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SuStainablelife C3 Pamplin Media Group Thursday, February 13, 2014
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Lloyd EcoDistrict gets stable inancing

Members agree to
a tax to promote
environmental gains
For more information:
By KENDRA HOGUE
www.ecolloyd.org
For Pamplin Media Group
Northeast Portland’s Lloyd two and included a protected bike lane,” Lange says. Court-
EcoDistrict has moved one step closer to its stated goal yards between the buildings will provide traffic-free walk-
of being “The most sustain- ways and greenspaces. The
able business district in North America.”
project, recently named Hassa- lo on Eighth, is slated to be com-
The ecodistrict — one of ive plete in fall 2015.
designated in the Portland area — will receive $100,000 annual-
Portland-based GBD Archi- tects, known for its green-build-
ing expertise, designed Hassalo on Eighth. GBD’s goal is Plati- ly for 10 years, with a 2 per-
num LEED certification, the New Lloyd District cent increase
highest level of sustainability a building can achieve.
apartment per year, after the Portland
One of the internal wonders of the buildings will be easy to complex City Council approved a
spot: A “living machine” that comes with plan by busi-
makes the recycled gray water visible to the public, Lange says. parking nesses in the district to tax
Solar-heated water will be avail- able in one of the buildings.
space for themselves in November.
The idea behind an ecodis- 1,000 The windfall
trict is to expand such green features to a broader geograph- bicycles.
will provide stable funding
ic area.
“The ecodistrict grew out of for the dis-
trict’s effort to promote energy
the desire of a lot of property eficiency, waste reduction, PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: JONATHAN HOUSE
bring hundreds of new bicyclists into the Lloyd District.
owners to make a more sustain- able business district,” Lange transportation options and stormwater management, A crane perches over a massive hole where the Hassalo on Eighth retail and multifamily development is under construction. The project could
says. “It made sense to do it.”
among other green goals.
land State University and sur- ecodistrict, including American Among the PSU faculty and The mixed-use, four-building Heinicke feels fortunate to be working with such forward- “That was a tremendous vote of confidence,” says Sarah
rounding blocks.
The Lloyd EcoDistrict has Assets Trust, Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon Con- student contributions was a se- nior business capstone project project will include 54,000 square feet of retail space, 657 thinking businesses that, as she says, “are willing to put skin in Heinicke, executive director of Lloyd EcoDistrict, which is
been in the works for three vention Center, the Portland that developed inancial models market-rate apartments, three the game, to tax themselves to housed in a sustainably remod-
years, Heinicke says, and “came out of an effort by Mayor Sam Trail Blazers, Paciic Power, and Metro.
for the Lloyd EcoDistrict.
levels of underground parking and a phenomenal 1,000 bike get things done.”
The ecodistrict has set ambi- eled cluster of old buildings called The LeftBank Project,
Adams and the Portland Devel- opment Commission to jump- PSU has been working on ecodistricts informally for three Inlux of bicyclists
Though many of the Lloyd parking spaces, says Wade Lange, local general manager of tious goals, Heinicke says. “We have 15 projects identiied to hit just north of The Moda Center.
EcoDistricts expand ideas
start sustainability.”
years, says Christina Williams, area’s green efforts have been American Assets Trust. His a five-year incremental goal, emerging in the green building
Since then, other city bu- reaus, Lloyd-area businesses, communications director for the university’s Institute for invisible to the public so far, there’s one they can’t possibly company purchased a large block of Lloyd property held by making improvements to exist- ing buildings and new buildings movement to entire business districts or neighborhoods. The
and Portland State University students joined the effort. Sev- Sustainable Solutions. “We work with faculty to develop miss: A three-block earthen hole encircling the Lloyd 700 of- Ashforth Paciic a year ago and is developing the four-block and making use of renewables such as photovoltaic arrays.”
other four Portland ecodistricts are in the South Waterfront,
eral big property owners and curriculum, and the students ice building, kitty-corner from site.
Getting 10 years of funding Gateway and Lents/Foster Road
institutions in the Lloyd District are active stakeholders in the
who take the courses are get- ting jobs.”
the Lloyd Center Nordstrom and Stanford’s restaurant.
“We already took Multnomah Street from four lanes down to
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for the Lloyd EcoDistrict is a positive step, Lange says.
communities, plus South of Market, which includes Port-

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