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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018
Restoration: ‘The ceiling was falling down, and it just totally stunk’
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Inside 943 Commercial St.
is an expansive main show-
room surrounded by art deco
armoires, counters, changing
rooms and other vestiges of
the former tenants. Skylights
provide the space with natural
lighting, along with the white
color scheme. A dual staircase
in the back leads up to a large,
U-shaped mezzanine looking
over the space.
But the grandiose former
storefront, vacant since the
mid-1980s, is marked by years
of neglect.
A layer of dried pigeon
guano marks much of the
space. A leak in the roof cre-
ated an indoor waterfall that
ate a hole through one corner
of the main floor to the base-
ment. The mezzanine needs a
structural assessment to see if
it can still safely hold crowds.
“The Flavels’ philosophy is
that the tenants take care of the
maintenance,” said Ken Ben-
dickson, co-owner of Drina
Daisy with his wife, Fordinka
Kanlic, since the mid-2000s.
“And so when there weren’t
tenants, there wasn’t any
maintenance.”
The plan is to patch and
clean the storefront, reconnect
electricity and start recruiting
possible tenants in the next few
months, James Long said. His
first thought was that the space
should be a clothing store
Clatsop County Historical Society
A softball team for Eastern Outfitting Co. poses in front
of 943 Commercial St. in the 1930s. The historic national
retailer occupied the main storefront of the Flavel Building
from 1924 to 1952.
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Extensive damage to the ceiling of the building can be seen in this photo.
‘The Flavels’ philosophy is that the
tenants take care of the maintenance.
And so when there weren’t tenants,
there wasn’t any maintenance.’
Ken Bendickson
co-owner of Drina Daisy with his wife, Fordinka Kanlic, since the mid-2000s
again, something the Astoria
Downtown Historic District
Association has identified as a
need with the departure of J.C.
Penney Co.
“We just kind of have to
trust the market, that people
are out there looking,” Long
said. “The obvious things are
an art gallery or something
like that, but it could also be a
restaurant.”
Like many other buildings
in Astoria, the Flavel Build-
ing grew out of a large fire that
consumed much of the down-
town core in 1922. Construc-
tion on the building finished in
early 1924, after which Astoria
Florist and Bell Bros. Jewelry
became the first tenants.
Eastern Outfitting Co.,
started in San Francisco in the
late 19th century, became the
first major tenant at 943 Com-
mercial St., staying until 1952,
according to Goodenberger’s
account. Ter Har’s clothing
store entered the space in 1977.
“The ceiling was falling
down, and it just totally stunk,”
Jeff Ter Har recalled. “We basi-
cally gutted the building.”
After five years in the space,
Ter Har said, he left amid ris-
ing rents. Szender’s, a clothing
store opened across the street
in the Mary and Nellie (Fla-
vel) Building in the early ’80s,
moved in briefly after Ter Har’s
before the space went vacant.
Mary
Louise
Flavel,
great-granddaughter of the
famed Capt. George C. Fla-
vel, had agreed to fix or sell
the family’s properties, seen
as a blight downtown. Port-
land transplants Marcus and
Michelle Liotta took over
and have been restoring the
Mary and Nellie Building on
the north side of Commer-
cial Street. James Long hopes
theirs and his family’s resto-
rations will help pump life into
that section.
“For better or for worse,
they have been present in Asto-
ria history since the begin-
ning,” he said of the Flavels.
“It’s definitely (got) a special
cachet to it.”
Bond: Astoria’s bond would join a crowded field in the November election
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needs into projects the district
might pursue funding for in a
bond.
The middle school faces
cracking in the floors and walls
because of settling. Many of
the classrooms, arrayed around
a diamond-shaped hallway in a
square building, are triangular,
undersized and lack any win-
dows or natural lighting. The
building was largely untouched
by a 2000 bond measure that
paid for the construction of
Lewis and Clark Elementary
School and improvements at
the high school.
The recent phone survey
reached about 370 high-fre-
quency voters who generally
had high marks for the school
district’s performance and
the condition of its buildings.
But 35 percent of respondents
didn’t know about the con-
dition of the middle school,
compared to 30 percent who
were worried and 35 percent
who were not. While they sup-
ported improving career-tech-
nical offerings at the high
school and security across the
district, fewer than half found
modernizing the middle school
a high priority.
The school district is look-
ing at ways to increase public
exposure of the middle school,
located on the eastern fringes
of Astoria and away from
major thoroughfares. Wagner
showed the school board vid-
eos, pamphlets and other quick
references used to help educate
voters in past campaigns.
The district needs to figure
out what’s important about the
middle school to voters, said
board member Grace Laman,
and remind people that the dis-
trict’s newest school is near-
ing 20 years old. Board mem-
ber David Oser said the district
should play up the need for
natural lighting, used in previ-
ous modernization campaigns.
Voters in Clatsop County
will decide on four smaller
bond measures in the May
election. Superintendent Craig
Hoppes said the school district
is planning a second round of
polling after the election to
gauge voter appetite for bonds.
Astoria’s bond would join
a crowded field in November,
including a countywide vote
on a $23.8 million jail expan-
sion. Warrenton-Hammond
School District is seeking a
$32.4 million bond measure to
buy a master campus on higher
ground and build a middle
school as part of a longer-term
effort to move students out of
the tsunami inundation zone.
The Sunset Empire Park and
Recreation District in Seaside
will likely seek between $15
million and $18 million for
expansion.
Wagner has been working
with Warrenton on its bond.
He recommended the two
school districts pool money
through a political action com-
mittee to employ a full-time
local coordinator for the bond
campaigns.
About 40 percent of the
voters in the county’s last four
elections were 55 and older,
Hoppes said, and part of hav-
ing a communications plan is
for a strategy to reach voters
who might not have a direct
connection to schools.
Wagner cautioned against
underestimating older vot-
ers’ support for school mea-
sures. Lake Oswego School
District, which has an older
demographic, passed a bond
measure through early and
persistent community engage-
ment that engendered trust in
the district’s plan, he said.
“Also, property values,”
Wagner said. “People under-
stand the relationship between
good schools and what your
home is worth.”
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