NE 72nd and Glisan Townhouses

Next year, DEZ Development plans to break ground on a seven-unit townhouse project at 7132 NE Glisan Street. This three-story building replaces a recently demolished single-family home on a corner lot. Two units will face NE Glisan Street, with the remaining five having addresses on NE 72nd Avenue.

475 NE 72nd Avenue
477 NE 72nd Avenue
479 NE 72nd Avenue
481 NE 72nd Avenue
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7192 NE Glisan Street
7194 NE Glisan Street

The property is zoned Commercial Mixed Use 2 (CM2), allowing up to four stories and a building floor area up to two-and-a-half times that of the property’s dimensions. As this building will not cover all the buildable land, the three levels proposed fit within allowable development in this area. NE Glisan is seeing more multi-level projects in Montavilla. However, this building sits across NE 72nd Avenue from a two-story commercial mixed-use building constructed in 1890. NE Glisan once had streetcar lines running down its center, providing a Portland connection to this town-turned-neighborhood community. Many buildings along the transit line were commercial-oriented and offered above-storefront apartments. Remnants of that history are visible in the older buildings that survived the seventy-five years since rail transit ceased operations on NE Glisan.

*_{Rendered view of the seven townhomes seen from NE 72nd Avenue. Courtesy DEZ Development.}*

This townhouse project continues the expansion of housing density along NE Glisan Street and represents a local builder’s response to demand. “We are very excited about this project and feel that this will bring much-needed housing to a neighborhood that I love and grew up in,” remarked Slavik Dezhnyuk, Managing Member of DEZ Development. Each home will provide between 1,000 and 1,300 square feet of living space, split between three levels. Look for work to begin in 2024, depending on permit processing times.

Update March 25th, 2025: Crews have completed exterior work on the seven-unit townhouse project.

Article and photo by

Jacob Loeb

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