A La Carts Food Cart Pod Will Close This May to Become Apartments and Green Zebra Store

The carts at Division Street and 50th are already disappearing.

The food cart pod at Southeast 50th Avenue and Division Street will be no more after the end of May. It will become a mixed-use apartment building housing a Green Zebra grocery store on its bottom floor, scheduled to open in 2017.

The Green Zebra had long been announced, but slow to arrive. For years now at 50th and Division, the "Bearly Worn" clothing store had borne an optimistic sign: "Green Zebra coming soon."

As reported last month, Green Zebra will now be folded into a larger mixed use residential development by Dennis Sackhoff's Urban Development Group. Dennis Sackhoff is also the developer for the properties housing both Starky's and Sewick's.

But a Facebook post Monday by food cart Year of the Fish announced an end date of May for the food cart pod—shared also on the A La Carts Facebook page.

The end will be slow, it looks like. The carts in the pod are already scattering to various parts of the city.

Of those confirmed:

Second Son Kimbap Korean cart has departed for a brick-and-mortar in Oregon City.

La Arepa Venezuelan cart and Istanbul Delight Turkish carts have gone north to Rose City cart pod at Northeast 52nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard.

Teepee's Indian Frybread is in Beaverton.

Here's the post from Year of the Fish:

I am not going to disappear, but I do have to relocate. As some of you already know, A La Carts Food Pavilion has been purchased by a developer who wishes to turn our happy little pod into a multi-unit dwelling building. The sad news was delivered last month that we all have to be out by the end of May. Already, the pod is looking a bit more empty than it did just over two weeks ago. Those who have left are as follows:

Second Son Kimbap, Korean. Made the leap to brick and mortar in Oregon City at the corner of 7th and main. To open sometime id to late March

Pop’s Smokin’ It, Barbeque

La Arepa, Venezuelan food to Rose City Food Park at NE 52nd and Sandy Blvd.

Istanbul Delight, Turkish food to Rose City Food Park at NE 52nd and Sandy Blvd.

TeePee’s Indian Frybread to the lot at the Garage Sale Warehouse at 4810 SW Western Avenue in Beaverton.

Run Chicken Run, Thai food. Sold to a friend some where downtown.

All of these people, and those who remain with me at A La Carts have been my good friends and neighbors since, either they, or I moved in.

I am looking for a new place to land and I will let you all know when I find that place.

The remaining vendors at A La Carts are as follows:

DoLicious, Vietnamese food

Azul Tequila, Mexican food

Burger Guild, Awesome Stuffed hamburgers

Himalayan, Himalayan food. Leaving March 1st to SE 102nd and Stark

Chicken Coop, yummy fried chicken

Salon Bucci, our resident beautician

and, of course, YEAR OF THE FISH. The Best fish and chips in town (if not the world)

Scoop Hand Made Ice Cream, closed for the season and not sure where they’re going to reopen. I am, however, carrying pints of their most popular flavors.

This is indeed sad news. I have fallen in love with the neighborhood and hate to go. Keep your eye on my page for updates on where the road may deliver Year of the Fish.

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