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A rendering released last summer of a new 19-story tower planned along Southwest Broadway between Southwest Clay and Columbia streets.

(Courtesy of BPM Real Estate Group)

A 19-story tower planned for a lot on Southwest Broadway in Portland has landed a hotel tenant.

The building's first eight floors will be home to the United States' second Radisson "RED" hotel, according to a news release from the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, which owns the Radisson brand. It is scheduled to open in 2018.

The 180-room Radisson RED won't have a front desk and will use technology "to simplify the experience and provide efficiencies including keyless guest room entry," according to the release. Guests will use an app to enter their rooms and order food. The hotel will include a bar, a restaurant, a fitness center and conference rooms.

There are 15 Radisson RED hotels in development around the world, according to the release, including one in Minneapolis that will open late this year.

The Portland building - dubbed the Broadway Tower - was announced last summer and will also include ground-floor retail space and 10 floors of office space above the hotel. It's slated to rise on property owned by the Goodman family along Broadway between Southwest Columbia and Southwest Clay streets, half a block from the South Park Blocks. The Goodmans tend to retain ownership of their land and enter into long-term leases with developers interested in building on the property.

The developer, BPM Real Estate Group, plans to break ground this summer. BPM is also finishing the nine-story Pearl West office tower at Northwest 14th Avenue and Irving Street.

A rendering of the 19-story tower proposed for Southwest Broadway between Southwest Columbia and Southwest Clay streets.

"We are excited to partner with Carlson Rezidor to bring this exciting new brand to life in downtown Portland," said Walter C. Bowen, BPM's president, in the news release. "RED is bold and alive, much like our city, making it the perfect match and amenity to the office component of the project. Broadway Tower will generate over 1,700 direct and induced jobs."

When BPM initially announced the tower, it was to have 20 stories rather than 19, and 170 rather than 180 hotel rooms.

The project, designed by Portland-based GBD Architects, will require demolition of a two-story building at the corner of Broadway and Clay - the former Oregonians Credit Union. The city issued a demolition permit Aug. 10. The rest of the half-block includes parking space. (The Broadway Tower will include underground parking for 210 cars and 132 bikes.)

To win density bonuses for the tower, the developer has proposed either paying into the city's affordable housing and parks funds, or building a residential project by July 2020 on the adjacent quarter-block at Southwest Park Avenue and Columbia Street. The residential building would have at least 60 multifamily units, at least 33 percent of which would be affordable to those making 80 percent of the area's median family income.

The Portland Design Commission has still not approved the tower and is set to reconsider the project on April 21, the Daily Journal of Commerce reported.

-- Luke Hammill

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