On Wednesday the languishing
Myhre’s building was purchased by Abadan Holdings LLC of Lake
Forest Park, the company owned by Mansour Samadpour.
Over the past decade Samadpour, a real estate investor and world
renowned microbiologist, has accumulated ownership in a significant
percentage of Bay Street real estate. Here’s a summary of what he
owns (the buildings, not the businesses that lease from him, all on
Bay Street): Dance Gallery (702), Port Orchard Pavillion (701),
Cafe Gabrielle (707), Port Orchard Public Market (715), Old Central
Antique Mall (801), Coffee Oasis (807) and the space next to coffee
oasis, vacant (809) and now Myhre’s (2 parcels 737 and 739).
Samdpour is notably media shy. I couldn’t get any comment from him on his plans for Myhre’s, but Bryan Petro of Windermere Real Estate, who negotiated the sale, said it’s likely it will be leased as some sort of restaurant or pub.
Seller Dick Rylander, whose family has had an interest in Myhre’s since 1930, said he felt a little “wistful” about the sale. My story includes a thumbnail history of the place from Rylander’s perspective.
People who complain about “all those vacancies” on Bay Street are running out of argumentative ammo, what with the reoccupation of the bakery and the opening of the public market. Myhre’s and the Los Cabos building are the most conspicuous vacant buildings on Bay Street. Farther west on Bay, Robert Earl Lighthouse opened this week in “the Lighthouse building.”
So hold your head up Port Orchard. And oh by the way, we have hanging flower baskets, too. Just like Bremerton.
What would you like to see at the Myhre’s building?
“So hold your head up Port Orchard. And oh by the way, we have hanging flower baskets, too. Just like Bremerton.”
Just wait until next year Chris…the hanging flower baskets are looking to get killed off here in Bremerton.
As in killed by no funding or by no water?