PROJECT: New Road Ahead (Oregon Humane Society expansion)

LOCATION: 1067 N.E. Columbia Blvd., Portland

SIZE:��two buildings on 4.25 acres

COST:��$39.5 million

START DATE: March 2020 (site work); June 2021 (construction)

ANTICIPATED END DATE: summer 2022

OWNER/DEVELOPER: Oregon Humane Society

CONSTRUCTION/PROJECT MANAGER: inici Group

CONTRACTOR:��Lease Crutcher Lewis

ARCHITECT: Scott | Edwards Architecture

ENGINEERS: Humber Design Group, KPFF, PAE Consulting Engineers

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE/PLANNING: PLACE

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: After more than seven years of planning, the Oregon Humane Society’s most ambitious expansion project in its 153-year history – New Road Ahead – has begun. One new building will house a Behavior Rehabilitation and Rescue Center, and a second building will house an Animal Crimes Forensic Center and a Community Teaching Hospital. They will rise on land adjacent to the group’s existing campus in Northeast Portland. The project is intended to address some of the most pressing animal welfare issues: keeping pets and people together, and preventing animal cruelty and neglect.

The first building will hold 21,498 square feet on two stories. The Community Teaching Hospital will occupy the first floor. It will be the first clinic in Oregon dedicated to providing accessible veterinary care to low-income clients and their pets. The Animal Crimes Forensic Center – the first facility of its kind on the West Coast – will occupy the second floor. It will facilitate collection and analysis of evidence to build strong cases against animal abusers.

The second building will be one story and hold 13,876 square feet. The Behavior Rehabilitation and Rescue Center will be dedicated to helping traumatized pets heal in a safe environment.

Both buildings will feature specialized HVAC systems able to increase air circulation and prevent the spread of disease.

Excavator operators have already removed 2,875 tons of rock, asphalt and concrete from the site, which formerly was designated for industrial use. Crews will construct a tranquil landscape with bioswales, a rain garden and a dog walking path.

The New Road Ahead project will create more than 60 jobs.

The Oregon Humane Society is providing $3.5 million for the $39.5 million project; fundraising is under way for the remaining $36 million. To learn more and donate, visit www.oregonhumane.org/new-road-ahead.

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PROJECT: Amaterra Winery

LOCATION: 7856 S.W. Mayway Drive, Portland

SIZE:��46,000 square feet

COST:��$26 million

START DATE: January 2019

ANTICIPATED END DATE: April 2021

OWNER: Amaterra

DEVELOPER: Touchmark

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE/CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: O’Brien & Company

CONTRACTOR:��Emerick Construction Company

LEAD ARCHITECT: Waterleaf Architecture

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Mayer/Reed

INTERIORS AND FURNITURE: GBD Architects

ENGINEERS: Glumac (MEP), Humber Design Group (civil), TM Rippey Consulting Engineers

MAJOR SUBCONTRACTORS/OTHER ASSOCIATES: Whitaker/Ellis Builders, TT&L Sheet Metal, Team Electric, American Heating, Anning-Johnson, Heinz Mechanical Industries Inc.

NUMBER OF WORKERS EMPLOYED: 45

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: Emerick Construction is working closely with Waterleaf Architecture and O’Brien & Company, the construction manager, on this three-story, 46,000-square-foot project – the first full-production winery in the Portland metropolitan area. Approximately 3,600 cubic yards of concrete was used for the foundation and structure of the two lower levels that will serve winery production. Approximately 35,000 square feet of 12-inch, precast/prestressed, hollow-core planks were placed for the Level 2 and 3 suspended slabs. The top level, which will house a restaurant and event space, is wood-framed with a multi-gabled roof structure that emulates the West Hills in which the building is located. The project started in spring 2019 with ground modification. The project was undertaken with an aggressive schedule coupled with a phased design process. A very tight site on a slope, with deep excavation in a microclimate subject to high winds, necessitated a lot of coordination and planning. Currently, site construction and the build-out of the restaurant and event space are under way, and completion is expected late this spring. Like many projects in 2020, this one challenged its team because of the atmosphere of the times. Team members adapted to the momentum adjustments associated with COVID-19. Also, a few weeks of forest fires required constant evaluation of the schedule and creative thinking to keep materials arriving and crews working. Once open, the facility will be home to a gravity-flow winery led by Willamette Valley winemaker Matt Vuylsteke. Its production will be predominantly pinot noir and chardonnay. The restaurant will serve as both a tasting room and dining space.

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A wave of protestations by neighboring residents on Thursday greeted the design team of a hotel planned in Portland’s Pearl District. That reception came during the team’s first advice hearing before the Portland Design Commission, which offered a number of criticisms on the initial proposal.

Minneapolis-based ESG Architecture & Design presented its plans for a 13-story, 131-foot-tall hotel, which would sit on a quarter block at the corner of Northwest 14th Avenue and Everett Street. Local firms make up the rest of the team, with DCI Engineers serving as structural engineer, Humber Design Group serving as civil engineer, and Mortenson Construction acting as owner, developer and general contractor.

The brand of the hotel has not yet been disclosed.

Plans call for a 105,000-square-foot building with 221 guest rooms, a fitness room on the top floor and a ground floor occupied by bar, lounge, market and meeting spaces. The entrance, lobby, lounge and only loading zone would be on Everett Street.

In taking cues from the Pearl District’s industrial past, a metal frame would wrap around the building’s exterior. It would also have metal panels, a healthy portion of glass windows, and smaller bits of metal and brick veneer.

The design was only partially responsible for the influx of Pearl District residents who came to voice their disapproval. Besides a few comments about the proposed dark color, opponents mostly took aim at the prospect of such a large building in the particular location, as well as possible traffic issues, because 14th Avenue essentially serves as an off-ramp for Interstate 405.

“Its appearance and proposed height overwhelm this corner of the south Pearl,” said Patricia Cliff, president of the Pearl Neighbors for Integrity in Design.

Cliff went on to say the area is gaining too many hotels, which are designed to maximize owners’ profits, and not serve the community’s interests.

Resident Glen Traeger similarly said the proposed building would be too dark and should better represent the neighborhood’s history. He also proposed conducting a traffic study to determine the potential ramifications of building a hotel in such a car-crowded area.

Commissioners for the most part did not address the points brought up by the public, but rather the design’s more nuanced elements – including the overall massing, the shape and the use of materials.

Much was made of a need for a setback in the building’s middle floors, to give more of a shape. Commissioners said the current design looks too much like a box. While a decrease in the upper massing was offered as a solution, there was also a suggestion by Commissioner Jessica Molinar to cave in the windows, which are currently flat against the exterior walls.

In the same vein, Commissioner Don Vallaster and others said the metal frame would be too flat and needs to be more distinguished. As designed, the building wouldn’t have the industrial look being pursued, they said, but it could if it were more protruded. The design team provided examples of other hotels with this aesthetic in locations outside of Portland.

Commissioners also said the materials used would be too various and cluttered. They said there was too much color, and the aesthetics would clash when combined.

“It needs to be simplified,” Commissioner Samuel Rodriguez said. “I don’t have a problem with the material; it’s how you’re using (it), how you’re putting it all together.”

The Design Commission will schedule a follow-up hearing for the hotel project.

Also on Thursday:

Parking garage office addition approved

The Design Commission OK’d plans for a nine-story office building addition to an existing six-story parking garage being built in Lloyd. The 100 NE Multnomah Office Building will be built across Northeast Holladay Street from the Oregon Convention Center.

The project was designed by ZGF Architects for owner and developer Prosper Portland. Mortenson Construction will serve as the general contractor.

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A new mixed-use building on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard marks the first mid-rise infill venture for TMT Development – a firm most known for building downtown towers including Park Avenue West, Fox Tower and 1000 Broadway.

The Marilyn is a four-story building with nearly 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 59 apartments, 12 of which are affordable to households earning 60 percent or less of the area median family income due to the developer utilizing Portland’s Multiple-Unit Limited Tax Exemption (MULTE) program. Residential amenities include a top-floor community room and outdoor patio, bike storage, a pet area, and an at-grade parking garage with 22 spaces.

The building is named after the late Marilyn Moyer; she was the wife of TMT Development founder Tom Moyer and grandmother of current President Vanessa Sturgeon. TMT has owned the property since the gasoline shortage of the 1970s, when Tom Moyer purchased what was then a filling station to ensure that supplies could reach his chain of movie theaters throughout the western United States. Most recently, the site was used by Kruger’s Farm as an open-air market and produce distribution point.

LRS Architects designed the building, which includes lower, set-back corners in order to fit with the scale of the neighborhood. The project team spent a lot of time with neighbors discussing the design, and Sturgeon says there’s potential for TMT to tackle more developments like this one.

“This project has gone much better than we would have expected,” she said. “You have to be very careful in a residential neighborhood like this, and we don’t want to disrupt people’s lives. But this project has gone very well in that way, so I think we might be ready to try it again.”

Bremik Construction served as general contractor for the project, which has a slab-on-grade foundation, second-floor post-tensioned concrete deck, and wood framing on the upper floors. AAI Engineering was the structural engineer, Humber Design Group was the civil engineer, and Shapiro Didway served as the landscape architect. Commercial Realty Advisors NW is representing the commercial space, and Guardian Real Estate Services is managing the residential portion.

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A 162-unit condominium project under construction in Portland’s Sullivan’s Gulch neighborhood is slated to be topped out with a final post-tensioned deck pour on Friday. Andersen Construction is building TwentyTwenty, designed by Hacker, at the corner of Northeast Multnomah Street and 21st Avenue for PHK Development.

Andersen is self-performing structural concrete work on the building, which rises seven stories above grade and has a two-and-a-half-story parking garage below grade, via subsidiary ASI Structures. Friday’s deck pour will be the 19th conducted on the project, which has presented a unique construction challenge due to the building’s shape. The seven residential floors are Z-shaped and atop a box-shaped parking garage, meaning none of the upper floors’ columns stack into the garage. As a result, the transfer deck was unusually large, with a thickness ranging from 19 to 42 inches and over 800 post-tension cables on the first-floor deck.

Along with completion of the building’s structural core, crews are finishing interior MEP work and prepping for cover on the first floor. Interior wall framing is finishing up to level three, glaziers are installing windows on the second floor, and plumbers are roughing in wet systems on the fifth floor.

According to Glenn Whitefield, Andersen Construction’s project superintendent, the biggest project challenge to date is being able to access the building from only one side. All material deliveries and concrete pours have to happen from Northeast 21st Avenue, which necessitates cautious sequencing and scheduling for deliveries.

Andersen began work on the project in September 2017, and completion is slated for July 2019. The stucco-clad building will contain studios and one- and two-bedroom units, and feature amenities including a fitness room, bike storage and workspace, a pet wash area and a ground-floor outdoor courtyard.

The project team includes Lango Hansen Landscape Architects, civil engineers Humber Design Group Inc., and civil engineers Kramer Gehlen & Associates Inc. The MEP design-build team includes Hunter-Davisson, IES Commercial & Industrial and Jackola Engineering & Architecture.

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A major expansion under way at the Mary’s Woods retirement community will add nine buildings to the Lake Oswego campus. General contractor R&H Construction is building The Village at Mary’s Woods, a $100-million-plus project that includes 198 units of independent living space, 48 assisted-living residences, three retail buildings, a community center, and significant site improvements.

Ankrom Moisan Architects is the designer of the project, which spans six acres of former open field space. Site work began in early 2017 with grading, installation of utilities and geopiers, which run eight feet on center under every structure. Construction of buildings commenced last May.

The initial scope of the project was for six new buildings consisting of a mix of independent and assisted living, a retail structure, and the community center. After construction had begun, two more retail buildings and a fourth independent living building were added to the project, extending the duration of the project by approximately six months.

The four independent living buildings are all three-story wood-framed buildings over single-level below-grade parking structures. Buyers of the one- and two-bedroom units are being given the option to pick custom finishes, which R&H is keeping track of using a software program it has used on previous projects to track building multiple units with a wide variety of finishes.

Approximately 300 trades workers are currently working on the site, and the contractor has a team of about 15. The project team also includes landscape architects PLACE Studio, civil engineers Humber Design Group, and structural engineers Froelich Engineers. The mechanical/electrical/plumbing/fire protection systems are design/build by Prairie Electric, Tapani Plumbing, Hunter-Davisson, and Patriot Fire Protection.

The first of the residential buildings is slated for turnover late this year, with two more slated to follow in the coming months. The project is slated for total completion by fall of 2019.

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A new 101-unit affordable housing development is rising on Southeast Foster Road in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood. LMC Construction is building 72Foster – a four-story mixed-use building designed by Holst Architecture for REACH Community Development. The building will feature three stories of wood-framed apartments over a concrete podium that will hold commercial and residential amenity space.

Carpenters with framing contractor Wood Mechanix are nearly finished framing the building’s fourth floor. Installation of roof trusses and the weather-resistant barrier will begin next week, and windows will follow starting next month. The building will be topped out in early June.

72Foster’s 101 apartments will range in size from studios to three-bedrooms to primarily serve seniors and families. The units will be available to people earning 60 percent of median household income; 20 units will be occupied by residents with Project Based Section 8 vouchers. REACH is partnering with Asian Health & Service Center to provide outreach and on-site programs and services to residents.

The ground floor will hold five commercial spaces totaling 8,900 square feet, as well as residential amenities including a community room and bicycle storage. A breezeway will connect the corner of Southeast 72nd Avenue and Foster Road with a public courtyard on the property.

The building will have two parking lots – one with 23 stalls and another with 12. The $24 million project also includes right-of-way work and frontage improvements, including new sidewalks, lighting and vegetation. Crews began work on the site, a former parking lot owned by Prosper Portland, in September 2017. The building is slated to open in February 2019.

The project team also includes development consultant Housing Development Center, landscape architect PLACE Studio, civil engineer Humber Design Group, and ABHT Structural Engineers.

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Humber Design Group has hired Andrew Xu as a project designer. Xu’s experience includes working as a test technician and digitizing Army Corps tide data. As a project designer, his responsibilities include project design, documentation, coordination, and stormwater calculations and reporting. He received his bachelor’s degree from Portland State University, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Engineers without Borders.

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Humber Design Group has hired Riza Liu as project designer. In her new role, Liu’s responsibilities include project design, documentation, coordination, and stormwater calculations and reporting. She received her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.

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