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[BrandonTO416]

Portland, Oregon is a city on fire, and its flame won't be going out anytime soon. This wonderful city has always been among my favorites, so I'm happy to show these construction projects currently proposed or started already. Thanks to edirp for the information.
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Start with the amazing South Waterfront project. The plan is to extend the downtown streetcar line, and create a new office, residential, and general commercial/entertainment district connecting south with downtown. The plan calls for 21 highrise/midrise structures to be completed over the next 10 years, some have already started construction.

http://www.planning....l_sowa_sum.html
http://www.oregonliv...ial/waterfront/







The 17-story Cascadian Tower is located along the light rail line in Portland’s Lloyd Commercial District. The building is phase II of a 3/4 block development that includes the highly successful 9-story Cascadian Court Condominium. The Cascadian Tower has one level of retail at the street level, 4 levels of parking and 12 stories of market rate condominiums. Composed of floor-to-ceiling glass with operable windows, the building has innovative, compact layouts designed to bring maximum natural light to units.



The 16-story apartment tower, located adjacent to a major light rail station, uses the triangular site to create a dynamic building while maintaining high levels of design efficiency. The tower has one level of retail at the street level, 3 levels of parking and 12 levels of apartments. The tower has panoramic views to the Cascade peaks to the east and north and Portland’s west hills neighborhoods to the south and west.




Architects, engineers, contractors and a developer all have lofty goals for a Southeast Portland 52-unit condominium. With a goal of a platinum designation under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green-building rating system, it will be a model project.

Developed by JTR Holdings LLC, what is tentatively being called The Standard will be located at 1110 S.E. 12th Ave., near the intersection of Southeast 12th Avenue and Taylor Street.



The 8NW8 project is at the corner of Northwest Eighth Avenue and West Burnside Street in downtown Portland.

When completed this fall, the 12-story transitional housing project for Central City Concern will house 180 residential units, reception areas, offices and an alternative health clinic.


Situated at Northwest Overton Street and Ninth Avenue near Northwest Naito Parkway, The Pinnacle is the latest mixed-use structure to rise within Hoyt Street Properties’ 34-acre piece of the district. Andersen Construction Co. started building the $37 million project in August and is expected to complete it in spring 2005.

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[urbanguy]

Portland's gonna totally rock over the next decade especially with the ambitious south waterfront project and all the construction in the Pearl as well as the expansion of the MAX light rail etc  

[Neo]

Go Portland, it's your birfday!

[wolfdawg54]

Portland will incredible when that is constructed. What is the population currently for Portland?

[BrandonTO416]

City has 545,000, metro has 2.5 million.

[BrandonTO416]

One thing I do not know about is the height of the proposed towers - they look roughly in the 200-400ft range.

[Allan]

This is great for Portland.  I agree, more cities need to follow Portland's lead.

[sleepy]

That development by the river doesn't do anything for me at all.  It looks wedged in and disconnected from the rest of the city, and a little too "plaza" like.  Given the natural barriers, maybe a park would have been better.

Reminds me of developments of thirty years ago.  "Co-op City" in the Bronx-1970-comes to mind.

Of course in fairness, the renderings aren't very detailed.

The rest of the projects look great.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Looks like that waterfront project has a major obstacle in having the highway cut it off from the rest of the city. American cities really screwed themselves with building highways through downtowns.

[BrandonTO416]

This development will be connected to downtown Portland by a streetcar line extension. It is highly pedestrian oriented, and will be contiguous with downtown's urban areas - only disconnected by interstate. Portland has already removed an expressway downtown, so they are doing better then most cities.

Here's a map:



Downtown is right across the Interstate from the area to be developed, which is right to the left of the US-26 highway shield on the map.

They will be continually developing the semi-dead area between downtown and this new development thanks to the streetcar extension.

It may not look like it from the renderings, but it will mend in with the urban fabric really well.

[southernyank]

Check out the Westerly site

http://www.thewesterly.com/

[Inkdaub]

The Westerly has labeled their crane with a huge neon sign so all will know what is coming.