A nonprofit’s latest affordable housing project is redevelopment of a former motel property in Southwest Portland. Jamii Court will be a 96-unit complex at 10450 S.W. Barbur Blvd., in the West Portland Park neighborhood.

Metro purchased the Portland Value Inn in 2021, and it was leased by Multnomah County as a homeless shelter until mid-2025. The motel was demolished this past fall.

Construction of Jamii Court started in November. Project completion is anticipated in late 2027.

The five-story, 95,833-square-foot building is being developed by Community Partners for Affordable Housing (CPAH). The project team also includes LRS Architects, civil engineer Janet Turner Engineering of Lake Oswego, structural engineer Stonewood Structural Engineers, landscape architect Marianne Zarkin Landscape Architects, and general contractor O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders.

The total project cost is approximately $43.4 million, with most of that covered by Metro and the Portland Housing Bureau.

The building will be on the 1.1-acre property’s south side and face Barbur Boulevard; the parking lot will be on the north side, CPAH spokesperson Cara Jack stated in an email. There will be three interconnected masses: the Barbur‑facing volume, the east–west bar, and the knuckle that links them. The Barbur mass will align with the street, while the bar mass will follow the site’s east–west axis.

“The Barbur façade is intentionally pulled back from the roadway to create a welcoming entry along this civic corridor and to establish a meaningful frontage,” LRS Architects associate principal Calista Fitzgerald stated in an email. “Together, these massing elements create several distinct placemaking spaces across the site: the Barbur‑facing stoop, the north plaza at the connecting knuckle, and the south courtyard, which is tucked between building volumes and protected from Barbur Boulevard traffic.”

The design incorporates three Islamic elements: jali, the qibla, and specific colors.

Jali is traditionally a perforated stone or lattice screen featuring geometric patterns. A triangular motif was applied selectively to key vertical circulation elements that mark entrances and exits, Fitzgerald stated.

Window bays are angled in alignment with the qibla — the direction Muslims face when praying. This subtle orientation adds depth and meaning to the facade while reinforcing cultural resonance, Fitzgerald stated.

Traditional colors of Islam — green, white, blue and gold — will be incorporated throughout the complex. Window bays will be framed with two shades of green, and the graphic pattern on the angled “woof” wall (both a wall and a roof), will be outlined in gold. These colors will also appear in the interior design.

“Blue creates a continuous thread from the waiting area and drive aisle through the plaza, into the lobby, and ultimately to the water feature” in the south courtyard, Fitzgerald stated.

Building materials were selected with a 50‑year building life in mind to minimize long‑term life‑cycle costs while supporting sustainability (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum) and resiliency goals for the project. Exterior materials will include phenolic panels, fiber‑cement siding with a ceramic coating, European-style vinyl windows and aluminum storefront glazing.

Interior materials were selected for sustainability, durability, and reduced maintenance: low‑VOC paints, carpet tile, a walk‑off carpet, and rubber flooring. Gypsum board, including abuse‑resistant panels in corridors and other high‑traffic areas, will help minimize long‑term wall repair needs, Fitzgerald stated.

CPAH partnered with social services organization HAKI to engage the Islamic community in Southwest Portland in development of the project.

“Their input directly influenced the selection of the building name — Jamii Court, with ‘Jamii’ meaning ‘community’ in Swahili,” Fitzgerald stated.

Also, community members’ feedback shaped the designs of the community spaces and influenced the decision to include larger units, ensuring the building will support multigenerational living, Fitzgerald added.

The building will include 25 studios, 24 one-bedroom units, 29 two-bedroom units, nine three-bedroom units, and nine four-bedroom units.

The apartments will be available to households earning a wide range of lower incomes, including 49 units for people earning up to 30 percent of the area median income (AMI), 22 units for up to 40 percent of AMI, 15 units for up to 50 percent of AMI, and 10 units for up to 60 percent of AMI. Also, 39 units will come with rental assistance. CPAH will provide resident services.

Urban League of Portland will provide services — including case management and health care referrals — for occupants of the 15 permanent supportive housing units.

The building will include two community rooms: a larger one with a kitchen connected to an outdoor plaza (south courtyard), and a smaller one with a lending library and computer stations. The outdoor plaza will include grilling equipment, seating and a water feature. There will also be bike parking, dedicated service space, loading spaces, on-site laundry space, a parcel locker, on-site property management, and controlled building access. There will be 32 parking spaces, 17 of which will be ready for electric vehicles.

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Change is in the air for the Multnomah County Courthouse, and at a Thursday open house – the first of two – planners for a new structure reminded attendees that, historically, “change is the only constant” in reference to the two proposed sites.

Project team members explained the pros and cons of the preferred site and alternate site, the histories of both sites and details on project needs, timeline and funding to drop-in attendees at the open house.

After evaluations of 11 potential locations, the project team chose a preferred site – a block bounded by Southwest Jefferson and Madison streets, First Avenue and Naito Parkway – and an alternate site – bounded by Southwest Clay and Columbia streets and First and Second avenues – on which they’re now performing due diligence, including requests for public input.

“We had about 70 people visit the open house, and we’re very happy with how it went,” county spokesman Mike Pullen said. “Attendees were generally favorable about the preferred site and a lot of the people at the open house were people who are interested in working on the project.”

Photos on display of the preferred site from 1909, 1949, 1963, 1979 and present day support the planning team’s statement that change is the only constant for the site, showing that at least until 1949, there were buildings occupying the now-empty space on the block surrounding the existing Jefferson Station building and the attached building holding longtime downtown restaurant Veritable Quandary.

Pullen said the owners of both Jefferson Station and Veritable Quandary attended the open house, asking questions of project planners.

“Both parties that share the preferred site block have expressed concerns,” Pullen said. “They have both said they appreciate the information we’re providing.”

County officials will wait to address specific concerns from building and business owners near both sites until a final site decision has been made, Pullen said.

Concept plans for both sites show an L-shaped building with a ground-level sally port for prisoner transport security, one of many features that the 100-year-old existing courthouse lacks.

Among those deficiencies, the project planners identified a less-than-ideal security situation, where defendants are walked through public areas on their way to court. Additionally, the existing courthouse doesn’t meet current seismic codes, isn’t large enough to meet the county’s needs and is becoming increasingly expensive to maintain as it ages.

The new courthouse “will accommodate best practices that cannot be met in the existing building,” according to Pullen.

Amenities outlined at Thursday’s open house included an efficient, environmentally sustainable building with improved technology, adequate space with separate circulation for employees, defendants and the public.

Preliminary cost projections are between $250 million and $260 million, with funding split 50-50 between the county and the state.

One of the advantages of building on the preferred site is that Multnomah County already owns the land, which project planners estimate would save about $20 million in project costs. Other pros identified at the preferred site and outlined at the open house include its prominent downtown location at the Hawthorne bridgehead, its proximity to the Justice Center on Southwest Third Avenue, improved in-custody transport, access to an existing parking garage and a need for only minimal demolition.

Many of the identified pros of the preferred site are identified by project planners as cons at the alternate site. For example, land acquisition would increase project costs, “security concerns” would be tied to an adjacent underground garage entrance and there would be no nearby staging area.

The two sites are being evaluated for criteria such as accessibility to public transportation, safety and security, staging and construction logistics and their geotechnical and seismic attributes.

The county, at the open house, outlined a project timeline that includes site selection by early April and the issuance of a request for proposals by the end of April. By July, the county plans to choose an architect and contractor and will start with final design in August. Construction should begin in fall 2016, with project completion and move-in scheduled for early 2020.

The second open house is scheduled for Feb. 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in room 130 of the Multnomah County Courthouse, 1021 S.W. Fourth Ave.

An online open house with opportunity to comment will be available starting Feb. 5 and ending Feb. 23, Pullen said. To participate in the online open house, visit .

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A Southwest Portland office space has a long and veiled past.

“The history of it is a total mystery,” said Candace Robertson of Robertson Architecture Inc. “Nobody has records on it. We know the date that it was built and that’s about it.”

The structure at 1512 S.W. 18th Ave. was constructed in 1891 and formerly was a single-family home, Robertson said. But it predates city record-keeping efforts by 14 years, so it’s unclear who built it.

Robertson ran her company out of the space for the past three years. With vaulted ceilings, hand-crafted woodwork, bay windows and stained glass, the quaint space speaks to another generation of construction, she said.

“The big difference between now and then is the ceiling height,” she said, adding that while the minimum ceiling code requirement today is 8 feet, at the turn of the 20th century it was 8.6 feet. “Even the ones that are only 8.6 feet, that extra tiny bit makes them feel that much more spacious. It’s surprising.”

Jack Galick purchased the 2,300-square-foot property in 1997 and remodeled it into an office in 2005. Over the years, he said, tenants covered the original wood flooring and woodwork with carpet and paint. Galick said he brought the finishes back to their natural sheen.

“It’s kind of a unique piece of property,” he said. “We’ve never had much problem leasing it because it’s got a lot of eye appeal on the inside.”

The space has six rooms/offices, including a drafting room upstairs that encompasses the entire second floor. Galick said he leases the property for $3,200 a month, or he would sell it for $629,900.

Robertson said one of her favorite characteristics of the building is a turquoise-and-gold-stained glass window in one of the bay windows downstairs.

“It’s a very pretty design,” she said. “It’s not over the top or anything – just very lovely.”

She said that kind of craftsmanship is also visible in the wood trim throughout the house. She said that because construction in the late 19th century was done by hand and eyeballed to fit, most joints and seams don’t line up perfectly. Wood trim – plentiful in those days – was used to compensate for miscalculations.

“Nowadays, if you want to put fir trim on things, that stuff is like gold,” she said. “Back then it was like water.”

Robertson said the house also has several odd architectural features, like a staircase that ascends from the second story to a tiny balcony, which became an important venue for her business.

“That funny little balcony makes a great break room,” she said. “I mean you can go up there and watch the squirrels chasing each other around in the trees.”

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is building the six-story Block 49 mixed-use building in Portland’s South Waterfront neighborhood. It will feature 209 affordable housing units over ground-floor commercial space.

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The developers of the 179-unit apartment complex, Savier Flats, which began construction this month in Northwest Portland, is preparing to double down on their downtown building activities.

is in the early planning stages for a new 140-unit, 143,833-square-foot apartment complex at 2040 S.W. Jefferson St., in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. The building will have six stories above ground and three stories of basement parking.

Sam Rodriguez, vice president of development for Mill Creek, said it is a prime location for such a project.

“It’s in Goose Hollow and we’re looking for properties in markets that haven’t had much development of new apartments,” Rodriguez said. “It’s obviously a very old neighborhood with a tradition of apartment living, it’s close to the core and we believe that right now that’s the most advantageous market that we can be in.”

Rodriguez said Mill Creek plans to market the building to the young professional crowd between the ages of 25 and 35 and is planning the project from a transit-oriented perspective. Located directly across from the MAX light rail blue line, the property will offer residents easy access to the suburbs and downtown, he said.

“If it’s an Intel employee, they can be to work in 20 minutes on the train,” he said. “If it’s downtown, it’s a highly walk-able site.”

While Mill Creek has not yet drafted a firm design for the building, Rodriguez said the majority of it (roughly 92 percent) will be one-bedroom units averaging 700 square feet in size, with the remainder being two-bedroom suites. They plan to market the units for approximately $2 per square foot.

Rodriguez said they also plan to get the building a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating, but they have not yet decided to what extent.

One detail that could potentially delay the planning process is that a portion of the land to be developed is owned by transit agency TriMet.

Rodriguez said the developers are currently in negotiations to purchase this property but that because it is public land, it is subject to the public notification and hearing process. Rodriguez said, however, that initial responses from residents in the Goose Hollow neighborhood had been positive and that developers hope to have final approval from TriMet by February 2012.

If all goes as planned, Mill Creek hopes to begin full design of the building by January 2012 and to send the project out to bid for subcontractor trades by the spring or summer. Rodriguez said they are aiming to break ground by November and that construction will last 17 to 18 months.

The next immediate phase in the planning process will be a pre-application conference, which the project architect, Portland-based , has scheduled for Jan. 4.

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Southwest Portland residents and JPMorgan Chase have spent several months debating the design for a proposed bank branch at 6361 S.W. Capitol Highway, in the Hillsdale neighborhood.

Now it looks like the bank may be able to circumvent much of the controversy by enlarging the branch’s building-to-parking-lot ratio with a canopy that would cover part of the lot. The “building” would not be enclosed, but it would still count toward the minimum building square footage required by city zoning code for the lot.

Though Chase may be able to go forward with its plan, the Hillsdale Neighborhood Association says it will continue to oppose it. Its concern for the site relates to a greater desire to increase density and multiuse buildings on the neighborhood’s main drag.

The design of Chase’s proposed Hillsdale branch initially called for a footprint occupying just 21 percent of the lot. But Hillsdale’s Main Street area has commercial storefront zoning, which requires that a building take up at least 50 percent of a lot.

Chase stuck with its proposal until it was informed by senior planner Douglas Hardy that the city was unlikely to approve its request for a zoning variance.

After returning to the drawing board, Chase proposed constructing a similar branch building with an additional community room for neighborhood use and a large canopy. The number of parking spaces wouldn’t change.

The strategy is OK, technically, Hardy said.

“The way the zoning code defines building coverage … it doesn’t have to literally be a building with four walls and a roof. It can be one of these canopies,” Hardy said.

“There’s some quirky things in the zoning code,” he added.

Hardy advised the bank that its proposal would eliminate the need for a variance, and that its plan wouldn’t need to be reviewed until the building permit stage. The bank hasn’t submitted a final plan to the city, according to Hardy, but alterations are not required.

Nevertheless, residents have resisted the canopy proposal. At a neighborhood association meeting on Wednesday, Hillsdale Main Street Design Committee co-chairman and neighborhood resident Richard Garfinkle said that the bank was doing the least amount possible to meet the site’s zoning requirements.

“The canopy is embarrassing,” Garfinkle said.

For residents present at the meeting, the proposed Chase bank branch – a single-tenant building on Main Street’s only vacant lot – symbolizes a missed opportunity.

“What we need most of all is apartments,” Hillsdale resident John Gould said at the meeting. “We don’t need another bank that minimizes the use (of the land).”

Residents are hoping for an eventual light-rail stop in Hillsdale, but they fear that light density could ruin those chances, Gould said.

The property is owned by Ardys Braidwood, whose family has owned the land since 1908. Braidwood is a managing partner at Wardin Investments. The company has studied the site’s potential for a two-story building with ground-floor retail and either office space or housing upstairs, she said, but “it just didn’t pencil out.”

The site isn’t deep enough to accommodate parking that would be necessary for so many tenants, she said.

Prior to the economic collapse in 2008, Braidwood helped design a four-tenant, one-story retail development for the site. After the downturn, however, interest in that project dried up, she said.

“So I sat on it, and Chase Bank came to me and asked about a long-term land lease,” Braidwood said.

If Chase can move forward with its proposed footprint despite residents’ concerns about density, the bank will still need to go through a city design review process. At the Wednesday meeting, architects from Seattle-based presented a Northwest-inspired Chase branch design that features brick, metal materials and lots of pedestrian-oriented windows – better than the “off-the-shelf” design Chase had initially proposed, according to residents.

While residents such as Garfinkle hope that Chase will change its mind about the project, the bank does not need their approval.

“Frankly, what Chase has to do is meet the code requirements,” Chase’s attorney, Gregory Hathaway of Portland-based , said at Wednesday night’s meeting. “This technically meets those requirements.”

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A building in Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood that once was the home of one of Oregon’s most cantankerous politicians is for sale.

The Pennoyer Building, at 714 S.W. 20th Place, was built in 1888 for Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer, who later became mayor of Portland. He was known for his political radicalism, opposition to Chinese immigrants and his churlish attitude. The 7,960-square-foot building is for sale for $1.3 million.

Pennoyer lived in the building as mayor from 1896 to 1898, after his term as governor ended. Once, when once asked via telegram by President Grover Cleveland what he could do about violence against Chinese immigrants, Pennoyer told the president to mind his own business. He developed a legacy as an anti-Chinese agitator, a populist, and a supporter of workers’ and states’ rights. He died in his bedroom in the house (now an office building) in 1902.

After Pennoyer’s death, the building became a boarding house and a secret brothel. It’s near the location of the infamous gangster hangout Bill’s Gold Coin. Patrons would leave the bar and head over to the ballroom of Pennoyer’s former estate.

Brothel patrons would appear before a small window in the door to the home’s ballroom and then access a secret staircase in the back, said one of the building’s present owners, Portland defense attorney Alex Hamalian, who said he once met a man who visited the brothel and described how it worked.

The building was later renovated and over the years became a mortuary, an arcade and offices. Present tenants, a group of defense attorneys, decided to part ways and are now selling the building. The former ballroom is now home to the Ella Street Social Club (Southwest 20th Place formerly was called Ella Street).

The building’s interior features historic architecture, including coved ceilings, brick fireplaces, a curvilinear staircase and remnants of a full-size dumbwaiter.

For details on purchasing the Pennoyer Building, contact broker Sara Daley with Kidder Mathews at 503-721-2726 or sdaley@kiddermathews.com.��

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This morning, the scene at the Burlingame Fred Meyer store in Southwest Portland was organized chaos.

Baristas trained at a new Peet’s Coffee kiosk, employees stocked shelves with food and flower displays, and electricians made final adjustments to energy-efficiency management systems on overhead lights; all were rushing to present a polished product that was stripped to its bare bones and then reinvigorated over five and a half months.

A grand reopening is taking place on Friday at the store, which has been closed since May 1 for a major remodel and addition project. Crews consistently worked long hours, and the retailer moved goods and employees to temporary locations at nearby stores.

Fred Meyer Community Relations Coordinator Judi Swift said the $20 million project was a major undertaking.

“It’s probably been the toughest (remodel) we’ve ever done,” she said. “They gutted it down to the studs and tried to save as much of the original as possible.”

The project team had initially discussed the possibility of a 13-month remodel that would have allowed the store to stay open throughout construction, project manager Matt Paine said. However, his team found that such a project would have been “enormously disruptive” for employees and customers, so it suggested a temporary closure instead.

Swift said that Fred Meyer tries to avoid closing stores for remodels, but in this case it was necessary because construction work would have blocked the store’s parking lots. But the retailer sought to reopen as soon as possible.

To maintain a tight timeline, Abbott relied on two crews. At some points in the project, one team worked from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and another worked from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. Crews also worked most weekends, Paine said.

“We’re fortunate to have a very dedicated group of people,” he said. “So when we said we had this very unusual challenge, they said yes, knowing that it was going to mean substantially not seeing their families for a summer.”

Another major challenge for the project was the significant amount of materials involved. Crews not only added 16,000 square feet of space to the building, but also installed new finishes, shelves, lights and systems. Fred Meyer, the project owner, helped acquire some of the big-ticket items; that effort lowered costs, but also required more coordination, Paine said.

“We had a large team of people who were dedicated primarily just to receiving and handling all of the equipment, and then pushing it into the building as fast as it could be installed,” he said.

The result is what Swift calls a “premier grocery store.” The selection of nonfood items is limited, but there is an expanded selection of wines and a wine bar, a new sushi section and the chain’s largest deli meat counter, Swift said.

The building also includes a number of new green features: motion-activated LED lights in some aisles; efficient refrigeration and lighting systems; and an extensive setup for daylighting. To improve the amount of light in the space, crews added more than 100 skylights in the building’s roof. Workers also removed the asbestos-laden drop ceiling to install new windows; the ceiling is now open with exposed wood framing to maximize light in the space.

Fred Meyer did not seek a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating for the building, but followed the company’s corporate green building guidelines, Fred Meyer project manager Charles Moseley said.

Burlingame store employees are returning, after working temporarily in Beaverton and Tigard.

“We’re excited to get it open,” Swift said. “Our customers have been knocking on the doors for months. They’re really anxious for this store to open.”

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Chase representatives have requested, again, that the city of Portland delay its decision about the bank’s application to build a branch in the Hillsdale neighborhood in Southwest Portland.

“We made this decision in an effort to continue to try to work with the neighborhood association to find a solution that will work for everyone,” Chase spokeswoman Darcy Donahoe-Wilmot wrote in an email.

Douglas Hardy, a planner with the city’s Bureau of Development Services, said he called Chase officials at the end of last week to “give them a heads-up” that the city would likely not approve the application.

Chase is seeking an adjustment request, to build a branch building that occupies only 21 percent of the site, instead of the 50 percent required by the commercial storefront zoning in place in the Hillsdale Neighborhood Town Center.

“It’s just too far from the minimum building coverage standard,” Hardy said.

The Hillsdale Neighborhood Association last week submitted a letter to the city expressing its opposition to the request. Association President Mikal Apenes told the 91��Ƶ previously that the organization opposed the application because it had not been able to discuss it with Chase representatives.

Chase representatives met with residents in early August; however, after initial concerns were raised, residents’ requests to meet with Chase officials to discuss an alternate “design plan” did not result in meetings, according to HNA member Robert Hamilton, who was tasked with setting up the meetings.

The comment period for the application was set to end Sept. 19, but it was extended an additional 30 days, with the city slated to issue a decision around Oct. 26. Chase will have the option to change its proposal in the interim, but if the application is significantly different, then it may need to start over, Hardy said.

“(Chase officials) are re-evaluating their alternatives for the proposal,” he said. “They’ll be getting back to me.”

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Reconstruction of Southwest Moody Avenue is creating a bump in the road … intentionally.

By this fall, work will be substantially completed. When it’s done, the road will be higher in the middle and have an at-grade crossing with light-rail tracks as they approach a new transit bridge nearby. The road also will include three traffic lanes and bike and pedestrian facilities.

A 1,500-foot-long section of Moody Avenue is being elevated to 15 feet in the middle and then sloped so that each end is at its present height. The road is being framed between walls, which will be filled with 30,000 cubic yards of a lightweight concrete material. Also, that under-road area will be filled with 150,000 feet of conduit.

“It’s about a $30 million project, and $7 million of that is being spent on electrical,” Stacy and Witbeck Project Manager Bill Bruce said.

The road will have two streetcar tracks and a crossing with light rail, and both have intensive utility needs. Moody Avenue also is the main utility line to the South Waterfront District and the new OHSU Schnitzer campus, so the amount of wires, vaults and foundations that need to be installed is double the amount needed for a typical street project, Bruce said.

Usually, utilities are installed by excavating through existing ground, but because Moody Avenue is being built up, crews are installing utility infrastructure as they pour the road itself.

The “fill” beneath the road is a product called low-density cellular concrete: a mixture of concrete, water and foam poured like a liquid through hoses. When it solidifies, the material is strong enough to hold up the street, but is one-fifth the weight of normal concrete.

Low-density cellular concrete is typically used in projects where there is concern about a surface or fill settling under the weight of a project. It has been used for highway on- and off-ramps and to fill abandoned underground tunnels, but not as the base for a new road, Bruce said. It’s ideal for the situation, he added, because it’s lightweight and less expensive than alternatives such as foam blocks or pumice stone.

Crews will finish pouring fill and layering in the underground utilities in the next two weeks, Bruce said.

“As fill gets completed, it will turn into a normal street project,” Bruce said.

Bruce expects that the road will be open on Oct. 31. But finishes, such as planting new trees along the road, will still be needed.

The swift-moving project is being funded by the federal stimulus money and TIGER grants, which impose a strict schedule. Construction also is taking place directly in the way of a busy traffic lane.

“It is a fairly disruptive project when it comes to South Waterfront,” Bruce said. “South Waterfront is traditionally a hard place to get to, and the longer this project goes on, the more prolonged that aspect is.”

To ensure the project schedule is maintained, crews have occasionally worked double shifts and an average of six days a week, Bruce said. When the project is finished, 50 different subcontractors will have logged 125,000 man-hours.

In addition, the landscape of the entrance to the South Waterfront is rising by a few feet, so that underground parking can be added without digging into contaminated soil.

Dan Anderson, a spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, said the extent of changes coming to the area is “hard to communicate.” The corridor, including main entrances for buildings, will rise 14 feet by the end of the project. The road also will line up with the new Gibbs Street pedestrian bridge over Interstate 5.

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