Portland’s skyline is changing.

Several high-rises are finishing up and are under construction, including the 460-foot-tall Block 216 that is climbing the Portland skyline and Alamo Manhattan’s Block 41 – a 23-story tower popping up in South Waterfront.

Here are the next nine towers in Portland’s pipeline:

(Click the images for more information on each project)

[1] Pearl Block 24

Developer: Greystar
Architect: GBD Architects

Pearl Block 24 would be a 22-story (about 250 feet tall) tower with roughly 440 units and 3,000 square feet of ground floor retail. The project site is bordered by railroad tracks diagonally to the north, The Fields Park to the east, Northwest Quimby Street to the south, and The Abigail and The Holden of Pearl, a senior living tower under construction to the west.

The high-rise would include slightly more than 450,000 square feet and include a seven-story, angled bar-shaped portion and a three-story podium with about 300 below-grade parking spaces. The project last received design advice from Portland Design Commission on Oct. 20.

[2] The Phillip Apartments

Address: 555 N.W. Park Ave.
Developer: Fields Holdings
Architect: TVA Architects

Three design options are on the table for the eastern half of the historic Honeyman Hardware block in the Pearl District: An 11-story, half-block scheme; a 16-story tower; or a 19-story quarter-block scheme. Initially, a 23-story high-rise was proposed for the site, but after comments from Portland’s Historic Landmarks Commission and the public, plans for the building were significantly scaled down.

The project last received design advice from the Historic Landmarks Commission at the end of September. In the meeting, the preferred option presented was the 11-story, half-block scheme with about 200 residential units. The structure consisted of an eight-story addition that would hover above the two-story Bindery Building on the block. The addition would have a penthouse suite on top.

[3] RiverPlace Phase 1

Address: 150 S. Montgomery St.
Developer: NBP Capital
Architect: GBD Architects

A 30-story, 344-unit tower is set to rise on the southern parcel of Block 1 in the approved RiverPlace master plan area. The development is phase 1 of a more extensive buildout of the 8.03-acre RiverPlace site adjacent to the South Waterfront Park.

The Bureau of Development Services projected the project to cost about $82 million during the land use process. The Portland Design Commission approved its final design in August. Most recently, a demolition permit was issued for the RiverPlace Athletic Club on the site.

[4] Sandy Pine

Address: 900 S.E. Sandy Boulevard
Developer: SolTerra Capital Inc.
Architect: LEVER Architecture

At 125 feet, Sandy Pine is anticipated to be Portland’s tallest mass-timber building. The Portland Design Commission approved the 12-story structure in June. The development will have 276 apartments (including six live/work units), 14,500 square feet of commercial space and bike parking, and 2.5 levels of below-grade parking for 178 vehicles.

The project is LEVER Architecture’s second attempt at a mass-timber tower in Portland. The first, Framework, a 12-story mixed-use building envisioned for the Pearl District, gained approval and even had building permits issued – but financial difficulties halted the project in 2018.

In its design review, Sandy Pine was valued at about $36 million. Framework initially was expected to cost $34 million.

[5] Welby 

Address: 1325 N.W. Kearney St.
Developer: Killian Pacific
Architect: Bora Architecture + Interiors

The Portland Design Commission approved the design of the 21-story, 280-unit multifamily building in May. The tower’s green facades could make it a standout building in the North Pearl District as it will stick out from the gray, black and brown tones of most skyward buildings.

Welby will have 5,500 square feet of retail space at ground level and 4-1/2 levels of underground parking. The Bureau of Development Services projected the project to cost about $106 million during the land use process.

[6] SW Park Apartments

Address 2059 S.W. Park Ave.
Project Owner: Park Avenue PSU LLC
Architect Tahran Architecture & Planning

A 12-story affordable housing development is set for the corner of Southwest Park Avenue and Southwest Clifton Street. The building will have 98 residential units.

Plans for the development initially called for an 11-story, 89-unit building, but in October, the Portland Bureau of Development Services reapproved it as a 12-story development.

Most of the structure will be prefabricated and use modular units with mass plywood panel flooring and ceiling systems. As planned, SW Park Apartments will be the tallest modular structure in the city.

[7] Modera Main Street

Address: 1155 SW 19th Ave.
Developer: Mill Creek Residential
Architect: Ankrom Moisan
Contractor: MCRT PNW Construction

The 17-story building set for Goose Hollow will be one of Portland’s largest multifamily developments. At nearly 435,000 square feet, the development will fill a full-city block and hold 337 apartments.

The building will wrap around a large-scale parking structure with 403 stalls that residents will share with Multnomah Athletic Club members.

The project is under building permit review with the Portland Bureau of Development Services.

[8] Press Block’s Full-Block Development

Address: 1621 S.W. Taylor St.
Developers: Security Properties and Urban Renaissance Grou
Architect: Mithun

The second phase of the Press Blocks development is underway in Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood. The entire development comprises one-and-a-half city blocks at 1621 S.W. Taylor St., on the old Oregonian printing press site near Providence Park. Construction wrapped in summer 2020 on the eight-story, half-block, Canvas office building.

Now, it is the full block’s turn. The site will include a 24-story high-rise with 341 apartments as well as a three-story, 30,000-square-foot commercial building with retail space, live/work units and creative office space. The developments will be linked by an underground parking structure that will hold 473 vehicle parking stalls and secured bike storage.

Demolition began in September on the old Oregonian printing press building and will last roughly six months, according to a representative for Security Properties. The final Press Blocks buildout will take about three years to complete.

[9] Hollywood HUB Housing

Project Owner: TriMet
Developer: BRIDGE Housing
Architect: Holst Architecture

Hollywood HUB Housing would be TriMet’s first transit-oriented development under its new Transit-Oriented Development Guidelines. Plans call for a 12-story, 120-foot building capable of supporting 234 affordable units. The project, in part, is a reimagining of the Hollywood Transit Center.

The goal for the site is to create a seamless transit connection from the Hollywood MAX station across the Interstate 84 pedestrian bridge to the three bus lines that run down Halsey Street. The project’s scope includes a new pedestrian and cyclist connection to the end of the pedestrian bridge.

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A smaller footprint is likely for an initially proposed 23-story high-rise in Portland’s Pearl District. Plans presented Monday to the Historic Landmarks Commission were significantly downscaled.

Fields Holdings‘ development for 555 N.W. Park Ave., the Philip Apartments, would be an addition to the eastern half of the historic Honeyman Hardware block that consists of the Bindery Building, the Metro Building and the Cotter Building. In all schematics proposed, the entire quarter-block Metro Building and a portion of the Bindery Building would be demolished.

Monday marked the project team’s second design advice hearing before the Historic Landmarks Commission. In February, commissioners called the 23-story tower design “overwhelming,” and its glass curtain façade “not contextual.”

The team returned with three new design options. The preferred one would be an eight-story, half-block addition with a metal and brick exterior that would hover above the two-story Bindery Building. The addition would have a penthouse suite on top.

The other two consisted of a 19-story quarter-block scheme and a 16-story version of the original design presented.

“Clearly,” Bob Thompson, applicant and TVA Architects principal said, “we were shooting for the sky on the first go around.”

The difference in the two proposals is immense; the new preferred proposal is 46 percent shorter and has 33 percent less floor area ratio and 32 percent less leasable space. Also, the number of residential units was dropped from 337 to about 200.

Public comment favored this option. However, commissioners jumped back and forth between elements in the preferred option and the quarter-block scheme, which wouldn’t have a base; instead, that 204-foot-tall structure would rise from the ground.

Yet after three and a half hours of discussion on Monday, little consensus was reached among commissioners on a direction forward for the design.

The project’s developer, Eran Fields, stated that the team will not return for a third design advice hearing. If the project is to advance, clarity is needed from the commissioners, he said.

“We took an enormous amount of time and effort to get to this point,” Fields said. “Maybe that doesn’t mean much. But for us it means a lot, and we try to come back with a building that you can’t possibly tell me that if someone bikes by, walks by, drives by, this building once built, they’re not going to be impressed.”

Thompson added that the project team is not in the business of gambling.

“There’s a lot of money that(‘s) spent in advancing these ideas,” he said. “So, the clarity is critical.”

At the end of the meeting, in round-robin style, commissioners offered their views. Commissioner Andrew Smith said all three buildings on the block should be treated like they are all different. Commissioner Peggy Moretti strongly disagreed with that, stating that the preferred option is a good path forward. Commissioner Kimberly Moreland said the preferred option works well.

However, Commissioner Matthew Roman said there are preferred option aspects that he could not support. The quarter-block schematic – although taller – is more successful, he said. Commission Chair Kristen Minor said there should be more of a mix between the quarter-block design and the preferred option.

Next up for the development team is a land use review hearing.

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Another high-rise could be in store for the Pearl District.

TVA Architects has requested a pre-application conference, now scheduled for March 9, with the Portland Bureau of Development Services for a possible 23-story tower with 337 housing units and approximately 3,300 square feet of retail space. The proposal for 514 N.W. Ninth Ave. also calls for three stories of underground parking with 192 stalls.

The site sits across Northwest Hoyt Street from the 14-acre ex-U.S. Postal Service property, where Broadway Corridor is in the works. The tower project’s owner, Eran Fields of Fields Holdings of Los Angeles, said he hopes it will be a catalyst for Broadway Corridor development.

Plans call for demolishing half of the historic Bindery Building and the entire Metro Building. The tower would then rise on the block’s western half – looking onto the Broadway Corridor side.

The building would include market-rate and inclusionary housing units. There would be two amenity spaces – on the roof and the second floor – that would include terraces, a pool deck, a fitness center, meeting rooms, a lounge and a theater room.

Also, a two-story basketball court is proposed. The developer previously included half of a basketball court in The M – a 24-story tower near the University of Washington in Seattle. Another indoor basketball court will be in Fields’ new 12-story, 260-apartment building in Eugene; crews are set to break ground this fall.

Currently, the Pearl District tower’s design includes a simple but elegant exterior.

“(I am a) believer in a clean, elegant building that will stand the test of time,” Fields said.

The tower would share a property line with the site’s existing buildings at the ground floor and then be set back as it rises. This would preserve the existing buildings’ identities and allow for better views within the tower, Fields said.

It is Fields Holdings’ first project with a design by TVA Architects. It was the first firm Fields approached for the project, he said, and “that was it.”

The project team hopes to break ground in the third quarter of 2023 and finish within 26 months, Fields said. The project could potentially be completed in spring 2025.

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