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LOOK FOR INVITATIONS TO BID AND PUBLIC NOTICES STARTING ON PAGE 14 BusinessAPRIL 15, 2016 Tribune CONTRACTORS SCRAMBLE PORTLAND BY JOSEPH GALLIVAN REBUILDING GIVE THEM A YARD FEDEX MOVES TO TROUTDALE SOCIAL SOURCING: A RUNNERS’ BLACK JUPITER HOTEL BOX CAM PLANS EXPANSION INSIDE 2 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Friday, April 15, 2016 5,000 LOCAL STORIES every month and GROWING! 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They wound up living in a Lents, starting As residents face more ing, so she’s living in an RV in her cramped hotel room for two months. to see new evictions, community tries brother’s backyard. Anna Litvinenko, her husband and vitality from “Now I’m fi nding that I might have their four children got evicted from urban renewal, to hold its ground to move out of the city limits just to their three-bedroom apartment in East is one of the survive,” says the Portland school em- Portland in October. Now they’re East Portland By STEVE LAW ployee. “I have no alternatives.” crashing with her sister’s family — 12 neighborhoods The Tribune Brenda McSweeney, chairwoman of people sharing a 1,200-square-foot facing the Glenfair Neighborhood Associa- apartment. gentrifi cation Ann Voos, 61, got booted from tion, got forced out of her East Port- pressures. 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We are alive Oregon’s largest source of local news and advertising To subscribe or advertise in any of our newspapers please call 503-684-0360. 536644.011516 BT Friday, April 15, 2016 BUSINESS TRIBUNE 3 COVER: The bronze statue Portlandia might have to move over for a while when the Portland Building is heavily reconstructed starting December 2016. This page: The $195 million budget includes all Design Build Relocate services. TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO MASTERBUILDERS GET SET TO TAKE ON THE MASTER OF POSTMODERNISM LOCAL ARCHITECTS AND CONTRACTORS GET A TOUR OF MICHAEL GRAVES’ PORTLAND BUILDING AND ENVISION A NICE PLACE TO WORK he Portland building — part ing in the world. Its comic book neo- bullet and decided to renovate rath- the 70 or so people in the room had at Portland General Electric.) architectural masterpiece, classicism draws tourists from all er than replace it, at a budget of $195 studied the Request For Proposals, Miller was talking about the part leaky cauldron — will over, although they can’t explore million. which outlines in detail what the City’s Project Manager Kristen Tbe reconstructed. more than the lobby. A historic land- Roll over, Michael Graves City wants. They were here for the Wells and her colleague Kathleen Architects and construction firms mark building on the national regis- tour, to show their faces, and to ask Brenes-Morua. last week got an in- ter, the City is under Last Thursday, people in the trade questions. “I’m committed to make sure pro- side look at the teal- pressure to treat it, and gathered to hear the City’s project “I’m feeling really good about the cess or committee overlays don’t get and-biscuit box at 1120 BY JOSEPH its 1,300 workers, right managers outline their require- team we have doing it,” said Fred in the way. A year ago I didn’t think S.W. Fifth Avenue, GALLIVAN — without spending so ments for the type of companies Miller, the Chief Administrative Offi- this was going to happen,” he said. which is home to mul- much money that they they want working on the project, cer for the City of Portland and the tiple city bureaus. could have built some- which is slated to begin Dec. 1, 2106. Director of the Office of Manage- Design Build Relocate The 15-story office building, built thing better. Staff in the building It was a mandatory presubmittal ment and Finance (OMF) by way of “The big message is we are doing in 1982 and designed by British ar- have long complained that it is dark meeting. Anyone who wanted to bid introduction. (Miller worked with a collaborative approach,” Wells chitect Michael Graves, is regarded and moldy with odd temperature had to show up and sign in. No pas- four Oregon governors in the 1970s as the first major postmodern build- variations. In 2015 the City bit the tries, no coffee, all business. Most of and 1980s, and then as an executive CONTINUED / Page 4 4 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Friday, April 15, 2016 ■ From page 3 PROPOSAL REQUEST said. She said they are bidding out for their “Design, Build, Relocate From the City’s RFP: team.” The Project scope will include envelope repair/replacement, Design Bid is where contractors seismic upgrades, system and architects pair up in the begin- replacements, and full interior ning to design a building and figure remodel. The Project will seek, at out how it will be built. They pitch a minimum, LEED Gold certifi ca- as a team, and the work is supposed tion. One essential goal for the to move along quickly. They work Project will be to signifi cantly under a single contract, as a single improve the effi ciency and func- point of responsibility. This makes tionality of the building as a workplace. The Project seeks to it easier for the owner, in this case The City’s Office of Management and ensure the Portland Building’s the City of Portland Office of Man- place in the City’s history and to agement & Finance, to keep track of Finance, and two other reduce maintenance and opera- things. committees of city tional costs. The City added the “Relocate” workers, will be a The Project gives the City an part because a huge part of this constant presence at the opportunity to re-envision what project is knowing what to do with table, Kristen Walls The Portland Building can be—to 1,300 people. The choices are, let warned the architects make the building not only an them stay in the building during the and contractors as they architectural landmark but also one that works for people who work and relocate them, floor-by- got their first look inside occupy it, so that all Portlanders floor, or ship everyone out at once, the building last week. can be proud of it. (as was done with the Edith Green- TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO Wendell Wyatt Federal Building) Proposals are due May 13, and get the work done more quick- comes to energy efficiency. Kathleen Brenes-Morua talked exceed 20 percent, and would score 2016 by 4 p.m. ly. The winning bidders will be re- “We’ll be looking for you as our about equity, which is a dominant extra points for doing so. sponsible for figuring this out. experts to bring some of those ideas key word in city politics and opera- forward,” said Wells, to the crowd. tions. She talked about social equity Tourist trap Money pit Collaborative Project Delivery The modernization of the interior and DMWESB companies doing In a tour of the building, staff Wells also talked about Target “We’ve chosen progressive De- office space is important. “We’re business with the City. from the Office of Management and Value Design. “We’re designing and sign Build as our model because it looking to bring our employees up “To ensure we get participation Finance showed off some of the fea- pricing as we go, with every team seemed to be the best model that to the 21st Century, in terms of how at the beginning, we tures of interest. member, contractor, architect and worked within the constraints of we do work, and we’re looking for ask that you give us a A master builder owner in the room making deci- the public procurement processes.” teams that understand how the minimum of three “IPD/CPD is not for might balk at cor- sions together to get the best out- Wells added that they would still business world works today and second-tier subcon- everybody, lots of recting the work of a come for the project.” benefit from the methodologies of how can the City get there.” sultants.