Block by Block: Former Kenton slaughterhouse for sale for industrial

A building on the perimeter of Portland's Kenton neighborhood has a history of a slaughterhouse, but now it's for sale for industrial use.

The property has meat smoke rooms, an employee locker room, freezer and cooler areas and a freight elevator that serves the basement. It also has an ammonia refrigeration system and floor drains throughout.Most recently, the property was used by Zakula Beal Auctioneers, a company that auctions equipment and seized vehicles. A sign for the company still hangs on the building. Riverview Community Bank now owns the property.Block by Block is a weekly look at commercial real estate around Portland. Send suggestions for properties to BlockxBlock@djcOregon.com.The former Fletcher's Food building, at 9317-9348 N. Peninsular Ave., was built in 1932 and was a USDA meat processing facility. The asking price for the 74,896-square-foot property is $2.2 million."There are two distinct buildings now, but you wouldn't know it unless you went inside and saw where the two were joined," said Neville Bassett, a representing broker with NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson.The property was a pig farm and slaughterhouse but changed in the 1970s, when a warehouse was added to the property.The property sits on approximately 10 acres - eight are usable; the others border the Columbia Slough and have a conservation overlay. The usable areas are zoned heavy industrial.

Block by Block is a weekly look at commercial real estate around Portland. Send suggestions for properties to BlockxBlock@djcOregon.com.