Another vacant seafood restaurant along Portland’s waterfront could get an upgrade.
For years, Newport Seafood Grill dished up dinner out of a floating building on the Willamette River at the south end of downtown. The restaurant closed about a decade ago and has since sat empty on the water.
A permit filed with the city this month, though, seeks to usher in a new chapter for the existing dock and floating structures. But not as another restaurant — instead, as a different, wellness-centric business concept Portland can’t seem to get enough of…