22 Months Out, 182-Unit Condo Project 40% Pre-sold

PORTLAND-It appears Portland developer John Carroll has another winner in the 182-unit Elizabeth Lofts, the newest Pearl District condominium development. Two months into a 22-month construction schedule, the $56-million project is 40% pre-sold at an average sales price of $317 per sf.

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.