The Meadows – Vancouver, WA

The Meadows offers 30 apartments of affordable housing on 2.7 acres for VHA and Second Step in Vancouver, Washington. It features a Community Room with a BBQ picnic area and a playground designed for children of all ages and abilities right outside. Other amenities include a community garden and mini-park with a meandering path. Native…

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Meriwether Place – Vancouver, WA

Meriwether Place is a 30-unit affordable housing project on 1.16 acres for people transitioning from homelessness. The project was developed with VHA and Columbia Nonprofit Housing. The project features rainwater harvesting, native plantings, and a weather-based sustainable irrigation system. The project was developed to the Evergreen Sustainable Development Standards. 

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Gladstone Square – Portland, OR

Gladstone Square Apartments is a 48-unit affordable housing renovation project for Home Forward on 1.8 acres in SE Portland. The primary occupants of this apartment complex are large families with many of the units being 3-4 bedrooms. Gladstone apartments feature a new courtyard that has a playground to accommodate all ages and a picnic area…

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Hazel Heights Apartments– Portland, OR

Hazel Heights Apartments is a 1.26-acre five-story affordable unit apartment complex with 155 units. It features an interior courtyard with raised planters, seating areas, accent planting, and lighting and sandblasted scored concrete creating a modern plaza for the residents. The site also features a playground area with adjacent seating for parents. With the combination of…

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Sequoia Landing – Tumwater, WA

Sequoia Landing is a 2.39 acre, 40-unit, work-force housing development owned by the Housing Authority of Thurston County. Our approach to creating a sustainable and attractive project was to develop the storm water swale, which would run through the central parking median, into a focal point complete with rain garden plaza. Native plantings combined with…

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Olympia Crest II – Olympia, WA

This affordable housing project for the Thurston County Housing Authority included a special storm water spillway that moved through the walkway and between the parking and the buildings and finally terminating at a Rainwater Celebration Plaza. This feature created a unique opportunity to incorporate native plantings for a naturalized landscape.  The Client was committed to…

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Humboldt Gardens – Portland, OR

Humboldt Gardens was a Hope VI, an affordable housing project for the Housing Authority of Portland, which included a mixed-use building that achieved LEED Silver certification from the USGBC. As Landscape Architect we collaborated with the Civil Engineer to develop an award-winning approach to a Green Street treatment for stormwater.  The plantings for the Green…

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Tamarack Village – Sisters, OR

Tamarack Village was a 33 unit affordable housing project for CORHA located in Sisters, Oregon. We provided the irrigation, landscape and play area design for this project.

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Eastlake Village – Bend, Or

Eastlake Village was a 56 unit affordable housing project for Central Oregon Regional Housing Authority (CORHA) situated on 5 acres in Bend, Oregon. We provided the irrigation, landscape and play area design for this project.

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Nuevo Amanecer – Woodburn, OR

As a part of this Rehabilitation Project for the Community Partners for Affordable Housing in Woodburn, OR, Macdonald Environmental Planning prepared Landscape Renovation and Irrigation Plans for the 94-unit, 11 acre site. Specific features which were previously unaddressed included Stormwater Swales, a Neighborhood Park, and Bus Stops.

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