The Burnside Blog
This Week in Portland Design
Monday The Historic Landmarks Commission (1900 SW 4th Ave. 1:30 pm) considers pending projects aimed to beautify an area of Waterfront Park near the Burnside Bridge slated to become future home of the Portland Saturday Market. Such projects include a new shelter for the market booths, new restrooms, a plaza, water features and eventually a dock. The Landmarks Commission will also give feedback regarding proposed improvements to the Saturday Market MAX station beneath the Burnside Bridge, sandwiched between the future home of the University of Oregon’s Old Town Campus and the Mercy Corp world headquarters, which collectively will land as many as 1,000 students and workers into the neighborhood over the next five years. The commission will also shift its attention to the transfer of FAR from buildings on the historic resource inventory in the North Pearl neighborhood.
Tuesday Land Use (1900 SW 4th Ave., 9 am) will review a proposal by City Center Parking to include 50 retail parking spaces in South Waterfront’s Block 49, an affordable housing development. The spaces would be shared with the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant on evenings and weekends. In the evening, the South Waterfront neighborhood will sponsor an open house at the OHSU Center for Health and Healing (3303 SW Bond St., 3rd Floor, 5pm to 8pm) for a proposed neighborhood park and the South Waterfront Greenway, two projects that should be underway later in the year.
Wednesday Check the Burnside Blog for an exclusive Q and A with Erik Sten regarding what’s being called his “Homeless Taj Mahal,” a resource center with affordable housing for the homeless to be located on the so-called “Dirty Duck” block in Old Town. At City Hall (1221 SW 4th Ave. 2 pm), the City Council will hear an appeal by the South Portland Neighborhood Association against the approval by the Design Commission of Block 49, a full-block, mixed-used, six-story affordable-housing building in South Waterfront.
