Central Eastside News

[downtownpdx]

Welcome to Wonderlove, the Central Eastside’s Funky New Food Cart Pod

Beloved carts like Bake on the Run and Honeycuspe have found a new home among a shipping container bar and murals by local artists

by Janey Wong Jul 17, 2024, 2:00pm PDT

Screen Shot 2024-07-21 at 7.09.50 PM by Ryan Miller, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2024-07-21 at 7.09.59 PM by Ryan Miller, on Flickr

Wonderlove, a new food cart pod and venue, wants to be the Central Eastside’s destination for a block party. Co-owners Michael Morrow and Joel Beaudoin were connected by a mutual friend after they learned the two shared the ambition of opening a food cart pod and venue. In late June, Morrow and Beaudoin realized that ambition and opened the pod, pulling in established food carts like Bake on the Run and Honeycuspe. On its physical footprint, which spans half of a city block, Wonderlove’s multifaceted complex pairs Portland’s food cart culture with live entertainment and art.

“Wonderlove is heart and expression through music, food, and beverage,” Morrow says. “There’s artists in the carts, artists behind the bar, and artists on the wall,” Beaudoin adds.

The entertainment hub lands in the Central Eastside at a time where the mostly industrial neighborhood is on the cusp of undergoing massive transformation into a thriving city district — controversial plans to erect a Live Nation concert venue are in the works, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has a longterm vision of bringing in affordable housing, a Center for Tribal Nations, and a waterfront park where visitors can interact with the Willamette River through an educational lens. “Being down the street from OMSI, we appreciate that kind of wonderment,” Beaudoin says. “We wanted to make [something] that sparks conversations and laughter. We’re trying to create a space for new childhood memories for adults.”

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[PhillyPDX]

Live nation moving forward.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/08/1...r-music-venue/

[maccoinnich]

(Story is from Friday; vote is this Wednesday.)

Prosper Portland to vote on sales terms for proposed Live Nation property next week



The Prosper Portland board of commissioners will take the next step toward selling land to developers of a Live Nation-operated concert venue Wednesday.

The five-member board will vote on whether to approve terms for a purchase and sale agreement for land on the Central Eastside, according to a spokesperson for the city’s economic development agency.

The agreement for Block B of the so-called Workshop Blocks would be with Beam Development and Colas Development Group, said the spokesperson, Shawn Uhlman. The appraised price for Block B, just under an acre in size, is $2.41 million, Uhlman said in an email.

In addition, commissioners will vote on an “exclusivity term sheet” covering two other blocks of the property, he said. An online frequently asked questions webpage for the Workshop Blocks has noted that Prosper “will retain ownership of” those blocks, A and C.

...continues at the Oregonian.

[maccoinnich]

Prosper Portland Board Votes to Sell Eastside Lot to Live Nation’s Development Partners
Opponents said the city’s development agency is inviting a rapacious monopolist into town.



The board of commissioners at Prosper Portland, the city’s economic development agency, voted today to sell a 0.8-acre plot of land at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge to two local development firms that are working with Live Nation Entertainment to build a $50 million music venue there.

Beam Construction & Management LLC and Colas Development Group LLC may now buy the property, which was appraised at $2.4 million on Sept. 9. The lot is one of three in the area that Prosper bought from the Oregon Department of Transportation in 2017 using deferred tax revenue.

The price could drop depending on industrial pollution at the site. Prosper said it will reimburse Beam and Colas up to $749,000 for environmental cleanup, if necessary.

The vote was 4 to 0 with one abstention.

...continues at Willamette Week.

[maccoinnich]

City Council Upholds Approval of Development Plan for Live Nation Venue
MusicPortland had appealed a hearings officer’s ruling the project could go ahead.



After four hours of testimony before some 100 people, Portland City Council unanimously upheld an August decision by a hearings officer to approve plans for Live Nation Entertainment’s controversial 3,500-capacity music venue at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge.

MusicPortland, a trade group representing the Portland music industry, had asked the council to repeal the approval, saying that the city shouldn’t allow Live Nation, a company accused of monopolistic practices by the U.S. Department of Justice, to open a venue here.

Two local developers, Beam Construction & Management LLC and Colas Development Group LLC, plan to build the $50 million, 62,000-square-foot venue, and Live Nation is to operate it.

...continues at Willamette Week.

[PhillyPDX]

I get the gripes about LN, but I don’t understand the anger in building approvals. It’s as if people think the government can use whatever means necessary to stop something publicly unpopular, even to extent of what would be illegal denials. Potential to put other businesses out of businesses has zero to do with permitting actions.