October 2011

Ten new ways to sample Portland

By Travis curran

Need a new reason to visit the Old Port? Just count the cruise ships. To take advantage of all this energy, folks are carving out their own niches in the bricks. Starting a new business (especially a restaurant) is a daring move that merely years ago was considered financially suicidal, and yet look, boom, here they are. New and exciting establishments are sprouting at every turn. The Old Port is in constant flux, so I set out to chronicle the new faces and spaces showing up within this last year. Feel the gentrification, baby.

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