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2005
News
February
10, 2005: Gelato and coffee bar will be Irvington Corner's first tenant
(Daily Journal of Commerce)
Mio Gelato, a locally owned Italian café and coffee
shop with a space in the Pearl District, has signed a lease to become Irvington
Corner's first tenant.The shop will open in May in an 1,800 square-foot
space at 1517 NE Brazee St., in Northeast Portland's Irvington neighborhood.
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February
22, 2005: Venerable Revives Irvington Retail
(GlobeSt.com)
Locally
based Venerable Properties is in the final throws of renovating a small
commercial building that has occupied a corner in the upscale Irvington
residential neighborhood since 1916. What was most recently the Fifteenth
Avenue Market, located four blocks north of Broadway, has been deconstructed
and renovated to resemble its original Italian Renaissance Revival style
and renamed Irvington Corner.
Full article:
March,
2005: Minimizing Risk: Managing risk in innovation. (BUILDERnews
magazine)
Astoria, Oregon
hardly seems like a good spot for an upscale housing development. The
town of 10,000 where the Pacific Ocean meets the Columbia River had seen
better days when the logging and fishing industries thrived. Add to that
a Brownfields site where a sawmill once stood and you're talking about
the kind of risk that would send many developers running. Full
article...
August
11, 2005: Gelato mixes favors, neighbors in Irvington. (Oregonian
Business Section)
Ever
since real estate developer Art DeMuro moved into his home in Irvington
12 years ago, he had his eye on the little corner market a few block away.
Built in 1916, the worn building on the corner of Northeast 15th Avenue
and Brazee Street served as a neighborhood grocery store. Full
article...
August
11, 2005: Vintage buildings, modern lofts herald new age of Astoria.
(Oregonian)
Floyd
Holcom pulls at a stubborn, weatherworn door. He slides the panel open
along a rusty track and steps into a dark room that smells of salt and
timber and time. Soon, this corner of Pier 39, built in 1875 and Astoria's
lone remaining historic fish cannery, will transform into the most modern
of storefronts: a sales office four an upscale, 93-unit condominium project--the
Cannery Lofts--due to break ground this month...Closer to Astoria's city
center, hammers and nail guns signal the rise of Mill Pond Village, an
86-lot subdivision designed to resemble a vintage fishing burg. Full
article...
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