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Arlie plans West 11th building project

Released: 03/09/2007

By Joe Mosley, The Register-Guard

 

A pair of under-used properties in west Eugene have been penciled in for development as the city's newest retail center.

 

A restaurant, an oil change shop, a building supply store and a furniture store are planned for the combined 1.4-acre parcel on the south side of West 11th Avenue, west of Bailey Hill Road.

 

Arlie & Company - which also is developing the massive Crescent Village project in north Eugene - has submitted preliminary inquiries on the new development to the city's Planning & Development Department.

 

Sadie Dressekie, Arlie's marketing manager, said there's been no timetable set for development of the West 11th property, but a site plan for the project is expected to be completed within a month.

 

"Crescent Village is the one that's really the largest, and the priority project for us at the moment," Dressekie said.

 

Crescent Village is a 40-acre project on Crescent Avenue east of Coburg Road that is mixing conventional housing, townhomes and apartments with office and retail space in what the developers are calling an "urban village" setting.

 

The West 11th project is far less ambitious than Crescent Village, but still is likely to change the face of its neighborhood.

 

The properties - which Arlie purchased in 2000 from Bonnie and William Lewis - were used previously as a junk yard by Eugene's Small World Auto Center.

 

"We had to work with (the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality) to do substantial cleanup on the site," Dressekie said.

 

No information was available on the purchase prices of the two parcels, but Lane County property records show that their combined real market value was set in 2000 at $622,610, and had increased to nearly $1.5 million last year.

 

The properties are next-door to Transmission Solutions, at 3840 W. 11th, and in the same block as the former corporate headquarters of Taco Time, International.

 

Dressekie said her company is not yet authorized to reveal the names of its tenants at the new development, but the plans are "fairly well set - as set as they can be."