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A two-story downtown Portland building may be getting a 13-floor vertical addition, but property owners won’t talk about it.

Gary Golla of SERA Architects on March 3 applied to the city for early assistance with designs for a 15-story, 246-room hotel via incorporation of an existing structure at 419 S.W. Washington St.

Portland-based Menashe Properties in June 2014 purchased the property, which includes an adjacent building, for $9 million.

鈥淚 have to say on this one that I don’t know anything,鈥� Menashe Properties co-owner Jordan Menashe said. 鈥淚’m usually open, but this is one that, for a number of reasons, I cannot talk about.鈥�

One month after Menashe Properties bought the land, True Adams Co., a project planning predevelopment consulting firm based in Bend, applied for early assistance on behalf of a Maryland-based hotelier interested in renovating the property as a Cambria Suites hotel.

Menashe, at the time, said there was a 鈥�10 to 20 percent鈥� chance that hotel redevelopment would happen, and that, if it did, it wouldn’t be a joint venture.

Menashe didn’t say much last year 鈥� except that his company would like to see a grocery tenant in the space 鈥� and he was equally tight-lipped when asked about the application submitted recently.

鈥淚t actually isn’t us that applied,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t could be anyone. It could be Barack Obama who applied.鈥�

Golla did not return a call for comment by press time.