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This summer, the 40-year-old beleaguered downtown Portland cart pod will boast 28 carts and more than 300 seats wrapped around a central bar cart.

Squatters in Portland are now occupying a $1.8million building that housed the citys first strip club until two years ago.

The downtown Portland plaza, nicknamed "Paranoid Park," is catty-corner to the new Ritz-Carlton, which is set to open next July.

City Council votes stymie police responses and alternatives May 19 2021 Next years budget will be reviewed on June 17 and take effect on July 1, the start of the next fiscal year. Even though shootings and visible homelessness are increasing in Portland, the City Council rebuffed pleas from both the Portland police union and police critics when it tentatively approved a $5.7 billion budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday, May 13. As a result, city residents will not immediately...

Portland City Council approves funding to give displaced food carts new home in downtown Updated 1:02 PM; Today 1:02 PM Renderings of a new food cart pod set to open by July 4, 2021 on Southwest Ankeny Street, Southwest 8th Avenue and Southwest Park Avenue. Facebook Share Two years after 55 food carts were forced out of their longtime site at Southwest Alder Street to make way for the construction of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the city of Portland is setting aside funds to give them a new home. Th...

Portland leaders approve $5.7B budget, slow Portland Street Response expansion Updated May 13, 2021; Posted May 13, 2021 The Portland City Council, from left to right: Mingus Mapps, Carmen Rubio, Ted Wheeler, Jo Ann Hardesty, Dan Ryan. Facebook Share Portland’s elected leaders approved a budget for next year that will pour millions of dollars into citywide cleanup efforts and programs to spur economic recovery but take a more cautious approach in expanding a non-police alternative to some p...

Portlanders praise food cart aid, demand public safety reforms during budget hearing Updated 5:04 PM; Today 5:04 PM Facebook Share Calls for Portland to aid struggling food cart vendors, bolster neighborhood business districts and quicken the pace and scale of non-police alternatives to public safety dominated a hearing on the city’s proposed budget. About 70 residents spoke during the three-hour virtual hearing Wednesday night, marking one of the few opportunities for the public to weigh i...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. The City of Portland Wants Visitors to Come Back Downtown—but It Hasn’t Given a Food Cart Pod Permission to Operate The two dozen food carts—which once anchored the city’s oldest and largest pod on what’s now the construction site of a Ritz-Carlton hotel—have been refugees. CLOSED FOR BUSINESS: Two dozen food cart own...