Portland City Council approves funding to give displaced food carts new home in downtown
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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.
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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.
The Portland City Council voted unanimously Thursday to enact Mayor Ted Wheeler’s $5.7 billion budget, which includes $269,000 to help food cart vendors that were displaced by the Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2019 relocate to Ankeny Square in the North Park Blocks.
Homeless camp set on fire in Old Town April 18 2021
Police arrest a woman for the Saturday morning arson that started to spread to an adjacent building.
Police have arrested a woman for setting a homeless camp in Old Town on fire Saturday, April 17.
No injuries were reported.
Alisha M. Ikola, 20, was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on a charge of arson in the second degree.
According to the Portland Police Bureau, at 11 a.m. April 17, Central Precinct officers were called to a report of a fire in a camp at Northwest Fourth Avenue and Davis Street. When officers arrived, they found the fire had fully engulfed the tent and was starting to spread to the adjacent building.