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

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