Remmers Begins Demolition of Hawthorne Spring Market


Part of a series on Remmers at Southeast 31st Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard

PORTLAND, Ore. – A 66-year-old building on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard formerly home to a Chinese import-export wholesale business is in the middle of demolition for a 30-unit mixed-use structure.

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The building, first reported on by the Portland Chronicle in November, was built in 1949 on a 10,060-square-foot lot.

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In 1995 Spring Market received “appreciative recognition” from the Hawthorne Boulevard Business Association for “an integrated facade and building upgrade.”

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The property sold over the summer for $1,400,000 to Hawthorne 31 Apartments LLC, which listed Victor Remmers as its registrant on early applications. Spring Market has since moved its business location.

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Hawthorne 31 Apartments LLC is officially registered to VWR Development, which is registered to Vic Remmers and Walter Remmers at 735 SW 158th Ave., Ste. 180 in Beaverton.

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In place of the Chinese import-export store Remmers plans to build a four-story mixed-use building with retail at the ground floor and 30 residential units on the upper stories.

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This development is located across the street from a four-story 50-unit apartment building built by Urban Development Group, owned by Remmers’ uncle, Dennis Sackhoff.

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