The Tanzamook website (www.tanzamook.com) is a marvelous display of the elasticity of the English language and overly optimistic mathematical logic.

Most of the units are little more than cramped vertical studios with the two primary floors covering +/- a whopping total of 1,000 sq. feet.

That’s a total of 500 or so sq ft a floor — smaller than most bedrooms.

Yet an enterprising formula that adds sundry items like ” 28 sf “entry deck”; 40 sf “living deck”; 34 sf “bedroom deck” and a whopping 411 sf for a roof deck that can’t be used most of the year brings the total up to something that looks like it might make sense. On paper.

At least until you realize that most of the “decks” can barely hold two suitcases.

Then there’s the 300 sf garage. No wonder they feature Smart cars in the illustration – they are the only things that will fit.

The site also has a lot of “greenwash” in the copy, but all you have to do is look at the construction and the only green thing about it is the money that isn’t being spent. This is the most basic, cheapest structural option possible; the finish will be stucco and glass, just like a medical building.

There is now a 5-year backlog of condos on the PDX market. These undersized units are going to be priced in the low-to-high $400K range. What happens when they don’t sell?

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someone should start a blog on d-bag developer web profiles