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Multnomah building is for sale
By Torri Barco

The Multnomah Publishers general office building at 204 West Adams Ave. is on the market. The Sisters City Council agreed unanimously in its October 23 meeting to market the building and lot for $949,900.

The City of Sisters purchased the building in early 1999 to use as a new city hall, but discovered it would be too expensive to make the extensive changes needed for the building to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Instead, the city plans to use the money from the sale of the Multnomah building to help fund land purchase, construction, and design costs to build a new city hall on the site of the former Sisters Middle School.

The city had been looking for a decade for a suitable option to replace its existing city hall, which is cramped for space. A 9,200-square-foot bowling alley building was donated to the city in 1994 for that purpose, but the city found it too expensive to remodel.

No price or design has been determined on the new city hall, but the city council agreed last month to buy 132,400 square feet of the northeast corner of the former middle school site for $291,600, from the school district to build the new city hall.

After selling their building to the city, Multnomah Publishers, a nationwide Christian book publishing company, has continued to lease the building for the last three years. The lease will expire on December 31.

The 8,000-square-foot, two-story building is located on 38,332 square feet of a rectangular-shaped property and is selling as is, said Eileen Stein, city administrator.

The building is wood-framed, with 4,000 square feet and several office spaces on each floor.

Stein said the building is most suitable to be used as a general office building, similar to its existing use.

The building has a kitchen, a large meeting room, and several partitioned office spaces.

So far, the city has received no prospective buyers, Stein said.

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