The first project within the OMSI District has a green light. The Portland Design Commission on Thursday approved the design of a five-story, 100-unit affordable housing development, Los Colibris, on tract A of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry campus.

Holst Architecture designed the approximately 86,500-square-foot building planned at 1701 S.E. Water Ave. The project is being developed by Hacienda CDC and Edlen & Co. OMSI is the landowner. The project team also includes civil engineer KPFF, landscape architect PLACE, and Colas Construction.

Portland Permitting & Development values the project at $36 million. No specific construction schedule exists at this time, Holst Architecture principal and owner Dave Otte stated in an email. The project team will next look to secure funding.

Previously, the project team received design advice during a hearing in November 2025.

The site’s primary challenge is its location adjacent to Interstate 5. A large, multiuse courtyard on the east side faces away from the freeway to give residents a space shielded from traffic noise, the project’s narrative states.

Landscaping will be intense closer to the building, Holst Architecture senior associate Dustin Furseth said, adding that color will also be a key component.

“We think something bright and colorful next to OMSI adds to the beauty of that area,” he said.

The building’s name, Los Colibris (“The Hummingbirds”), ties into the design, Furseth said.

“Hummingbirds have a neutral palette often with highlights of color, which I think is a nice way of thinking about how to add color and vibrancy to a project,” he said.

Overall, the building will have a neutral color with hints of color at the windows and more vibrancy on the massing at the courtyard and entry.

Building materials will include primarily fiber cement with options for texture and paneled direction. Metal panels might have deeper texture folding like chevrons able to reflect color, Furseth said. The design team is exploring custom accent colors for fiber cement.

Layers of glazing are planned at the front entrance and the community room.

The roof will hold heat pumps and mini splits. Most of the rooftop equipment will be relatively low in sightlines, Furseth said.

Commissioner Brian McCarter added that he’d like to see a buffer around the children’s play area.

The commission’s approval came with five design modifications and 12 master plan amendments. One condition requires a landscape buffer of at least 10 feet maintained for the length of the building’s south elevation, at the northern side of the western half of the Bull Run pathway. Alternative configurations would be considered through a staff-level type II design review. This will preserve existing trees to screen the ground-floor units as the Bull Run pathway develops.

Modifications were approved for zoning code standards. These include providing approximately 57.5 percent of frontage and a wide courtyard to create active public space, creating an arcade along the east façade, modifying window standards and uses on the ground floor, and using 50 percent of the roof area for solar panels.

Master plan amendments include changing the timeline of development of open space 2, reducing the extent of the Bull Run improvements associated with tract A, removing the 20-foot building setback above 50 feet in height for tract A, removing the building pass-through at tract A and shifting vehicle access to the north, relocating the private wastewater treatment plant to a location to be determined, delaying provision of the OMSI identity framework, transferring 2,000 square feet of floor area to tract A from other tracts, removing the building line requirement from the north side of tract A, reducing the ground floor height requirement for tract A, and adjusting the Southeast Old Water Avenue right of way.

The wastewater treatment plant will likely be relocated to the south on tract A or tract F, according to OMSI.

Artwork will be included in the project; OMSI plans to be involved in the process.

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The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved three amendments to a proposed ordinance that would add nearly $56 million to the Portland Housing Bureau‘s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year. The proposal’s aims are to address the homelessness crisis and low-income tenants facing eviction.

The Portland Housing and Permitting Committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to adopt the proposed ordinance and send it to the council. A final vote will take place on April 15.

Appropriations would be made to the following Portland Housing Bureau funds: $40.4 million to the Housing Investment Fund, $4.8 million to the Tax Increment Fund, and $10.7 million to the Inclusionary Housing Fund. Separately, $4 million would go to the city’s general fund.

A November 2022 internal review process had identified $20.7 million in unspent funds within the Portland Housing Bureau’s Residential Rental Registration Program. These funds are used to provide landlords and tenants with services, support, technical assistance, and public information about rental housing units in Portland.

Earlier this year, city staff identified an unbudgeted balance of $35.2 million in specified sub-funds within the Housing Investment Fund. Over the past few months, the City Council has discussed how to use the funds to address homelessness.

“There is no single solution to our housing crisis,” Councilor Candace Avalos (chair of the Housing and Permitting Committee) said during Tuesday’s committee meeting.

One amendment includes $9 million for rent assistance, $1.9 million for eviction defense services, $8.8 million in affordable, non-market housing portfolio stabilization debt buy-downs that enable targeted rent reductions, $200,000 in expanded funding to provide support for landlords implementing tenant protections, $800,000 to offer down payment assistance to tenants in a position to purchase a home, and $8.6 million in the general fund.

Another amendment funds the Broadway Corridor‘s Parcel 6, with $4.8 million from the TIF River District and $800,000 from the Portland Housing Bureau.

A third amendment allocates $3.5 million in gap financing for Hacienda CDC‘s Monarcha project (previously named Minnesota Places II). Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney said the project site currently holds a shell building; however, with additional funding to complete the work, the development would provide 57 affordable family-size units. The amendment also includes allocating $18.3 million for the creation of a fund dedicated to loans for long-term housing construction, affordable housing preservation, and acquisition of properties for social housing and permanent public ownership.

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An affordable housing project in Portland is on pause while a new design is being created to reduce costs.

Hacienda CDC and Gorman & Company are redeveloping Villa de Clara Vista, which is in the Cully neighborhood, at 5300 N.E. Cully Blvd. The 100-unit garden-style apartment complex, built in the 1960s, has reached the end of its useful life, according to the Portland Housing Bureau. Currently, the plan is to demolish the existing 12 buildings and construct three four-story buildings with a total of 108 units.

“Due to age of the buildings and their original construction quality, renovation is not a feasible option,” Hacienda CDC spokesperson Isaac Montes stated in an email. “Hacienda has been working for many years to plan and implement a strategy that brings new, modern housing to the community that replaces … the current units.”

The project team also includes design architect Salazar Architect, architect of record Hooker DeJong of Grand Rapids, Michigan; civil engineer BKF Engineers, structural engineer Aman Structural Engineering, landscape architect PLACE, general contractor LMC Construction.

The current design calls for including mass timber sourced from local sources. Other amenities would include laundry rooms, open space and sustainable features such as rooftop solar arrays, stormwater retention features, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and highly efficient windows, lighting and mechanical systems.

“The goal is to bring those savings in electricity and power down to the tenants,” Hacienda CDC CEO Ernesto Fonseca said.

The units are to be affordable for people earning 30 to 60 percent of area median income.

The total project cost is approximately $75 million. Funding partners include Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), Metro, Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) and Raza Development Fund — a national Latino-focused nonprofit. But with the full scope of complexities clarified, the project team is facing a funding shortfall of $5 million.

Meanwhile, after securing a reservation with OHCS in 2023 for $10 million in funding, the project team surrendered that with the intention of reapplying later.

“About a year and a half ago, we were supposed to start the project, but cost escalation and uncertainty in the market didn’t allow us to do that,” Fonseca said.

A new design is expected to help bridge the funding gap. One possibility is that the buildings would be only three stories instead of four, allowing the elimination of costly elevators. In that scenario, the number of units would remain 108.

“We are going to be focused on finding savings first,” Fonseca said of the design changes.

Previous plans were to build on a small portion of the site and preserve the rest of it for related use — possibly more affordable housing. But if buildings were to end up three stories, they would become wider and consume more of the site. That would leave only half an acre.

“It’s going to be big enough for us to build a community space right at the corner of Cully (Boulevard) and Emerson (Street),” Fonseca said, noting that the space would become a mini plaza for the entire neighborhood.

Four to six months are expected to be devoted to the redesign effort. Then the team will reapply to OHCS through the Oregon Centralized Application (ORCA) process and seek additional resources such as a Community Development Block Grant, Metro funds, and donations.

If Hacienda CDC were unable to secure sufficient funding for the project, the nonprofit could choose to sell some of its bankable land, Fonseca said. The organization owns 20 acres between Salem and Portland.

When the redesign is complete, the team will create a master schedule and resubmit an application for city permits. Construction is expected to begin in late 2027 or early 2028.

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The Portland Design Commission on Thursday got its first look at plans for an affordable housing development at 1701 S.E. Water Ave., in the OMSI District. Approximately 100 residential units are proposed for the five-story Los Colibris (“The Hummingbirds”) building.

This is the first project within the OMSI Central City Master Plan, which was adopted in 2023. The project site, tract A, is in the Central Eastside Industrial District, between the main Oregon Museum of Science and Industry building and the Pepco workshop/warehouse. The Marquam Bridge looms to the immediate west.

Holst Architecture is designing the project for owner/co-developer Hacienda CDC and co-developer Edlen & Co. OMSI is the landowner. The project team also includes civil engineer KPFF, landscape architect PLACE, and general contractor Colas Construction.

The project is valued at $36 million, according to Portland Permitting & Development.

The proposal moves the site’s existing parking and loading access point to the north of the tract and places additional separation between the Los Colibris building and the master plan’s Open Space-2, where the OMSI waterfront education park is planned.

While the project is still in conceptual design, Holst Architecture is eyeing cross-laminated timber (CLT) for the building. The team is also looking to meet passive house standards for energy efficiency, focus on quality of light, and include vibrant colors.

Active ground-level uses would be mainly in the building’s middle and northern portions. They would include meeting rooms, a multipurpose community room with a kitchen, a lobby with mail space, office space for resident services, and property management offices. The project team proposes to keep the community room at the center of the building.

There is not enough programming to fill the entire ground floor, said Dustin Furseth, a Holst Architecture senior associate.

“I’m totally OK with having that community facility in the middle (of the ground floor) as long as there is floor-to-ceiling windows, so pedestrians have a visual connection to the greenway,” Commissioner Zari Santner said.

Some residential units are proposed for the southern end of the ground floor. Most would be situated on the west elevation, facing a garden and play area. However, two would face the Bull Run public right-of-way connecting to the greenway, four would face Water Avenue, and a two-bedroom unit would be at the corner of Water Avenue and the Bull Run area, a staff report states.

The Bull Run path is about 30 feet wide and runs along the south side of tract A, according to city spokesman Elliott Kozuch. The Portland Water Bureau owns the Bull Run, and beneath the path there is a pipe used to move water from the Bull Run watershed on Mount Hood to the Washington Park reservoir.

Commission Chair Brian McCarter suggested flipping the ground floor’s layout so the early learning center would be where the two-bedroom unit is currently. Then the early learning center would be on the more pedestrian-accessible side of the building.

“I do have a lot of concern about … the sequencing of Bull Run and the units (planned near) the property line,” Commissioner Joe Swank said.

Commissioners suggested a five-foot setback or elevation change. The design team agreed to examine how high the first floor could be constructed in accounting for the residential units situated near the Bull Run path. Landscaping would also provide a buffer for the units.

Active ground-floor space on the east elevation would be set behind an arcade – a series of arches supported by columns that create a covered walkway. The commissioners suggested a wrap-around canopy as an alternative.

The design includes an outdoor courtyard in front of the building and outdoor communal space in the back. This courtyard allows space for residents and their guests to gather and be partly sheltered from the noise of Marquam Bridge traffic.

“I think the courtyard is essential,” Commissioner Joe Swank said.

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Affordable housing and Lake Oswego might seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in one of Oregon’s most expensive and exclusive suburbs, officials broke ground Wednesday on a small apartment project dedicated to providing units at below-market rates.

A few dozen dignitaries and industry officials busted out ceremonial golden shovels for El Nido, a 55-unit development on Boones Ferry Road near Lake Oswego’s Lake Grove neighborhood.

The $32 million project is Lake Oswego’s second affordable housing project funded by Metro bonds. The first, Mercy Greenbrae at Marylhurst Commons, was completed with 100 units in May 2024.

“I’m very pleased that this project is in Lake Oswego,” Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West said. “Affordable housing sites should be distributed throughout the county.”

Metro purchased the site in 2023 from the city of Lake Oswego for $2.3 million. Before that, the parcel had long served as construction staging for the Boones Ferry Road project, Lake Oswego Mayor Joe Buck said.

Using the land for affordable housing is “life changing, and it’s the most impactful thing we could do,” he said.

Construction commenced after developer Hacienda Community Development Corp. successfully legally challenged a decades-old 25-foot setback requirement from an adjacent road that severely constrained the site’s buildable area.

“I thought, we’re going to be left with a dining room table in the middle,” joked Ernesto Fonseca, chief executive of Hacienda CDC. “Clearly, that’s not going to work.”

The building will outlive today’s troubled times, he said, noting “so much persecution of minorities in this country.”

“This will pass,” Fonseca said, while the building will continue to provide affordable housing well into the future. “This will be here for a long, long time ahead.”

El Nido’s design team is a partnership of Mackenzie and Access Architecture. Colas Construction is serving as general contractor alongside subcontractors including J.A. Mechanical and SOS Exterior Remodeling.

Andrew Colas, CEO of Colas Construction, recalled that Hacienda CDC first hired the Black-owned contractor in the late 1990s. Hacienda took a chance on Colas Construction for a project with two six-unit buildings when Colas had not yet tackled a project that large, he said.

“There was always an RFP written that said you shouldn’t try,” Colas said, referring to a request for proposals.

Colas said he had worked with the subcontractors on increasing their capacity to take on bigger jobs, including co-signing for a line of credit in one case.

El Nido — Spanish for “The Nest” — is part of Metro‘s drive to build thousands of affordable housing units funded by the $652.8 million regional housing bond passed by voters in 2018. The regional government is on track to build 5,600 affordable housing units, well above the initial goal of 3,900 homes, Metro Councilor Christine Lewis said.

“We’re overdelivering,” she said Wednesday. “We’re killing it.”

Ten units at El Nido will provide permanent supportive housing with services for residents. One apartment, to be used by the property manager, is not a regulated affordable unit, leaving El Nido with 54 affordable units.

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An effort to build a mass-timber manufacturing facility for affordable, modular housing at the Port of Portland has received a major boost from the Oregon Legislature and a federal grant program.

The Hacienda Community Development Corporation and the port were awarded $5 million from the Legislature during a special session on Monday night.

Earlier Monday, the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to create a strategy for a mass-timber manufacturing facility at Marine Terminal 2. The coalition advances as a finalist to compete for up to $100 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan.

The local group is aiming to jump-start housing production and support Oregon’s emerging mass-timber industry, officials stated.

“This partnership with the Port of Portland fills a gap for modular housing developed right here in Oregon, providing not only new housing options but job opportunities and new markets for Oregon wood products,” Hacienda CDC CEO Ernesto Fonseca stated.

Fonseca added that modular homes “could offer rapid response options to address housing shortages created by emergencies like wildfires.”

The coalition comprises the Port of Portland, Business Oregon, the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Department of Land Conservation and Development, and the Tallwood Design Institute – a Corvallis-based partnership between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.

The Oregon Department of Forestry plans to use the grant to partner with federal land managers to restore forests devastated by the 2020 Labor Day wildfires and provide wood fiber for mass timber construction, Deputy State Forester Kyle Abraham stated.

Oregon has quickly grown into a U.S. hub for mass timber. Riddle-based D.R. Johnson is a major manufacturer, and several Portland-based developers, architects and construction firms specialize in cross-laminated timber buildings.

Portland is home to the tallest CLT building, Carbon12, as well as major CLT commercial buildings such as District Office and Albina Yard. More are coming, including Sturgeon Development Partners‘ Flatworks building on Southeast Grand Avenue.

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In the Portland-metro area, housing developments are continuing to rise. One that is advancing in Gresham’s Rockwood neighborhood may not look much like others when it’s finished.

General contractor LMC Construction is building Rockwood 10 – a six-building, 224-unit complex – slightly north of Southeast Yamhill Street at 186th Avenue. The project is being developed by Community Development Partners, a certified B Corporation with a Portland office on Northeast Alberta Street. Hacienda CDC is a co-developer and co-general partner. Waechter Architecture provided the design.

Low-income housing tax credits are being used for the project, so a portion of the apartments will be affordable housing units.

“It’s always been envisioned as an affordable housing project,” said Jessica Woodruff, CDP’s director of development for Oregon. “But we were always looking for ways to provide community benefit.”

Those benefits are twofold. First, Rockwood 10 will provide a highly diverse collection of units: 14 four-bedroom, 89 three-bedroom, 74 two-bedroom and 47 one-bedroom apartments – a mix virtually unheard of in today’s market. The residential buildings also will be unusual in that the ground-floor units will feature front entrances, rather than typical loaded corridors.

“This was really envisioned as family housing, so there are lots of larger units,” said Wendy Klein, CDP’s development manager for Oregon.

Second, the entire development will wrap around a large central park area and community building. The park will provide amenities ranging from play structures for kids to a large field suitable for sports. The community building, meanwhile, will feature a kitchen and an area for food carts. The structure will be used for events, classes and even small conferences. An existing grove of evergreen trees on the 7.4-acre site will remain and become host to a picnic area and walking paths.

A new stretch of Southeast 186th Avenue, meanwhile, will bisect the site north to south and create easy access between Yamhill and Stark streets. The park area will be open to the public and accessible not only from the new street, but also from apartment complexes to the east and the Knova Learning public charter school to the west.

“It’s really opening up that street to invite the public in,” Klein said.

LMC Construction Superintendent Reed Ledbetter noted the development will have a sustainable stormwater system.

“All site water is trapped and reintroduced (to) the site,” he said. “Drainage for the parking areas is done with a PaveDrain system that will basically take all the surface water from the paved areas and let them into a permeable paver system, and then there is basically a drywell system underneath.”

The new street, he added, will feature a series of vegetated drainage areas that direct street runoff into a series of drywells.

“Basically this has a net-zero impact to the existing storm infrastructure,” Ledbetter said. “It is purely just reintroduction to the soil.”

The project team also is focusing on hiring minority-owned, woman-owned and disadvantaged subcontractors as well as many east Multnomah County firms, said Richard Reese, LMC Construction vice president of construction.

“We have quite a few of these subcontractors who are local to the Gresham area,” he said.

Major subcontractors include: Time Frame Construction, Jet Electrical, Jet Mechanical, Jet Fire, Atlas Plumbing, LaRusso Concrete, Van Lom Concrete, Gresham Roofing, KO Contracting and Westside Drywall.

Rockwood 10 also will have public art throughout, Klein said. CDP has issued a request for proposals from parties interested in handling some of the remaining installations. Overall, the art will include a bright orange structural post, murals, custom light fixtures, metal sculptures and even custom fabrics for the furniture in the community building and other parts of the complex.

“We are actually on the search for local artists to do it,” Klein sad. “There are a host of opportunities for art that we’re trying to solicit artists for.”

Rockwood 10 is poised to become one of the most unique housing complexes of its type in the metro area.

“In my development experience, you often are trying to develop toward something, so this one is very interesting,” Woodruff said. “It’s more looking inward, but we’re excited to have a development that looks and feels different.”

The first of the five residential buildings is scheduled for completion in April 2021, with the remainder set to open in intervals ranging from one to two months thereafter.

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A Northeast Portland building that for years hosted a complex of adult entertainment businesses is undergoing demolition. An affordable housing facility to be built in its place is the result of years of work by Cully neighborhood residents and nonprofit organizations to transform the site into a positive community asset.

Located on a triangular lot at the intersection of Northeast Cully Boulevard, Killingsworth Street and U.S. Route 30, the site was formerly home to the Sugar Shack strip club, which was a haven for prostitution and human trafficking.

A team of community nonprofits, including Hacienda CDC, Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East, Verge and the Native American Youth and Family Center, formed a coalition called Living Cully and purchased the property in 2015. Hacienda CDC bought the property from the partnership two years later and is planning to redevelop the site with a 140-unit affordable housing complex.

Much of the building’s interior has already been demolished: Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. used it in years past to teach hands-on demolition skills to pre-apprenticeship students. Before structural demolition commenced last month, the ReBuilding Center held a community giveaway for salvaged materials and furniture reclaimed from the site.

General contractor LMC Construction is overseeing the demolition. Abatement contractor IRS Environmental of Portland removed asbestos roofing and interior materials, and demolition contractor Lauzon Contracting last week began structural demolition work.

The 67-year-old building’s exterior walls are made of 18-inch-thick cast-in-place concrete formed with dimension lumber.

“It’s actually a pretty stout old building,” said Art O’Leary, a project superintendent with LMC Construction.

The 26,000-square-foot building will be taken down to the slab by next week. The new affordable housing project is still in the development phase. Salazar Architect is designing a four-story, 140-unit apartment building with three floors of residential units over at-grade parking, community space and residences. Plans also call for food cart vendors involved in Hacienda CDC’s Micro-Enterprise programs and an urban plaza/green space.

In an effort to honor women and bury the exploitive nature of the site’s past, the new development will be named Las Adelitas in homage to a group of women who participated in the Mexican Revolution as soldiers, medics and spies.

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After a nonprofit coalition bought the former Sugar Shack strip club in the Cully neighborhood last year, more than 1,000 residents showed up at a community meeting to discuss future plans for the property, which totals approximately two acres.

Anna Gordon, outreach coordinator for the Living Cully group, knew then that plans should be up to the residents, so she gathered neighborhood kids to participate in the design process.

Living Cully was formed in 2010 as a collaboration of four nonprofits: Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East, Hacienda Community Development Corp., Native American Youth and Family Center and Verde. Living Cully, according to its website, “reinterprets sustainability as an anti-poverty strategy by concentrating environmental investments at the neighborhood scale and braiding those investments with traditional community development resources.”

Gordon said no decision has been made about the existing building on the property, but plans were sought for 20,000 square feet of the site. She engaged Alex Salazar of Salazar Architects Studio to oversee the design – but with input from around 40 kids.

To begin the process, Gordon said, Living Cully held four planning workshops with students in neighborhood after-school programs.

“They had kind of a brainstorm and voted on top ideas and then came back and did design charettes,” she said. “We placed different elements on the site and then came back and modeled what the final design would look like.”

Portland Parks & Recreation also helped, Gordon said, by arranging a field trip for the students to five area parks.

“The director of parks (Mike Abbate) came with us and interacted with the kids,” she said. “It was a great opportunity to learn about landscape architecture, and Alex talked about being an architect, giving them exposure to career opportunities.”

Salazar, who has been in practice in Portland for about a year and a half, was point person working with the students, he said. He has taught architecture at schools including Portland State University and the University of California, Berkeley.

“My task was to determine what we could do with the site and involve the kids in the process,” he said.

Salazar also involved the Center for Public Interest Design at PSU. Its staff helped run the design charettes.

All students, including a group of skateboarders in the parking lot, were invited to participate. The students, mostly from middle schools and high schools, didn’t agree on everything at first, Gordon said, but they learned to compromise.

“A big group wanted a skate area and another group had wanted a basketball court for a long time, so there was a little bit of tension,” she said. “But we incorporated them in the design and they collaborated.”

Some of the girls in the design charette also wanted a garden area, and that was incorporated as well, Gordon said.

“I think it was a great community-building exercise for them, and they learned to respect each other,” she said.

Living Cully bought the Sugar Shack property at 6739 N.E. Killingsworth St. after a successful crowdfunding campaign last year that raised $54,000 and helped secure financing for the $2.75 million purchase.

No money is available for construction yet, Gordon said, but eventually plans will be finalized and work will take place in phases.

“We don’t have money to build this, and it will be baby steps at the beginning,” she said. “It’s not a done deal, but this has been a great project, a need in the community and it’s been great to have an opportunity to (involve youths in the) design.”

To help publicize the effort to design the small park, Gordon said the entire process involving Salazar and the students – including their tour of city parks – was recorded. The video will be shown to community groups and others who want to help the redevelopment project.

“It’s still tentative, what came out of the youth workshops, and (the final design) might not include all those things, but it’s been a great design process and we’ll be showing it to people who might be able to partner with us,” Gordon said.

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A former auto dealership on Southeast Foster Road in Portland is being transformed to the , a Latino marketplace and small business incubator. Bremik Construction is serving as general contractor on the $2.4 million project, which was designed by Scott | Edwards Architecture for developer Hacienda CDC.

Work on the 6,776-square-foot building includes extensive interior demolition, sawcutting of slab for new plumbing lines, extending of parapet walls, new exterior siding, new mechanical/electrical/plumbing systems, and new exterior siding. A pod of food carts will be located on the property’s 38,000-square-foot lot, where site improvements will include landscaping and pervious pavers. The project is slated for completion in January 2015.

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