Affordable, Bikeable, Walkable
list price $165,000 | LAST ONE! | SOLD
Located on the SE corner of 16th and Salmon, these condos have the feel of a single family home, the convenience of condo living, on a bike route – and affordable to boot! No common walls. Enduring finishes—hardwoods, granite, tile, and stainless. Beautiful “no-mow” landscaping and individual garden spaces. Walkscore 89! The inner eastside easy life. Contact me if you’d like more details, or if you’d like to set up a guided tour of this property. Listed by Nick Krautter of Keller Williams.
If you’re interested in seeing this property or other close-in Portland properties, feel free to contact me . You can also search the market while you’re here at TheRiverPDX.com, or set up some search criteria to receive automatic updates to stay current with the Portland market.
Rethinking Cornell: Checking my Math
At first I looked at this property and summed up its parts as described in the post, Home+Lot+Design=Multiple Listings, but I’m struck by the variety of options that this property holds. Maybe I over-simplified its potential. On the surface it is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath home. It also has an adjacent vacant lot. That lot could be built upon with minimalist+ (see previous post). Or, one could buy the home with the adjacent lot and have a sweet and simple home on an oversized lot with incredible views.
As I “checked my math” and thought about this lot further, I got to thinking about buying the whole property, living in the existing home, building a minimalist+ home on the lot, move into the minimalist+ home, and redevelop the existing house to make this a dynamic duo perched out on the Cornell curve.
Minimalist+ has done the math, and you just can’t get homes of architectural significance designed and built-to-suit with views like these for this kind of price. Especially at a location like this. With a 77 out of 100 WALKSCORE and sweet-n-easy bike commute into the city, the location has so much to offer. The first step in the equation is contacting us to learn more and schedule a visit to the site to see this in person.
With this in mind, reconsider the following opportunities:
- own a view HOME on NW Cornell for $315,000
- own a LOT with a commanding city and mountain view for $200,000
- own the whole thing, a home on a double lot on NW Cornell for $515,000
- DESIGN a build-to-suit minimalist+ landmark home with stunning views at an amazing location with instant access to the city, Forest Park, and freeways for getaways!
If minimalist+ is not for you, we invite you to bring your builder and architect to assess the great potential on this site. Contact us for further information or to schedule a site visit.
Linger for a While . . . We Think You’ll Like it Here.
As you cherry pick for the sweetest spots on the eastside, this is one of them–a stone’s throw from Sewallcrest Park, Hawthorne, and Division, yet buffered in the slowed-down quiet of a well-loved Southeast pocket. In classic bungalow fashion, this home boasts a broad front porch, a prominent fireplace, dining room built-ins, and well-articulated moldings. To improve upon the past, the master suite inlcudes a tiled shower and soaking tub. There’s also a skylit bonus room that could be anything from a yoga space, a studio, an office, or a nursery. The kitchen has also been updated with slate tiled floors, tiled counters, and a massive butcher-block island. At its core, this is a 3 bed, 2 bath home with bonus upstairs, sunporch off the back, and full unfinished basement. Situated on this versatile corner lot, there are beds for edible gardening, a patio for BBQs, and a fenced area for privacy and pets.
As you do your homework, you’ll find that this is one of the most walkable neighborhoods in Portland and the schools are wonderful–Abernethy Elementary, Hosford Middle, and Cleveland High. It’s a trick to find a location like this, with so many amenities while still feeling buffered and calm. Contact me for more details or to schedule a visit. If this type of home appeals to you and you’d like to explore other options like it within the Portland market, you can set up a search here, or contact me for a customized residential market search.Portland Sunday Parkways
Sunday Parkways is one of my favorite events in Portland. Combining biking, walking, skating, and strolling with block parties, games, music, food, and festivities in our amazing parks is nearly unbeatable. Starting in North Portland in 2008 with one Sunday event, the Parkways have grown to include multiple parts of Portland on 5 Sundays this year.
This is huge public-private collaboration to close the streets for an extended car-free loop that connects multiple parks all day. It’s a dream to ride all day amongst friends and neighbors and new friends reveling in the open road and the variety of entertainment and activities that await you at each park. On some of the longer open stretches last year, I remember letting myself daydream that this is actually how the city always functions and feels. I think of it creating new urban planning muscle-memory for what’s normal. If it’s difficult to imagine a world with reduced reliance on automobiles, this is an opportunity to develop a vision for it. I know it’s a sunny Sunday daydream, but so were automobiles and highways at one time. Take a ride on one of these glorious Sunday Parkways, and you’ll see. . .and look out for a 6’8″ guy on an orange bike.
For schedules and route maps, visit the Sunday Parkways site.
For more information on the collaboration and how this is manifesting in other metro areas, check out the Sunday Parkways Blog. (Images by Anomalily)





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