Three multi-family apartment buildings planned in Astoria
Published 4:00 pm Friday, December 31, 2010
| This rendering depicts three apartment buildings planned for Astoria’s Gateway District. Image: Partin & Hill Architects |
A North Plains developer is aiming to complete 30 new apartments for tenants 55 and older in Astoria by next summer.
“We’ll start construction in January,” said Dick Krueger, who owns the 180-foot-by-200-foot lot in the Gateway District. “We hope to have it done by June or July.”
On Dec. 2, the Astoria Design Review Committee approved the proposed design of the as yet unnamed project.
Once completed, the development will consist of three, three-story apartment buildings containing a total of 30 units.
The property is located on the west side of 29th Street across from Van Dusen Beverages, north of Marine Drive. It has been vacant since Astoria Plywood Mill was demolished and the site underwent environmental cleanup in the 1990s.
Krueger, who owns a shade-tree nursery in North Plains and who has developed several properties in Washington County, also plans to build 29 apartments in a subdivision along the Young’s Bay waterfront on a 3.4-acre parcel near the U.S. Coast Guard PX facility. (Coast River Business Journal October 2009)
“For sure, construction will start next summer,” said Krueger, of the Young’s Bay project. He added that he had not yet decided whether to target those units to the 55-and-older population.
“I like the coastal flair,” said Krueger, of his decision to develop two Astoria properties. “I enjoy working there. It seems like the (north Oregon Coast) communities are very inviting.”
Partin & Hill Architects of Hillsboro, working on Krueger’s behalf, recently submitted drawings of the Mill Pond project to the city in hopes of obtaining building permits, said Circosta.
