Commercial kitchen development really cooking

Jeffrey Weitz, president of North Rim Partners, stands in one of six small production kitchen spaces he developed with restaurant supplier Dan Pitman at Southeast Third Avenue and Clay Street. (Adam Bacher/ Adam Bacher Photography)

Dan Pitman, while operating his restaurant outfitting company Pitman Restaurant Equipment, has constructed a handful of production kitchens in Portland. He in turn leases them out to small food producers. Over the past 20 years he's never had a vacancy exceeding 30 days.

When colleague Jeffrey Weitz, president of North Rim Partners, learned that, he realised his development company was missing out on a huge opportunity.

"I took (Pitman) out of retirement," Weitz said, "and convinced him that we needed to develop property in the inner southeast that is to the benefit of a core industry here in Portland that is underserved quite a bit."

So in 2011, Pitman purchased a vacant lot kitty-corner from his company's headquarters at Southeast Third Avenue and Clay Street, and joined North Rim Partners to develop a mixed-use building with nine offices upstairs and six production kitchens on the ground floor.

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Source: DJC Oregon

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Commercial kitchen development really cooking

Dan Pitman, while operating his restaurant outfitting company Pitman Restaurant Equipment, has constructed a handful of production kitchens in Portland. He in turn leases them out to small food producers. Over the past 20 years he's never had a vacancy exceeding 30 days.

Source: DJC Oregon

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