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PORTLAND, Ore. – A 110-year-old house that was converted into commercial space in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland has received a demolition permit and will be replaced by a 30-unit apartment building.
The building was reported on by the Portland Chronicle last year. Located at 7807 SE 13th Ave., the building was constructed in 1906 and sits on a 5,000-square-foot lot. City records list the house as having both residential and commercial use.
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The property sold to Senior Housing Partners LLC, registered in Lake Oswego, along with a second and vacant 5,000-square-foot lot to the south for $1.3 million in June 2015. It had previously been home to Shabby Nest Antiques, which was displaced when the sale was imminent. The property had previously sold in 1999 for $340,000.
Shortly before the sale the city received an early assistance application for development of a four-story mixed-use complex with 30 residential units.
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Later in the year that was solidified with a building permit application for the structure. The building permit added that there will be a parking garage and three ground-floor retail spaces, while the residential units are planned for the upper floors. The applicant was Brian Cox of Lenity Architecture.
On June 9 the city received an application to demolish the house. The application indicates it will be a partial deconstruction. The applicant was Eric Jacobsen of Jacobsen Development Group, while the contractor was Jacobsen Construction Co.
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The permit was issued the same day, as the building is partially classified commercial in a commercial zone.
The property is located within a Storefront Commercial zone which, according to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, “is intended to preserve and enhance older commercial areas that have a storefront character. The zone intends that new development in these areas will be compatible with this desired character.”
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