Twelve West – the downtown Portland tower crowned with windmills – is getting a sister.
At 24 stories, Eleven West will be slightly taller, and bronze instead of silver, but both towers will share an architect and developer.
In the past several years, the Goodman family’s Downtown Development Group has capitalized on the city’s influx of new workers and residents by starting to develop the many parking lots it owns. In Portland’s West End, the half-block along Washington Street between 11th and 12th avenues, is one of the last remaining empty lots in the trendy neighborhood.
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Over the next three years, the Eleven West site – now half parking lot, half grass and dirt – will be transformed into a 225-unit apartment tower with 110,000 square feet of office space, ground-floor retail and four levels of underground parking.
Developer Greg Goodman says the building also will feature an outdoor swimming pool on the eighth level, which will extend over the adjacent building occupied by Tasty & Alder, 150 feet in the air. Instead of windmills, the roof will offer a deck, complete with a chef’s kitchen for events.
Though the development will cover up the horizontal mural of a woman’s face near 12th Avenue, Goodman said ZGF Architects has gone to great lengths – cutting back the building’s façade – so the “Capax Infiniti” mural on 11th Avenue, depicting a woman standing in a dress, is still visible.
The building will have a glass and dark bronze exterior and be built to LEED platinum certification, Goodman said.
“There’s going to be a lot of things in this buildings that you don’t see in other buildings,” he said.
One thing you won’t see is affordable housing. The building permit application was submitted before Feb. 1, so the developers are not required to set aside a portion of the apartments for affordable housing, per the city’s new inclusionary zoning policy.
Goodman said he made “very significant investments” to beat the deadline; many other developers did the same.
“If we had to add [affordable housing], this project wouldn’t happen,” he said. “The numbers don’t add up.”
OTHER PROJECTS
The Goodman family has proposed an 11-story hotel on the block currently occupied by a popular block of food carts at Southwest 10thand Alder, but Goodman said the development is “not imminent.”
Instead, he says, his company is focused on Eleven West and the Ankeny Blocks, 11 new buildings on a swath of land bordered by Naito Parkway, Burnside, Alder and Fifth streets.
Goodman just received approval from the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission to start construction on the first building, which will share a block with the Stumptown cafe on Third Avenue.
That project will offer 133 apartments (20 percent of which will be set aside for affordable housing), ground-floor retail and underground parking. Construction is slated to begin early next year.
Source: 24-story tower with swimming pool planned for downtown Portland’s West End | OregonLive.com
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