Deconstruction crews will remove the burned remnants of a dilapidated 1926-era home at 3015 SE 87th Avenue to make way for a housing development. The former single-story structure suffered multiple fires over several years, rendering the property uninhabitable. Dez Development and partners purchased the 182-foot-deep property in December 2025 and will work with designers to build multiple single-family homes.
3015 SE 87th Ave November 2024
The building at the site sustained damage from people living there without permission and minor burns from an adjacent fire. However, on July 17th, 2025, a significant fire damaged the property, necessitating its removal for safety reasons. This month, the developer submitted applications to deconstruct the structure, remove the concrete slab, and cap the sewer. The driveway curb-cut will remain for this phase of development. There is a mandatory 35-day demolition delay for this work.
3015 SE 87th Ave Portland Maps
While waiting to clear the site, Dez Development owner Slavik Dezhnyuk explained that they are working with their design team to determine the best way to increase housing density on the 8,736-square-foot site while matching the single-family home footprint of the surrounding properties. “We hope to develop this property with several detached cottage homes,” remarked Dezhnyuk. Design and permitting will take months to complete. However, neighbors can anticipate the dilapidated building’s removal as soon as feasible.
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DEZ Development is wrapping up construction of a seven-unit townhouse project on the southwest corner of NE 72nd Avenue and Glisan Street in a primarily commercial section of the main street. This three-story building replaces a single-family home with two units facing NE Glisan Street. The remaining five homes have addresses on NE 72nd Avenue. This project maximized housing density while still offering homeownership in a walkable, transit-oriented section of Portland.
Rendered view of the seven townhomes seen from NE 72nd Avenue. Courtesy DEZ Development.
The property is zoned Commercial Mixed Use 2 (CM2), allowing up to four stories and a building floor-area ratio of up to two-and-a-half times the property’s dimensions. As this building will not cover all the buildable land, the three levels proposed fit within the development scale for this area. Montavilla is seeing more multi-level projects on NE Glisan Street, with two affordable apartment buildings recently opening within the Glisan Landing complex, two blocks east of this project. These new homes sit across NE 72nd Avenue from a two-story commercial mixed-use building constructed in 1890. Across NE Glisan, the “Tool Building” will open with retail and dining space after an extensive renovation.
The transformation of NE Glisan Street is a return to its former usage when it hosted a streetcar line running down its center, providing a Portland connection to the town-turned-neighborhood of Montavilla. 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.
Video courtesy of listing agent Darryl Bodle, Keller Williams (CTP Visuals)
The attached condominium units range in price from the high $ 300,000s to the low $ 400,000s, depending on the number of bedrooms. The NE Glisan-facing units are larger, with an extra bedroom. The price fluctuates based on a buyer’s eligibility for the Portland Housing Bureau’s System Development Charge (SDC) exemption program, which promotes affordable housing in Portland. In July 2025, the Portland City Council adopted an ordinance that temporarily exempts newly created housing units from SDCs for new housing unit permits issued from August 15th, 2025, through September 30th, 2028. However, this project predates that change. Qualified buyers can also take advantage of the “Homebuyer Opportunity Limited Tax Exemption” (HOLTE) program, which grants a property tax exemption of up to ten years for single-unit homes, as long as the property and owner remain eligible under HOLTE Program requirements. If the buyer’s finances exceed the limit before the ten-year period ends, they begin paying the new tax rate. Owners remain responsible for the original assessed value of the land without a building during the exemption period. This program applies only to housing with at least three bedrooms or to some two-bedroom homes within transit-oriented areas.
The developer reconstructed the sidewalk around the site, adding an extended corner that pushes into the parking lane on NE Glisan Street, shortening the crossing distance for pedestrians and making people waiting at the corner behind parked cars more visible to drivers. Each home has direct access to the sidewalk, eliminating the need for a shared walkway that mid-block projects often require in townhome developments. Most units have a small back or side yard with a modest patio. Residents will have three to four bedrooms based on unit type, with three bathrooms and an open floor plan on the main level.
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Managing Member of DEZ Development, Lavik Dezhnyuk, grew up in the neighborhood and has completed several housing projects in this community he feels connected to. Darryl Bodle is the listing agent on these properties with more information available at darrylbodle.com. Mixing commercial and middle-density residential spaces along the corridor has the potential to make the street more active at all hours of the day and create an active streetscape as people walk to local destinations for basic needs. These townhouses are blocks away from Fred Meyer’s grocery store, restaurants, coffee shops, and retail destinations. Expect these units to sell to new residents throughout the remainder of 2025 and into 2026.
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Jacob Loeb
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Cement masons are at work creating the foundation for a new single-family residence at 114 NE 74th Avenue. Crews will construct this 15-foot-wide two-story home on the side yard split from a 1925-era house in 2022. The site of the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home is only 25-foot-wide and requires a skinny house design often used for infill housing.
Rendering provided courtesy DEZ Development
The building plans come from Thogerson Designs, which creates standardized plans used by builders throughout the area to develop new housing. DEZ Development, a frequent housing creator in the area, purchased the lot in December 2024. This location is personally significant to the company’s owner, Slavik Dezhnyuk, who has Montavilla roots. “I am very excited about this project as it is located across the street from my childhood home. Brings back lots of memories,” explained Dezhnyuk.
Overhead image of 114 NE 74th Aveprovided by Portland Maps
This house design places the third bedroom at the front of the home, which could also serve as a home office or study. The powder room, located next to the ground floor bedroom, is the only bathroom on the main level, meaning residents sleeping there would need to go upstairs to shower. Designers placed the “U” shaped kitchen in the middle of the main level with a seating area off the combined living and dining room at the back of the home. A built-in shelving unit on the north wall flanks a gas fireplace. A glass curtain wall with a sliding door leads onto a partially covered back patio with an exterior storage closet. A straight staircase ascends from the living room to the second floor.
The top-level features a stacked laundry closet at the top of the stairs, steps away from a double-doored linen closet. Next to the closet is a shared full bathroom with a shower and tub unit. A ten-by-twelve-foot bedroom sits at the front of the home. The owner’s suite at the back of the house features a walk-in closet and ensuite bathroom with a double vanity and a walk-in shower. The fourteen-by-twelve-foot room also offers more vertical space with a tray ceiling.
DEZ Development expects construction on the 1,330-square-foot building to last four to five months and anticipates having this house on the market before the end of the year.
This November, crews will lay the foundation and begin framing a seven-unit townhouse project at NE Glisan Street and 72nd Avenue. This three-story building replaces a single-family home at 7132 NE Glisan Street, which workers demolished in the summer of 2022. Crews broke ground nearly a year after DEZ Development started the permitting process on this middle housing development, with construction expected to extend well into 2025.
Rendered view of the seven townhomes seen from NE 72nd Avenue. Courtesy DEZ Development
In late October, heavy equipment cleared and leveled the 4,097 square-foot parcel. The property’s Commercial Mixed Use 2 zoning allows structures up to four stories tall, similar to the affordable housing project under construction three blocks east of this site. This new housing project is in line with zoning goals for this area with minimum density requirements of one unit per 1,450 square feet of site area. That places it slightly above the minimum for NE Glisan’s prescribed density while still being built as a step up from the primarily two-story scale of surrounding buildings. Two units will face NE Glisan Street, with the remaining five having addresses on NE 72nd Avenue.
Each home will provide between 1,000 and 1,300 square feet of living space, split between three levels. Residents with vehicles will need to park in curbside spaces on NE 72nd Avenue or NE Glisan Street. The building is near the 60th Avenue MAX light-rail stop and on the TriMet 19 bus line. Bike commuters living here will have easy access to an established Portland Greenway that runs east-west on NE Davis Street. Housing density along commercial corridors like NE Glisan can create a symbiotic relationship between residents and businesses located within walking distance of the residences. This location is within blocks of the Fred Meyer grocery store at 6615 NE Glisan Street and has several dining options at restaurants, coffee shops, and bars within eyesight of the townhomes. When residents look for more resources close to homes near commercially zoned areas, more businesses tend to open to meet increased demand. Walking-oriented housing on NE Glisan may become the catalyst for reviving the once-thriving area first established when the streetcar tracks ran down its center.
Construction at this site will continue over the next several months, with completion expected in 2025.
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Work is underway on a new single-family residence at 817 NE 94th Avenue. The four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home offers 1,355 square feet of living space spanning two floors. The upper level extends over the full-width front porch in an architectural nod to the Craftsman homes seen through this area. This infill development replaces a detached garage and large tree that was part of the 1927-era house at 825 NE 94th Avenue until 2023.
Rendering Courtesy DEZ Development
The main floor features a bonus room up front with a full closet, allowing it to act as an office or additional ground-level bedroom. A powered room sits under the staircase leading up to the second level. Designers placed an “L” shaped Kitchen in the center of the house with a large breakfast island separating the space from the combined great room and dining room that occupy the entire rear of the building.
Floor Plan Courtesy DEZ Development
On the second level, the main bedroom extends slightly over the front porch and has a full attached bathroom and walk-in closet. A front-facing window provides natural light into the spacious closet. Two standard-sized bedrooms at the back of the house share a full-sized bathroom. A stacked laundry closet and utility room sit at the center of the upper floor.
This housing project is another home created by DEZ Development, which is wrapping up work on Three Affordable Townhomes a few blocks away on NE 92nd Avenue. Per the current Portland building code, which prohibits attached garages on a street-facing facade less than 22 feet long, this home does not feature on-site vehicle storage. However, removing the previous curb cut and restoring the sidewalk’s edge will allow more curbside parking. People should expect to see construction continue at this site through summer.
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Construction crews working at 825 NE 92nd Avenue recently completed the foundation for three affordable townhomes. The two-story building will occupy an area once used for a detached garage belonging to the corner 1925-era home. The building’s design hides the two rear units behind the street-facing home, giving the appearance of a large single-family house, blending into the streetscape.
Instrinsic Homes LLC bought the 100-foot by 100-foot property at 811 NE 92nd Avenue in 2022 and split the land into three parcels, selling the corner house to new residents. Dez Development purchased the two undeveloped lots with the intention of creating nine additional residences. These three homes are the first of the two developments underway, and they target homeowners who have struggled to find options in Portland’s high-priced market. “We have partnered with the Portland Housing Bureau and are committed to delivering these units as affordable residential housing units,” explained Slavik Dezhnyuk, Managing Member of DEZ Development. Portland offers several programs to increase home ownership affordability, but most only reserve units for buyers earning at or below the median family income (MFI) level for a four-person household. They are not low-income housing, as the MFI annual income limit is $114,400 as of 2023.
The developer geared each townhome towards a smaller household with just over 600 square feet of living space per unit. The two-bedroom homes place the sleeping areas on the second floor with a shared bathroom. The front home has its stacked laundry closest to the upper floor, while the two back units have those facilities located on the main level under the stairs. All residences feature a half-bathroom on the ground floor and an open-concept living area with an L-shaped kitchen. Mini-split heat pumps maintain the temperature on the main level. The bedrooms and upstairs bathrooms have heat supplied by Cadet in wall units.
Rendered view of the three townhomes seen from NE 92nd Avenue. Courtesy DEZ Development.
Residents of the rear units will access their homes via concrete paths to the north or south of the structure, leading to small corner alcove porches. Six-foot high side gates towards the front of the building will create small private yards for the rear townhouses. This design allows separate access to each home while disguising the housing density created by the development. Plans for the property show a four-foot-wide curbside planting strip with a new street tree replacing the existing driveway curb cut. The builder will also add a new six-foot-wide sidewalk to connect with a curb-tight pathway north of the property. Work on these new homes will continue into 2024.
Update April 18th, 2024: Principle construction is complete as the homes ready for sale.
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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.
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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.
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Instrinsic Homes LLC bought the expansive 100-foot by 100-foot property at 811 NE 92nd Avenue a year ago. The new owners split the land into three parcels, selling the corner house to new residents and selling the undeveloped lots to Dez Development. Soon nine townhomes will surround the existing 1925-era home, creating a total of ten residences out of land previously used for just one single-family-dwelling.
Splitting the lot and reselling the separate parcels netted Instrinsic Homes around $250,000 and created two new development opportunities. The 4,455-square-foot property accessed from NE Oregon Street will contain six residences. The smaller 2,103 square-foot undeveloped lot fronted on NE 92nd Avenue will support three townhouses. Each of those Townhouse units split living space across two floors. The developer has not proposed onsite parking for these projects.
This site redevelopment will preserve the nearly 100-year-old home while substantially increasing available housing. Although this will be one of the most efficient redevelopments in Montavilla, it is two units less than the eleven-townhouse development planned at 2321 SE 89th Avenue or the Twelve Townhouses nearly completed on SE 86th Avenue. The SE 89th project will also preserve the original home, but the SE 86th development razed the existing structures. Expect construction to start on NE 92nd Avenue in the next six to eighteen months, and anticipate many new neighbors within this area by 2024.
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The new owner of 7132 NE Glisan Street intends to deconstruct the house and detached shed to make way for a future housing development. DEZ Development bought the corner lot in late May and applied for a demolition permit earlier this month. Designers are currently working on plans for the replacement housing coming to this site.
When approved, demolition crews will clear the lot of all structures and fill the basement cavity. Although most buildings near this property are business-oriented, DEZ Development is committed to building housing at this location. Realtors had listed the hundred-year-old home as a fixer-up-er, and interior pictures of the house indicate significant neglect. Previous owners of the 1,568-square-foot home failed to upgrade or maintain the structure over its many years.
800 E. Glisan Sanborn Map 1909
When constructed in 1905, the home had an address of 800 E. Glisan. By 1920, it was renumbered to 1834 East Glisan and owned by R. S. Wildemuth. The owner and his home were featured in an advertisement for Sibloco Pipeless Furnace in The Oregon daily journal of October 31st, 1920. This home changed to its current address after the Great Portland Renumbering in the early 1930s.
NE Glisan Street has significantly changed since 1905. Once the lifeblood of the neighborhood, the Montavilla streetcar running down its center ended service by the 1950s. Residences along the street gave way to businesses. Automotive traffic has increased significantly since then, making Glisan an arterial roadway. However, the neighborhood is changing again with a return of housing and small businesses catering to local residents. With luck, the replacement housing built on this site will accommodate a new generation of people calling NE Glisan their home.
1834 E Glisan Sanborn Map 1928
Framing removed from 7132 NE Glisan Street
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A traditional infill home is coming to a new split lot on NE 75th Ave. The new house is located between E Burnside and NE Glisan, at 342 NE 75th Ave.
The new single-family residence is being built on a new lot, split from 352 NE 75th Ave. That existing house is currently for sale and includes an easement for the driveway. The driveway runs along the south side of the building and ends in a parking pad in the back of the house. Part of the driveway is on 342 NE 75th Ave’s property.
The new house will be 20 feet wide at the front, with the majority of the first floor being taken up by a sing car garage. The front door leads to a long hallway. To the left of the hallway are the stairs up to the second story and a coat closest. Just pass the hallway there is an open kitchen to the right and a half bathroom to the left. At the back of the first floor are a great room and dining room combination. The dining room pushes out to the south with two large windows. This feature adds another foot to the width. The southeast corner of the first floor is notched, to provide a four and a half foot by seven and a half foot covered patio. The great room features a direct vent fireplace, on the north wall.
At the top landing of the second floor stairs, is a doublewide laundry closet. The front of the second floor has the master bedroom with a walk-in closet and a three quarters master bathroom. Centered on the south side of the second floor is the full bathroom, to be shared by two standard bedrooms. Those bedrooms evenly split the back half of the second floor.
The primary roof has its ridge line span the short width of the building. A smaller front-facing gable roof covers the master bedroom and garage, which both project five feet forward from the house. This roof orientation is becoming more common with skinny houses. Compared to the ridge line running the length of the building and all gable ends facing the street.
Rotating the roof peek 90 degrees, creates a taller center point in the attic. That added space is being used to house the water heater and furnace. Most often those units would be located in the garage. There is a tankless water heater wall mounted in the garage. It is most likely dedicated to first floor use.
This new house should fit comfortably between its neighbors. It is not too skinny, nor is it a radical design that will look out of place. The one missed opportunity comes from the driveway easement. If only that could have been shared between both houses. That would have facilitated the garage placement in the back of the house. Design where the front of the house can be more active, allows the house to contribute to the neighborhood character. An important feature particularly as density increases.
342 NE 75th Ave Before Construction.
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