Developer, PCP Voyager, recently applied for a modification to an already approved plan for an apartment complex at 1081 SW Mt. Bachelor Drive north of the Reed Market roundabout.
The modifications bring changes to the shape and design of the complex, reduces the number of units by two, adds sauna and steam buildings and increases the number of on-site parking spaces from 312 to 352. The site for the potential build is a vacant 4.87 acre lot with a considerable amount of trees.
“I don’t think they would be going through this process if they weren’t serious and really ready to go,” Senior Planner for the City of Bend Heidi Kennedy told the Source.
According to Kennedy, submitting the application to modify the plan cost PCPV, the developer, over $14,000.
Although Kennedy says she hasn’t heard of concerns from community members or from neighboring property owners, notice was given through mail and posting signage around the area.
The property for the apartment complex will border SW Mount Bachelor Dr., SW Century Dr. and SW Reed Market Rd.
The closest neighboring properties include a city-approved development that hasn’t begun construction on the northeast side, “Bend-Village” which is currently under construction, a medical building, a senior living community, the Village at Southern Crossing, Best Western Hotel and the Athletic Club of Bend.
The proposed building design shows the building will primarily face SW Century Drive and SW Reed Market Road. Access to the building would come from those minor arterial roads that have been known to have more traffic than other local streets.
The construction would continue to allow direct connection onto Haul Road Bike Trail which currently runs through part of the property.
Although Haul Road Bike Trail has been established on the part of the property for over 20 years PCPV applicants stated that the trail doesn’t fully run where it is legally meant to.
Builders will ensure the public continues to have access to the road and additionally, upgrading and possibly widening sidewalks where needed.
The proposed building’s parking lot will face Mt. Bachelor Drive and be “buffered” or covered with landscaping and terrain. It will be built on the ground floor underneath apartment units.
The building design is described as “fitting into the existing development aesthetic” and will blend into the “Central Oregon composition.”
The Source attempted and were unable to make contact with Tim Connelly, developer with PCPV about when the project was expected to break ground.
“The ball is in their court,” Kennedy says. “It depends on their schedule, if they are lined up with their building permits and their contractors.”
An earlier version of this article included a detail sourced from an architect’s website that has since been found to be inaccurate. That information has been removed.
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How does the new six-story apartment building approved by the city and being developed by the Cleveland, Ohio developer PCP Voyager benefit the the city or Central Oregon?. The project is located on the land bordering the Athletic Club, which is currently home to old-growth Ponderosa pines. When was the project approved? What property owners were contacted in the approval process?
Have there been previous articles about the property? This article provides few details regarding the project’s specifics, such as the number of units, parking ratio, building height, structure lot coverage, tree preservation plans, traffic impact studies, or affordable housing metrics and rent proformas. Is the city giving the developer property tax incentives (public funds give away’s)? Does the city need more high end rentals? Was the increased traffic congestion on S Century and Reed Market even considered? Does the city even consider traffic intrastructure and quality of life before approving these large projects?
Controlled growth is manageable and acceptable. Uncontrolled growth is not manageable.
Agreed, but people on Aubrey butte/Westside see opportunity, see the dollars to roll in, city will approve it because they get paid and then all the build goes to outside bend. it’s gross and some will say that’s “capitalism”, but those same people are adamant social justice believers, but to me it looks like they like the “little man” staying little. Hypocrisy is reason and it makes you feel gross. So few people have morals and ethics anymore. our entire city council and mayor promise so much but at the end of the day do not deliver and NO ONE does anything different. Gross….
No mention of affordable units as part of the plan, and no info on what will happen to the trees. We need a follow-up!
I’m sure these will accommodate the low-income housing we need, just like the new Old Mill and Westside (monstrosities… I mean) apartments did at $7,000 a month. Oh wait… they didn’t.
The “people” of Bend are so funny. They “care” so much about social issues like housing on paper, but then stuff like this pops up and we all just complain instead of voting for people who actually care about this town. Bend is nothing more than the status quo. Democrat or Republican, it’s all the same now, and it’s sad. All that virtuous talk, zero action. The homeless are still homeless, the hungry are still hungry, the Westside is still luxurious, and the Eastside gets all the non-travelers and true locals who are paying for the Westsides new streets, roundabouts, and parks redone.
None of this is “make local habit”, no local labor, local design. Bend is a fraud town, bought and paid for by outside investors who pour money into a booming area until it busts. None of the money stays local. Any labor (scraps) left behind aren’t enough to cover our rents. A Colorado person’s vacation house goes up on the same block, taxes skyrocket, and now you can’t afford to live in your own hometown. But yeah, “welcome” every tourist with money because they “support” us… how exactly? The only people with money in this town either came with it or got rich exploiting the wealthy and then moved away.
I’ve lived here my whole life, and it has never felt less like Bend than it does now.