PORTLAND, Ore. – The city has received a request for a Pre-Application Conference regarding proposed development in the Buckman neighborhood.
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The property in question is located at 811 SE Stark. This lot currently hosts a one-story office building constructed in 1960. Its most recent sale was in June 2013.
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As of Nov. 20 excavation on the adjacent parking lot had begun.
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The application proposes to demolish the existing building and replace it with a four-story structure containing retail and commercial workspace, as well as parking. The application also calls for a roof deck.
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Currently the building is occupied by James C. Niedermeyer, a Portland attorney.
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The property owner is Michael Quinn. The applicant for the conference is Carrie Strickland of Works Partnership Architecture.
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This firm has worked on projects on SE Division, including one at 43rd (“this mixed-use building examines the nature of the modernist glass box, allowing quick daily weather cycles and fluctuating light conditions, creating a shimmering of seen and unseen grids to create a dynamically responsive facade”) and one at 45th (“In the beginning, this project had but two goals: to create an efficient building that maximized the site and to create an expression that the client felt was ‘fucking rad.'”)
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The Pre-Application Conference is the first step in development on the property at SE 8th and Stark.
Permit records show an application for new residential construction on the property from 2008. A sale has occurred since then, suggesting this latest project is a separate venture.