General contractor LCG Pence Construction announced it is simplifying its brand and dropping the first three letters from its name.

Now known as Pence Construction, the firm stated that the move also is intended to emphasize the history of the company, which was founded in Salem in 1949 by Dale Pence.

“Our values are the core of this business and we want that represented in our name and new logo,” stated Dave Hays, who co-owns the firm with Paul Schulz. “We wanted to honor Dale Pence and the history behind this company.”

The company’s new logo features Dale Pence’s signature as it once appeared on old contracts kept in company archives, Hays stated.

“We hope that when employees, clients and partners see our new logo, it will remind them of who we are and what we are about,” he stated.

In the decades after Dale Pence General Contractor was founded, others climbed aboard. First, Dale Pence’s son Curt and Terry Kelly joined to create Pence-Kelly Construction. Later, Terry Loerke of Loerke Construction Group (LCG), helped form LCG Pence Construction.

Beside the name and logo, nothing else about the company is changing, according to Schulz.

“This is just the next step in our journey,” he stated.

Pence Construction is a full-service commercial general contractor with offices in Portland, Salem and Bend. The firm builds public and private projects, including multifamily housing, senior living, K-12 education, higher education, retail and more.

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LCG Pence is looking for mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire suppression contractors to provide preconstruction services, site investigation and feedback, estimating services, and budget establishment. The successful bidder for preconstruction services will be the first one considered for the full scope of construction services.

The project calls for expanding music space, adding 14 general classrooms and a new science lab and a new special education center, and seismically retrofitting much of the high school’s core.

Much of the new classroom space will be contained in a new two- story addition, with other additions planned for administrative offices and media production.

Also, new tennis courts, softball fields and a soccer field are planned. Work will begin in summer 2019, and is expected to finish in 15 months.

Anderson Shirley Architects designed the improvements, which are being paid for with money from a $619 million capital bond measure passed in May by voters in the Salem-Keizer Public Schools coverage area. This is one of the first projects to start with dollars from the bond; others are planned throughout the district. No fewer than 42 elementary schools, 11 middle schools and seven high schools are to be expanded and renovated.

For further information, contact LCG Pence project manager Dave Jones at 503-746-3814 or davej@lcgp.com.

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LCG Pence Construction is nearing the home stretch on the construction of a full-block mixed-use building in downtown Beaverton. The Rise / Old Town, formerly known as the Signal, was designed by Ankrom Moisan Architects for Rembold and will have  78 market-rate studios, one-bedroom units or two-bedroom units and nine live-work units.

The full-block development is bordered by Southwest Farmington Road and 1^st Street to the north and south, and Southwest Main and Angel avenues to the west and east. The four-story building steps down to three floors on the southern facing, and measures 82,229 square feet. It has a slab-on-grade foundation and post-tensioned concrete decks on the upper levels. The ground floor of the U-shaped building will have a tuck-under parking and two retail spaces.

Resident amenities will include a community room with a commercial kitchen, a fourth-floor deck with a grill, fire pit, and covered seating, as well as a fitness room and washing stations for pets and bikes. The 13-month project is slated for completion by the beginning of 2017.

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A generation that has always preferred doing things its own way has started to change senior housing.

Or so say many professionals in the design and construction sectors. A number of firms in the Portland area, including builders like R&H, Perlo and LCG Pence as well as designers like Ankrom Moisan, Myhre Group and LRS, have made senior living a central focus.

R&H is working on four such projects in Oregon – Mary’s Woods in Lake Oswego, Rose Villa in Milwaukie, Cedar Sinai Park in Portland and Dallas Retirement Village in Dallas. The firm is predicting that the future of assisted living will hold more single-floor layouts, highly customizable design and feature options, and further renovations, according to R&H principal Norm Dowty.

“We’ve been in senior housing for some time now, and it continues to be a strong market,” he said.

Bob Boileau of Myhre Group Architects said senior housing is a good fit for the firm because it incorporates Myhre Group’s other core competencies: mixed use, interiors and hospitality.

People entering retirement communities these days tend to want the same things their grandkids want, Boileau said. That’s why the pool has a slide.

“We want them to know what health services we provide, but that’s not what sells,” he said. “It’s the active stuff, and contributing to a neighborhood. And there’s a pent-up demand for this. It’s what a lot of people are looking for.”

is perhaps the biggest senior living facility going up in the Portland area. It is one level, with “pocket-style” units and fun amenities as well as shops and restaurants that face outward, not in. Housing options are also highly customizable.

In general, Rose Villa was intended to feel more small-town and pedestrian-friendly, Rose Villa CEO Vassar Byrd said.

“But the difference is just that we are also on a campus where we also have pretty intensive health care options, so as they get older, people don’t have to face the incredible disruption or chaos of trying to find a nursing home when they’re already sick,” she said. “We have really transformed from what was once called a retirement community to more of a mixed-use community designed to serve people as they age.”

Part of the problem with traditional retirement homes is what Byrd calls an “institutional imperative.” Care facilities for older people have been perceived as cold, sterile buildings resembling medical offices where rules must be followed and the management is in charge. More and more new residents enter Rose Villa with different expectations.

“The baby boomers – they’re not like my grandparents,” Byrd said. “The folks coming online today are used to getting their own way. They understand consumer activism, to getting all the information they are entitled to. You need to partner with them in a serious way.”

The Mary’s Woods nonprofit continuing care facility was established by an order of nuns – the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary – who still sponsor the home and live there. Because of the sisters’ longtime residency in the area (they established an academy here in 1859), they view time differently than other developers, said architect Laurie Linville-Gregston, the project manager for Ankrom Moisan Architects.

The expansion added 200 units for individual living and a 40,000-square-foot commons area with natatorium, dining room, kitchen and administrative space. The facility was occupied throughout the renovation, presenting further difficulties for crews. The project was first proposed in 2003, but given the sisters’ deliberative decision-making – and the Great Recession – numerous revisions were required.

“Their process is a little slow,” said George Signori, an Ankrom Moisan senior associate. “But when the economy crashed, they were glad they hadn’t started yet. And it sat until the sun started shining again.”

Ankrom Moisan designed the tower-style Mirabella in the South Waterfront District. It has more of an urban feel, Linville-Gregston said. But Mary’s Woods was designed to incorporate its tranquil natural surroundings.

With a retail component, Mary’s Woods is also mixed use, like a lot of new assisted living. The shops serving food and drinks cater to drivers of nearby Oregon Route 43. Designers sought to better integrate the campus with its surrounding community, as well as with nature, Signori said. In traditional retirement homes, one enters a closed system without a need to leave.

“This one was intended to be a little more forward-thinking,” he said. “Well, actually, it’s backward-thinking – this is the way they used to do it in the old days.”

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The developers who plan to create a new upscale hotel from two historic downtown buildings hope the end result will become a community gathering place.

A plan to transform the Cornelius Hotel and the Woodlark Building, on Alder Street between Park and Ninth avenues, into a 150-room “lifestyle” hotel took on new life when the property was purchased earlier this year. Provenance Hotels and NBP Capital were major investors, and development group Arthur Mutal LLC also invested in the purchase and hotel development.

Lauren Noecker Robert, a managing member of NBP Capital, said she hopes the new hotel will attract both out-of-town visitors and locals looking for a place to “hang out.”

“For a time, the Cornelius was called the House of Welcome and that resonated with us,” she said. “We haven’t decided on a name yet, but we wanted something that invokes emotion and that says anyone and everyone is welcome. We want it to be Portland’s gathering place.”

Noecker Robert said work to renovate the two old buildings will begin as soon all the required permits are obtained.

A first step was a hearing Monday before the Historic Landmarks Commission. The commission unanimously approved the plan, with a staff-recommended requirement that no more than 20 percent of the old windows would be completely replaced.

The Cornelius Hotel, built in 1908, has been closed up for a long time, Noecker Roberts said, and “needs a little more love” than the Woodlark, which was built in 1912 for commercial uses.

Bashar Wali, president of Provenance Hotels, said plans for developing the hotel include restoring the lobby of the hotel “to its original feeling and glory,” and keeping as many artifacts as possible.

“Unfortunately, there’s not a lot left to preserve, but we hope to find hidden gems,” he said. “I have done a lot of historic hotels and have seen some where sometimes the accents are cheesy.”

The design and décor of the hotel, with the theme, “the New Northwest,” will reflect the past while also looking to Portland’s future, Wali said.

“We hope to embody what the city can become, and (the hotel) will be softer and prettier than just flannel and reclaimed barn wood,” he said. “The hipsters’ moment in time has passed. Portland is more sophisticated and has outgrown the image presented by Portlandia.”

LCG Pence Construction will serve as general contractor. All work on the project will be done by local companies, Noecker Robert said.

R&A Architecture + Design handled initial design work. MCA Architects is serving as the architect of record and is overseeing design implement of the overall project. Interior design is being handled by Staicoff Design Co. of Portland.

Because the two buildings feature different types of construction, converting them into one structure won’t be a simple process, said Ted Grund, MCA Architect’s project manager. The Cornelius Hotel, built in 1906, is made of load-bearing masonry with some iron columns and beams.

“They improvisationally used iron where they didn’t want heavy columns and the rest is timber,” he said. “It has a heavy load-bearing wall that’s 21 inches thick at the bottom. In the lower levels, to have slimmer columns, they used structural steel encased in concrete.”

The Woodlark Building, on the other hand, is built entirely of reinforced concrete with steel supports.

Another challenge in joining the two buildings is their different heights. The Woodlark is nine stories; the Cornelius is seven stories.

“Every single floor is at a different height, including the ground floor and the basement,” Grund said.

The owners estimate the renovation will cost around $30 million and will take between 12 and 18 months.

According to MCA’s application to the Historic Landmarks Commission, renovation of the two buildings includes installing new wood and a metal storefront. A new “Juliet” balcony is planned at the entrance, and a new elevator penthouse and stair tower are planned for the roof of the Cornelius.

Both buildings will require new elevators and enlarged elevator shafts, which also will add to the complexity of the renovation work, Grund said.

The project’s developers are seeking tax credits for retaining the exterior historical aspects of the two buildings using original drawings by the architectural firm of Bennes, Hendricks and Tobey.

A metal and glass canopy over the sidewalk on Cornelius will be recreated. The mansard roof on the Cornelius, damaged earlier by fire, will be restored to original condition. All windows, although they will be double-paned, will be clear glass.

The new hotel will include a large restaurant and bar on the ground floor of the old Woodlark building with a sidewalk-level lunch window on Southwest Ninth Avenue. The lobby of the Cornelius portion of the building will have bar and will serve light meals throughout the day.

The new hotel will also have deluxe suites on the two top floors with two large conference spaces and meeting rooms on the basement level.

Once the new hotel is completed, it will be Provenance Hotels’ fifth property in Portland. In addition to owning the Westin Portland, the company owns and manages the Hotel Lucia, Hotel deLuxe and the Sentinel. The company also owns hotels in Seattle and Tacoma as well as Nashville.

NBP Capital currently owns more than 2,000 apartments and 400,000 square feet of commercial space in the Portland metro area.

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Major work is complete on the new David Douglas Aquatics Center in Southeast Portland. Contractor LCG Pence Construction began work last summer on the 15,800-square-foot building, which will replace the existing swim facility immediately to the north of the new building. The SERA Architects designed building includes a 25-meter-long pool with capacity for 450 spectators, locker rooms, and offices for support staff. The first classes at the pool will be held Monday, and a ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 4.

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General contractor LCG Pence Construction is building a $6.1 million aquatics center at David Douglas High School in Southeast Portland. Work began this past summer on the SERA Architects-designed project, which is slated for completion in mid-2014.

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