A Seattle-area development company has bought 10 acres of land about a mile east of Shevlin Park, near the western edge of the city.

Shevlin Development LLC paid $2 million last week to buy the property on Shevlin Park Road, adjacent to Shevlin Sand and Gravel Co., which owned the 10-acre parcel for more than 15 years.

Washington state business records list Christopher Eadon as Shevlin Development’s owner. The company has the same Bellevue, Wash., address as homebuilder Polygon Northwest, where Eadon is listed as chief financial officer.

Specific plans for the Bend property, including a development timeline, aren’t clear. Polygon officials didn’t respond to requests for comment this week.

Polygon Northwest has built homes in 14 neighborhoods across the Seattle and Portland areas, according to its website. It has an office in Vancouver, Wash., that manages its four Oregon neighborhoods, each in the Portland metro area.

The Bend site makes up half of a 20-acre, undeveloped piece of land bordering a partly built neighborhood off Shevlin Park Road, near McClain Drive.

Several roads in the neighborhood could potentially extend to meet Polygon’s property, if the company decides to build, said Aaron Henson, a senior planner with the city of Bend.

A developer would have to clear a few hurdles before starting to build homes on the site, Henson said.

Trees are growing throughout the property, which is registered with the state as a forested area. A developer would likely face additional property taxes to re-zone the site for standard residential use, Henson said.

“The zone change would allow them to proceed with (developing) a subdivision,” Henson said.

They would also have to contend with the property’s terrain, which rolls away from Shevlin Park Road on an upward slope.

But those aren’t deal-breakers for the right developers. Bend’s NorthWest Crossing, just southeast of the site, was originally zoned with the same forest status, and was also built on sloping terrain.

Developers laid out most of the housing developments along Shevlin Park Road between Mt. Washington Drive and Shevlin Park between 2001 and 2008, according to city records.