), MWESB (Minority-owned, Woman-owned, Emerging Small Business) or SDVBE (Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Business Enterprise) certification. Also, Hacienda CDC will provide youth and family services and market the property to the historically neglected Latinx and Asian American communities.

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PROJECT: LCC Florence Center upgrades

LOCATION: 3149 Oak St., Florence

START DATE: June 2021 (design)

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: October 2022

CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $8.2 million

SIZE: 17,426 square feet

OWNER: Lane Community College

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Lease Crutcher Lewis

ARCHITECT: Woofter Bolch Architecture

ENGINEERS: Mazzetti (civil, MEP), KPFF (structural)

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: Cameron McCarthy Landscape Architecture and Planning (landscape architect), Nossa Norman Design Studio (interior design), M.Thrailkill.Architect LLC (specifications)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: The Florence Center is a Lane Community College satellite campus. It is an essential educational resource for the county’s entire western area, providing a wide variety of academic and community support offerings. The 17,426-square-foot facility was initially constructed as the 10,000-square-foot LCC Siuslaw Skills Center in 1974 and then was expanded over the years.

The renovation, partially funded through an Oregon Seismic Rehabilitation Grant and community-approved bond money, centers on addressing critical seismic, maintenance and accessibility deficiencies as well as improving spaces to support student learning. The design aims to improve the facility’s function, provide long-term flexibility, and support contemporary academic instruction. Improvements include full replacements of the original building’s electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems, and upgrades of existing shear walls and the roof diaphragm. Also, architectural finishes are being replaced and classrooms’ audio-visual elements are being updated.

The site design seeks to maintain the 9-acre campus’ forested feel while creating a safer environment. Visibility is being increased by clearing overgrown plants, using low-growing native plantings, and adding site lighting while still meeting the city’s “dark sky” requirements. Additionally, low walls flanking the campus’ moat-like entry are being removed and a small entry plaza is being created outside of the entry to add a welcoming “front door.”

Work is occurring as LCC transitions from remote learning to in-person classes. Long lead times for required equipment and the college’s desire to use buildings during the fall 2022 term presented challenges. The project has been phased to allow for safe operations while work progresses.

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PROJECT: Benson Polytechnic High School modernization

LOCATION: 546 N.E. 12th Ave., Portland

SIZE: 163,000-square-foot renovation; 216,000-square-foot addition

START DATE: August 2021

ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: August 2024

COST: $267.1 million

NUMBER OF WORKERS EMPLOYED: 180

OWNER: Portland Public Schools

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Andersen Construction

ARCHITECT: Bassetti Architects

ENGINEERS: Mazzetti (civil), PAE (mechanical/energy), KPFF (structural) Glumac (electrical/low voltage)

OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: Angelo Planning Group (land use planning), Architectural Resources Group (historic preservation), Mayer/Reed (landscape architecture), Greenbusch Group (acoustics/AV), JBK Consulting and Design (food service consulting), The Pinnacle Consulting Group (specialty equipment), Forensic Building Consultants (envelope), Construction Focus (cost estimating), Lensa Consulting (sustainability/LEED), O-LLC Lighting Design (lighting design), PLA Designs (theater), Adams Consulting & Estimating (hardware), PBS Engineering & Environmental (hazardous materials)

PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: Benson Polytechnic High School, which serves students throughout the Portland Public Schools district, is not a typical neighborhood high school. Founded in 1917, the school in recent decades has seen its focus shift to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) and CTE (career technical education).

To plan for modernization, a robust planning process was developed with outreach to instructors, students, alumni, community members and industry partners. Their input helped establish principles for the new design. The concept of the colocation of CTE and academic programs was a main driver of the layout.

Crews are modernizing the most historically significant portions of this landmark: the 1917 main classroom building, the 1925 gymnasium, the 1929 auditorium, and the 1917 foundry building. Also, the historic buildings’ facades – including original masonry, terra-cotta and windows – are being restored. Interior spaces are being reconfigured and updated, with a focus on life safety, accessibility, functionality, sustainability and historic significance.

At the heart of the school, a new wing will house a commons area, a student store and a digital café/career center flanked by two secure courtyards. New two-story wings facing the east courtyard will provide state-of-the-art CTE spaces along with academic classrooms in an arrangement that maximizes functionality, adaptability, transparency, daylight, and outdoor access on a tight site.

A LEED gold rating is being targeted. Construction is scheduled to finish in 2024.

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Project name: Elementary School 29

Location: 7201 S.E. Kinnaman Road, Hillsboro

Start date: Summer 2021 (phase 1 sitework); March 2022 (phase 2)

Completion date: Fall 2023

Cost: $39.6 million (including planning/permitting, architectural design and construction)

Owner: Hillsboro School District

Project Manager: Cornerstone Management Group

General Contractors: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co. (Phase 2 – building); The Saunders Co. (Phase 1 sitework)

Architect: DLR Group

Engineers: AKS Engineering

Other Associates/Consultants: Greenscape (landscape)

Project Archives:

Significance of Project and Project Description: Construction of a new elementary school, currently unnamed, is under way on 8 acres at the northeast corner of Southeast Kinnaman Road and Southeast Reed Drive in Hillsboro. The new two-story, 73,500-square-foot facility will have the capacity for 600 students.

Construction is taking place in two phases. The first phase (sitework) began in summer 2021 and was completed in December. It included excavation, grading, underground utilities, rock compaction and other earthwork. Work also involved adding curbs, ramps, sidewalks and retaining walls, and adding streetlights, sidewalks and driveways. The parent dropoff/parking lot and staff parking lot also were built, and well as the foundation and fencing for the lighted, synthetic turf field.

Phase 2 – construction of the building – began in March. The district said this is the third school to be built using the prototype design already completed at Brookwood and Atfalati Ridge elementary schools. Features include a rooftop solar array, STEAM lab, think tank and several group learning areas adjacent to the classrooms. The layout provides for natural daylighting. The new gymnasium and turf field will also be used as resources for community youth recreation. The school will be built to “immediate occupancy” standards, and also can serve as a shelter after a major seismic event.

The original plan was for the school to open in the fall, but enrollment projections indicated that Rosedale Elementary School could continue to serve as the home school for the student population in the area through the 2022-2023 school year. Naming of the new school is currently in process under task force oversight, after community surveys were conducted. The task force also will oversee the school’s mascot naming and development of school colors and logo. A boundary adjustment process will begin this fall and conclude by next spring.

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