(Follow this link to see the October 2022 Priory Newsletter where this was recently published.)
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We have been working steadily on moving our building project forward and I thought I would take a minute to bring you up to date on our progress.
Last fall we began looking for an architect or designer that could help us with our project and we found the architecture firm Woodblock Architecture here in Portland. One of the principle architects at this firm is Jonathan Dunn who very kindly donated a substantial amount of Woodblock’s time in helping us establish a basic set of computer drawings of our intended project and with some preliminary work researching what would be required of us by the city and its various permitting agencies.
Since we are zoned mixed use commercial and residential, and our actual use involves being a public meeting space, the permitting for our project needs to go through the commercial permitting process which is Continue reading →