PORTLAND, Ore. – Beaverton-based Urban Development Group has proposed a mixed-use development at the intersection of Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street, a location that is in the vicinity of at least five in-progress multifamily housing projects and many more completed in the past several years.
The project site is located at 4926 SE Division St. On the Division Street frontage sits a 1941 commercial building, with the 50th Avenue side in use as surface parking.
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The property is owned by A’la Carts Food Pavilion LLC, registered to Linda and Rodney Gramlich. No sales have recently been recorded, but on Oct. 16 the city received an early assistance application for a “new mixed-use building” on the site.
The applicant is listed as David Mullens of Urban Development Group, a very active multifamily development company on Portland’s east side. The business is registered in Beaverton to Mary and Dennis Sackhoff.
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An early assistance application is, as the name indicates, an early step in the process, so there are no details about the size or scope of the proposed building, or which portion of the property it would be built on.
Besides the parcel that the existing building sits on, A’la Carts Food Pavilion LLC owns two more lots that extend south to Ivon Street. The space is in use as the A’la Carts Food Pavilion and is home to more than a dozen food trucks. Both the southern lots also have an address of 4926 SE Division St., and it is unclear at this time whether the food cart pavilion space would be included in the mixed-use development.
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Last December The Oregonian reported Green Zebra Grocery is planning to open a location at 4926 SE Division St., the site of the newly-proposed mixed-use building. In a Facebook post this month Green Zebra explained the plan is still in the works and that more information about timing would be available by the end of the year.
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The location of the project on Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street suggests this is the project associated with a recently-registered Urban Development Group subsidiary named “UDG Division Five-O LLC,” as predicted by the Portland Chronicle last month.
Besides being located about a dozen blocks east of two other Urban Development Group projects, the mixed use building would be located:
-across the street from a 134-unit apartment building that is under construction and which received wider media attention for a problematic demolition;
-four blocks south of an 18-unit townhouse development that required demolition of a church;
-six blocks south of another 63-unit Urban Development Group project that required demolition of a warehouse;
–seven blocks south of a 12-unit townhouse complex that began with the demolition of two 1920s houses (midway through this article is a focus on this development);
-two blocks west of a planned 14-unit apartment building requiring demolition of a 113-year-old house; and
-two blocks north of a proposed residential apartment building that has not yet been reported on by this publication.
The intersection at Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street was the site of a protest highlighting demolition and development in July.
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