Project name: TimberViewLocation: Portland

Completion: December 2024

Size: 74,385 square feet

Owner/Developer: TimberView VIII LLC

Architect: Access Architecture

Engineers: Caliber Plumbing & Mechanical, DCI Engineering, Summit Engineering

General Contractor: Truebeck Construction

Submitting Company: Access Architecture

Other Key Participants: City of Portland, Brightworks Sustainability Consultants

Subcontractors: Acousti-Level Floor Systems, All Trades General Contractor, Authority Dock & Door, Berrien Concrete, Black Line Glazing, BrandSafway, CARE Industries, Carpentry Plus, Cascade Tower & Rigging, Centurion Fire Protection, Contract Flooring & Interiors, Coria Landscaping, Crossover Construction, Diversified Fall Protection, Eagle Striping, Elite Electrical Group, Extreme Excavating, Flynn BEC, Frontier Door & Cabinet, Galloni Granite, General Sheet Metal, Green Transfer & Storage, Ha’s Painting, Kalesnikoff Mass Timber, Kinetic Parking Solutions, Kittelson & Associates, McDonald & Wetle, Mid-Valley Glass & Millwork, Mill Plain Electric, Northwest Delta, Otis Elevator, Pacific Foundation, Pence Kelly Construction, Permapost Products, Procraft Equipment, RDH Building Science, Sign Wizards, Sowles, Standard TV & Appliance, System Design Consulants, TerraCalc Land Surveying, VPI Quality Windows, Westech Construction, Whiskey Hill Electric, Zeeland, Zochert Fence

A groundbreaking eight-story affordable housing development in Northeast Portland is showcasing how sustainable building materials and premium amenities can coexist in housing for lower-income residents.

TimberView VIII, located at the corner of Northeast Glisan Street and 99th Avenue, provides 105 affordable units to tenants making 60 percent or less of the Area Median Income while targeting LEED Platinum certification. The development is among the first to use Oregon’s newly adopted building code amendment allowing for mass timber buildings under Type IV-C construction. Its primary structure consists of Glulam beams and columns with cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for flooring.

The use of mass timber elements necessitated top to bottom team coordination. TimberView was built using 56,304 cubic feet of sustainably harvested PNW lumber, which instead of releasing carbon sequesters it long-term into the building and results in a net impact akin to removing approximately 370 cars from the road for a year.

TimberView offers 28 studio apartments, 56 one-bedroom, 15 two-bedroom, and six three-bedroom units ranging from 331 to 1,019 square feet. Residents benefit from a rooftop deck, community room with mountain views, lobby, on-site laundry and bike parking for 160 bicycles. The ground floor houses Array Food Hall, a restaurant incubator space featuring pods for four food establishments and a bar, designed to create a mixed-use environment where people can live, work and eat.

As the tallest building in the neighborhood, the views from TimberView’s many units are breathtaking. The height allows the building to be seen from the 205 freeway near the Glisan exit, so it acts as a welcoming landmark for the Gateway neighborhood, much like the historical Gateway Arch that gave the neighborhood its name.

An innovative hydronic water system supplies radiant floor heating throughout the apartments, providing energy-efficient heating rarely found in affordable housing.

Located in Portland’s Gateway Neighborhood, TimberView replaces what was previously a single-family home and aims to be a catalyst for development in an area targeted by the city for dense growth outside downtown.

Access Architecture designed the building, with DCI Engineers handling structural engineering and Truebeck Construction serving as general contractor.

The project aligns with Portland’s 2045 Housing Needs Analysis, which determined that 120,000 more housing units are needed by 2045, with an additional “catch-up” supply of 55,000 units needed by 2032.

The development is conveniently located near the Gateway/NE 99th transit center with access to multiple transit options. This walkable location reduced on-site parking requirements, allowing for maximum units and amenity spaces.

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