Project name: Flock13

Location: Eugene

Completion: August 2024

Size: 95,000 square feet

Cost: $24 million

Owner/Developer: deChase Miksis Development

Architect: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Interior Designer: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Engineers: KPFF, Säzän Group

General Contractor: John Hyland Construction

Submitting Company: Rowell Brokaw Architects

Other Associates/Key Consultants: Comfort Flow Heating, Twin Rivers Plumbing, Jensen Hughes, Brian Davies, Taylour White

Subcontractors: Acousti-Level Floor Systems, Advanced Cabinets, Building Material Specialties, Comfort Flow Heating, Commercial Metal Products, Empire Paint & Remodel, ES&A Sign & Awning, Geopier Northwest, Haines Brothers Masonry, Hartness Drywall, Home Insulation, I-5 Glass, Interior Technology, Kaminski Construction, Kelly’s Appliances, Largo Concrete, Omlid & Swinney,  Otis Elevator, Overhead Door Co. of Eugene-Springfield, Reynolds Electrical and Plumbing, Rexius, Sellwood Construction, Stedman Sheet Metal, Thomas Kay Flooring & Interiors, Umpqua Roofing

A new seven-story mixed-use building has strengthened the commercial corridor at the University of Oregon‘s west entrance, combining retail space with student housing in a project that emphasizes sustainability and campus community.

Flock13, a 95,000-square-foot, H-shaped structure, houses 107 student apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units, while its ground floor features three eateries open to university students and the broader community.

The building earned an Earth Advantage Multifamily Gold Level Certification through energy efficiency measures, healthier indoor air quality standards, responsible material usage and water conservation. Testing showed the building performing approximately 20.3 percent better than permitted code requirements.

The building’s construction presented challenges due to its location on a busy commercial street beside the university’s main entrance. John Hyland Construction worked closely with the city, university and subcontractors to minimize disruption to neighboring businesses and the thousands of students passing the site daily.

The structure combines two floors of Type 1 concrete construction with five floors of Type IIIA wood frame construction. Its design includes light courts that provide direct access to natural light and air on upper floors while bringing daylight into the basement level.

Student amenities include a second-floor 1,600-square-foot shared indoor/outdoor common space with built-in booths, an open lounge with soft seating, and a counter facing a covered terrace that overlooks 13th Avenue. The terrace features an outdoor grill and fireplace, while a garage door connects indoor and outdoor spaces.

The project embraces “Duck life” with yellow accents on both exterior metal façade and interior spaces, plus duck silhouettes in signage, paying homage to the university mascot.

Flock13 was designed and constructed alongside an exterior refresh of The Duck Store, the university’s flagship bookstore, creating what designers call “a cohesive, active street edge” that reinforces pedestrian vitality along 13th Avenue, a commercial street once known as “The Beach” for its popularity as a student hangout. The façade redesign includes new paint and glulam entry portals below an uplit, perforated metal panel screen that wraps the concrete frame and CMU infill building.

“The combined Flock13 and Duck Store exterior project re-establishes 13^th Avenue as the iconic campus-college edge at the University of Oregon,” said John Rowell, senior principal with Rowell Brokaw Architects, in the project nomination form. “With high-quality student housing, street-oriented amenities, new restaurants opening to south-facing seating, and the lively Duck Store refresh, this is where ducks land in Eugene.”

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A six-story multifamily building on the rise in Eugene will be the first residential development in the city to be made of structural cross-laminated timber.

Crosswood Apartments will offer 127 units near the University of Oregon campus. They’re intended to serve professionals – particularly those working at the fast-growing Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.

“We’re catering to the Knight science campus researchers and faculty, the UO faculty, post-docs, researchers,” said Philip Farrington, director of planning and real estate development for project owner CDC Management Corp. “That’s our primary market – as well as professionals of all stripes who want to live so close to the halo of campus.”

Eugene lacks multifamily options for professionals, said Mark Miksis, a partner in Eugene-based deChase Miksis Development – the project’s development representative.

“Eugene has just not had the expansion of multifamily units outside of student housing over the years that it probably should have had,” Miksis said. “It’s a strong market to be coming into right now.”

The property at 1841 Garden Ave., between Millrace Drive and Villard Street, has long been owned by the Chambers family, which has substantial business interests in the Willamette Valley. CDC Management Corp. is one of the family’s real estate businesses. Family members also own or owned television station KEZI, Silvan Ridge Winery, a food processing company and an auto dealership among other ventures. They also have been involved in several high-profile commercial property developments in Eugene.

Crosswood will feature a concrete podium topped by five stories of wood framing. It will ascend to about 59 feet, below the 65-foot height limit for the property.

Cross-laminated timber buildings have proliferated in Portland, but have only begun to show up in Eugene. A farmers market pavilion and plaza under construction in Eugene will have CLT wall and roof panels. A building at the Knight science campus has CLT for staircases. But Crosswood will stand out among multifamily buildings in the city.

“The ownership had an interest in doing something innovative and distinctive,” Farrington said.

Crosswood’s CLT will come from Structurlam, a manufacturer based in British Columbia. The materials were competitively bid.

Rowell Brokaw Architects‘ design showcases the CLT materials, Miksis said.

“We’re going to have exposed ceilings in all of our living spaces,” he said. “This really will expose the wood. We’re able to run our windows right up to the underside of the ceiling, which makes a difference in lighting the room.”

The ground floor will feature townhome-style units with exterior doors as well as access from the building’s interior. A large entry plaza will be available for events. The ground floor will also have a leasing office, space for mail services, secure storage and amenity space.

John Hyland Construction began work in July 2021 and is expected to finish this fall – most likely in November, Farrington said.

“This is going to be a distinctive project in the marketplace, not only for its construction technology – CLT – but its location is unparalleled,” he said.

Project: Crosswood Apartments

Location: Eugene

Cost: $38 million

Size: 131,000 square feet

Architect: Rowell Brokaw Architects

General contractor: John Hyland Construction

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