Work underway on 110 affordable apartments in North Portland February 11 2021
The Cathedral Village Apartments project is being developed by Catholic Charities of Oregon and Related Northwest.
Shovels thrust into wintry soil was the first step for a budding new affordable housing community in North Portland.
When completed in July 2022, Cathedral Village Apartments will offer overhead views of the soaring St. Johns Bridge, the rumble and hum of freight trains round back, and 110 units for Portlanders to call home.
Development partners Catholic Charities of Oregon and Related Northwest officially broke ground on the $37.7 million project at 6520 N. Salem Ave. on Tuesday, Feb. 9.
IRIS O’NEAL
PHENOM Project manager at LMC Construction
Jimmy Buffett, sea birds and tracking shipping containers full of Italian tile crossing the Atlantic Ocean all played a role in Iris O’Neal’s first project as she began her construction career in Florida.
Originally slated to be a Hotel Indigo, the project transformed into a Margaritaville hotel after Buffett toured the site in his signature shorts and flip-flops. O’Neal said she spent many weeks checking the site to make sure protected birds had finished nesting, oversaw submittals for sea turtle glazing and a swimming pool on an upper deck, and waited for the Italian tile to arrive.