A year ago the building on the corner of N Mississippi and N Skidmore looked like this.
Over the past year I've watched it being restored into something much more appealing, but always didn't know what it was to become until today.
From today's Oregonian:
North Mississippi Avenue, home to several well-known if eccentric carts, will be the scene of a new slice of food-cart culture.Developer Roger Goldingay (left) and designer and contractor Michael Tunson will open Mississippi Marketplace in this open lot in August. The building will house a brewpub called Prost! adjacent to 10 food carts.Set to open at the corner of North Mississippi and Skidmore Street in early August, Mississippi Marketplace will be Portland's first curated food cart and market pod in a newly paved 10,000-square-foot lot. The project has been designed with an anchor tenant, a spiffy brewpub called Prost! set in a building transformed from a seedy board-up to a handcrafted Greek Revival beauty.
Ten food carts will be selected by developer Roger Goldingay, along with a cluster of booths devoted to crafts or a farmers market, depending on interest. Each cart will have amenities rarely available to food-cart owners: six to 12 seats per cart; access to a portable toilet; full-service electrical; a recycling plan; and someone to keep the grounds clean and tidy.
You can see a bit of what the building looks like today in the photo above. I'm looking forward to checking it out when it's all done.
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