MLK Street Food (Food Cart Pod)

Can Portland’s Food Carts Survive the City’s Development Boom? | Eater

"An organically grown downtown cart pod that began in the 1990s and became the city's largest and most iconic street-food epicenter, once encircling parked cars and drawing office workers and tourists with the smells of curries, tacos, kebabs, stir-fry, pizza and more. The pod was home to dozens of immigrant-owned businesses employing scores of people, but a sudden eviction by the lot owner with only about 30 days' notice exposed vendors' precarious margins, patchwork infrastructure and code violations, sparked a community rescue effort, and highlighted the fragility of these low-barrier enterprises as lots are redeveloped." - Brendan Seibel