Project name: Flock13

Location: Eugene

Completion: August 2024

Size: 95,000 square feet

Cost: $24 million

Owner/Developer: deChase Miksis Development

Architect: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Interior Designer: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Engineers: KPFF, Säzän Group

General Contractor: John Hyland Construction

Submitting Company: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Other Associates/Key Consultants: Comfort Flow Heating, Twin Rivers Plumbing, Jensen Hughes, Brian Davies, Taylour White

Subcontractors: Acousti-Level Floor Systems, Advanced Cabinets, Building Material Specialties, Comfort Flow Heating, Commercial Metal Products, Empire Paint & Remodel, ES&A Sign & Awning, Geopier Northwest, Haines Brothers Masonry, Hartness Drywall, Home Insulation, I-5 Glass, Interior Technology, Kaminski Construction, Kelly’s Appliances, Largo Concrete, Omlid & Swinney,  Otis Elevator, Overhead Door Co. of Eugene-Springfield, Reynolds Electrical and Plumbing, Rexius, Sellwood Construction, Stedman Sheet Metal, Thomas Kay Flooring & Interiors, Umpqua Roofing

A new seven-story mixed-use building has strengthened the commercial corridor at the University of Oregon‘s west entrance, combining retail space with student housing in a project that emphasizes sustainability and campus community.

Flock13, a 95,000-square-foot, H-shaped structure, houses 107 student apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units, while its ground floor features three eateries open to university students and the broader community.

The building earned an Earth Advantage Multifamily Gold Level Certification through energy efficiency measures, healthier indoor air quality standards, responsible material usage and water conservation. Testing showed the building performing approximately 20.3 percent better than permitted code requirements.

The building’s construction presented challenges due to its location on a busy commercial street beside the university’s main entrance. John Hyland Construction worked closely with the city, university and subcontractors to minimize disruption to neighboring businesses and the thousands of students passing the site daily.

The structure combines two floors of Type 1 concrete construction with five floors of Type IIIA wood frame construction. Its design includes light courts that provide direct access to natural light and air on upper floors while bringing daylight into the basement level.

Student amenities include a second-floor 1,600-square-foot shared indoor/outdoor common space with built-in booths, an open lounge with soft seating, and a counter facing a covered terrace that overlooks 13th Avenue. The terrace features an outdoor grill and fireplace, while a garage door connects indoor and outdoor spaces.

The project embraces “Duck life” with yellow accents on both exterior metal façade and interior spaces, plus duck silhouettes in signage, paying homage to the university mascot.

Flock13 was designed and constructed alongside an exterior refresh of The Duck Store, the university’s flagship bookstore, creating what designers call “a cohesive, active street edge” that reinforces pedestrian vitality along 13th Avenue, a commercial street once known as “The Beach” for its popularity as a student hangout. The façade redesign includes new paint and glulam entry portals below an uplit, perforated metal panel screen that wraps the concrete frame and CMU infill building.

“The combined Flock13 and Duck Store exterior project re-establishes 13^th Avenue as the iconic campus-college edge at the University of Oregon,” said John Rowell, senior principal with Rowell Brokaw Architects, in the project nomination form. “With high-quality student housing, street-oriented amenities, new restaurants opening to south-facing seating, and the lively Duck Store refresh, this is where ducks land in Eugene.”

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