PROJECT: Beaverton Youth Development Center

LOCATION: 9785 S.W. Harvest Court, Beaverton

SIZE: 14,000 square feet

COST: not provided

START DATE: September 2021

END DATE: summer 2022

OWNER/DEVELOPER: YMCA of Columbia-Willamette

ARCHITECT: Leeb Architects

ENGINEERS: MKE & Associates (mechanical/electrical); Standridge Inc. (civil); KPFF (structural)

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OTHER CONSULTANTS/ASSOCIATES: CU Design (interiors)

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: An existing warehouse is being renovated to become a YMCA youth development center. The structure had served as a Beaverton Police Department evidence storage facility prior to acquisition by the YMCA of Columbia-Willamette. Now it will become a community hub that hosts youth-focused activities and events.

The Youth Development Center will be next to the existing Beaverton Hoop YMCA. Together, the two facilities will be part of an expanded, inclusive YMCA campus. The new center will be 14,000 square feet and serve children of all ages. The campus will expand after-school, child care and learning options for families in the area.

A $10 million capital campaign was launched several years ago by the YMCA of Columbia-Willamette to purchase both the Beaverton Hoop building and its warehouse neighbor in order to develop a fitness and child care center. Though the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges, the organization tapped operating dollars to buy the buildings in July 2020.

Leeb Architects was engaged from the beginning, working with the community and stakeholders on design. Now, Precision Construction is tackling the project, which is expected to wrap up next summer.

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Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers has signed a five-year lease agreement for the former Wapato Jail building, real estate investor Jordan Schnitzer announced recently.

Schnitzer, president of Harsch Investment Properties, agreed to lease the 155,400-square-foot Bybee Lakes Hope Center for the token amount of $1 a year.

“After two years of looking for the right partner, we are now entering into a five-year lease with Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers to renovate and repurpose the project formerly known as Wapato,” Schnitzer stated in a news release. “Since purchasing the property in 2018, we have entertained numerous proposals from credible nonprofits to help homeless and others in need.”

Schnitzer stated that he was impressed after meeting with Helping Hands founder Alan Evans, who was homeless for 27 years before establishing the nonprofit in 2002. It’s based in Seaside, and now has 11 facilities in Multnomah, Clatsop, Yamhill and Tillamook counties.

The lease agreement is a milestone in the yearslong effort to put the never-used jail building to some useful purpose. Schnitzer had pushed for a social-service tenant, saying he would otherwise demolish the building. In October 2019, Schnitzer went so far as to unveil plans for a 314,000-square-foot warehouse. The former jail, completed in 2004, is in an industrial area dotted with fulfillment centers and other facilities.

Developer Marty Kehoe, who acquired the building from Multnomah County, sold it to Harsch for $5 million in April 2018.

The project team that will convert the jail into a shelter and reentry center was assembled by construction manager DAY CPM. Precision Construction, an affiliate of Hoffman Construction – the ex-jail’s original builder – has been selected as general contractor. Architecture and engineering services were awarded to Otak Inc.

Otak will work with VLMK Engineering + Design, Interface Engineering and Knot to provide functional architecture, way-finding and interior design.

The Bybee Lakes Hope Center will pair supportive services with transitional housing. Helping Hands will open three of the nine wings at the facility and house up to 228 beds in the first year of operation, Harsch announced. At full capacity, the center will be able to serve 525 individuals.

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The University of Western States has completed its move to a recently renovated office building in Northeast Portland.

The private integrated health sciences university, best known for chiropractic education, has relocated to 8000 N.E. Tillamook St. The campus centers on a 152,575-square-foot building that formerly served as Banfield Pet Hospital’s headquarters.

The University of Western States had planned to reopen for the spring quarter beginning on April 6. Instead, the school has shifted all classes online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Despite the global pandemic, we succeeded in meeting our timeline and completing this complex relocation,” Dr. Joseph Brimhall, president of UWS, stated in a news release. “I am proud of our team for accomplishing this historic move in the midst of challenging circumstances. This campus relocation enhances opportunities for collaboration with other institutions and community partners, and fosters a healthy and sustainable center for generations.”

The superblock building on 82nd Avenue was constructed in 2006. It was purchased for $25 million in February 2019 by W.P. Carey Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in New York City, according to public records.

The building received substantial work last year, permits show. An $11.68 million alteration permit was issued for tenant improvements in April 2019. Work included reconfiguring first-floor treatment rooms and reworking second-floor rooms to create executive offices and upgrade accessible restrooms. The parking lot was also reworked; new islands were cut into the lot and associated site work was conducted.

Architect Eric Lanciault designed the project; Precision Construction Co. served as the contractor.

The 116-year-old university previously operated at 2900 N.E. 132nd Ave.

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The Children’s Course, in Gladstone, is unique in the Portland-metro area: It offers young people the opportunity to learn how to play golf on its nine par-3 holes.

Now, with a planned $1.5 million expansion of the facility’s Learning Center , triple the number of children will be able to participate in the various educational programs. Further, the additional clubhouse space will be dominated by cross-laminated timber in one of the smallest commercial projects of its type in Portland to date.

“We’re using CLT for the additions,” said Gary Hartill, founder and principal at Portland’s Orangewall Studios, which performed initial concept design for the project on a pro bono basis. “One of my particular interests was trying to see if it’s cost-effective to use on a smaller scale, and it has actually been. With savings of delivery time, it’s actually proved to be quite viable. That’s allowing us to turn over the project sooner to the group, so it’s been great to use that technology.”

The existing clubhouse was built along with the course, which opened in 1960. The building has about 3,000 square feet of floor space and was renovated less than two years ago. But the clubhouse’s interior will be gutted and renovated as part of the expansion, while a multipurpose room will be dramatically enlarged to allow seating for up to 50 people. Also, a new (donated) golf simulator will be installed, and classroom and office space will allow up to eight additional staff members to set up shop.

The latest project is being spearheaded by The First Tee, a nonprofit that runs the course’s educational programs. Work is being carried out as sufficient money is raised, but Hartill said that the permitting process should wrap up by the end of October. That will pave the way for construction to begin. The general contractor for the project will be Precision Construction, which is a division of Hoffman Construction.

Using CLT, Hartill said, allowed the design to employ “big, gabled volumes” wrapped in metal to both highlight mass timber and promote energy efficiency.

“For any nonprofit, operating costs are always a big challenge,” he said. “So, looking at material selections, we want something that’s easy to maintain and is low impact so they can focus on the program rather than throwing dollars to building maintenance.”

Use of mass timber was further driven by a desire for a different kind of feel for the space. To help the process, youth golfers in First Tee programs were asked to give their input.

“They wanted to showcase this piece, and … they wanted something that didn’t feel like an institutional building, but something more residential in scale or form,” Hartill said. “It’s just so exciting to be able to bring (CLT) to a smaller-scale project. It’s viable and they’re going to have a space that looks like two million bucks.”

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For the new exterior of the Brigadier General James B. Thayer Oregon Military Museum, Portland architect Don Stastny chose a metal siding that evokes the artifacts inside.

“To me, it was inspiration taken from a lot of military equipment,” he said. “It has a certain calmness to it, but a certain strength to it too.”

The STASTNY: Architect LLC co-founder has spent the past two years designing a $14.6 million project to remodel and expand a 1950s armory building at Camp Withycombe in Clackamas into a new home for , and build an adjoining park and memorial gardens. The project also includes creation of a covered outdoor space to display tanks and other military vehicles and restore the two oldest buildings at Camp Withycombe, which was established in 1909.

Crews from Portland-based Precision Construction Co., a division of Hoffman Construction Co., last month started work on the project’s first phase. Project backers are still seeking $7.1 million in donations through a led by the Historical Outreach Foundation to complete improvements to the former armory building and park as well as create the planned exhibits.

The museum has been closed to the public since 2009, when its previous home at Camp Withycombe was torn down to make room for the 41st Infantry Division Armed Forces Reserve Center. That same year, the museum’s artifacts – in total, more than 14,000 – relating to Oregon’s military history were transferred to the armory building.

The 40,000-square-foot building provided ample space for the collection; however, because of an aging heating and ventilation system and other deficiencies, the structure needed an extensive renovation for the museum to reopen, said Alisha Hamel, executive director of the Historical Outreach Foundation.

“It was not a good environment for artifacts,” she said. “The bones of the building are amazing. We just need to make the environment of the building into a museum.”

The former armory building also lacks a lobby able to accommodate school field trips and visits from large groups, Hamel said. Project plans call for an approximately 4,500-square-foot building addition with a large lobby.

The foundation, a nonprofit that supports preserving and sharing military history, since 2011 for the renovation project. In September, KISS band member Tommy Thayer, son of the museum’s namesake, James Thayer, organized a benefit concert in Lake Oswego that raised $1 million for the project. Nearly $8 million has been secured.

Stastny became the design architect though his work with the Oregon Military Department creating a set of design standards for the state agency’s capital projects. With more than 40 years as a practicing architect, he also has extensive experience designing museum projects.

“I know how the Oregon military works and I’ve been working with museums my whole career,” he said.

Last summer, Stastny started working with THA Architecture to finalize the project designs. The Portland-based firm is serving as the architect of record.

“Our effort has really been to keep the spirit of what Don has come up with,” THA project architect Derek deVille said. “I think the goal of this project is to make it much more efficient to run the museum. The building wasn’t designed to be a museum. It really lacked a front door and I think that’s what Don realized early on.”

The armory building may not have been designed to be a museum, but the structure was a great jumping-off point for the project, Stastny said. Other than various upgrades and the addition of a metal facade over the precast concrete structure, changes to the existing building will be minor, he said.

“What this old armory building gives us is a tremendous resource,” he said. “By using the old building we develop a tremendous repository function.”

The former armory’s expansive indoor spaces are especially ideal to display large artifacts, such as military vehicles and cannons, Stastny said.

“It’s the kind of artifacts you wouldn’t normally find in a museum,” he said. “We use the drill hall, which gives us the option to have major artifacts under a covered roof.”

When the project is complete, museum visitors will pass on the way to the main entrance through a plaza and garden honoring Oregon’s military veterans, deVille said.

“It will be a place for reflection as well as storytelling,” he said.

Near the garden, Camp Withycombe’s oldest buildings, the Quartermaster Storehouse and Battery A Horse Barn, will be restored to look much as they did when they were built in the early 1900s, deVille said.

The extensive history of Camp Withycombe and Oregon’s military will be celebrated via the project, Stastny said.

“The whole idea of the museum is as much for educational purposes as memorial purposes,” he said. “This whole idea of citizen soldiers – they become such an integral part of the American military story. In many ways, it’s a memorial to them, but it’s also kind of a ‘thank you’ for what they’ve done.”

Work on the museum’s outdoor portion is scheduled to finish in August 2015. The entire project is anticipated to wrap up by summer 2018.

Brigadier General James B. Thayer Oregon Military Museum

Location: Camp Withycombe, 15300 S.E. Minuteman Way, Clackamas

Cost: $14.6 million

Construction start date: November 2014

Anticipated construction completion date: summer 2018

Owner: Oregon Military Department

Developer/fundraiser: Historical Outreach Foundation

Design architect: STASTNY: Architect LLC

Architect of record: THA Architecture

Landscape architect: PLACE Studio

Civil engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers

Structural engineer: ABHT Structural Engineers

Mechanical and electrical engineer: Interface Engineering

General contractor: Precision Construction Co.

Other associates: Listen Acoustics (acoustical)

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Crews are working at the site of the future Freedom Center 1, a three-building complex of 150 affordable rental units and a retail space. The property is in Northwest Portland on Pettygrove Street between 14th and 15th avenues.  General contractor began work on the site in August, and is expecting to finish the work by next summer.

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Nearly two-thirds of the Overton Pearl, a five-story office building in Portland’s Pearl District, will house the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Precision Construction is the general contractor and Fosler Portland Architecture is the designer of the project.

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Renovations are under way at the law offices of Tonkon Torp LLC in downtown Portland. Three floors of the Pioneer Tower at 888 S.W. Fifth Ave. are in the middle of a remodel to create community spaces, conference rooms, offices, work stations and employee lounges. The work is scheduled to be completed in December, and is being performed by Precision Construction Co. from a design by MulvannyG2 Architecture.

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