Collins View and South Burlingame lack breaksfast options, and have no Coffee Shop! This is a sad situation. True, you can get Brunch at the Grill on Weekends, but no longer at Chez Jose.
We know we can go to Lake Oswego, Hillsdale, Multnomah Village, John's Landing, Sellwood, or out Barbur Blvd for various coffees and breakfasts...
We're talking about in our own 'Hood.
It would be nice to have a a space that could serve as a coffee place in the Morning, then use those same tables for lunch and dinners, and sometimes have late night shift for drinks and snacks.
A Future Burlingame Food Hall? / Coffee House?
A while back, on Nextdoor, we considered a multi-purpose use for the building at the corner of Taylors Ferry & Terwilliger (8502 SW Terwilliger). The pandemic disrupted that idea. What was previously Market of Choice, is now Anytime Fitness.
The "Market of Choice / Burlingame Grocery" building. Does it have an actual name?
Definition of a Village Hall Pattern - Individual owners, small shops. It could be an indoor food fair or food cart pod, with services. A Food Hall could have food carts outside as well, powered by the main building which would have shared tables and washrooms.
The Burlingame Grocery building on the corner
For a complete history of this building, see Burlingame Grocery Corner History
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In a nutshell: it began as a Feed Store in 1941, and morphed into a grocery.
Helene J, of South Burlingame, recalls:
My family lived in the neighborhood when I was a young child, from 1947-1955. I remember shopping there for our groceries, with my mother. They had a freezer locker where we could store our frozen food and pick it up as we needed it. I think it was called Burlingame Market... I do remember the wooden floors.
An arson-fire ravaged the building on 9/18/2001.
The burned out building sat vacant for a while in the Post 9/11 world. People shopped elsewhere. The building was soon restored to a hollow shell.
Eugene-based Market of Choice chose this site as its foray into the Portland market, opening in August 28, 2003. The space was too small for them.
Limited street patterns, the small parking lot, and heavy traffic made access difficult.
They had a good run, closing April 14, 2019.
Anytime Fitness cleared the space of remaining business fixtures (including the Pizza Oven) and opened in December 2022 (24 hour).
Could the building become a Food Hall some day?
Examples of Food Halls in the Region
Providore on NE Sandy is an interesting concept. It has eight micro businesses in it - PastaWorks, a Meat Monger, an Oyster Bar, Little T Baker, Flying Fish Company, a produce company, and a few grocery FOOD items. They serve food and have common tables.
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Pine Street Market has half a dozen vendors with varied cuisines.
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Troutdale Station, Happy Valley Station - A common Hall surrounded outside by 12-18 food carts and lots of parking. Many tables and several food counters are located inside, along with beer & cider taps.
Troutdale Station, showing parking lot. Google Maps
The French Quarter food cart pod is just across from John's Market in Multnomah Village. John's Market has a lunch counter and a large selection of brews.
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Portland Mercado - Bridging diverse cultures through food, art, and entertainment within our community of permanent businesses, at our public market and Comcast Plaza, our small business support programming, and incubator kitchen.
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Burlingame Grocery Corner History on New Collins View Blog [LINK]
Editor's Note
I am still looking for photos of the old Feed Store and the early grocery.
There must be a view of Mt Hood from a back window of the Burlingame market bldg. Hmmm.
The Building has 7000 sq ft on the main level, 6000 sq ft in basement.
What is in that basement? Is it used? It used to have a bakery and stockroom for the store, Bottle return, etc. There was also an auto detailing business (destroyed by the fire), with a garage door on Taylor's Ferry! Maybe the freezer/lockers mentioned by Helene? Various dumpsters at one time... Very curious.
The New Collins View Blog accepts the fact that Anytime Fitness occupies said building, so this article is merely speculative. Maybe a dine-on-treadmill option?? LoL
Current Transit Service is much better now than when this idea was first considered. Trimet #35 and #43 come through here frequently with long service hours.
The most amazing Hall, in the author's experience, is the Reading Terminal Market, in Philadelphia. [WiKi]
Website: [LINK]
Photo credits, editor J Miller.
Questions for Our Readers
Do you have any references to similar business models
servicing several different needs under one roof?
Each business would have its own service counter, open to the Hall.
Discuss.
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KL: One can go to L&C College for dinner -- it's only $10.50 for good, healthy food and your fill of [youthful students]. There is also the Dovecote on campus for Coffee & treats.
Dining at L&C
Comments from earlier Nextdoor post
Charlie W: buy that property, build a 4-story skinny building on it, with 3 residences above and Hogwarts on the street level... parking underneath. Urbanize things a bit.
Raingard K, Hillsdale
The Location is awkward at best, especially high traffic time.
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Nextdoor: Collins View and South Burlingame lack breaksfast options, and have no Coffee Shop! This is a sad situation. What might be done in the future? (We know we can go to Lake Oswego, Hillsdale, Multnomah Village, John's Landing, Sellwood, or out Barbur Blvd for Breakfast... We're talking about in our own 'Hood.)
