Carroll is developing the project with the Aspen Group on a full block between Northwest 9th and 10th avenues and Everett and Flanders streets. It will consist of a 16-story building with 12,000 sf of ground-floor retail space, 210 parking spaces, and a single-story restaurant pavilion on a public plaza. Corus Bank of Chicago, in its first significant condominium transaction in the Portland market, is providing $36.5 million in construction financing.

Completion of the Elizabeth Lofts, Carroll's fifth Pearl District condo project, is scheduled for the spring of 2005. Debbie Thomas, the leasing agent for the property, says just about 75 units have been pre-sold at an average price of $317 per sf. Closer to 50% leased is the 124-unit Edge Lofts near I-405 at 14th Avenue and Kearney Street, another Carroll-Aspen project that is scheduled for completion next spring and commanding a sales price of about $285 per sf. The popular outdoor retailer REI will be the anchor retail tenant at that project, occupying the first two floors of the 11-story building.

Carroll, whose past Pearl District projects include The Gregory, Mackenzie Lofts and Chown Pella Lofts, tells GlobeSt.com his projects continue to sell in part because, despite how it may seem, there are only 200 to 225 units being delivered to the market each year. "We're not bringing on 1,000 units a year, and I think that says something about the players involved," says Carroll. "Hoyt Street Properties, Robert Ball, Homer Williams, they are a responsible group of locals who walk the streets and live in the neighborhoods."