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SoWa: On the Street & In the Air

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Posted By Tim DuRoche on 12/07/2008

via City of Portland

ON THE STREET
The City Council has stepped up and approved the final design for the Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge over I-5—a missing link of social geography connecting Lair Hill and the nascent South Waterfront neighborhood. The bridge will be an extradosed style design (somewhere between a girder and cable-stayed bridge)—for you crossword fans, “extrados” refers to the exterior curve of an arch.

via City of Portland

This is a big move forward in terms of building healthy urban circulatory systems that amplify much-talked-about ideas like “walkable neighborhoods.”

As reported in the DJC:
“Architects at IDC Architects and engineers at CH2M HILL are a third of the way through the design process of the bridge that has shorter towers than a cable-stay bridge and a thinner profile than a box girder bridge. The result, say supporters, is a more aesthetically pleasing design with less change in elevation through its 300-foot length — a big concern for a bridge that begins about 100 vertical feet from where it ends

. . .The total budget for the bridge is $11.3 million, $9.7 million of which was obtained through federal grants, [Project Manager of the Portland Office of Transportation Jody] Yates said.

The discussion of the bridge started decades ago when the Interstate-5 freeway cut off direct pedestrian access from Lair Hill to the Willamette River and vice-versa.

“Definitely the observation of a missing link between the neighborhood and the river has been there a while,” Yates said.”

Other build-it-and-they-will-come elements to consider in activating street-life, community and commerce at SoWA: a branch of the Multnomah County Library (akin to the Hillsdale LEED-certified neighborhood branch), much-needed commercial development like a grocery store—a smaller footprint store like Trader Joe’s or Zupan’s, maybe—that could serve not only existing residents but those fabled affordable housing units that were promised for Block 33; and amenities like public restrooms to serve the Greenway and the Future Park.

via Commissioner Sam

IN THE AIR
You’ve likely heard that Mayor-elect Sam Adams has offered Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish wind-power company, cash incentives to the tune of $12.5 million to not only bring 800+ (largely white-collar) jobs to Portland, but to also develop a $250 million No. American HQ here—likely at the South Waterfront. Currently they employ about 350 Portlanders, among multiple office sites. The idea with this package is that a bigger chunk of real estate for their headquarters will attract a bigger chunk of top-tier jobs, ensuring Vestas’ long-term investment in the region.

Noting that it’s by far from a done deal, Sam said: “By making their plans public, Vestas underscores that they are serious about their Portland headquarters expansion plans. I will work aggressively with the state legislature to turn Vestas’ announcement of intention into reality.”

Next question. If Adams and the wind-turbine wizards desire new Platinum LEED-certified real estate development on the order of (at minimum) 400,000 sq.ft. down SoWa way, who will build this “white-collar building” and where’s it going to go?

I’m not a betting man, but dollars to Danishes, I’d wager that the Natural Step-inspired folks at Gerding Edlen would be in perfect philosophical and financial alignment to pull this off (probably in cahoots with their capable pals at GBD. . .although I’d love to see another Hacker SoWa project).

So where-o-where could a Vestas HQ be? It’s not likely that OHSU will be willing to part with any of the south-of-Marquam Bridge/north-of-SoWa parcel—even though they may be years off from realizing their bio-hub vision.

via Urban Works Real Estate

The development rumor-mill is abuzz with speculation that Vestas is eyeing Block 33, a 91,000 sq. ft “superblock” that OHSU acquired a leasehold interest in —slated for a 1,400+ stall parking structure that will serve as a foundation structure, from which airspace will be conveyed to PDC for the development of the neighborhood’s first affordable housing units. (Incidentally talk was also once made of OHSU siting a 300,000 square foot mixed- use life sciences facility on Block 33 .)

At a SoWa election forum last spring, KATU News reported that then-candidate Sam Adams was queried whether Portland had enough money to live up to its $1.9 billion South Waterfront promises—Adams reply at the time: “The short answer is no.”

Will Vestas’ $250 million dollar be the injection that shores up the gaps in the $1.9 billion neighborhood development? Save Ankrom Moisan’s mixed-use + affordable housing Tamarack, where does this leave affordable housing at the waterfront development?

Jobs, housing, economic stimulation, fulfilling public promises. . . what’s a body to do? Weighing the greater good’s a bitch, isn’t it?

29 Comments

By Brian on Monday, December 08, 2008 at 09:14PM PST

correction, the 300,000 sf life sciences building is to be located at the southwest corner of the new Schnitzer Campus, adjacent to the new light rail station, not block 33. It was included in the Governor’s budget announcement on Dec 1st. It is actually an OUS project with OHSU as one of the tenants.

By Tim DuRoche on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 02:49PM PST

Brian, go to the link I referenced. It says: “The facility will be LEED rated with research and demonstration capabilities that will serve as a magnet to attract biosciences and pharmaceutical industry partners to the neighborhood, thereby bringing additional high paying jobs to Portland. It will be developed on Block 33 of the South Waterfront neighborhood, in close conjunction to OHSU’s existing Center for Health and Healing.”

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By Brian on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 07:20PM PST

it is a typo in the document, your right. I will ask the government affairs team to correct. The correct site is the southwest corner of the Schnitzer Campus.

By tim DuRoche on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:32PM PST

Seemed funny to me too, but there it was in b&w.

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