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An old Portland building that formerly served as a parole office for Multnomah County is being converted into a mixed retail and office space.

Clackamas-based T.J. Nisbet Construction is renovating the 18,000-square-foot building at the corner of Southwest 12th Avenue and Stark Street. It will be called Spencer Court because it will connect through a hallway with the adjacent Mark Spencer Hotel, said Alix Nathan, the project’s developer and owner of the hotel.

The building’s old-growth wood structure was damaged by fire in the 1940s and later covered. In the renovation, crews will remove old drop ceilings and drywall, and expose framing and beams.

鈥淲here the fire did the damage, we sandblasted the wood and restored the old look,鈥� Nathan said.

The unreinforced building also is being seismically reinforced with steel and opened to the street with a glass facade.

鈥淚t’s going to be a glass box almost with concrete pilings between the glass,鈥� said Tom Nisbet, owner and president of T.J. Nisbet Construction. 鈥淲e’re taking an unreinforced, concrete and wood-framed building and giving it a complete renovation with a full seismic upgrade.鈥�

Skylab Architecture designed the project, which will wrap up by the end of the year, Nathan said.

Retail tenants will include sushi restaurant Bamboo Izakaya, handbag retailer Timbuk2 and Kure Juice Bar, Nathan said. Emerge Interactive, a digital marketing agency, will occupy 8,500 square feet of office space upstairs.

In a later phase, the building will gain a rooftop deck and an event space, Nathan said.