Jkohlhepp - I see now. You are doing the opposite of what I described in my comment to some degree. MSBuild common targets use the MSBuildProjectDirectory to determine the output folder unless you override that.
So in your case, you could run.
I ran across this while looking for a solution to my problem. Here's my solution (build script).
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