The proposed building looks pretty good to me. And maybe some good people will move into it. Perhaps it will benefit the neighborhood.

You liked the junk at 26th & Division, too -- oh, that's when you posted your comment as "Southeast Neighbor."

You also liked the garbage that's going in to wreck Hawthorne.

Indeed, you love condo bunkers all over the east side. Good for you.

You must live fairly close to the building Jack.

Correct me if I am wrong Jack, but the historical building they compared the new condo to for height is a bed and breakfast i.e. a commercial use of a building isn’t it? Also on NE 8th Avenue and Hancock, isn’t there a tall low cost housing high-rise? Hancock in that area is also home to a lot of apartments and plexes. That planed structure seems fairly appropriate for the area to me. I drove by the 26th & Division building the other day. Give the rust a chance to develop on the sheet metal like it is supposed to. It will look a lot better. (I am not being funny here as it in the design, just like having copper turn green.)

"like allowing new people in vacant land that is now illegal to build on?"
There's 1000s of acrws inside the UGB planners have locked up as well. Awaiting their grand master density plans and 100s of millions to pay for them and nothing else.

A four-story building with a modest setback would be o.k., I guess. But that's not $uffi¢ient for the Lake Oswego dude who's going to build this monster.

And heaven forbid we build a nice duplex with a yard here.

I live more than a dozen blocks from this site. I hate junk infill throughout the inner east side, including places miles from my home.

"And heaven forbid we build a nice duplex with a yard here."

With a double lot in that area going for 250K+, I would like to see a project where a duplex be financially viable.

I'm pretty tired of "financially viable" as the be-all and end-all of what happens in a historic residential neighborhood. How about an owner-occupied home?

I live about 5 blocks from that corner. The existing building has 22 units and very rarely has a "for rent" sign. I think there are already good people living there, though not affluent. The high rise at 9th and Hancock is housing for the elderly is the only structure on the entire square block. It has large setbacks and mature tall trees. It's definitely not some box slapped up against an historic structure. I'm sure the noise from the #8 bus would be too much to bear for handful of bunker dwellers that would occupy the proposed building. The population density would surely be less than it is now. Is "financially viable" some sort of euphemism for grossly inflated prices?

"I'm sure the noise from the #8 bus would be too much to bear for handful of bunker dwellers that would occupy the proposed building..."

Ah yes, what a perfect excuse for Sam to put in another streetcar line to replace a perfectly efficient bus - more cost, fewer passengers, but you can't beat that new car smell!

I drove by the 26th & Division building the other day. Give the rust a chance to develop on the sheet metal like it is supposed to. It will look a lot better. (I am not being funny here as it in the design, just like having copper turn green.)

Heh...rust.

Yeah the blast walls at the north and south ends will continue to rust. Probably staining the walkways and those attempting to enter.

Your aesthetics are far from mine and I've found that the robin's egg blue is perfectly putrid compared to the Plaid Pantry across the intersection.

Given what it replaced, I can only guess that this was a major effort to uglify Southeast intersections, an effoft begun years ago with the installation of the the hideous apartment buildings directly north across Division.

Where the f**k is the huge tree they said they'd incorporate?

Why the hell is it built so damn near the poor property to the east? Aren't there set-back requirements which needed to be met?

Why did it take so damned long to finish such a butt-ugly, simplistic building? When will they tear it down and return the graceful Queen Anne era manse?

I can hardly wait for the taggers to hit. Between the rusting steel plate blast walls and the remarkably stupid natural wood at street level, they're gonna play hell getting rid of the tags...If anybody even notices them in all the abominations to the aesthetically trained eye.

I guess we all need second homes in exurbia so we can escape the density overtaking our PDX neighborhoods. Density may in a way create sprawl, as folks try to have a get away to escape the intensifying city life.

Godfry,

I guess you didn't hear the news about Fireman Randy's solution to the tagging problem. You have to present I.D. to buy spray paint now.

Problem solved. Graffiti no mas.

While I'm not a fan of these infill projects, I've tried to keep a fairly open mind when reading Jack's rants and the accompanying comments.

Then today I drove by 26th & Division.

Ugh. Horrible. Terribly out of scale with the neighborhood, big ugly slabs for walls, and an overall impression that the building is going to eat the sidewalk and any who dare tread thereupon. I hope the architect has been neutered so that they don't produce any offspring.