PORTLAND, Ore. – A 93-year-old single-family home in the Concordia neighborhood of Northeast Portland will be bulldozed to make way for multiple townhouse units.
Located at 5626 NE 30th Ave., the house was built in 1922 on a 5,000-square-foot lot. The one-story house itself is 1,488 square feet in size.
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Sales records for the property are somewhat convoluted, but according to county records on March 3 the lot appears to have been purchased by Georgeina Copp for $204,338. However, that same day it transferred into its current Dozer Construction LLC ownership for a price of $68,112.
City records list the same sales prices but list the transactions as occurring on Feb. 26 and March 3, respectively. The reason for the discrepancy is unclear.
On March 31 the city received an application for lot confirmation, the applicant wishing to confirm two lots on the site of the 1922 house and establish both as “independent buiildable lots.” (sic)
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On April 17 the developer applied for demolition of the 93-year-old home. Even though this was three days prior to new code changes taking effect requiring mandatory delays, this demolition was still delayed due to the developer’s plans for multiple new units on the property.
On Monday the city received applications for new construction on the site. The developer plans to build two attached townhouses, each three stories with a “lower level accessory dwelling unit” and each with an attached garage.
The property home to the soon-to-be-demolished house is located in an “alternative design density” overlay zone. According to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, this overlay zone aims “to focus development on vacant sites” and “preserve existing housing,” among other goals.
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The applicant on the demolition is Viktor Nikolovski of Dozer Construction LLC, the development company that also owns the property and is acting as the contractor on the demolition. Dozer Construction LLC is registered to Jennifer Farmer.
The demolition delay expires May 25.