The project team preparing to deliver a new two-story, 24,582-square-foot preschool/elementary school building in Tigard has received a conditional use permit for construction.

Plans for call for construction of the new building, demolition of an existing elementary school building and an adjacent preschool building, relocation of two portable buildings, and site improvements. Hearings officer Joe Turner approved the permit application during a land use hearing on April 10.

St. Anthony Catholic School, a private institution, serves children from preschool through eighth grade. The new building will occupy 2.7 acres of the 6.5-acre property at 9905 S.W. McKenzie St. that has a church, a community center, and school-related infrastructure.

GBD Architects designed the building, and AlphaCon Inc. will serve as general contractor. The project team also includes Otak (civil engineering), KPFF Consulting Engineers (structural engineering), and Shapiro Didway (landscape design).

The new elementary school will be a wood-framed building with a focal entry point. It will include administrative spaces, two preschool classrooms connecting to an outdoor play area, two classrooms per grade level for K-5, and a covered, outdoor play area.

The building will be near the existing middle school, which will allow creation of defined spaces for drivers to drop off and pick up students, GBD Architects associate principal Dustin White said. Other site improvements will include reconfiguration of an existing surface parking lot and landscaping. Also, benches are proposed along the right of way.

The portable buildings will receive enhancements so that they blend with the new school’s classrooms.

The total project cost is $11.15 million for the new school. St. Anthony Catholic School has raised $10.53 million so far.

The existing preschool and elementary school buildings will be occupied with classes in session during construction of the new building. They will be demolished after construction is complete.

AlphaCon Inc. is scheduled to break ground at the end of September and expected to finish work in 15 months.

“The new building will house our preschool through fifth grade and upon completion we will remodel our current middle school,” Andy Nichols, executive director of St. Anthony Catholic Community, stated in an email.

The remodel will include repainting the existing middle school building. That project is estimated to cost $2 million.

St. Anthony Catholic School also plans to add a new art building at the northern portion of the site, where the portable buildings will be relocated for now.

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An expansion/remodel is in the works at Providence St. Vincent’s emergency department in Portland. The work, designed by JRJ Architects, is a multi-phased renovation of the existing emergency department, located on the existing lower level of the Phil and Penny Knight Pavilion.

Contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis will begin construction in January. Construction is estimated to be complete in January 2025.

The project owner is Providence Health Systems. Other consultants on the project include PAE, Catena Consulting Engineers and KPFF Consulting Engineers.

Sean-Scott Ingersoll, project manager at JRJ Architects, said his firm began working on schematic design in the summer of 2021 and developed the design this year. Providence St. Vincent had conducted studies on efficiencies and improvements in efficiencies for the hospital and JRJ Architects took those recommendations and put together a schematic design.

The scope of the work of the project includes remodeling and hardening the entry/security/arrival zones; new fast track and results pending spaces; new and updated nurse stations and employee work areas; increased exam room counts and treatment spaces for the current pods; and a new diagnostic imaging department with three general radiology machines, two CT scanners and an ultrasound room.

Currently, drop off patients enter and exit through the same entry.

“We’ve specifically taken the entry to this and separated it from the exit so there’s a more efficient through-put of patients coming into the space versus those after they have been checked out and been released come out through a separate set of doors,” Ingersoll said.

Patients will now enter through the southwest corner of the building and be met with the security space. The layout will allow staff to have complete visibility of the waiting area.

Many of the nurse stations were brought up to current code in regard to having separate medication dispensing areas. Those areas will be separate, more secure and efficient. Nurse stations will be scattered throughout the emergency department, with smaller decentralized stations rather than one centralized station.

There will be a new and expanded staff break room area. Currently, the staff break room is in the middle of the emergency department.

“We’re excited because we were able to place it on an exterior courtyard wall so that the break room will now be able to look into an interior courtyard, some green space, daylight, that kind of thing, so when providers are off stage they have a bit of a more peaceful, relaxing space to be,” Ingersoll said.

Also included in the project is a relocated secure behavioral health department and adjacent flex room spaces that allow for use as either medical or behavioral health rooms. Ingersoll is excited about the flex rooms, as they can adjust to whatever the need is.

There will also be new locker rooms and updates made to the pediatrics area. The footprint of the pediatrics area is essentially staying the same, with some improvements made to nurse stations, the rooms, as well as the flex spaces.

The project will include all related interior finish, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, low voltage, security and fire protection/fire alarm systems work as required and includes vital infrastructure improvements to support the department. The approximate square footage is 57,250 square feet.

The emergency department must continue to be operational and functional during the project. There are multiple phases and sub-phases required in order to maintain operations, as well as keeping the available exam room count to an acceptable minimum number during each phase of construction.

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