“Long gone are the days when the Central Eastside was little more than an industrial district. You can spot some of the most recent and notable developments in the heart of the Grand-Stark corridor at 525 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The former home for a Portland music company location is being transformed into a massive, six-story, cross-laminated timber building called District Office.” Read more.
“Portland's Central Eastside will see a new development come late 2019 in the form of a six-story timber building of creative office space. The District Office is under construction and located at 525 SE MLK Blvd. The new building will feature retail space on the ground floor, open office floor plans and outdoor deck space.” Read more.
"An 86-year-old commercial building in the Central Eastside Industrial District is being demolished to create space for a new mixed-use development. The building… will be replaced by a six-story building with ground-floor commercial space and five stories of open creative office space. Andersen Construction is serving as the general contractor for the Hacker-designed project, which is being developed by a partnership between Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners." Read more.
“Prosper Portland has picked a well-known local to partner with on its ambitious ODOT Blocks project. The agency chose Beam Development's proposal for the 2.19-acre site in the Central Eastside out of six proposals submitted earlier this year. Beam's team also includes Hacker Architects, Colas Construction and Mackenzie.”
"Jason Bolt moved his replacement sunglasses lens company, Revant, from Eugene to Portland in 2013, placing the office portion of the business in the Ford Building of the Central Eastside Industrial District and its manufacturing operations in a space a few blocks away. Over the past two years, though, he's been looking for space big enough to consolidate both elements of his business under one roof." Read more.
"Portland’s groundbreaking live/work space for artists, Milepost 5, has provided affordable space for hundreds of artists over the years. Its offbeat history offers a mix of lessons about mashing up art and commerce. The company that brought it to life is about to sell the complex to a company that specializes in redeveloping affordable housing." Read more.
"Like many Portland tech startups before it, Uncorked Studios found itself a few years ago occupying some space in the RiverTec Building in the Pearl District. But as the digital product agency began to grow, it needed to find a new home. Working with JLL and Beam Development, Uncorked ended up moving across the river into 1,500 square feet of the Eastbank Commerce Center in the Central Eastside Industrial District. According to Marcelino Alvarez, founder and CEO at Uncorked, the jump across the Willamette was prompted in part by the budding relationship with Beam, partly by the Central Eastside’s character and partly by the cheaper rents." Read more.
"It's got a staircase that pays homage to Wieden+Kennedy, and every day there are a handful of canines snoozing underfoot or loping around the office. There's a rooftop deck with killer views of downtown Portland, a gourmet kitchen for employees and a kegerator that pumps out not beer, but unique flavors of sparkling water. So in more ways than one, Uncorked Studios' new office in the new 811 Stark building has all the ingredients that make for a cool, creative space." Read more.
"Portland, Oregon’s new mixed-use development, known as Slate, consists of a shifting stack of volumes that reflect the vibrancy and complexity of the neighborhood. The development, designed by Works Progress Architecture for co-developers Urban Development Partners and Beam Development, earned LEED Gold certification as an energy-efficient complex that takes the curtain-wall system to the next level." Read more.
"Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners are teaming up to bring a six-story, cross-laminated timber creative office building to the corner of Southeast MLK and Southeast Stark Street. The building, designed by Portland architecture firm Hacker, will be the latest in a string of office projects that are transforming the neighborhood away from its industrial roots and toward its creative office future." Read more.
"The Shleifer building’s co-owners, Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners, are offering up space as a shelter before they begin work restoring the building for use as a hotel later this year.It’s the third time Multnomah County and the City of Portland have partnered with local developers to turn unused commercial properties into temporary shelters for the homeless." Read More
"For eight years, the Portland Development Commission patiently cobbled together four blocks at the eastern end of the Burnside Bridge. City leaders thought the area could serve as a gateway to downtown from East Portland, and so the PDC in 1998 began acquiring properties there. Revitalization of the area had a long way to go. The Convention Plaza building was a second-rate office property, and the surrounding area had little going on..." Read More
"A new ten-story mixed-use project has opened at the bustling Burnside bridgehead. Co-developers Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners last week held a grand opening celebration for Slate, which combines residential, office, and retail space in an distinctively-designed building at the corner of Northeast Couch Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard." Read More
"Slate bring 10 stories to the rapidly growing Burnside Bridgehead area, with a unique mix of retail, creative office space and 75 apartments. Metro's Transit-Oriented Development program gave the $35 million project a $500,000 grant, helping add four floors to give more people opportunities to work and live near transit." -Craig Beebe...Read More
"The partnership between Portland developers Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners started with Slate, a mixed-use project in the Central Eastside Industrial District with 75 luxury apartments and 45,000 square feet of commercial space"...Read More
"CENTRL Office opened its doors on the new space this week, welcoming a few early tenants that Hughes characterized as beta tenants as the coworking space gets up and running. CENTRL has 22,000 square feet of space across two floors of the building, which also includes about 75 residential units, ground-floor retail and on-site parking. The building itself, developed by Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners, is just wrapping up construction." Read More...
"The four-story building has a concrete podium and three floors of glulam post-and-beam construction with concrete slab over structural wood decking, and the building will be clad in metal and concrete, with cedar siding on the ground level." Read More...
"Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners have teamed up for an 18- to 20-story apartment building as phase II of Block 75, which is located at the corner of Northeast Davis and Third. The building will sit next to phase I of the block, a 10-story mixed-use building from Beam and UDP called Slate." Read More...
“CENTRL Eastside will be the next evolution of how office and hospitality are coming together,” said Alex Hughes, co-founder of CENTRL Office, in a release. “Our current members have been clamoring for a place on the east side and we’ve found the perfect location and partnership at the Slate." Read More...
In six years, digital product agency Uncorked Studios has gone from residing in an accelerator to part-owner of a four-story building going up in the Central Eastside. “When we signed to take over half the third floor (in the current space), we joked that next time we would do a building together,” Marcelino Alverez said. “Sure enough, about three months after we expanded, they [Beam Development] said they might have a building.” Read More...
"The Block 75 mixed-use project at the Burnside Bridgehead, a joint development between Urban Development + Partners and Beam Development, continues to take shape. The ten-story mixed-use building will feature ground-floor retail, creative office space on floors 2-4, and six stories of apartments on the upper floors. The concrete and steel frame building was topped out last month, and crews are busy installing the curtainwall on the building's..." Read more
"Developer Brad Malsin of Beam Development said this week he’s eyeballing a mixed-use wood building of up to 20 stories for the second phase of development of Block 75 at the Burnside Bridgehead. That on top of a timber frame building at 811 S.E. Stark that will offer close to 40,000 square feet of creative office over retail space." Read More...
"Brad Malsin, owner of Beam Development, said his firm is considering a cross-laminated timber (CLT) building for Phase 2 of Block 75 at the Burnside Bridgehead." "We'd love to shoot for close to 20 stories," he said. "We're debating some kind of mixed-use and we'll try to do some new angle on creative office."...Read More
“I’ve done my best to make sure the building, and our business, was a cornerstone of many of the things going on around here,” Shleifer said. “(Beam Development is) very active in, and supportive of, this area. They understand buildings of this generation, and they’ll do a fantastic job with historic renovations.” Read More...
"Block 75, a 10-story development under construction at the Burnside bridgehead, will host a mix of uses ideal for financial backing from Metro’s Transit-Oriented Development Program." Read More...
"Beam Development took the wraps off its $17 million redevelopment of the former Convention Plaza, 120 N.E. Third Ave. Thursday night, signaling at long last that Portland’s dream of a vital economic zone at the east end of the Burnside Bridge is finally becoming reality." Read More...
"The Convention Plaza Building, at 123 N.E. Third Ave., is the subject of a Disposition and Development Agreement between the Portland Development Commission and Beam Development. The building would be the first project to move forward in the five-block redevelopment area in Portland’s central eastside." Read More...
District Office, a Central Eastside Industrial District project from Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners, will […] use CLT from D.R. Johnson. “It’s a positive connection between the urban economy and rural economy here in Oregon, and aesthetically, it’s more compelling,” said Jonathan Malsin, a principal at Beam Development. Beam Development was already interested in CLT, Malsin said, before a suggestion was made that it be used for District Office. Read more.