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Press Release · Food Hall & Hospitality · Oregon

Wert-Berater, Inc. Completes Food Hall Feasibility Study in Gresham, Oregon

An independent Food Hall Feasibility Study evaluating a 18-pad food-cart pod anchored by a two-story 9,801 SF taproom and dining hall in Gresham, Oregon.

Food-cart pod and taproom dining hall
Wert-Berater, Inc. Completes Food Hall Feasibility Study in Gresham, Oregon

For Immediate Release · 2026-05-08

Asset class
Food Hall & Hospitality · Oregon
Program
Conventional
Evaluated value
$6,333,516
Study conclusion
FAVORABLE — management feasibility favorable with conditions to closing; achievable pad rent governs the credit
Location
Gresham, Oregon, Multnomah County
Completed
2026

GRESHAM, Oregon — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Food Hall Feasibility Study in Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant to the lender. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.

Project Summary

Ground-up development of an eighteen-pad food-cart pod anchored by a two-story, 9,801-square-foot pre-engineered metal taproom and dining hall in the eastern Portland metropolitan market. The study underwrote the asset as a specialty hospitality property whose income depends on cart-pad rents, taproom sales, and shared common-area throughput, concluding an indicated value of approximately $6.92 million against total project cost of $6,333,516 — a loan-to-value near 57 percent at the evaluated loan amount.

What the Project Included

Eighteen serviced food-cart pads with utility hookups, a two-story taproom and indoor dining hall, shared restrooms and covered seating, parking, and full site improvements — a managed food-hall platform rather than a single-tenant restaurant.

Capital Structure

Conventional bank financing of $3,958,000 — roughly 57 percent of indicated value with a 12.2 percent debt yield — against borrower equity funding the balance of the development budget. Specific facility terms are withheld consistent with engagement confidentiality.

Feasibility Study Challenges

The credit turns almost entirely on one input: the pad rent the pod can actually achieve. Rather than adopt the sponsor’s pro-forma rate, the study concluded an independent, market-supported pad rent and stress-tested coverage against it — stabilized coverage of 1.51x at the underwritten rate compressing to roughly 1.34x at the study’s more conservative concluded rate, still above conventional coverage minimums. Management feasibility was rated favorable with conditions given the operating intensity of a multi-vendor food hall, where common-area management, vendor turnover, and taproom execution drive the difference between the base and downside cases.

About Wert-Berater, Inc.

Wert-Berater, Inc. is an independent feasibility study consulting firm founded in 1998, providing lender- and agency-facing feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use analyses, and capital-advisory support. The firm has completed more than 4,000 engagements across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating over $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. In every engagement, fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the applicable agency.

Media contact: Donald Safranek, MSc, President, Wert-Berater, Inc. — +1 310-857-2443 ext. 800. Press inquiries only; client, lender, and property identities remain confidential.

About this release. This announcement summarizes a completed, independent Wert-Berater engagement. Details have been anonymized to protect client and lender confidentiality; no borrower, lender, or property is identified. Figures reflect the project as evaluated at the study date.
Donald Safranek, MSc — President and feasibility study consultant, Wert-Berater, Inc.
Donald Safranek, MSc

President, Wert-Berater, Inc. — independent feasibility study consultants since 1998. More than 4,000 feasibility studies completed across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. Fiduciary duty runs to the lender and agency in every engagement.

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