Portland developer Mark Madden recently got some good news from the Bureau of Development's design commission, which has given him the green light to begin contracting the construction of two residential developments east of the river.
Coming to the Kerns neighborhood will be a horseshoe-shaped 32-unit live/work space to be built at the corner of NE 24th Avenue and Glisan Street. And while the complex's future tenants will not have the luxury of on-site parking, they will have plenty of space for short-term and long-term interior and exterior bicycle parking.
Madden's Link Apartments project also got the design commission's okay, which paves the way for the future 2-story, 12-unit residential to be built on the 2000 block of SE 11th Avenue. The commission also agreed to waive the zoning requirement that forces developers to leave at least six feet of sidewalk space around the building's perimeter.
