Downtown Portland's Alder Street Food Carts Are Planning For The Future

The food cart pod on Southwest 10th Avenue and Alder Street in downtown Portland is arguably the largest and most well-known collection of food carts in the city. It’s been around since the late 1990s and at its peak, it had about 60 carts with food ranging from Thai to German and Mexican to Italian.

Later this summer, developers are breaking ground on the lot to build the Pacific Northwest’s first Ritz-Carlton hotel. The food carts have to leave before the end of June.