5 MLK

5 MLK is a 200 feet (61 m) 17-story mixed-use apartment and office building in Portland, Oregon's Burnside Bridgehead area completed in 2020. It was designed by GREC Architects and built for Gerding Edlen.

5 MLK
5 MLK, seen with the red-brick Blake McFall Company Building in the foreground
General information
Town or cityPortland, Oregon
CountryUnited States
Coordinates45°31′21.2″N 122°39′44.2″W

Description and history

The building is a full-block five-story podium topped with a twelve-story tower. It went under many rounds of design reviews in 2016 and 2017,[1][2][3] A 2016 design showed the tower in "earth tone" panels and glass. Portland architecture blog said it was "design[ed] by committee".[4][5][6][7][8] The final design was approved in mid-2017.[9]

In 2019 a man suffering a mental health crisis climbed the 300 feet (91 m) crane on the site and stood on the arm of the tower for five hours.[10]

The site was previously home to buildings including a three-story quarter-block building constructed in approximately 1912 and historically called the Buckman Building. It was occupied by Fishels Furniture since 1947, which closed in 2016.[11][2][1][12] That building was demolished in early 2018.[13]

References
  1. Iain MacKenzie (27 May 2016). "17 story tower planned for Fishels Furniture site (drawings) - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  2. Anna Marum (1 June 2016). "Another tower proposed for Burnside Bridgehead". oregonlive. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  3. Iain MacKenzie (21 June 2016). "Metro Reports: Multnomah County Health Dept HQ, 5 SE MLK, Grant Park Village Phase II and more - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  4. Iain MacKenzie (29 July 2016). "5 MLK receives Design Advice (images) - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  5. Sophia June (1 August 2016). "Developer Plans Mixed-Use High-Rise in Place of 95-Year-Old Fishels Furniture". Willamette Week. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  6. "5 MLK or: how i learned to stop being an architect and design by committee". places over time. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  7. Iain MacKenzie (2 November 2016). "5 MLK has third Design Advice Request Hearing (images) - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  8. Iain MacKenzie (4 April 2017). "5 MLK Reviewed by Design Commission (images) - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  9. Iain MacKenzie (20 June 2017). "5 MLK Approved by Design Commission (images) - Next Portland". Next Portland. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  10. Everton Bailey Jr. (22 May 2019). "Man in crisis scales construction crane in SE Portland, police say". oregonlive. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  11. 1988 Oregon Cultural Resource Inventory: Central Southeast Portland
  12. Anna Marum (30 April 2016). "Fishels furniture to close after nearly 100 years". oregonlive. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  13. Tenney, Sam (20 February 2018). "Photos: Burnside bridgehead building brought down • Daily Journal of Commerce". Daily Journal of Commerce. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
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