A little background on the Portland food cart industry:
According to multiple sites, there are over 500 food carts up and running in Portland at any given time!
Back in the 1970s, faced with a dying downtown, Portland declared that all center-city construction had to include ground-floor retail. It was a good idea, and one that injected new energy into our streets. But as the recession has filled many a city code–commanded storefront window with "FOR LEASE" signs, it’s the once-barren—and oft-ridiculed—surface parking lots that have begun pulsing with urban life in the form of food carts.
"The carts’ success downtown has people thinking of these sorts of structures as an interim form of development that can create a destination," says Marcy McInelly, an associate principal at Sera Architects. "Traditional restaurants do that, but it takes a long time. Carts can do it very quickly." (Portland Monthly Magazine 2010)
CHECK OUT OUR TAKE ON PORTLAND FOODS at Taste of Portlandia ON OCTOBER 15th at EAT.LEARN.LIVE, located in Sheehan POD
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