page_title: 5 MLK
hierarchical_section_title: 5 MLK
caption_attribution_description: English: The 5 MLK building in Portland, Oregon. Autodesk (Towne Storage) and Fair-Haired Dumbbell also visible.
context_page_description: 5 MLK is a 200 feet 17-story mixed-use apartment and office building in Portland, Oregon's Burnside Bridgehead area completed in 2020. It was designed by GREC Architects and built for Gerding Edlen.
  The building is a full-block five-story podium topped with a twelve-story tower. It went under many rounds of design reviews in 2016 and 2017, A 2016 design showed the tower in "earth tone" panels and glass. Portland architecture blog said it was "design[ed] by committee". The final design was approved in mid-2017.
  In 2019 a man suffering a mental health crisis climbed the 300 feet crane on the site and stood on the arm of the tower for five hours.
  The site was previously home to buildings including a three-story quarter-block building constructed in approximately 1912 and historically called the Buckman Building. It was occupied by Fishels Furniture since 1947, which closed in 2016. That building was demolished in early 2018.
context_section_description: 5 MLK is a 200 feet (61 m) 17-story mixed-use apartment and office building in Portland, Oregon's Burnside Bridgehead area completed in 2020. It was designed by GREC Architects and built for Gerding Edlen.
  The building is a full-block five-story podium topped with a twelve-story tower. It went under many rounds of design reviews in 2016 and 2017, A 2016 design showed the tower in "earth tone" panels and glass. Portland architecture blog said it was "design[ed] by committee". The final design was approved in mid-2017.
  In 2019 a man suffering a mental health crisis climbed the 300 feet (91 m) crane on the site and stood on the arm of the tower for five hours.
  The site was previously home to buildings including a three-story quarter-block building constructed in approximately 1912 and historically called the Buckman Building. It was occupied by Fishels Furniture since 1947, which closed in 2016. That building was demolished in early 2018.
caption: 5 MLK, seen with the red-brick Blake McFall Company Building in the foreground
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