Video: New developer’s presentation on Oregon 42 changes

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The new developer/architect team for Oregon 42 – the proposed development at 42nd/Oregon in The Junction, a couple lots north of QFC/Capco Plaza – explained project changes to community members last night. In case you couldn’t be there, we recorded the 1-hour meeting on video. We detailed the changes here earlier this month, after Junction Neighborhood Organization president Erica Karlovits announced the project’s new leaders had contacted her to talk about the changes. Primary among them: The project has dramatically downsized its planned retail space, switching to more apartments instead. Karlovits raised issues on behalf of nearby neighbors, including parking and construction noise, but no conflicts or unaddressable concerns erupted. If the city signs off on the changes, the developers say they hope to start work by the end of the year; they believe construction would take about a year and a half. The deadline for comments on the project is June 29th (more in this story).

Keith June 16, 2011 (10:24 am)

Since this is still in Design Review, are comments expected/welcomed only on the look & feel of the building, or would it be appropriate to comment on the major change in the number of residential units?

WSB June 16, 2011 (10:56 am)

It’s not in Design Review – it already passed that, and these are being proposed as “minor changes” to the plan, per the DPD documentation on which I reported previously after a trip downtown to review the file. So comment on everything! – TR

DF June 16, 2011 (10:52 am)

WE MUST NO LET OUTSIDERS ON OUR BLOCK LIKE THIS>
DAMN WE THESE PROJECTS I WON’T PROMOTE THEM NOR
STAND BY THEM IN ANYWAY. GUY MENTIONS IN THE BEGINNING ABOUT LIKING THE COMMUNITY THEN WHY HELP WITH ITS . . . . . YOU FILL IN THE BLANK.

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