Pacific Coast Restaurants Replacing Gordon Biersch at Brewery Block #2

PORTLAND-Pacific Coast Restaurants Inc. will fill the void created recently when Gordon Biersch Brewery abandoned plans to locate in the historic Blitz-Weinhard Brewhouse portion of Gerding/Edlen Development’s 1.7-million-sf Brewery Blocks redevelopment project on the northwest edge of Downtown Portland.

Portland-based PCRI’s co-founder and Chairman Robert MacLellan tells GlobeSt.com the nearly 10,000-sf space it has leased at 12th and Burnside will be transformed into a new-concept eatery that will be designed with beer in mind. MacLellan would give up few other details about the restaurant, saying only that it should open in 12- to 14 months. A third-party source says the as-yet unnamed restaurant will be a derivative of PCRI’s Portland Steak & Chophouse.

While mum on the concept details, MacLellan did give up some other details. He tells GlobeSt.com there was stiff competition for the space, as national chains also wanted it. “We competed with the 900-pound gorillas,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “But in the end, we were the only ones who could say ‘the owner will be in the building on a weekly basis.’”