Fresh off building a large apartment complex near the University of Oregon, veteran Eugene businesswoman Silva Chambers is thinking about doing it all again, next door.

Chambers is looking into building a six-story, roughly 150-unit apartment complex on Garden Avenue on a 2.5-acre tract the family owns, according to her company’s preliminary filings with the city. It would go beside the 127-unit Crosswood Apartments that Chambers finished in 2023. Like the Crosswood, the new complex would charge market rents and would not be aimed at undergraduate students.

There’s no timeline yet, says Phil Farrington, director of planning and real estate development for Chambers’ CDC Management Corp.

“We are a long ways out, given long lead times for design, permitting, securing financing in advance o

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