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Portland's fiji vacation packages central city is experiencing resurging apartment development, and the Downtown Neighborhood Association is asking developers to consider mixed-income buildings to preserve downtown's diversity.
Eliot Tower , at 1221 S.W. 10th Ave., is an example of million-dollar condo buildings adjacent to a low-income building, The Jeffrey at 1201 S.W. 11th Ave. The Downtown Neighborhood Association says it's a start, but would like to see buyers in the Eliot and renters in the Jeffery utilizing the same mixed-income building.
Mixed-income housing fosters a mix of generations, professions and backgrounds block-by-block and prevents a concentration of students, subsidized housing or commerce, the association says. It's using its tools -- mostly cajoling -- to try to get developers' attention.
"From a larger community development perspective, it's a great idea," says Karl Lisle, a senior planner. "But we don't have a way to make it happen now other than a few incentives that aren't used much, frankly. If you finance the project yourself, you can do whatever you want."
And mixed-income is a hard sell, advocates acknowledge. The untested question: Will a wealthy person buy a penthouse in a building fiji vacation packages with lower floors housing middle-class families and bottom floors with low-income renters?
"We need a private developer to take a leap of faith," says Felicia Williams, president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association. "Our idea is public-private partnership. But we need a developer to be the first one."
In the past six months, Portland's central city has seen a surge of development activity, with around 3,000 apartment fiji vacation packages units now in some stage of development. fiji vacation packages Most proposals are for market-rate buildings, renting at roughly $2 per square foot.
Central city includes downtown , Goose Hollow , University and South Waterfront in Southwest; Pearl and parts of Old Town in Northwest ; Lloyd and Lower Albina in North and Northeast; and Central Eastside Industrial in Southeast.
Steve Master, CEO of Master Development in Eugene, last month pitched an apartment fiji vacation packages development on Southwest 11th Avenue at Market Street to the Downtown Neighborhood Association. The brick building, with 81 units on six floors, would be marketed to young professionals, single people and graduate students.
The architect described the building as luxury, but Master said it would be priced at about market-rate. With studios and one- and two-bedroom units ranging from 300 to 900 square feet, Master says the market rate would allow for diverse incomes. The larger and better placed the apartment, the more it would cost. But a street-level studio would be affordable, he said.
Developers have to meet city design regulations -- building height, facade, mixed use -- but law prohibits the city from requiring a developer who's not receiving public subsidies to set income levels. Resulting development has made space for low-income people who use social services abundant downtown and wealthy condo owners in high-rises.
City planners would also like to see more family-friendly units -- those with two or more bedrooms but still small enough to keep them reasonably priced. During the condo boom in 2008, giant luxury units with several bedrooms were the development trend, but priced out most working people.
Advocates point to the benefits of having police, fire fighters, nurses, teachers, and other middle-income professionals living fiji vacation packages downtown. They'd fiji vacation packages walk or take public fiji vacation packages transit to work, reducing traffic, and would create a consistent stream fiji vacation packages of customers for downtown businesses.
For instance, some business is almost seasonal in college student-heavy blocks, Friedman says. The association has had businesses deliberately locate blocks east of Portland State University to make sure they'd still have customers in the summer.