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North Main village is a nationally acclaimed mixed-use project with condominiums, apartments and retail, designed to encourage sustainable urban growth and quality of life.  In this spirit, we celebrated stormwater treatment through an rainwater sculpture and community plaza and a green stormwater runoff demonstration street.  The City of Milwaukie also engaged our services to develop the first few blocks of the City Streetscape.  This included the sidewalk design, selection of furnishings and street trees.

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Our goal for this mixed-use project was to transform the existing brownfield- previously home to Albina Fuel – into a space that inspires community, sustainability and work/life balance.  Landscape elements include a park that links to a future bike trail, intensive rooftop gardens, stormwater flow through planters, and urban streetscape enhancements.

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The Borealis Apartments includes an array of sustainable features as well as a “green screen” on the building facade. The living green screen provides shade, screens rain and minimizes the wind on the building.  Moreover, it provides health benefits for residents by filtering air from nearby automobile traffic. Water efficient irrigation was another sustainable aspect of the project.  The drip irrigation is scheduled to minimize water used and has an automatic fertilization component to supplement the planters throughout the growing season.