Public Market sets sights on new home

The suggested locations for the Portland Public Market keep getting closer to the Pearl. This latest idea is the building across Glisan from the Post Office. This is the same building where the back parking lot is going to be converted to a park, to extend the north park blocks.

From the Portland Tribune...

The proposal to house a year-round public market at the historic Union Station building appears to be dead in the water, since the Portland Public Market Foundation now has set its sights on a new location.

The new plan is for the much-talked-about market to occupy the ground floor of the federal homeland security office at 511 N.W. Broadway, when that operation relocates.

Portland’s Melvin Mark Development Company plans to acquire the building from its current owner, the U.S. General Services Administration, within two years, Paul said.

Melvin Mark would then lease the ground floor of the building – 37,000-square feet, or a full city block – to the foundation, which would offer space seven days a week to vendors of fresh and locally grown produce, meats, baked goods and flowers.

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