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14JUStlOUt AUGUST 15,2008 Let us do the work for you. Home & Loan Confidence L isa C hemarin Oregon Realty, Broker* Office 503-297-2523 Direct 503-407-3571 www.oregonrealty.com/LisaChemarin ‘Also Licensed in Washington J ennifer S antoro Platinum Mortgage Group, Inc. Senior Mortgage Broker Office 503.620.0715 Direct 503.890.5965 www.oregonloan .net Available when you are! P latinum M ortgage G roup , inc . GRAHAM STREET/r/{? Sustainable Building Sustainable Living Find a home as unique as you. Prices starting at $245 Open Sundays 1-4 Jerry Wallach, Broker 503.212.2360 ¡nfo@grahamstreetiofts.com 1I AS SO\i GrahamStreetLofts.com <*- 41 'CityGuys want you to GET TESTED! FREE Rapid HIV & STD Screenings 2 ‘ ’.1 TWSdmS-ftM Free* Rapid HIV & STD screenings In collaboration with Outside In T MM I JOT, 3 WW Free* Rapid HIV screenings only •for man who have sax with men; wak^ orty first come. first served C mim 928 SW Stark Street (503) 445-7699, cftyguys@caecadeaide.org Cascade AIDS Project >CAI=> cuctdfiidf org northwest Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road A new McMenamins hotel rises from the dust of Club Portland and Silverado by Stephen Marc Beaudoin tions to get an exclusive inside tour of the reno vation-in-progress July 30, led by Daggett, with McMenamins marketing director Renee Rank and historian Tim Hills. Given that emptying out and gutting the nearly 100-year-old and hotel? With the glory building only start holes, of course. ed a few weeks ago, Ripping out the flat Daggett is, under black painted plywood standably perhaps, walls with crotch-level in hustle mode. gaping holes in the When asked about dust-clogged build the renovation ing at Southwest 12 th timeline, he laughs, adding quickly, Avenue and Stark Street has been one of “We’re shooting for January.” He gives construction supervisor Rank an example of Geoff Daggett's more unusual on-the-job some recent prog ress: “We got the fil experiences in urban ing cabinet out. Did renovation. “I had no they tell you about idea what really went that?” on in here,” he says. Just that morn “And actually coming ing, Daggett and in and dealing with his construction the underworld that team carted out one we’re not really ac Follow, follow, follow...the hidden Yellow Brick oversized filing cabi customed to” has been Road on the former Silverado dance floor. net that contained, eye-opening for him. among other things, highly confidential Club But he and his 10-men Pacific Crest Portland employee and member records, all of it Construction team knew they had their dirty left behind by former owner Dick Lawson. Daggett work cut out for them when they took the gig to says the building essentially looked like Lawson renovate the former home of Club Portland and simply walked away and locked the door behind Silverado, and they’ve been hacking away at it for on June 17, 2007, when the bathhouse called it six weeks now. Their mission: to turn the clock quits, leaving highly private records—containing back on the sturdy 16,000-square-foot historic members’ and employees’ full contact information building so it hearkens back to its earliest tum-of- and, sometimes, copies of their driver’s licenses, the-century usefulness, as a luxury residence for Social Security cards and other identification— weary travelers. vulnerable to theft and duplication. The movers and shakers behind the renovation Lawson, when reached by phone, claimed, are two well-worn, top-dollar hands at Portland “There is nothing that remains of the bath records development and renovation: Gerding Edlen Development and the McMenamins Hotels, Pubs at this time.” When told that McMenamins had and Breweries chain. Edlen purchased the building, which had become some thing of a Stark Street eye sore in its waning years, in spring of 2007, and closed a sale to McMenamins in June. “We couldn’t have imagined a better use for this property,” said Patrick Wilde, project manager for Gerding Edlen, in a written statement on the building’s sale to McMenamins. Just Out was among Shine on: Club Portland's notorious vintage Army Jeep. the first print publica here exactly do you start when transforming a dilapidated quar- ter-century-old men’s sex club and bathhouse into a high-dollar downtown tourist trap restaurant
