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Meyer Memorial Rust Awards
$100,000 Grant To Host Development
The trustees o f the Meyer Memo­
rial Trust have awarded a $100,000
grant to HOST Development, Inc.,
according to HOST Executive Di­
rector Howard Nolte. Since its found­
ing in 1989. HOST (Home Owner­
ship a Street at a Time), a private,
nonprofit corporation, has built and
delivered 36 homes to Portland’s
low-and moderate-income families.
HOST will utilize the Meyer Me­
morial Trust grant toward its work to
improve people’s lives and neigh­
borhoods by providing families a
chance to achieve the great Ameri­
can Dream o f home ownership.
HOST currently has twenty homes
underway in the Woodlawn neigh­
borhood. Construction on a separate
subdivision creating an additional
fifteen affordable homes is planned
for the same time period in the Ports­
mouth neighborhood. Additional
funding for the projects will be pro­
vided by Portland area banks.
“Rising home prices in Portland
have created a crisis in the affordable
housing market,” Nolte said "We
are trying to build and deliver as
many homes as possible while this
closing windowofopportunity is still
open. The Trust’s award is a wonder­
ful beginning to our goal o f raising
$ 3 .1 million for our newest develop-
ment sites in North and Northeast
Portland ”
“ W'e look upon this grant as a
mutual investment on the part o f
HOST Development and the Trust,
and we urge (HOST) to think o f us as
(its) partner in this venture,” said
Charles S. Rooks, Executive Direc­
tor of the Meyer Memorial Trust.
Meyer Memorial Trust was estab­
lished in 1978 through the bequest o f
retail store proprietor Fred G. Meyer.
With current assets o f more than
$300 million, the Trust is the largest
foundation in the Northwest. The
Trust itself is not affiliated with Fred
Meyer, Inc.
Computers Used To Create Housing Plans
If you learn it, you will use it
I hat s the case for home designers
and builders, who are turning to the
computer for assistance in creating
housing plans.
Some firms are using computer-
aided design programs and are doing
most o f their residential building
plans on the screen.
“Our office is 100 percent com­
puterized,” said Rob Padgett o f
Cameron and Associates, residential
designers. One o f the results has been
downsizing the staff and still main­
taining the same level o f output.
Padgett says the biggest advan­
tage is the time it saves.
“It eliminates dimensional mis­
takes and math errors,” he said, “and
it allows us to perform square-foot-
age calculations that are more accu­
rate.”
Often, aclient will decidehe wants
to make a room a foot longer, add a
porch or make other revisions to the
existing plan, Padgett noted. The
computermakes the changes quickly
and easily, and a set o f blueprints is
just the push o f a button away.
Padgett uses the Data CAD pro­
gram for his work. Two o f his de­
signs were used in the Street o f
Dreams home show last year.
“We do work for approximately
200 builders, including two produc­
tion builders, Peachtree Residential
Properties and Sharp Properties,” he
said.
Michael W. Garrell, owner and
residential designer with Garrell As-
sociates, says the majority o f his com­
pany’s work has been transferred
from a draftsman’s table to the com­
puter screen.
“Our projects range from little
pool houses to large custom homes
from $500,000 to $ I million. Build­
ers like it because it’s easier and
cleaner to change," he said. “About
two-th irds ofour designers and drafts­
men use the Auto CAD program.”
Greg Marquis, owner o f Greg
Marquis and Associates, a design
firm, is using the program for draft­
ing house plans, too. He has spent
hours learning the program Padgett
as a frequent consultant.
While the computer is the new
draftsman’s tool, Marquis said, “ it’s
only as good as the data you put in it.”
Affordable Housing:
By Design Or By Defaulf?
m l ) l NCAN W vNDHAM
N ECD C, a no n -p ro fit housing
developm ent co rp o ratio n , d e v e l­
ops affo rd ab le housing that c o n ­
forms with the dom inant a rc h i­
tectural styles in the N orth N orth­
east P ortland com m unity.
Through a netw ork o f com m u­
nity p artn ers, including The City
o f P ortland, M ultnom ah C ounty,
and com m unity m inded a rc h i­
tects, bankers, and c o n tracto rs,
NECDC is able to o ffer solidly
built hom es w ith d istin c tiv e fea­
tures at very reasonable prices.
For instance, a three bedroom .
1,280 sq. ft. house w ith I 1/2
bathes, front and back porches,
appliances, and com plete se c u ri­
ty sy ste m can be p u rc h a s e d
through N ECD C for a $1,000.
dow npaym ent, and a p p ro x im a te ­
ly $415. (p rin c ip le & interest) in
m onthly paym ents.
NECDC is able to build q u a l­
ity hom es at affo rd a b le prices
due to several factors.
develoner o f thp
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The developer
the new I U.S
Bank building in downtown Eugene
hopes to continue its city center revi­
talization work with a $12 million
residential and commercial project.
Seattle-based Lorig A ssociates
wants to replace the city-owned park­
ing lots at Chamelton Street and
Broadway with a 192-unit apartment
complex and 12,000 square feet o f
ground-floor retail and office space,
according to a proposal the firm has
submitted to Eugene urban planners.
Underneath the structure would be
two levels o f city-owned parking for
about 740 cars.
The proposal would greatly ex­
pand the downtown’s housing stock
— something city-center advocates
say would help revive the district
The rents would be upscale —
$698 a month for a one-bedroom
unit, for example — and Lorig is
asking for a 10-year tax break prob­
ably worth in excess o f $100,000 a
year trx
to the firm
The Lorig team will discuss its
plans at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Lane
Community C ollege’s Downtown
Center. The City Council is expected
to consider the matter at its Jan. 3 1
“ What we came up with for a
concept is very forward thinking,”
Keller said Monday. “ I’m convinced
it’ll be a very positive part o f down­
town and the adjoining neighbor­
hood, Keller is on a 14-person com­
mittee charged with developing a
comprehensive plan for the west end
o f downtown.
The so-called Charnelton-Broad-
way blocks, the site o f the annual
Eugene Celebration, are among the
few remaining undeveloped parcels
in the city center. The city’s past
efforts to cultivate the four quarter­
block tracts have drawn little interest
from developers.
However, the city decided to more
aggressively pursue development last
— I_.‘ I-
year, n as . - new offices
buildings for
U.S. Bank and the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court filled in the west side o f the
city center. Also, softw are firm
Symantec Corp, rapidly expanded
its o p e ra tio n s ju st east o f the
Charnelton-Broadway site.
In November, the city requested
proposals from developers and park-
ing garage architects.
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