After 16 hard fought years, it is time to pass the torch to the next generation. The Landauer Mercantile and Oblique Coffee Roasters are available as a package to interested parties with the financial resources to continue the preservation of the historically and culturally significant location of East Portland’s circus grounds.

For well over 16 years, Oblique Coffee Roasters has consistently been rated as one of the very best coffee roasters in Portland, the capitol of specialty coffee. Even before we opened, we were voted the Best Labor of Love by the Willamette Week, and we were even the Portlandia coffee shop for multiple episodes!!!

The Landauer Mercantile has had a complete rip to the studs renovation / preservation for the next 100 years. Every single item addressed. The 4 year renovation scope of work is as detailed below.

• Full demo of all lathe & plaster interior walls.
• Full demo of all existing windows and doors.
• Full demo of storefront.
• Full demo of original foundation.
• Full demo of all existing electrical.
• Full demo of all existing plumbing.
• Full demo of all existing Heating systems.
• Full removal of all existing exterior paint down to original siding bare wood.
• New storefront.
• New wallboard.
• Entire building envelope and floors insulated with sprayfoam and rock wool insulation. The building is one of the most energy efficient buildings in the Portland General Electric database – top 3%.
• New double paned, period correct fir framed complete window set
• New commercial grade hemlock door set..
• New waterproof 9′ foundation (built to commercial specification – viable future commercial tenant space.
• New seismic retrofit of the entire structure.
• New complete electrical service (panel on main, panel on 2nd floor).
• New complete PEX plumbing system..
• New 4 zone (by floor) hybrid heat pump / gas HVAC system.
• All surfaces painted with top of the line Benjamin Moore Aura paints.
• Full cafe / boutique coffee roasting facility on main (1,200 sf).
• Upstairs original shopkeepers quarters with original doors, hardware, finish trim, plumbiing fixtures, etc…
• New bar seating surrounding a live performance stage custom built from 100+ yo salvaged barn wood.
• Flagstone / bamboo grove side patio for patron seating.
• Entire building surrounded by mature, fully landscaped garden, with a multitude of native species.
• Entire property secured with hand crafted black steel fence with fleur de lis security point detailing.

Serious inquiries only. This is truly a historically significant property and will pique the interest of the individual looking for that very special place that holds deep Portland historic and cultural history.

I am open to working with individuals who hold architectural and historical preservation in high regard. This is truly a building to be cherished and preserved for our future generations; that is my hope – to find someone to carry the torch.

Here is a comp from a very similar building that sold in 2019. The building had zero renovation work done to it, all things considered. And here is another comp from another similar building that sold recently in January, just down the road East of 39th on Hawthorne.