Officials broke ground Monday on a 75-unit affordable housing development in the South Cooper Mountain area of Beaverton.

The four-story, wood-framed Goldcrest Apartments will offer 29 one-bedroom units, 39 two-bedroom units and seven three-bedroom units for families earning 30-60 percent of area median income.

Nonprofit developer BRIDGE Housing is spearheading the project at 12595 S.W. 172nd Terrace. Salazar Architect is the designer, and Colas Construction is the general contractor.

BRIDGE Housing entered a purchase option agreement for the property in 2019. The project team is now working to stay ahead of potential challenges during construction, such as delivery delays of materials, BRIDGE Housing senior project manager Joni Hartmann said.

Design began in mid-2020, Salazar Architect founding principal Alex Salazar said. The existing residential neighborhood and Cooper Mountain provided context. Goldcrest Apartments’ design was inspired by regional agrarian forms and topography of the area.

The traditional gable roof is asymmetric, with a steeper pitch on street-facing elevations that scales up to address the public realm and a shallower pitch facing the courtyard that scales down.

“From a technical point of view, we inherited sort of an L-shape location of the building,” Salazar said.

The development is segmented into three boxes, each of which scales down to fit the neighborhood context while wrapping around south-facing indoor-outdoor building amenities.

A courtyard will provide a transition between the residential building and the parking lot.

“We spent a lot of time sorting out how to integrate the lobby space as you come into the building and how that can flow directly out to the courtyard, so it feels like an integrated relationship,” Salazar said.

A mural is planned for the courtyard’s south side; however, it has not received funding yet.

Residential building amenities will include two elevators, a community room with a kitchen, a playground, garden boxes, offices for both property management and residential services, laundry rooms on all floors, a first-floor bike room, and secure entrances.

On-site residential services will be provided by Hacienda CDC. Those will include financial counseling, after-school programming for K-8 students, and an early childhood education program, Hartmann said.

The development site is near Mountainside High School, and relatively close to both Cooper Mountain Nature Park and Paul and Verna Winkelman Park.

“With a school across the street, it will be a great spot for residents,” Salazar said.

The location will provide great opportunities for families – especially young residents, Hartmann added.

“There’s been some studies done that (indicate) low-income kids that grow up or live in higher-resource neighborhoods have better outcomes,” she said.

Goldcrest Apartments will be surrounded by nascent single-family homes and multifamily development. The site was selected for its proximity to parks, schools, retail spaces, and future transit expansion on Southwest Scholls Ferry Road.

The total estimated project cost is around $40.696 million.

Construction is expected to require 18 months. BRIDGE Housing anticipates units opening to residents in April 2024.

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Now that five land use applications have the Beaverton Planning Commission‘s approval, a proposed 461-unit planned unit development (PUD) is poised to move forward in the South Cooper Mountain area.

One application for “” was for a zoning map amendment to apply design regulations and city residential zoning of the South Cooper Mountain Community Plan to the new PUD. Currently, the property is zoned for exclusive farm use.

A second application was for a conditional use permit.

The third application was for a large-lot subdivision to create 15 parcels and facilitate project phasing. The fourth was for a small-lot subdivision to create 282 tax lots and nine tracts.

Finally, a tree plan application will allow removal of significant and community trees.

Fifteen separate phases of development are planned over the coming years.

Preliminary site planning and design is being performed by the Pioneer Design Group of Portland for developer Metropolitan Land Group. The formal property owner is TriCounty Investments LLC of Beaverton.

The project site is located south of Southwest Horse Tail Lane, generally west of Southwest 175th Avenue and north of the future Barrows Road extension. It covers 62.92 acres.

The developer is proposing 224 single-family detached lots, 57 single-family attached lots, a lot for a 180-unit multifamily development and two lots intended to accommodate an elementary school and a potential park. The nine additional tracts will be dedicated to stormwater management, natural resource preservation, trails and open space access.

The South Cooper Mountain Community Plan is part of the Beaverton Comprehensive Plan and was adopted by the Beaverton City Council in December 2014. The plan is intended to guide future development of the area: 544 acres of rural land that was brought inside the urban growth boundary in 2011.

Because of the land’s rural nature, a host of infrastructure projects and improvements will be required. This includes introduction of water service. A 245-lot residential development in the works nearby, Scholls Valley Heights, received approval earlier this year along with a city promise to extend water service to that area. This will make feasible the extension of existing water lines to the new Fox Hollow development.

The first phase of development of the PUD will be rather modest. Plans call for construction of 19 detached single-family homes along portions of Southwest Monashee Lane, a portion of Strobel Road, and a portion of Barrows Road.

Meanwhile, another PUD, dubbed “,” will receive a hearing before the Beaverton Planning Commission on Oct. 24. The proposal is for construction of 297 residential units on an equal number of lots. As with the other Cooper Mountain subdivisions, the Metropolitan Land Group has submitted applications for a zoning map amendment, a conditional use permit, two preliminary subdivisions and a tree plan. Construction of this development also would take place in phases.

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