Once denied, VanFed challenges Mill Plain again. (VanFed Savings Bank subsidiary Mill Plain One Inc. seeks plan change to permit real estate development in Portland, Oregon)

Once denied, VanFed challenges Mill Plain plan again

A VanFed Savings Bank subsidiary is seeking a comprehensive plan change to permit an 80-acre complex of apartments, offices and shops on a prime Mill Plain Boulevard parcel in Clark County's booming Cascade Park district.

Though the bank has lined up an apartment developer interested in building on part of the site, the project may face an insurmountable hurdle because of teeming traffic on Mill Plain.

VanFed, a Vancouver-based thrift, created a subsidiary called Mill Plain One Inc. to develop the S & L's property north of Mill Plain Boulevard between Southeast 124th and 131st avenues. The site had been proposed for a G.I. Joe's sporting goods store a few years ago, …