This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they’d be offering spots to the food carts they displaced.
Well now e-mails are bouncing and there’s radio silence from everyone involved about whether there even will be a food hall anymore.
It sounds shocking, I know, but it certainly seems like the olive branch that they offered to assuage everyone’s anger about the food carts they were displacing was a lie.
Shocked Pikachu face, they aren’t going to replace the carts even with overpriced simulacrum?
They’re trying to sell $1m+ penthouses. Ritz F&B is doing well, you think they want any competition?
It will come as a shock to many, but the decidedly Un-Portland brand Ritz, and a real estate developer who paid Portland to not have to have a portion of affordable housing in their building amidst a housing crisis and vacant downtown doesn’t give a FUCK about this city, its roots, people or what they buried.
There was lots of green washing on Reddit when Ritz opened saying it was good for downtown and the city need spark and lots of other bullshit.
More vacant, unobtainable living space in a downtown desperate for residents to bring it back to life.