PROJECT: Parkview at Terwilliger Plaza

LOCATION: the full block bounded by Southwest Fifth and Sixth avenues and Sheridan and Caruthers streets.

SIZE:Ěý10 stories (plus one level of underground parking), 374,000 square feet, 127 units

COST:Ěý$110 million

START DATE: May 2021

ANTICIPATED END DATE: August 2023

OWNER: Terwilliger Plaza Inc.

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE: MHS Consulting

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE/CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: BC Group

ARCHITECT: LRS Architects

ENGINEERS: IMEG Corp. (structural), DOWL (civil), PAE (mechanical, passive house consultant), GEODesign (soil), PBS Engineering and Environmental (environmental)

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: PLACE

CONTRACTOR:ĚýWalsh Construction

OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: DeWitt Construction (shoring design/build), Merit Electric (electric), Tapani Plumbing (plumbing), Ocean Park Mechanical (mechanical), Patriot Fire Protection (fire sprinkler design/build)

SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT: Parkview at Terwilliger Plaza will be a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community for residents 62 and over. The independent-living facility will feature 127 units. Each one will have one or two bedrooms and full kitchens as well as balconies. Thirteen floor plans will range in size from 1,095 square feet to 2,310 square feet.

Designed for passive house certification, the highly energy-efficient building is projected to use 50 percent less energy than a current energy-compliant building. With 100 percent continuous preconditioned fresh air circulation, interior spaces will be substantially more healthy, quiet and thermally comfortable than those in conventional buildings. There will be green roofs, green living walls and solar panels. Features will include: improved wall R values; triple-pane windows; lighting power reduction; eco-friendly appliances; outdoor air systems with heat recovery; high-performance HVAC-VRF; heat pump water heaters; low-flow fixtures; photovoltaic solar generation; and significant thermal bridging details at balcony connections, balcony edges, parapet connections and exterior walls to concrete slabs.

The commons will include stone terracing, a wood-paneled cocktail lounge and a sports bar. The building’s architectural features will include handcrafted wood paneling and a blown-glass chandelier.

One of the goals of the Parkview project was to encourage movement throughout the campus with plenty of opportunities for residents to gather and socialize. There will be a variety of multipurpose rooms, public living rooms, lounges, sunrooms and lobbies. The building’s U-shape will allow for an outdoor courtyard and amenity space as well as views of the adjacent Terwilliger parkway hills, downtown and mountains. A landscaped rooftop also will provide additional space for gatherings.

One of the most critical elements for this project was approval for a sky-bridge across Southwest Sixth Avenue between Caruthers and Sheridan streets. It will link the new Parkview at Terwilliger Plaza with the existing Terwilliger Plaza building. The connector will double as an art gallery space, in response to community building goals.

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A rare Portland sky-bridge proposal is on track for approval after a favorable recommendation from the Design Commission on Thursday.

City design guidelines generally discourage sky-bridges because they move pedestrian traffic away from activation points such as sidewalks and street corners, and take public space for private use. But city officials may make an exception for a proposed sky-bridge at Terwilliger Plaza, a senior living campus in Southwest Portland. The sky-bridge would stretch about 60 feet long and 26 feet, 10 inches, at its widest point across Southwest Sixth Avenue between Southwest Caruthers and Sheridan streets.

The sky-bridge would link an existing Terwilliger Plaza building with a proposed 10-story, 127-unit building to be known as Parkview at Terwilliger Plaza.

Commissioners voted 5-0 to recommend the sky-bridge be approved. In a little-used process, their recommendation goes to the city engineer, who will make a final recommendation to the City Council.

Terwilliger Plaza opened in 1962 as a senior community for retired teachers. The care facility has expanded over the years, and today has about 350 residents, said Bob Johnson, president and CEO of the nonprofit.

Commissioners said the proposed sky-bridge meets the city’s rationale for such structures.

“This population would not do well at street level,” Commissioner Don Vallaster said.

Commissioner Chandra Robinson added: “I agree that for the health and safety of residents, this make sense.”

Sky-bridges should have to meet a strict standard to be approved, Commissioner Jessica Molinar said.

“From my perspective, encroachments are a big deal,” she said. “It’s public space taken over for private use.”

The city most recently approved a sky-bridge in 2017 for Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Health & Healing. Before that, Pioneer Place got a sky-bridge in 1999, and the Wells Fargo Center added a sky-bridge in 1972 to link the tower to what is now a data center.

“We don’t review a lot of sky-bridges,” said Tim Heron, a Bureau of Development Services staffer. “We discourage them.”

One sky-bridge was removed when the Apple store at Pioneer Place was constructed, Heron said.

Discussion on Thursday centered on making the design of the sky-bridge’s underside pleasant for pedestrians who would see it from below. Some commissioners also expressed doubts about a plan to line the sky-bridge’s interior with art walls.

“Movable walls might work better,” said Robinson, who added that a cable system for hanging art is another possibility.

Commissioners attached three conditions to their recommendation: the project team explore the design of the bottom of the sky-bridge, explore art walls or a replacement, and consider adding six inches to the proposed 8-foot, six-inch interior height.

Commissioner Brian McCarter said the 1982 ordinance on major encroachments was a reaction to a proposed large sky-bridge that was never built. The Terwilliger Plaza proposal is much different, he said.

“I fully support the staff recommendation of this sky-bridge,” he said.

LRS Architects is designing the project. Johnson said the project team visited existing developments, including Horizon House in Seattle and another senior living facility in Chicago, to inform the design.

Terwilliger Plaza is outside the Central City and not in a design overlay zone. As such, the project is not subject to further review by the Design Commission.

Also on Thursday:

Mixed-use project advances

The Design Commission gave final approval to the Hyatt Place and Allison Residences – a 23-story tower planned for Northwest 12th Avenue and Flanders Street in the Pearl District. After several prior hearings, commissioners approved the design unanimously with no further discussion.

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