Mt Scott Community Center
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Shortstack Mississippi is a flagship “missing middle”, multi-family housing project in Portland, Oregon, demonstrating an efficient mass timber approach to the pressing need for increased housing production in the region and beyond. Founded by Anna Mackay and Jessy Ledesma, Shortstack Housing is a women-led developer dedicated to building with transparency and sustainably-sourced wood.
Follow the wood's journey from forest to manufacturer to building below.
West Kootenays, BC
Kalesnikoff Mass Timber
Mt Scott Community Center
Where it started:
West Kootenays, B.C.
The wood for this project was sourced from Kalesnikoff, a mill and mass timber fabricator in interior British Columbia. Kalesnikoff owns and manages their own forestlands, purchases wood from other nearby landowners, and implements timber sales for the BC government through BC Timber Sales on public forestlands. The wood for the Mt Scott Community Center came from a range of sources throughout the West Kootenays of British Columbia, where the primary goals of forest management are wildfire risk reduction, pest management (especially for Douglas-fir Beetle), and economic benefit.
What was created:
Kalesnikoff Mass Timber
Kalesnikoff is vertically integrated, meaning they manage their own forestlands and mill, and utilize their own lumber to manufacture Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and Glulam Beams. Due to their openness and generosity - and because they are vertically integrated - Kalesnikoff provides a unique opportunity for regional timber traceability and transparency. They shared wood source transparency for the Mt Scott Community Center, with no direct financial benefit or project requirements. This changes the way projects engage with wood markets and is critical for a meaningful relationship between forests and the communities they supply. Their location in our PNW bio-region reduces costs and emissions for sourcing wood and promotes ecological goals.
The final product:
Mt Scott Community Center
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Designers, builders, and other contributors
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Timber Fabricator and Erector – Carpentry Plus Inc.
Mass Timber Supplier – Kalesnikoff
Photo credit to __. Video credit to Sustainable Northwest and Flowerhead Productions.