PORTLAND, Ore. – A commercial building constructed in 1889 is planned to be demolished by a Happy Valley-based company called “Get R Done LLC” and replaced with a three-story mixed-use building.
Located at 3334 SE Belmont St. (and also 3336 SE Belmont St.), the structure built 127 years ago is located on a 3,373-square-foot lot.
This article has been updated following a request from BKL/A Architecture.
Second update: Belmont Records confirms the business will be closing likely in April. A petition to preserve the building has been launched.
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The building has been home to a number of businesses over its long history, most recently hosting Belmont Records and Tara Tibetan Collections as tenants. The building is located between the Sweet Hereafter/Straight From New York Pizza building and Suzette Creperie.
The building is classified as a store with apartments or offices on the second floor above.
Three years ago the building sold to Get R Done LLC for $659,400. This business is registered to Valerie Hunter at 15350 SE Monner Road in Happy Valley.
Hunter is also listed as the registrant of Happy Valley Station LLC.
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On Jan. 11 the Bureau of Development Services received an early assistance application for development of a three-story mixed use building that would “replace current building,” according to the permit intake.
The applicant on the development is listed as Brett Laurila of BKL/A Architecture, registered at 2700 SE Harrison St. Suite A in Milwaukie.
The early assistance permit does not give any detail beyond the three proposed stories.
Following a request by BKL/A Architecture, the Portland Chronicle has removed information initially posted and later removed from the business’s Facebook page about the proposed scope of the development. We have also removed a rendering found on the Facebook page following a request by the business.
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No demolition permits have been filed at this point, as an early assistance application is the first stage in a new development, but given the intake’s description of the new building replacing the existing one, demolition seems like a likely outcome for the 1889 structure.
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