Developer proposes apartment building on site of food cart pod near Portland State

A Portland-primarily based developer has submitted an application to make a 7-story apartment building on the downtown web-site of a food stuff cart pod close to Portland Point out College.

SERA Architects and Florida-primarily based developer Mill Creek Household Have faith in submitted an software on March 9 proposing a 40,000 sq.-foot blended-use making at Southwest Fifth Avenue and School Road.

The application describes the challenge as a seven-tale marketplace charge condominium building with about 250 residential models, basement parking and retail on the ground floor.

The software was very first observed by architect and progress blogger Iain MacKenzie.

Neither SERA nor Mill Creek responded to questions about the proposed progress, or irrespective of whether there are ideas to relocate the food stuff cart distributors that now use the internet site.

The proposal is still in its earliest levels. The developer will hold a pre-software convention to talk about it with city officials subsequent month, immediately after which it could use a making permit or abandon the proposal.

It is not likely a redevelopment of the web site is far off in any situation. The parking lot that now hosts the food items cart pod is owned by a actual estate firm, Oregon Pacific Financial commitment and Development Co., and the other half of the block is owned by Wells Fargo, which has closed its bank department there.

In summertime of 2019, the city’s biggest meals cart pod at Southwest 10th and Alder Street was compelled out to make space for the Ritz-Carlton Resort, which is now below design. Some of those carts moved to a new downtown spot very last 12 months.

—Jayati Ramakrishnan