PORTLAND, Ore. – Directly across the street from a tear-down in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, the same developer will demolish two more houses to redevelop the lots with multiple new residential units.
The first house, located at 3731 SE Nehalem St., was built in 1947 and sits on a 6,000-square-foot lot.
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City and county records list the most recent sale as taking place in 1985 for $53,758 and list the owners as Judy and Ronald Crown. Real estate database websites do not offer any information on recent sales.
But on July 6 the city received an application for demolition of the house, with Kevin Partain of Urban Visions as the applicant and Renaissance Custom Homes LLC, registered to Randy Sebastian in Lake Oswego, as the contractor.
While there are just under two and a half underlying lot lines on the property, at this point only one new construction permit has been filed and no underlying lot lines have been confirmed.
The construction permit, applied for Sept. 10, calls for a two-story single-family home with an attached garage.
Next door to the 1947 house is a home built in 1915. The 768-square-foot house is built on a 6,500-square-foot lot.
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Public records list the house as owned by Kevin and Leroy Finck with no sales recorded in recent years. Zillow, Redfin and the like also do not list any information about recent transactions.
However, much like its neighbor the 100-year-old house received an application for demolition on Sept. 8, listing Partain as the applicant and Renaissance Custom Homes LLC as the contractor once again.
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No construction permits have been filed on that property.
Renaissance Custom Homes LLC previously demolished a 1923 house at 3738 SE Nehalem St. directly across the street from these residences and is replacing that house with two new units.
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The same developer also demolished a 1913 house at 3660 SE Nehalem St. one block to the west in March and replaced it with a single new unit.
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Several blocks to the north, developer Vic Remmers of Everett Custom Homes demolished a a 1917 home at 3731 SE Flavel St. over the summer and is replacing it with at least two and possibly three new units.
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The demolition delay for the house at 3731 SE Nehalem St. expired in August and the permit is “approved to issue,” while the permit for the 100-year-old house to the west will run out its demolition delay Oct. 13.