What’s getting built in my neighborhood, where my favorite store, my favorite landmark, my favorite dog run used to be?
We’ve had a run of property-development questions lately. Developers and their agents often want to keep their cards close to their chests, but here are a couple of quick answers.
After Mike’s pharmacy closed, it remained empty. Over the summer and still continuing is a complete remodel of the old building. Can you tell us what is planned when the makeover is complete?
— Dorothy Crowell, Vancouver
Mike’s Eastside Drugs and Homecare Equipment at 8506 E. Mill Plain Blvd. stopped being a pharmacy in 2009 but continued as a gift shop and medical equipment supplier for another few years. The property is now being remodeled by Cedarlake Commercial Construction as an endoscopy clinic and outpatient surgery center and should be open for business before the end of the year, according to a spokesman for Cedarlake.
What is the plan for the recently cleared land at the north end of St. Johns Road on the east side of Northeast 72nd Avenue?
— Josh, an avid “WUWT?” follower
Avid Josh, the Barberton-area land you’re talking about is the property of Wiebold and Sons, a longtime local logging and trucking family. It’s exactly 39.44 acres, in a long rectangle that extends east of the road. According to a pre-application report from Clark County dated July 31, the proposal is to subdivide the land into five parcels — two commercial lots and three light-industrial lots that would hug a new, short cul-de-sac, Northeast 111th Way.
In its report, the county suggests that a north-south connector street at the east end of the road would make more sense than a cul-de-sac. It also suggests that there’s lots more preliminary study to be done about nearby traffic impacts, archaeological artifacts and wetlands and shorelines on the property, which is near Cougar Creek.
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