PORTLAND, Ore. – A 117-year-old single-family home in the Kerns neighborhood of Northeast Portland will be demolished and replaced by multiple new residences.
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Located at 2105 NE Davis St., the two-story farmhouse was built in 1899 and sits on a 7,255-square-foot lot. The building itself totals 1,748 square feet in size.
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On June 30 the county recorded a sale of the house for $805,000. That sale also included a 3,175-square-foot parcel of land directly north of the house, abutting Northeast Everett Street.
The realty listing shows the realtor advertised the property as a potential tear-down.
Although the listing described the house as a “fantastic original fixer with tons of potential” and highlighted its “wood floors under carpet, fir floors in all bedrooms, wood burning fireplace” and “huge kitchen with breakfast nook,” it also mentioned the property is an “oversized lot with R1 zoning,” and described the “potential for multifamily” development, before stating the buyer could “tear down and build or rehab and develop.”
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The property sold to Everett Custom Homes Inc., registered to Vic Remmers, with Liliya DeZhnyuk of Hawthorne Realty LLC listed as the buyer’s agent.
On July 25 the city received an application to demolish the 1899 home, and in early August the developer sought a lot line adjustment to reconfigure the line between the two properties. The applicant on the demolition application was Dan Williams of permit fast-tracking company Faster Permits.
The property’s R1 zoning would allow for one unit per 1,000 square feet of land, potentially allowing for roughly 10 units to be built on the more than 10,000 square feet of land between the two lots now owned by Everett Custom Homes. No construction permits have yet been applied for.
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The 35-day demolition delay period will expire on Aug. 29.