Office Remodel for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Eugene

Location: Eugene, Oregon
Client/Owner: Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (owner)
Partners: Lee-Built Construction (general contractor); City of Eugene (permitting)
Year: 2025–2026; permit issued August 2025
Size/scale: Existing commercial office building: new exterior cladding, replacement windows and skylights, one replaced door and five new doors, interior access-control doors
JBE services: Site visits and measurements, records search, existing, demolition and proposed plans, elevations and panel installation details, roof plan, permit drawings and City of Eugene permit
Sector: Commercial & Retail

Long side of a one-story tan office building with a band of dark windows above landscaped shrubs, Eugene

The challenge

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians bought an existing office building in Eugene, last used by a title company, and set out to make it their own. The plan was a full refresh of the outside and a set of practical changes inside: the existing EIFS siding replaced with new architectural wall panels, windows replaced in kind, new skylights, a new roof, access-control doors inside, and new and replaced exterior doors. Mechanical, electrical and HVAC upgrades were part of the same project.

One question had to be settled first. The building sits on tribal land that is not held in trust, so we confirmed early that the work would need a permit from the City of Eugene, and planned the drawings for that review.

Project photos

What we did

We visited the site, measured the building and searched the City’s records for the original documents. From that we drew the existing building, what would be removed, and what would replace it: floor plans, a roof plan, new elevations showing the panel layout, and installation details for the new panels at the key locations around windows, doors and corners, used together with the manufacturer’s installation requirements.

We issued a review set to the contractor and the Tribe, worked through their comments over several rounds, and issued the drawings for permit in August 2025. We stayed available during construction in case the work uncovered conditions behind the old siding that needed review.

The result

The City of Eugene approved the drawings and issued the permit on August 29, 2025, less than three weeks after submittal. Recladding was under way that fall, and the project file records a notice of completion in June 2026. The Tribe has a refreshed, better-secured office with a new exterior, delivered through a straightforward permit process.