The sea of asphalt at Beaverton’s Cedar Hills Shopping Center is living on borrowed time. High Street Residential is gearing up to break ground on a 369-unit market-rate apartment complex that will wipe out much of the existing surface parking and swap it for mid-rise housing, ground-floor shops and new walkways. The three-building project is pitched as transit-oriented, putting hundreds of new homes within easy reach of bus routes and regional connections. Early renderings show courtyards and pedestrian paths where cars currently dominate, and after more than a year of city and neighborhood approvals, the development team says it is heading toward construction.
As reported by the Portland Business Journal, High Street Residential, the multifamily arm of Trammell Crow Company, is planning roughly 369 market-rate units and has tapped Lease Crutcher Lewis as general contractor, with SCOA Real Estate Partners involved in the project. The April 24 coverage also includes fresh renderings of the three-building scheme, which the developer says will replace underused parking at the shopping center.
Design and approvals
According to the City of Beaverton, the project site is listed as 10180 SW Park Way, carries Station Community - Multiple Use (SC-MU) zoning and spans about 5.59 acres. The city staff report identifies LRS Architects as the applicant’s representative and notes prior design reviews that signed off on ground-floor commercial space of about 4,700 square feet alongside several hundred attached dwelling units. City documents also trace earlier versions of the plan that shuffled building placement and adjusted unit counts during the review process. City of Beaverton staff report.
Retail, tenants and transit
Local materials indicate that long-running tenants such as the DMV and Harbor Freight are expected to stick around in portions of the shopping center even as a large share of the parking lot gives way to housing and pedestrian space. The Cedar Mill News reported that the last remaining tenants in the affected buildings have been moving out while High Street Residential has hosted neighborhood meetings and sought time extensions during the permitting slog.
What comes next
With a contractor named and major approvals secured, the development team is assembling construction documents and working through final permits. The City of Beaverton staff report indicates that site work could begin in the coming months, though neighbors, transit planners and city staff still need to clear remaining technical permits and utility coordination before full-scale construction kicks off. For more renderings and the developer’s projected timeline, check the Portland Business Journal.
