West Portland Town Center

Transit Design and Town Center Plan

Project Summary

Project Level: Professional Work — The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, City of Portland

Project type: Urban Design / Planning

Year: 2017 - 2020

Location: Barbur Town Center Portland, Oregon

Main Tools: Sketchup Pro, Arc GIS, Photoshop, Illustrator

Team: Mark Raggett, Lora Lillard, Cassie Ballew, Joan Frederiksen

Southwest Corridor Project is the Trimet’s extension of Max Light Rail Transits From Portland to Wilsonville. West Portland Town Center becomes a great opportunity to foresee new development in Barbur Town Center for the increasing populations in 2035. My main assignment is to design a new vision for the town center to respond to community’s feedback from several workshops. and illustrate a vision for Barbur Town Center. Main ideas in the design are focused on equities in accessibility, growth, muticultural identities, housing, and health. The end product is then new zoning code and development recommenations for Portland’s West Town Cencer.

POTENTIAL PUBLIC BENEFITS

• Affordable housing required for low-income households

• Indoor community space for culture events and/or office space for nonprofit service providers

• Retail can include space for businesses providing culturally relevant goods and services (ex. multicultural market place)

• Outdoor space is aligned to preserves views of Mt. Hood and provide opportunity for public art and community gatherings

• Circulation prioritizes pedestrians and connects the pedestrian bridge to the new station

• Office space for businesses and new jobs

SITE PROGRAM

• Five buildings: 3 mixed use and 2 office

• 230 - 300 apartment units

• Affordable housing: 23-30 units at 60% AMI or 46-60 units at 80% AMI provided through inclusionary zoning

• 15,000 - 20,000 square feet for retail

• 100,000

Barbur Transit Center

Barbur Transit Center will be an important MAX stop and one of the main nodes in the West Portland Town Center. This center is planned to be redeveloped into the multicultural hub, supporting the community’s vision of a mixed-use, mixed-income project with market rate and affordable housing co-located with human services, a senior center, indoor and outdoor community gathering space for cross-cultural events, office and program space for nonprofit organizations, and affordable commercial space for Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) and immigrant-owned businesses.

Green Ring

Green Ring is one of the key elements to create a pedestrian’s loop system to cennect the North and South areas together due to the seperations caused by a freeway and difficult terrains..