Felida's Seasonal Car Meetup and a Changing Housing Corridor

By 8:30 on the second Saturday of the month, the parking lot at Creed Coffee Co. on NW Lakeshore Avenue starts filling with hoods up and engines ticking as they cool. Owners lean against fenders comparing notes while regulars duck inside for a cortado before the lot gets too crowded to find a spot. Mahoney's Public House is still dark. Los Potrillos won't open for another hour. For two hours, this one stretch of pavement is doing the job an entire commercial district might do somewhere bigger.

That's not incidental. It's close to the whole picture. Felida's commercial footprint along Lakeshore has stayed roughly the same size for years, even as the housing stock a few hundred yards up the road has started moving in a very different direction.

The Corner That Does All the Work

Drive the short block of NW Lakeshore Avenue near 107th and you'll pass nearly everything Felida has in the way of a gathering spot. Creed Coffee Co. anchors the corner at 10718 NW Lakeshore, with Los Potrillos Mexican Restaurant next door at 10722 and Mahoney's Public House a few doors down at 10714. The Dentist at Felida and a handful of small services round out the strip. There's no grocery anchor, no strip mall, nothing built at a scale bigger than a single-story storefront.

Twice a month from April through September, that same Creed Coffee lot hosts Felida Cars and Coffee, running the second and fourth Saturday from 8:30 to 10:30 in the morning, with a 10 percent discount for anyone who shows up with a car worth showing. It's a small, recurring ritual, but it's also a signal. When a neighborhood's social calendar runs almost entirely through one parking lot, that lot is carrying more weight than its square footage suggests.

A Few Hundred Yards Up 36th

Head north from that corner along NW 36th Avenue and you'll find the reason this piece exists. At the intersection of NW Lakeshore/36th Avenue and 119th Street, a developer has proposed Felida Terrace, an 18-unit project split between two three-story buildings on a site that's currently open land in unincorporated Clark County, according to The Columbian.

The reaction from nearby residents has been direct. One neighbor told The Columbian in mid-September, "something like this doesn't fit in the neighborhood." The story ran under that same line as a headline, and it's been near the top of the paper's Clark County coverage since it published, appearing again in the paper's weekly roundup of top stories. The project is still working through the county's review process, and nothing about its final shape is settled.

The Building Nobody's Arguing About

A little more than half a mile away, on the same NW 36th Avenue corridor, a very different housing project already exists. Felida Park Senior Housing opened in early 2026 on a lot at 12314 NW 36th Ave that was empty land as recently as the year before. It's a 65-unit complex built by Specialized Housing, an Oregon-based nonprofit, and it pairs standard senior apartments with a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, a Medicare-funded model that layers medical and social services into the building itself. Half the units are reserved for residents at or below 30 percent of area median income, which The Columbian pegged at $26,100 for an individual in Clark County.

The project's director, McCarl, told The Columbian his goal was bigger than one building: "We want this to be the standard for unincorporated Clark County." Whatever the neighborhood conversation looked like while it was under review, the finished project hasn't generated anything resembling the pushback Felida Terrace is getting now.

Here's what that leaves on NW 36th Avenue in the space of about a year: 65 senior units already delivered, plus 18 more proposed and under review a short distance away. That's at least 83 new residential units clustering around a corridor whose entire commercial identity is still four small businesses on one block of Lakeshore.

What Holds When the Math Changes

None of this touches the parts of Felida that don't move on a development timeline. Felida Community Park still has its one trail, the 0.6-mile Felida Loop, rated easy enough for a stroller and a slow dog. The park's picnic shelter still runs on the same system it always has: an $85 reservation fee for anyone booking a date between April and October, first-come and free the rest of the year, per Clark County's own listing. Those details don't change whether the lot up the road gets 18 units or zero.

What's changing is the ratio. More people are going to be living within walking distance of that one commercial corner without more places for them to walk to. The math doesn't require a prediction about whether that's good or bad. It just requires noticing that Felida's residential capacity is expanding faster than its retail and dining footprint, and that the gap between those two numbers is the kind of thing that tends to surface again once the next project gets proposed on the same stretch of road.

If you've been watching this corridor and wondering what it means for your own plans in Felida, whether that's a renovation, an addition, or just trying to read where the neighborhood is headed next, Jacob Sanchez knows this stretch of Clark County block by block and is glad to talk through what you're seeing.

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