With repairs as the focus, Multnomah County is systematically working its way through Willamette River bridges in downtown Portland, bringing the crossings up to speed in terms of maintenance and operations.
The Sweetheart Lake Hydroelectric facility now has a series of green lights in front of it that nearly clears the path for a 2018 construction start on a 19.8-megawatt facility designed to generate an average of 116,000 megawatt-hours annually.
Seattle’s Sound Transit had a challenging problem: how to get a new light-rail line on and off a nearly 1-mile-long Interstate 90 floating bridge while protecting the rails from the constant movement of the water.
Multnomah County turned a 1925-built bridge serving as a traffic pinch-point into an award-winning new design when it created a fresh Sellwood Bridge across the Willamette River.
Turner Construction starts another busy season at a project it knows well in downtown Portland, yet again remaking Providence Park, the historic stadium housing the popular Portland Timbers of the MLS.
When William Kaven Architecture and Kaven + Co. proposed plans for a Portland Pearl District site that includes the tallest tower on the West Coast, it may have been nothing more than a highly publicized way to get Portland’s building height restrictions in the news.
