Development Opportunities for Small Lots
The Visionary Board connects and collaborates with residents, landowners, artists, business owners, and developers within the Bend Central District. One of their key projects to further the vision for a vibrant, healthy, and inclusive mixed-use neighborhood is designing a site plan for Visionary Board member Kurt Petrich’s property located on the corner of NE Hawthorne Ave and NE 2nd St.
They worked with 10 Over, an architecture firm hired by Central Oregon LandWatch, to map out the different development opportunities that could be realized on this small 14,000 square foot lot. The programming options ranged from a small-scale development with space for farmer’s markets and events to a 4-story building with 27 apartments, ground-floor commercial or restaurant, and outdoor spaces with mountain views.
A hybrid option made the development more feasible for Petrich Properties to build because it offers two phases of development. Read more about the concept below!
Photo of 2nd & Hawthorne
A mixed-use community gathering space featuring:
An open-air plaza with a welcoming atmosphere for all ages
Long term, residential apartments
Partially screened outdoor living room with a fire pit
Indoor space for children to engage and play
Charlotte’s Terrace: a rooftop bar and garden, named in honor of the late Charlotte Van Valkenburg who designed this site plan.
Civic space: free speech pavilions with a speaker’s corner
Farmer’s marketplace that exemplifies locavorism & history of food/beer in the area
This rendering of the Visionary Board’s concept for 2nd & Hawthorne is simply one representation of what could be built in the BCD.
Building a vibrant core will come by way of promoting an integrated patchwork of developments.
There are a variety of needs to be met within the Bend Central District and this project doesn’t encompass all of them.
Our team is listening and ready to continue advocating for projects that help fill gaps in the BCD!
If you are interested in the range of development that could be established on this lot, take a look at these diagrams from a BCD feasibility study done last August:
