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12 • The Multnomah Village Post
September 2007
Design Commission approves university’s 325-foot Mirabella tower
By Lee Perlman
The Multnomah Village Post
After barely 20 minutes of
discussion, the Portland Design
Commission last month approved
plans for the Mirabella, the latest
skyscraper planned for the South
Waterfront area. The commission had
reviewed the project in July and asked
for minor changes.
The building, to be built by Oregon
Health and Sciences University
and operated by Pacific Retirement
Services, will be a 284-unit senior
housing project, of which 224 units
will be for independent living. The
site is bounded by Southwest Curry
and Pennoyer streets, River Parkway
and Bond Avenue.
It will be 325 feet high, with a floor
plate of 12,400 square feet per floor,
both of which are allowed in this part
of the district with code modifications.
Regulations stipulate that buildings of
this size cannot be more than 112 feet
long from north to south above 125
feet, to reduce the degree to which it
blocks views of neighborhoods to the
west; the Mirabella’s upper floors will
be no more than 82 feet 10 inches at
their widest, and only 55 feet for the
top six stories.
The building will include such
amenities as a central dining room, a
5,500 square foot exterior courtyard, a
health clinic, a fitness center and spa,
library, meeting space and common
areas. It will also have a café that will
have an exterior entrance on Bond
Avenue and be open to the public at
least for breakfast and lunch, making
it one of the few retail facilities in the
district so far.
Landscape architect Carol Maier
Reid told the commission, “If you
didn’t know this was a building
you’d think it was a park because of
all the landscaping.” It will have an
environmental LEED Gold rating,
with hot water heated by rooftop
solar panels.
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