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McDonald's Goes Public with Hawthorne Hopes

PORTLAND-As reported here nine months ago, McDonald's is planning to take over the former Arby's on 34th and Hawthorne in Southeast Portland. The land and building are owned by John Biggi Jr. of Portland-based Biggi Investment Co.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on July 18, 2001

PORTLAND-McDonalds’ executives sat down with city officials this week to discuss the ins and outs of opening a drive-thru restaurant at the former Arby’s location at 34th and Hawthorne, a site they’ve been eyeing ever since Atlanta-based RTM shuttered its Arby’s store there nine months ago.

Back in October 2000, GlobeSt.com spoke with a source at Atlanta-based RTM who said property owner John Biggi Jr. of Portland-based Biggi Investment Co. was in negotiations with a McDonald’s franchisee that wanted to lease the site.

Coming into a suburban-style drive-thru location in a hip and relatively non-nationalized retail district like Hawthorne will be rough for McDonald’s. Most business owners and residents have never liked the property, which devotes most of its lot to parking in stark contrast to the rest of the pedestrian-oriented district.

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