On Thursday it was announced that the Ladd Tower condominium project will instead be developed that the project will instead be developed as 220 luxury rental apartments, along with the planned four retail tenants on the ground floor.
According to the press release, plans for the temporary move and preservation of the Ladd Carriage House remain unchanged. The Rosefriend Apartments building on Broadway (across from The Oregonian) was not mentioned in the release, so one assumes it’s still going to be demolished at the bequest of its owner, First Christian Church. And regardless of whatever practical realities may exist to justify its fate, I still find the Rosefriend’s current status on architectural death row pretty depressing. But we’ve been through that. (Appropriately, a Police song just came on my i-Pod via the shuffle setting as I wrote this, with Sting singing the lyrics, “What is my reaction/what should it be/confronted by […]
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