Portland's biggest construction projects right now

Portland's construction boom has slowed, but it still feels like there are cranes everywhere.

Indeed, there are 60 or so developments under construction valued at $10 million or more. They can be found throughout the city, but most are clustered in the downtown core. Other construction hotspots include North Interstate Avenue, the Pearl District and the Central Eastside.

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Among the projects permitted or underway:

  • 42 are apartment or condo buildings
  • 11 are office, classroom or clinic buildings
  • Six are hotels
  • Two are self-storage buildings

Most are around six stories high, but 15 are 10 stories or higher. The highest, the downtown Columbia apartment tower, is 20 stories. 

Here are some of the biggest by construction value. 

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Multnomah County Central Courthouse

The 17-story courthouse is under construction at 1220 S.W. First Ave., near the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge. The $325 million courthouse will be paid for in part with $125 million in state money. The rest will be paid by the county. It's expected to open in 2020.

It's actually considered a major addition to the 1909 Jefferson Station building, which began life as an electrical substation and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A historic preservationist has proposed to have that recognition stripped because of the scope of the renovation.

Hoffman Construction of Portland is the general contractor. It was designed by SRG Partnership of Portland and RicciGreene Architects of New York.

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ESG Architects

Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center

This 600-room Hyatt Regency hotel, a project in the planning for decades, is intended to boost the business of the adjacent Oregon Convention Center by providing a large block of nearby rooms for visiting events and groups.

The Metro regional government, which owns and operates the convention center, is backing the $240 million project through $60 million in revenue bonds, which will be repaid with lodging taxes collected at the hotel.

The 14-story hotel also will include 32,000 square feet of meeting venues, a bar, a restaurant and a gym. It’s expected to open this year.

The building was designed by ESG Architects of Minneapolis for Mortenson Construction, which is the developer and general contractor. Upon completion, the building will be sold to Hyatt Hotels Corp.

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GREC Architects

5 MLK

This 17-story tower will include 220 apartments, offices and retail space. The developer is Portland-based Gerding Edlen. It’s being built on the former site of the Fishels furniture store, and it was expected to be completed in 2020, according to Gerding Edlen.

GREC Architects of Chicago designed the building, and the general contractor is Hoffman Construction of Portland.

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GBD Architects Inc. via City of Portland

Columbia apartments

Renderings of a proposed development at 140 S.W. Columbia St. in downtown Portland. The development would include 349 residential units, ]15,000 square feet of commercial space and 236 parking spaces. It would also incorporate an existing underground parking garage for the KOIN center.

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Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture/Myhre Group Architects via City of Portland

The Collective on Fourth

Core Spaces LLC of Chicago, which primarily builds student housing, is building this 15-story, 417-unit building at 1818 S.W. Fourth Ave. The site is owned by Portland's Goodman family, whose Downtown Development Group is a partner in the project. It also will include four levels of underground parking.

When the project was first reported by The Oregonian/OregonLive in 2015, Core Spaces said it hoped a grocery store would occupy a large retail space at ground level.

Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture of Chicago designed the building, and John Hyland Construction Inc. of Springfield is the general contractor.

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SERA Architects

Modera Glisan

This 12-story apartment tower at 1430 N.W. Hoyt St. will include 291 apartments and three levels of underground parking. It also will include storefronts at the street level. Mill Creek Residential Trust of Dallas, Texas, is the developer. SERA Architects of Portland designed the building.

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Home Forward

Block 45 affordable apartments

Home Forward, the Multnomah County housing authority, is building this 12-story, 240-unit apartment building at 515 N.E. Holladay St. Most of the apartment units will be reserved for households earning no more than 60 percent of the area median income.

Architects on the project include LRS Architects, LEVER Architecture and PLACE landscape architecture, and the general contractor is O’Neil/Walsh Community Builders. All four companies are based in Portland.

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Fourth and Montgomery Building

This seven-story building at  will hold classrooms and offices for Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland Community College and Portland’s city government. It will serve as the home for the joint OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. The project has a budget of $97.5 million.

The architect is SRG Partnership, and the general contractor is Andersen Construction, both of Portland.

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Leeb Architects

Harbor Sky apartments

This sprawling 266-unit, six-story apartment building is under construction in the Bridgeton just east of the Interstate Bridge at 1055 N Anchor Way. It will also include 264 parking spaces and  Leeb Architects of Portland designed the buildings, and West Coast Home Solutions LLC of Wilsonville is the developer and general contractor.

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Ankrom Moisan Architects

The Vera affordable apartments

San Francisco-based Bridge Housing is building this 203-unit affordable apartment building at 2045 S.W. River Parkway in the RiverPlace district. Named for Vera Katz, the late former Portland mayor, the building will include 90 units reserved for households earning no more than 30 percent of the area median income.

The architect is Ankrom Moisan Architects and the contractor is Hoffman Construction, both of Portland.

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Hacker Architects

TwentyTwenty condominiums

The TwentyTwenty condominium building is under construction at 2020 N.E. Multnomah St. The eight-story, 162-unit building is expected to open this year. The developer is PHK Inc., the general contractor Andersen Construction and the designer Hacker Architects, all of Portland.

As The Oregionian/OregonLive previously reported, more than a quarter of the building's units will be marketed exclusively to buyers who live in Asia, an apparent first for the city.

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Ankrom Moisan Architects via City of Portland

250 Taylor

This 219,000-square-foot office building under construction at 250 S.W. Taylor Street will serve as a new headquarters for the utility NW Natural. It will include ground-floor retail space and two levels of underground parking.

The developer is Third & Taylor Development LLC, and the architect is Ankrom Moisan Architects and the general contractor is Turner Construction Co., all of Portland.

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