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LOOK FOR INVITATIONS TO BID AND PUBLIC NOTICES STARTING ON PAGE 12 OUT OF OCTOBER 4, 2016 THE FIRE TUESDAY CLAY CREATIVE’S EASTSIDE INDUSTRIAL OFFICES BY JULES ROGERS Business Tribune BETTER DELIGHT BUSINESS: AT WORK: CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE SPOOKS SOME TACKLES TRICKY FEELINGS INSIDE 2 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 SAVE THE DAY!TE INAUGURAL OPERATIONS AND TECH SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY, OCT 20TH 4-7PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER GUEST SPEAKER FRED JACKIE POND BARETTA Former CIO CIO Willamette Columbia Sportswear University TO REGISTER, VISIT SITES.UP.EDU/OTM 552946_090616 BT Glossy – Full color Save hundreds on We can print & deliver for as low as PO$TAGE! 7¢ per reader! Over 27 newspaper markets to choose from. When your fl yer Call for an estimate today! goes in our papers! 971.204.7716 Coupons [email protected] Menus Event schedules Special offers 551028_051916 Tuesday, October 4, 2016 BUSINESS TRIBUNE 3 TIMBER IS TRENDING CLAY CREATIVE Clay Creative Where: 1615 S.E. Third Ave. REPLACES BURNED Developer: Killian Pacifi c Designer: MacKenzie TAYLOR ELECTRICAL Contractor: Turner Construction Public Partners: Metro’s Transit- Oriented Development Program, City of SUPPLY BUILDING Portland Development Commission Enterprise Zone he Clay Creative, a building of creative/industrial offices, held its grand opening last week, cel- issues. By 2014, Killian Pacific had taken Tebrating the use of exposed over and re-approached MacKenzie to heavy timber in keeping with the tradi- follow the designs through execution. tional warehouse feel of the Central “It’s good to finally see a project go Eastside Industrial District. there,” Wieland said. “It’s a completely According to Metro, a public partner different design approach than the first on the project within time we took it through.” its Transit-Oriented Wieland said one of the major changes Development Pro- BY JULES is a 90 degree difference in orientation, gram, the total devel- facing another street — Third Avenue in- opment cost $21.8 mil- ROGERS stead of Southeast Clay. lion. The Metro pro- The anchor tenant, Portland-based gram provided $300,000 in funding. bank Simple, has already moved into the The six-story, 72,000-square-foot build- top four floors, occupying 75 percent of ing includes high ceilings, operable win- the building. The ground floor has a cou- dows that provide plentiful natural light ple of tenants, and restaurant space is and fresh air, flexible open floor plans actively looking for leases as construc- and a rooftop terrace with city, river and tion finishes up. mountain views. There are 61,943 square feet of office space and 5,000 square feet Heavy timber of retail designed for the district’s cre- Almost all the wood material was re- ative culture of software, artisan and gionally sourced, as was the masonry on sustainable sector businesses. the building’s exterior and a lot of the The development comes nearly a de- steel and concrete. cade after a fire burned out the old Tay- “Clay Creative, being one of the new lor Electrical Supply Company ware- wave of mid-rise timber construction, house, which was formerly on the Clay was one of the first out of the ground,” Creative site. Wieland said. “Not a lot of mid-rise build- Dietrich Wieland, the lead architect on ings are built out of wood anymore. the Clay Creative, is the director of sus- We’re seeing a little bit of a nod back to tainability with Portland-based MacKen- that.” zie architecture, engineering, design and According to Wieland, developer planning. MacKenzie also has offices in Killian Pacific was extremely interested Seattle and Vancouver. in pushing and promoting wood as re- “That used to be the old Taylor Elec- gional technology, and focused on the en- tric building, and it burnt down in a fire vironmental, human health and natural around 2005-06,” Wieland said. “In 2008 aspects of the build. The project is tar- or so, another client c had us design es- geting a LEED Gold certification. sentially the same project: a five- or six- “There are a couple of key elements on story industrial office building with the project. One would be the promotion structured parking.” of the use of wood as a local, regional After obtaining the permit, the initial CHRISTIAN COLUMBRES PHOTOGRAPHY project disappeared into 2009’s lending CONTINUED / Page 4 One of Clay Creative’s features is exposed heavy timber. 4 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 4, 2016 CHRISTIAN COLUMBRES PHOTOGRAPHY Clay Creative is located close-in on the East side, just south of the Hawthorne Bridge. air distributor on floors four the neighborhood,” Wieland said. ■ From page 3 through six. “The fact that you’re getting more “It’s a little more efficient, but restaurants coming in on the material, supporting the local tim- the main driver for the under-floor ground floor adds vibrancy to the ber industry, intensive use of wood air is to provide better air distribu- district, not just in terms of finding through the structure and the fin- tion, better occupant control, those a place to go for lunch, but after 5 ished, trying to promote what types of things: human health and p.m. I like seeing the East side be- technology was a key piece be- comfort,” Wieland said. “It’s geared ing more than an 8-5 destination.” yond just sustainability and LEED, toward human health.” While the use of heavy timber but also just from a standpoint of An attribute of the space is the was his favorite part, he also supporting the regional economy,” great amount of natural daylight: named it as the most challenging. Wieland said. due to the narrowness of the build- “I’ve worked with wood struc- Wieland also said Killian Pacific ing, you’re never far from an exte- tures before — not on a five- or six- made it a goal to reinvent the his- rior wall. story building — that was just fun torical, industrial building with a “A lot of the access to height, to to take that through and just un- modern twist. views, the amount of quality of the derstand how wood at that scale is “Overall, the design of the exte- space, the connection to natural designed and delivered to the mar- rior is intended to be compatible wood — occupants can have the ket,” Wieland said. “That (heavy with the older buildings around CHRISTIAN COLUMBRES PHOTOGRAPHY ability to control their work envi- timber) was probably the most ex- it,” Wieland said. “How the win- The Clay Creative designers saved an old wall from the burned Taylor Eletrical ronment,” Wieland said. “It’s all citing aspect of the project to me.” dow openings are sized, how the Supply building because of the community graffiti, keeping it as art for the pretty cool and it all extends be- The new is exciting, but also chal- mullions are organized, the pat- neighborhood. yond LEED and points.” lenging from a legal perspective. tern on the masonry, all try to re- There are also plans to finish the “All the engineering makes call historical things.” landscaping with solar trees. sense, but applying that at scale But Wieland and his team didn’t all that — finding moments to newly invented way historical “Rather than take solar panels was new to us and the City of Port- simply recall history’s design ele- have abit of a modern expression.” buildings used solid timbers, out of sight, out of mind up on the land didn’t have a lot of them at ments: they used a physical wall Another engineered wood tech- heavy pieces. It’s now all about en- roof, we took them down to the this scale — it created a lot of from the old burned building, nique is cross-laminated timber gineered products.” parking lot,” Dietrich said. “(It challenges in terms of understand- which is decorated in graffiti by (CLT), which is getting a lot of at- looks like) a stylized version of a ing how code was to be applied, the community and now stands as tention at the Framework build- Human health tree. Once they are installed, it will whether it met the code or wheth- a unique art piece for the neigh- ing, recently approved by the The sustainable aspects of the really be a significant element to er we had to do a building code ap- borhood. city’s Design Commission and design go above and beyond LEED the site design, not only providing peal,” Wieland said. “It was one of “The use of heavy timber is a slated to be the highest CLT build- certification points, because renewable energy but also art.” those projects where the biggest nod back to that as well: all old ing in the nation. they’re not just about the carbon part was the most challenging buildings are built out of heavy “We didn’t go that route, but it’s footprint: they’re for the health of Challenges and joys part and the rewarding part. We timber, too,” Wieland said. “Add trending that way,” Wieland said. the people who spend time in Clay “The challenge of the Central got it all done and figured out.” some modern elements, a very “Emphasis at the state level is in- Creative. Eastside is always a conversation high-efficiency facade, high-effi- terested in promoting wood tech- Part of the sustainable mechani- about industry versus industrial of- ciency glass and installation and nology. We see it coming back as a cal system includes an under-floor fices, and the strain that can put on [email protected] PRESIDENT ADVERTISING PUBLIC NOTICES MANAGER CIRCULATION REPORTERS WEBSITE Business J.