An 86-year-old commercial building in the Central Eastside Industrial District is being demolished to create space for a new mixed-use development. Crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services began demolition Tuesday of the 8,000-square-foot former home of Portland Music Co. at Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Washington Street.

The building and an adjacent parking lot will be replaced by a six-story building with ground-floor commercial space and five stories of open creative office space. Andersen Construction is serving as the general contractor for the Hacker-designed project, which is being developed by a partnership between Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners.

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Crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services are demolishing the former Willamette Athletic Club property in the John’s Landing neighborhood of Southwest Portland. Developers Guardian Real Estate Services purchased the property  earlier this year, and are building a GBD Architects-designed apartment building on the site.

Andersen Construction is serving as general contractor on the $43 million project, which  totals 195,000 square feet and includes 166 one- and two-bedroom apartments, 144 parking spaces, rooftop deck with entertainment kitchen, gym, paddleboard storage, and bike parking and repair space. The project is slated for completion in December 2015.

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Crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services are demolishing a nearly 40,000-square-foot building on the North Williams Avenue/Vancouver Avenue corridor to make way for a large mixed-use development. Andersen Construction is the general contractor on the project, designed by Myhre Group Architects for Seattle-based owner Security Properties.

Three buildings with a total of 268 residential units and over 25,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space will be built on the site. A six-story building will occupy the north-facing portion of the block along North Skidmore Street, a five-story building will run along North Williams Avenue, and a three-story townhome-style building will be built along North Vancouver Avenue. The development will also contain a subgrade parking garage with 237 parking stalls.

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Crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services have demolished a two-story office building at Southwest 12^th Avenue and Clay Street in downtown Portland and are clearing the site in preparation for a new apartment building. The 8-story project, called the Cameron Apartments, will be built by Bremik Construction for Summit Real Estate Management. The 64,500-square-foot building features 83 units and a ground-floor fitness room, leasing office, and resident amenity spaces. The project’s designer is SERA Architects.

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A full block of former warehouse space in the Pearl District is being demolished by LOI Environmental & Demolition Services to make way for a 26-story mixed-use tower for Unico Properties. Andersen Construction is serving as the contractor on the Overton Apartments,  located on the block bounded by Northwest 12^th and 13^th Avenues and Overton and Pettygrove streets. ZGF Architects is the designer of the building, which will have 285 residential units and ground-floor retail space.

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Crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services are in the process of demolishing a Northeast Glisan Street building in preparation for the construction of guest housing for Providence Portland Medical Center. Designed by ZGF Architects and to be built by Howard S. Wright, the Providence Guest Housing building will contain 30 units to house the family and patients of the hospital’s cancer center. The 2.5-story wood-frame structure will also feature community space including a kitchen, living area, and a reflection room for families who need a peaceful space outside of their living quarters.

Demolition of the 88-year-old concrete structure began last week and is expected to last through early July. Completion of the project is slated for April 2015.

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A crowd gathered along Southeast 13th Avenue in Sellwood Monday to watch the demolition a building that housed longtime neighborhood watering hole the Black Cat Pub. The 107-year-old building was razed by crews with LOI Environmental & Demolition Services. General contractor John Residential Construction Group will build a four-story, 21-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail on the site for owner Farid Bolouri.

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LOI Environmental & Demolition Services are demolishing the 120,000-square-foot former Kmart store in Milwaukie to make way for a used car seller. The 14-acre property was purchased for $13.08 million last year by Virginia-based CarMax, which also plans to open a Beaverton location near the Washington Square Mall.

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