Central City Concern, a local nonprofit founded in 1979, serves adults and families in the Portland area experiencing homelessness, poverty, and addiction. The agency helps more than 13,000 people per year.
The Blackburn Building, aka Eastside Health Center, is one of only five facilities in North America to integrate clinical services with transitional housing, palliative services and respite housing under one roof. Ankrom Moisan provided architectural and interior design services for this groundbreaking project. The facility is part of an unprecedented collaboration between six Oregon healthcare organizations who pooled $21.5 million to respond to Portland’s urgent challenges with affordable housing, homelessness, and healthcare.
The concept for the facility explores the importance of feeling at home, creating a sense of comfort, community and safety to nurture and support personal transformation and recovery. The design backs CCC’s mission to care for a vulnerable population by providing a complex program for housing, case management, clinical care, hospice, and other services to support stabilization for rebuilding lives.
The American Institute of Architects recognized the project as one of the best in the nation, awarding it a 2018 AIA/AAH Healthcare Design Award. For more about the project, click here.
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