It was so sad to see one of the original Burgervilles torn down this last year. How many times I ate there as a kid! How many times I took my own kids there! And, with call in orders, how many times I called (on speed dial) their store when I was passing by around lunch time while on my way to my next appointment.
Sad as well is to drive by the site and see absolutely nothing being done with it.
The Columbian reports that development for the site, which is earmarked for a 16 million dollar, 92-unit apartment complex with potentially some store fronts, is on hold.
...[A]n uncertain financial climate has left developer Elie Kassab in the dark about when work will start on his $16 million apartment project planned at the site long occupied by the Vancouver restaurant, 305 E. Mill Plain Blvd. The entire block -- bordered by Mill Plain, D, 13th and C streets -- is earmarked for a 92-unit complex called Prestige Plaza.
Plans for a new downtown Burgerville are also on hold, aparently due, in part, to the new I5 Bridge Project.
See the entire article here: http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/feb/20/former-burgerville-site-stuck-in-limbo/
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