![]() “These food carts sprung up in a bad economy so that the lot owners could get an additional revenue stream,” said Keith M. After weeks of proposed temporary solutions, the city has finally found space for the carts and the businesses will be back up and running soon.īut this happy ending follows a very tense and trying few months that should serve as a cautionary tale for any city undergoing an influx of new residents and business investments, where lower-income, immigrant, and other vulnerable populations are displaced by successive waves of people attracted to the very culture those populations helped create. ![]() Cart owners and their employees-said to be at least 200 people strong-organized and community leaders rallied around them. When the property manager, City Center Parking, announced that it was evicting the food carts in Portland’s largest, oldest, and most iconic street food epicenter, giving owners just 30 days to move out, city officials scrambled to find the businesses a new home. A street- level food hall will be built where some 40 food carts stood only weeks earlier. It also embodies the cultural shift sweeping through this once blue-collar town. ![]() The 35-story tower project, which will also include offices and condominiums, is testament to the rapid growth the city has experienced in recent years. In early July, construction began on the Pacific Northwest’s first Ritz-Carlton hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon. ![]()
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