KemperCo Wins Right to Develop 'Killingsworth Station'

PORTLAND-The Portland Development Commission has selected local developer Tom Kemper for the high-density redevelopment a 36,000-sf property at the corner of North Interstate Avenue and Killingsworth Street, along the city’s new light rail line.

The selection means KemperCo LLC and the PDC can now begin negotiating a disposition and development agreement for the site, which is slated to include affordable apartments, for-sale condos, townhomes and street-level retail fronting both Killingsworth and North Interstate.

“We picked the proposal that we thought represented the shape and future of where we would like to see the Interstate Corridor go,” says Walter Valenta, co-chair of the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Advisory Committee and a member of the selection committee that recommended Kemper’s vision.