A stretch of three empty lots and one home site on Northeast 14th Avenue just south of Beech and behind Whole Foods market have been rezoned as R-2.5 (2,500-square-foot lots) in preparation for development
into eight new single-family homes. Some could be ready for occupancy as early as fall. Firenze Development Inc. owner and builder Peter Kusyk has met with Sabin’s Land Use and Transportation Committee as well as the Sabin Community Association’s Board to discuss his plans for building six homes on three of the former R-5 (5,000-square-foot) lots, which he purchased between August 2012 and September 2013. Kusyk says older homes on those lots were in “a definite state of disarray,” and he had them torn down. Kusyk’s six lots will be the first phase of the eight-lot subdivision he is in the process of having platted under the proposed name of Lincoln Heights Estates. The remaining two R-2.5 lots, at the southwest corner of 14th and Beech, are occupied by a single-family home, which is being rented. The property owner also had her former R-5 lot rezoned for future development into two smaller lots. Kusyk expects to begin building sometime this spring and may put up two homes at a time. Homes are expected to take between five and six months to complete. Exteriors will blend with the surrounding homes and should look similar to a home Kusyk recently built at 4515 N.E. 14th Ave, except the six new homes will have a narrower street frontage. Prices for each of the six new three-level, 2,580-square-foot homes could range in the mid-$500,000s, depending on market value at the time of sale, Kusyk explains. Homes will include a garage on the bottom floor with storage and wine cellar. The main floor will contain living areas, and the top floor will have bedrooms and baths. Rooms will have detailed woodworking and built-ins consistent with the area’s older homes. Hardwood, tile and stone will cover floors, and amenities will include fireplaces, stainless appliances and stone countertops. For more information on the proposed development, contact Kusyk at peter@peterkusyk.com. “The Land Use & Transportation Committee has been very encouraged by Mr. Kusyk’s willingness to talk to the SCA about his plans for the lots,” says committee Chair Rachel Lee. “We supported his successful effort to rezone these lots because we believe that higher density development at this location will make efficient use of land that is close to a neighborhood commercial center, served by two bus lines, and is very compatible with pedestrian and bicycle transportation.”
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When Mozart’s librettist sat down to write the story and lyrics to the comic opera, “The Marriage of Figaro,” the man didn’t have an Apple computer. Barbara Conable does, and it’s made her efforts to create the story, dialogue and aria lyrics of a new comic opera called “aMusement” a lot easier.
For the past two years, Conable, who lives in a Sabin bungalow near Whole Foods, has been collaborating with musician Lisa Marsh and director Matthew Zrebski on the project. “It’s a completely original story about the Greek god Zeus and his daughters, the nine muses,” explains Conable. Encouraged by their father, the muses try to help Arthur — a man whose heart was broken after his wife and infant son died in childbirth — by appearing to him in dreams. “It’s a comic opera but has very sad and serious parts,” Conable adds. A few of the opera’s arias were performed in a showcase before an audience last June at Iowa State University School of Music. Conable hopes a full production will be mounted in Portland this year or next. Conable has spent many years working in theaters and with musicians, as well as writing poetry. She studied theater and acting at the University of Illinois, and then taught the Alexander Technique and theater movement at the Cincinnati Conservatory. She later studied and taught the theory and practice of a technique called Body Mapping. Conable founded Andover Educators, a network of music teachers who concentrate on correct body movement. She’s written several books and a DVD on the subject. Now retired, Conable intends to continue writing operas, to travel and to spend more time with her three children and their families. This morning, families gathered at the top of the ridge on NE 17th and 18th Avenues to watch the kids shoot down the hills on their sleds, saucers and toboggans.
"Majestic Realty, the California-based company behind an $8 million Trader Joe's development in Northeast Portland, said Portland firm Colas Construction will serve as the general contractor firm for the project."
Read the full story in the Oregonian. Caution, don't visit the Vintage Portland blog unless you want to fall into a black hole of Portland history.
But, if that sounds like fun to you, check out these photos of northeast Portland in the olden days. Courtesy of Vintage Portland and the City of Portland Archives, here are a locations you may recognize... Portland Playhouse presents its fifth production from August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: Jitney, a masterful, tension-filled play about a group of independent taxi drivers in a well-worn livery cab station in the mid-1970s. Regular cabs won’t travel to Pittsburgh’s Hill District, so small businessman Becker and his drivers provide taxi services for the city’s Black community. Now, Becker faces the possible closure of his building, and his son has just returned from prison. Can this community’s bond to one another be enough to help
them weather a series of storms? Through detailed characters and finely wrought language, Wilson turns everyday experiences into poetry. This play runs January 22 – February 16, 2014. Purchase your tickets now! This production is presented at the WINNINGSTAD THEATRE rather than the venue on NE 6th and Prescott. The newly restored Door of Hope church, which occupies the old Zion church building at NE 9th and Fremont, will open for services on February 2. Here's the announcement from pastor Josh White.
Local historian Doug Decker has posted a great article and photos of the church on his Alameda Old House History blog.
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