Blending industrial past with active city living. 

An iconic marker within the City of Portland, the new Dairy Apartments develops a site previously housing the Sunshine Dairy Foods supplier into an urban mixed-use and residential building with consideration for automotive, pedestrian, bicycle, and future mass-transit traffic.   

Working within an eclectic and evolving neighborhood, the 235,000-square-foot project reinforces the unique neighborhood character within a modern building of the Kern Neighborhood’s future, balancing active amenity space with ground floor residential design along a busy transit street.  

The simple building form is bent and rounded, reinforcing the natural and historical character of the past by evoking the natural forces that formed the adjacent Sullivan’s Gulch while honoring the rounded corners of the existing art deco and Streamline Moderne buildings of the neighborhood.  

The resulting design includes two 7-story housing bars on a full-block, 2-story podium arranging ground-floor residential and amenity spaces around a central private courtyard. 

Currently under construction, the project’s estimated completion is March 2025. 

Hacker design team 
David Keltner, Design Principal 
Chris Hodney, Design Lead 
Matt Sugarbaker, Project Manager 
Lâle Ceylan 
Keri Erwin 
Ali Gens 
Janell Widmer 
Nasim Mossabeh 
Sonia Norskog 
Kevin Mulvaney 
Kelsey Smith 
Xiyao Hu 
Marissa Sant 
Sarah Oxley