Projects Built In The Last Decade

Award Winners

The Belmont Dairy project was submitted by GBD ARCHITECTS Incorporated in Portland, Oregon. The Belmont Dairy project converted an abandoned milk processing plant in the heart of Portland's Sunnyside Neighborhood into a mixed-use center with retail and residential uses. Phase One of the project was the Belmont Dairy Apartments and Lofts. Now fully leased, the project provides retail space anchored by a specialty grocery store. Housing includes 66 affordable apartments and 19 market-rate lofts. Phase Two, the Belmont Dairy Rowhouses, achieves twice the density of typical rowhouse projects in the region and serves as an innovative model for high-quality, high-density urban living. For questions regarding this project, please contact Jen Wentzein, GBD ARCHITECTS, Inc. at (503) 224-9565.

The Orenco Stationproject was submitted by Costa Pacific Homes in Hillsboro, Oregon. Orenco Station is an innovative pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented community of 1,800 homes, a mixed-use town center, and provides manufacturing employment on 190 acres near Portland, Oregon. The project is located within walking distance of Portland's new Westside light rail line. Orenco Station features walkable, tree-lined streets, numerous parks, recreational facilities and open space, alley-loaded homes on small lots, a walkable town center with neighborhood shops and services, and major employment within walking or biking distance. For questions regarding this project, please contact Rudy Kadlub, Costa Pacific Homes at (503) 646-8888.

 

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The Broadway Placeproject is a mixed-use development in downtown Eugene, Oregon. It is the result of a three-year effort to create a dense, urban project which combines residential apartments, retail/office uses, and structured parking in one integrated development. Broadway Place revitalized an area of Eugene that for years was considered to be "dying" and now is dense and livable and pedestrian-oriented. For questions regarding this project, please contact Bob Hibschman, City of Eugene at (541) 682-5109.

The Central Park and Davis Farmer’s Market is a successful urban park in Davis, California. It is a mixed-use public space that combines diverse uses such as a permanent home for the popular Davis Farmer’s Market, an interactive fountain, a Teen Center, a pedal powered children’s carousel, a central lawn, and a public garden. Today, Central Park functions as a flexible, multi-use place including green space, a town commons, a place of gathering that allows for community expression, and an outdoor living room for the community of Davis. For questions regarding this project, please contact Marc Francis, UDC. Davis Department of Environmental Design at (530) 752-6031.

The Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California is an adaptive reuse project of a historic building. This building now creates a mixed-use live/study/work center which accommodates university programs in visual arts and provides a day and night public focal point for Santa Ana’s “Artist Village' Redevelopment District. The many uses that the Grand Central Art Center has brought to the neighborhood have created a destination for theater, art, classes and dining, while also providing affordable housing and creative work/study spaces. For questions regarding this project, please contact Roberta Jorgenssen, Robbins Jorgenssen Christopher at (949) 851-0780.

The Vest Pocket Community is an infill project that consists of five shared homes and a community building which fosters a pedestrian-oriented community in Fairfax, California (Marin County). The homes are within walking distance of downtown shopping, a playground, and a teen center. Police and fire departments are within sight of the homes and three grocery stores are located within 1/4 mile. Older residents have access to two community senior groups. This project provides housing for people whose special needs are not usually addressed by the housing market, housing authorities, or non-profits. Additionally, it provides housing which achieves a seamless integration of low-income residents into a middle class neighborhood, and provides housing which, through its physical design, nurtures community and companionship for its potentially isolated residents. For questions regarding this project, please contact Anne Torney, Solomon Architecture and Urban Design at (415) 227-4081.