

Part of a series on UDG at Southeast 29th Avenue and Stark Street Starkys Has Been Demolished

Starkys to Be Razed for 46 Units

Urban Development Group Registers UDG Stark LLC

PORTLAND, Ore. – A longtime restaurant and bar in the Kerns neighborhood of Southeast Portland will be demolished by a Beaverton-based developer and replaced with a multifamily apartment complex with nearly four-dozen residential units.

Located at 2913 SE Stark St., the building housing Starkys Restaurant and Bar was built in 1935 and sits on a 16,237-square-foot lot.

The restaurant has been a longtime occupant of the building.

“Starkys has been a part of the Portland gay community since 1984,” the business wrote on its website.

On March 16 the county recorded a sale of the building and property for $1,200,000 from Joseph Waldroff to UDG Stark LLC. This LLC is registered to Mary Sackhoff and is one of the numerous Urban Development Group subsidiaries registered to Mary and Dennis Sackhoff.

The Portland Chronicle reported on this business’s registration in April.

Prior to the 2015 sale for $1,200,000, the Starkys building had most recently sold three years ago for $495,310, meaning the sale to Sackhoff represents a nearly 250 percent increase in value.

On Sept. 2 the city received an early assistance application for development of a 46-unit apartment complex on the site of the restaurant. Because the lot at the corner of Southeast 29th Avenue and Stark Street has split zoning, the application states that the building will be built in the neighborhood commercial zone, the section of the lot closest to Stark Street.

The applicant was David Mullens of Urban Development Group.

Starkys closed Sept. 12, according to an event hosted at the business that day.

No demolition permits have been filed. The building was in the process of being stripped this past week.

Sackhoff previously demolished another gay community gathering space in Old Wives’ Tales restaurant on East Burnside Street, which he is replacing with 69 residential units.