- Update: 1948 Brooklyn Home Torn Down
- Brooklyn Home to Be Replaced by Four Houses
PORTLAND, Ore. – A 67-year-old house in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Southeast Portland has been demolished with the site planned for a lot partition and four-house development.
Located at 3355 SE 16th Ave., the house was built in 1948 and sat on a 10,000-square-foot lot. The house itself was 1,296 square feet in size.
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
In November 2013 the city received an application for a land division review in order for the applicant to subdivide the property. In March 2014 a notice went out to neighbors of the developer’s plans: demolish the house and garage and excavate the patio, pond and driveway, split the property into four lots and construct a new house on each lot.
As the Portland Chronicle reported in January, there was an effort to appeal the plans. According to city records, “Appellant did not prevail” and the land use review was approved last fall.
The city received an application for demolition of the house in December. It was issued April 16 and the house has since been razed.
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
In 2013 the applicants and owners of the property were Darren Tilla and Tanja Olson, listing the 1948 house as their affiliated address. On the December demolition application as well as the January application for final plat review they are also listed as the applicants and owners.
But on March 11 the property sold to Renaissance Custom Homes, registered to Randal Sebastian at 16771 Boones Ferry Road in Lake Oswego.
Renaissance Custom Homes purchased the property for $519,000. It had most recently sold before that in 2003 for $185,000.
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
Photo credit: Portland Chronicle
The day the sale was recorded the city received an application for construction on the property, describing a two-story house with an attached garage. Kevin Partain of Urban Visions was listed as the applicant for the construction, with Renaissance Custom Homes as the contractor.
This is likely the first of four such houses that will be built on the newly-partitioned lots.