With Portland institutions seeming to disappear at an alarmingly accelerated clip, here's some good news from Potato Champion's Mike McKinnon about the fate of the Cartopia food cart pod on SE Hawthorne, long thought to be doomed to redevelopment:

I received some great news today from our landlords at 12th and Hawthorne. We are getting 2 more years! The sale is not happening at this time.

We may lose some, but we win sometimes, too. The tater champs also say they have "no info" on what happened to the planned sale of the property.