Urban Design Panel Presentation - Montgomery Park to Hollywood: Transit Oriented Development

Montgomery Park to Hollywood Transit and Land Use Development Strategy (MP2H)

Will explore opportunities to create an equitable development plan for transit-oriented districts in NW Portland and NE Portland. The MP2H study will identify land use, urban design and economic development strategies, as well as opportunities for community benefits possible with a transit-oriented development scenario, including potential streetcar. The project will also consider how such opportunities could support the City’s racial equity, climate justice, employment and housing goals. The work is funded in part by a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant.

Montgomery Park

GBD Architects has been serving as executive architect for two simultaneous design efforts occurring at Montgomery Park. The first is a master plan for the roughly 17.5 acres that includes the Montgomery Park building, the American Can complex and surrounding properties. Lake/Flato Architects from Texas has been leading the master plan effort that envisions a vibrant mixed use district focused on the Montgomery Park building, reusing the American Can complex of buildings and integrating new development throughout the campus. All in, the master plan adds hundreds of new housing units, a network of new open spaces and connections, and thousands of new square feet of office space. The second effort, a repositioning of the Montgomery Park building itself, has been led by S9 Architecture from New York and proposes a range of improvements including seismic retrofits, a dramatically rejuvenated lobby and new ground floor retail uses to activate the building's main entrance and develop new attractions for the community.