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December II, 200 2______________________________________ ®Ife ‘Jîortlanô (©bserUtr King Plans Development Earn Praise Commercial building, housing proposed for Food Mart Site Page A3 An artist's rendering shows a proposed commercial development with housing at the corner o f Northeast Fremont and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The project would replace the vacant King Food Mart, a former McDonald 's restaurant. by Lo; P erlman T he P ortland O bserver will go to m i nority or women contractors, and that they will recruit local A team o f developers hopes to residents for hiring. transform the abandoned King The site has been vacant and Food Mart property on Northeast owned by PDC since 1999. Fremont and Martin Luther King Jr. All parties stress that the pro into something extraordinary. cess is in a preliminary stage. The Abe Killings, Ron Sykes and team must first negotiate a contract their associates at First Oregon with PDC, which Killings says he Development are working with the “hopes” to achieve by next May. Portland Development Commission However, what the team has on plans for the property, which achieved already is significant. once held a M cDonald’s restau Lois Cortel, PDC project man rant. ager, said the proposal meets every The group has proposed a two- need local residents identified in story commercial structure facing early planning. King and Fremont, and seven row Edwina Wasson, president of houses facing Northeast Sixth Av the North-Northeast Business As enue. The team has pledged that at sociation and a member of the se least 25 percent of their construc- lection committee, said she was Polar Bears Get New Home Polar bears at the Oregon Zoo are celebrating the holidays a little early this year as they explore their newly remodeled exhibit. “The remodel was done for the benefit o f the bears,” said the Zoo’s Conservation Program Scientist, David Shepherdson. “It gives them more time in the outdoors, which they generally prefer and allows them to get away from each other.” The roof was scheduled for main tenance, but instead o f re-roofing, it was removed. The area that cov ers visitor viewing will remain. “Given the option, the bears chose to spend more time in the uncovered exhibit,” said the zoo’s zoological curatorChris Pfefferkom. “Removing the roof on the entire exhibit will give them more o f what they want.” Visitors also benefit from more light in the exhibit. The once dark exhibit inhibited visitors from see ing the bears once they climbed out o f the water. “The size o f the exhibit hasn’t increased, but what visitors are able to see has nearly doubled,” said Pfefferkom. ers design. “It’s new and it has flare, but it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. It blends in with the neighborhood around it,” W asson said. She was also attracted to the type o f product attractive to main stream businesses,” he said. “With access to transportation, location, proximity to Lloyd Center and the Rose Quarter, this is a very viable site.” I t ’s new and it has flare, but it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. It blends in with the neighborhood around it. — Edwina Wasson, president of the North-Northeast Business Association proposal’s potential for job devel T he d e v e lo p e r exp ects the opment and commitment to minor project to add permanent jobs to the area. ity contracting. Killings hopes to attract a mix “W ith jobs come economic vi ture of “businesses with brand name tality,” Killings said. “People tend recognition” and “grass roots, lo to spend money in the neighbor cal businesses.” hoods they live in.” The row houses are proposed at 1,200 square feet and are expected to sell in the $ 145,000 to $ 159,000 range. Killings said he wants to take advantage o f governm ent pro grams, such as tax abatements, to make the homes as affordable as possible. W asson says that one reserva tion the selection committee had was that none of the bidders had yet put together the financing to make the proposal possible. In ad dition, the economic conditions are unfavorable for new ventures of any kind. But Killings says he isn’t wor ried. “It’s generally two to three years between the conception of a project and when you begin to turn the dirt, he said. “The real estate market lags behind the general economy. Right now, interest rates are low.” Both Killings and Sykes are long time inner northeast residents. Kill ings moved to the area as a teen ager from Salt Lake City in 1966. Sykes grew up in the area, attend ing Ockley Green School and Jesuit High School; he currently serves on the Portland Planning Commis sion. “Our whole team is pretty ex cited about this," Killings said. “It’s high time more investment was fo cused on Martin Luther King, which has seen a lot of disinvestments over the years. This area hasn’t seen the type of job growth other parts of the city has over the last five to ten years.” When you can swing a private booth / jazz musicians / her favorite flowers / the pearls shfe's always wanted / all on your way from the office I that’s mLife. Seattle NAACP Elects New President ( A P )— Carl Mack has defeated incumbent Oscar Eason Jr. in the first contested election for presi dent of the local chapter of the National Association for the A d vancement of Colored People in at least 30 years. “All King County has got to be put on notice— w e’re not going to tolerate discrimination,” Mack said. “You touch one of us, you touch all o f us.” Eason, 72, had served two two- year terms as president. An assis tant chief of engineering in the Army Corps o f Engineers, he formerly served as head o f the 2.5-million- member Blacks in Govemmoit. Mack, 41, a King County Metro transit engineer, is a frequent guest lecturer on black history at local schools. He grew up in Jackson, Miss., and came to Seattle in 1987. 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