Will Macht

William P. Macht is a professor of urban planning and development at the Center for Real Estate at Portland State University in Oregon and a development consultant. (Comments about projects profiled, as well as proposals for future profiles, should be directed to the author at [email protected].)

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Design and Planning
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Industry Sectors
Infill Office, Outsize Impact
A seven-story infill office building with a dramatic facade on a tiny downtown fringe site in Portland, Oregon, anchors the regeneration of an arcaded district.
August 8, 2012
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Development and Construction
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Residential
Building Flexibility into Mixed-Use Projects
Museum Place, a large-scale infill development on an 11-acre (4.5 ha) site assembled in the cultural district of Fort Worth, Texas, is designed to knit 11 new structures into a finer-grained urban fabric of streets to connect to nearby museums and surrounding uses so it can flexibly mix offices, retail space, hotel space, and housing.
May 31, 2012
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Retail/Entertainment
Regeneration through an Urban Food Factory
A sustainably designed, adaptive-use, urban food factory in Portland, Oregon, helps a neighborhood suffering urban decay, foreclosures, and job losses.
March 29, 2012
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Economy, Market & Trends
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Mixed-Use
Collaborative Life Sciences Complex
A $295 million shared education and research facility for four universities in downtown Portland, Oregon, is intended to address a long list of objectives in one facility. Read about the many opportunities for both physical and financial savings created by co-locating programs from the universities, and the method devised to allocate space annually among the facility’s constituent institutions.
October 4, 2011
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Development and Construction
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Emerging Trends
Independent Housing Cooperatives
Portland, Oregon, developer Mark Desbrow formed Green Light Development to pioneer a 45-unit independent living cooperative, called the Sheldon Cooperative. Read about some of the advantages the independent cooperative housing model offers buyers, as well as developers, compared with the more traditional models and services offered by condominiums.
August 23, 2011
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Will Macht
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Design and Planning
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Development and Construction
Integrating Modern with Historic
Developing modern buildings adjacent to historic icons can present unique challenges—especially in an area of downtown San Francisco with an active historic preservation community. Learn how a developer solved the puzzle of a San Francisco site by integrating a historic building with its modern neighbors to create a single structure with three parts.
November 5, 2010
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Will Macht
Design and Planning
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Resilience and Sustainability
Ultracompact Minimodules
Vancouver, British Columbia, architect Michael Katz has produced a modular system at only 220 square feet (20 sq m). In an effort to make the L41 sustainable, affordable, and innovative, Katz chose to construct the unit using cross-laminated timber (CLT), a new wood building product. The L41 home is designed as a studio house for one person or one couple. The L41 was manufactured by Ledcor, a large Vancouver-based contractor, in three modules that were shipped on a flatbed truck to the site and assembled in less than a day.
October 1, 2010
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Will Macht
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Design and Planning
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Los Angeles
Modular Net-Zero-Energy Townhouses
U.S. architects are experimenting with designing net-zero-energy buildings—those that produce as much energy as they consume. Developers around the world are building modular housing to speed construction, reduce on-site labor expenses, and lower development costs. Now, an off-site systems building manufacturer has developed the first modular net-zero-energy townhouses as a demonstration project in Oakland, California.
August 1, 2010
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Will Macht
Resilience and Sustainability
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Retail/Entertainment
Cargo Containers as Commercial Space
Reuse of cargo containers as building blocks in a small Seattle hybrid commercial building helps contain costs and speed construction.
January 1, 2010
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