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A weekly list of highlights from commercial land use review activity in Portland by Permitting & Development in the prior week.

Type 2 procedure (adjustment) – pending                               
Address: 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Applicant: Tara Mather of Oregon Health & Science University 
Owner: Oregon State Board of Higher Education

The applicant is seeking to modify the OHSU Marquam Hill nonconforming upgrade option 2 covenant. The adjustment is tied to the previously applicable compliance period, which is reflected in the 2023 adjustment’s condition of approval.

Type 1 procedure (design review) – pending                               
Address: 1109 S.E. Brooklyn St.
Applicant: Jericho Bankston of VLMK Engineering + Design 
Owner: Gerald Blinsman

The proposal is to remodel a 3,480-square-foot pre-engineered metal building to become a walk-up bottle redemption facility with hand and electronic count systems. The facility would include on-site recycled storage but there would be no processing containers. Outside of business hours, cans would be collected via truck and brought to other Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative processing facilities. No site changes are proposed other than striping an accessible pathway from the Southeast Milwaukie Avenue right-of-way to the building entrance. Stormwater from the right-of-way would continue to flow into the public system without treatment.

Type 1x procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 909 S.W. 11th Ave.
Applicant: Grady Jones of First Baptist Church 
Owner: First Baptist Church

Plans call for installing accordion-style gates on doors in alcoves. This is a historic building.

Type 1 procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 2199 N.W. Everett St.
Applicant: Phillip Kitzes of Centerline Communications of Maple Valley, Washington 
Owner: Rising Investments LLC

An upgrade of the AT&T wireless facility’s rooftop would include removal and replacement of antennas, radios and other equipment. Due to new coverage adjustments/​objectives, the antennas and radios are required to be relocated. No work would involve stormwater management. This is a non-contributing resource in the Alphabet Historic District.

Pre-application conference – application
Address: Northwest Ninth Avenue (within the 97209 zip code)
Applicant: Gina Gage of Mithun of Seattle 
Owner: Prosper Portland

This is for development of Parcel 6 within the USPS Master Plan. The structure would include apartments over retail space and structured parking.

Type 2 procedure (design review) – pending
Address: 910 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Applicant: Shea Gilligan of Parti Architecture 
Owner: Prosper Portland

The proposal is for adaptive reuse of the building into a bar/​food hall on the west side, with 10 food trucks on the east side. The interior building will be removed, and the existing concrete slab roof will remain. Selective portions of the roof will be removed to accommodate a new courtyard, skylights and food trucks. Stormwater management requirements won’t be triggered.

Type 3 procedure (conditional use) – pending
Address: 6405 N.E. Wygant St.
Applicant: Don R Titus, Residential Architect LLC 
Owner: Nurtured Earth LLC

The proposal is to create a two-story, 8,130-square-foot day care/​preschool building. Stormwater management would be handled via dry wells.

Early assistance – pending
Address: 4304 N. Vancouver Ave.
Applicant: Chris Hagerman of The Bookin Group 
Owner: First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

This proposal is to replace the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church building with a five-story, approximately 32,371-square-foot building. It would hold retail and community service (church) space on the first floor and a total of 44 affordable housing units on upper floors. A surface parking lot with seven parking spaces would be accessible from North Skidmore Street under the building’s east end.

Type 1 procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 221 N.W. 21st Ave.
Applicant: Jaylene Paulus of Integrity Signs Oregon of Salem 
Owner: David Harris of Charlotte, North Carolina

Plans call for installing an illuminated wall sign on the east elevation for Bank of America. This is a non-contributing resource in the historic district.

Source: Portland Permitting & Development 

See also:

• $14.1 million multifamily project in Portland building permits | March 30, 2026