The Historic Trust Reuse & Market Study
Vancouver, WA · 2024–2025
Client: The Historic Trust
Location: Vancouver, WA
Year: 2024–2025
CP Role: Lead consultant
Practice Area: Spatial Planning + Placemaking
Team: Alex Joyce, Principal-in-Charge; Angélica Martínez Sulvarán, Project Manager; Lydia Ness, Market Analysis Lead
The Challenge
Officers Row and the West Barracks form a nationally significant historic campus in Vancouver that sits apart from the investment reshaping the city around it. The Historic Trust needed to know which reuses the market would support before the new bridge and light-rail station arrive.
Our Approach
We tested each building against the market, comparing Vancouver with Portland and the region, and checked the numbers in 15 interviews with operators and potential partners. That work showed the West Barracks to be the strongest reuse opportunity. We then developed a site-wide design framework, in effect a redevelopment master plan for the campus, with an activation concept for the West Barracks buildings, lawns, and streets, tested funding pathways, and drafted a Request for Partnership Interest.
Outcome
The Trust issued the Request for Partnership Interest and received multiple qualified responses.
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