The New York Times featured a great article about Portland urban development and the retailers that recognize the bike-friendly culture in Portland. Both Jean-Pierre Veillet (Siteworks & EcoFlats) and Christian Ettinger (Hopworks Urban Brewery) were highlighted and featured in the Business Day section of the paper.
Nice job gentlemen, you make our city a better place to live!
The ink is dry (it was, in fact, signed at The Acropolis!), an outpost of Bunk Sandwiches, Bunk Bar, will be opening on the corner of SE Water & Taylor soon! Urban Works represented both Beam Development and Tommy. Now you'll be able to enjoy your pork belly sandwich with some tunes and a shot of whiskey! Eater PDX just interviewed Tommy Habetz, of Bunk Sandwich and soon-to-be Bunk Bar fame, one unusual snippet from the interview:
How did you first come up with the idea?
I stole it from the person who came up with the idea of public drinking establishments. I think his name was Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo...
Interesting.
As Willamette Week reported last August, Chef Greg Perrault left D.O.C. for greener pastures. He has just landed a location for his own restaurant venture with friend & business partner Matthew Peterson. They have inked a lease at 2215 E. Burnside (pictured above), next door to Heart Coffee & Roasting. They plan to open in June!
Jason Barwikowski & Nate Tilden
Urban Works is proud to have represented both Olympic Provisions and Beam Development in Portland's first full-service salumeria (look it up). Mike Thelin (ex-Urban broker & Food Editor at Portland Monthly) and Kathleen Healy negotiated the lease transaction for both real estate parties.
The eclectic, charcuterie restaurant will not only cure their own cuts of meat on premises with hard to obtain USDA-certification but will also prepare fresh chorizos such as Basque, Madrid and Catalonion variations and dry salamis. The restaurant menu items also promise to be as interesting with pork rillettes hand pies, steamed mussels with hot sopressata, grilled octopus with chile relish, etc. This place is gonna smoke it!
107 S.E. Washington Street - Lunch only for now with dinner service planned for December
The rumors are true: Billy Wilson is opening a 2nd Barista location at 1725 NE Alberta in the Alberta Central project! The lease was fully & officially executed in front of our eyes late yesterday afternoon. Great news for the Alberta Arts District!
Exciting news for those living in & around East Burnside: professional snowboarder Wille Yli-Luoma is opening a coffee roastery and cafe, Heart, on 22nd & Burnside next door to Meat. Opening is anticipated sometime in October. Urban Works leased this space, and we're leasing the space next door to Heart, a 1,350 square foot space with a roll up door. Call us for details.
To make good news even better, Portland Monthly just reported that John Toboada (of Navarre) is opening a new restaurant & event space, Luce, across the street!
Acclaimed local coffee roaster & barista, Andrea Spella, is due to open a second downtown location in the former Bikini Coffee Company on SW 5th Avenue near Alder (520 SW 5th Avenue). Not to anyone's surprise, Bikini Coffee Company didn't last long... Apparently, Spella will keep his cart on SW 9th & Alder in operation, in addition to the new retail location not far away.
More good news for downtown Portland! And evidence that food carts can be a great foray into bigger & better things for food & drink entrepreneurs.
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