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 permit, which the Portland Business Journal first reported.
The property, at 1321 S.W. Washington St., is right by McMenamins’ Crystal Ballroom and Crystal Hotel — occupying a few adjacent blocks the chain refers to as “rock ‘n’ roll row” — so a conversion figures to give patrons of the popular music venue more options to sleep over once they’ve rocked out.
McMenamins did not respond to a request for comment. The city paperwork did not include a construction timeline.