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Portland has "food truck pods" on the edges of downtown parking lots, as well as in parking lots throughout the city. They have an incredible diversity of cheap
by akgerber 13y ago
Portland has "food truck pods" on the edges of downtown parking lots, as well as in parking lots throughout the city. They have an incredible diversity of cheap food, and the businesses are obviously low-overhead (often in trailers instead of trucks) and generally seem to be staffed by their proprietors. Here's a random blog post with pictures:
http://blog.chowmenow.com/join-the-pod-y/ http://blog.chowmenow.com/join-the-pod-y/
It seems like a great way for a city to take an ugly downtown parking lot and make it a pedestrian draw.
New York City doesn't really have surface parking lots anywhere with a lot of foot traffic, so that isn't really an applicable solution here.
- cmbaus 13y agoWhat happens if demand for the "pods" outstrips supply? How does the government decide who can setup a new pod? What could be interesting is if a privately owned parking lot did something like this.
- akgerber 13y agoAll the pods appeared to be on privately owned parking lots or otherwise vacant lots. E.G.: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=food+truck+pod&hl=en&ll=45.521008,-122.681582&spn=0.001227,0.001741&sll=45.562471,-122.69509&sspn=0.002441,0.003482&t=h&gl=us&hq=food+truck+pod&z=20&layer=c&cbll=45.520941,-122.681615&panoid=7h1js_z5f8Q3nmVuaZF5og&cbp=12,73.91,,0,-8.65 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=food+truck+pod&hl=en&...