This weekend I was driving by the former Washington High School (later Washington-Monroe) along Southeast 12th Avenue near Morrison and noticed a demolition in progress.
Somehow, despite reading The Oregonian cover to cover every day (or at least skimming it), I’d missed the report that Beam Construction has made a deal with Portland Public Schools (years in the making) to redevelop the long-vacant Washington High School site. According to the article, and confirmed to me in a recent phone conversation with Bradley Malsin, head of Beam, the school’s original building facade will be preserved, while some of the other surrounding structures are being torn down. I can’t argue with that: some of those structures were fairly ugly and compromised the integrity of the original structure.
Malsin also told me that the architect for the project will be MCA Architects, although SERA Architects is also involved on the Portland Public Schools side. […]
Published by Brian Libby
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