October 12, 2016
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Building permits have been issued to begin construction of a Natural Foods store on a strategic parcel of land at Northeast
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street, a Portland Development Commission-backed project to support new jobs
and bring a full service grocery store to the heart of Portland’s historic African-American community.
Natural
Foods Plans
C ontinued froM P age 3
amid community opposition. But as a con-
sequence, Mayor Hales did increase city
funding for affordable housing for inner
north and northeast Portland.
The project does meet PDC’s goals of
improving employment opportunities in
disadvantaged and minority neighbor-
hoods as well as providing a full service
grocery with healthy food options, one of
the goals of the King Neighborhood.
Bringing Natural Grocers to the site was
subsidized with $2.4 million from the PDC
in the form of a discount on the land value.
Majestic Realty of Redlands, Calif., a large
privately-held company, is the developer.
The general contractor will be Colas Con-
struction, a black-owned business from
northeast Portland.
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