Your McMenamins passport might soon need another stamp.
The city of Portland has issued a permit for McMenamins to convert a Southwest Washington Street building into one of its signature eclectic hotels.
The city will allow the hospitality chain to repurpose the former Taft Home low-income residences, which closed in 2021 and an entity tied to McMenamins acquired last year for $1.5 million.
Taft Home closed after state officials ordered its operators to undertake a set of fixes, according to reporting in Willamette Week , and the operators chose to close the residence and sell instead.
McMenamins seeks to renovate the second through fourth floors, including knocking down doors and walls and adding a possible second-floor skybridge and a fourth-floor coffee bar, according to the pe