Rendering Credit: Mackenzie

Terminal 2 - Mass Timber & Housing rendering

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Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus at Terminal 2

Award Amount

$10,000,000

Non-Federal Match

$19,441,500

Project Overview

The Port of Portland is transforming a historical marine terminal into the Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus (MTHIC) at T2. At full buildout, the 39-acre campus will include a mass timber modular manufacturing facility for building affordable housing and other mass timber structures, the University of Oregon’s acoustic research laboratory, workforce training, and incubator space for emerging businesses and builders.

This is an opportunity to revitalize a marine shipping facility of the past to address current and future needs by:

Bringing together complementary partners to advance innovation in mass timber products and construct more factory-built housing

Creating quality jobs

Boosting regional economic development, especially in communities with limited access to quality jobs or opportunities for small businesses to scale

Fostering sustainable and carbon-sequestering construction practices

Creating a hub for startups and innovators in the region

Download the 2025 Project Update PDF

Project Updates

Additional funding has been secured for other site infrastructure improvements such as utility upgrades, interior circulation roads, and required frontage improvements

Anchor tenants have been identified and secured. The Port has approved a lease for University of Oregon’s acoustic research laboratory, which is expected to be complete in 2027, and for Zaugg Timber Solutions, which is taking over a recently renovated warehouse and anticipates starting production of mass timber modular housing units, industrial and commercial buildings, as well as prefabricated mass timber building components, in 2026

Discussions are progressing toward a master development agreement as well as a mass timber factory partnership

Bidding for design and construction of soil stabilization work will begin in spring 2025, with design and permitting anticipated in summer 2025 and construction in 2026

What's Ahead

Design and construct a deep-soil-mixing buttress wall (approximately 120 feet deep, 105 feet wide, and 500 feet long) on the river-side, northeast section of the property to provide seismic protection from lateral displacement, which will enable vertical construction associated with phase I of campus development to commence

Install utility infrastructure, including subsurface conduit, surface equipment, and other components, using any remaining Build Back Better grant funds

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Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus at Terminal 2

Project Overview

Project Updates

What's Ahead