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Trillium House, an affordable housing project in Warrenton, is close to completion.

The 42-unit project near Home Depot is a partnership between Northwest Housing Alternatives, a Milwaukie-based not-for-profit affordable housing developer, and the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority.

The four-story Trillium House at Chelsea Gardens will include one-, two- and three-bedroom units for households earning up to 60% of area median income.

One wrinkle: developers are projecting a shortfall of $450,000 to $475,000.

“We’re inching down on it and we’re eating away at it, but one of the biggest things is going to be a very efficient lease-up,” said Mary Bradshaw, of Northwest Housing Alternatives. “The faster we can get the building full and operations stabilized, we can convert to (permanent) financing and save on construction interest.”

Read the story by Nicole Bales by clicking here.

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Housing projects pitched by private developers in Astoria have been slow to take shape.

The NorthPost Apartments is a 66-unit complex being built on vacant land along the Astoria Riverwalk between 31st and 32nd streets near Safeway.

Developer Walt Postlewait said the process has been moving slowly due to supply chain issues and rising labor and materials costs.

A multifamily housing project at Tongue Point is changing course after a one-year extension on a permit to develop on the land expired in December.

The permit, which was issued in 2018, was already extended once before.

Developer Cary Johnson said in December that the plan is still multifamily housing. He said his team is working on design changes, including complex engineering.

“The design of the project is changing, but we are not sure what the final product will look like at this point or a unit count,” he said in an email.

Developer Chester Trabucco and others plan to transform dilapidated lots off of W. Marine Drive into more than 70 two-bedroom apartments.

Approvals from the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission and Design Review Commission in 2021 for the first of six buildings in the complex gave the developers two years to make substantial progress on construction.

Trabucco said he expects to seek extensions in the coming weeks.

Take a look at Nicole Bales’ report by clicking here.

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The $1.7 trillion omnibus federal spending package will inject over $2 million into local development by Warrenton and Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria.

A pedestrian corridor project that seeks to connect downtown to Warrenton High School will receive nearly $1.4 million.

Columbia Memorial will receive $750,000 to help renovate and advance emergency preparedness at a building on Exchange Street.

See the story by Ethan Myers by clicking here.

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