Good-bye, Public Market
The indoor bazaar was a money-loser since Day One.
It was inevitable, really, that the new owners of a suite of downtown Portland properties resurrected by the Libra Foundation would decline to continue the laudable philanthropic experiment known as the Portland Public Market. A money-loser since Day One, the cramped, idiosyncratic indoor bazaar will always stand for the proposition that a venue's worth is measured by more than its bottom line.Created in 1998 with a six-million-dollar investment from the Libra Foundation and philanthropist Elizabeth Noyce, the market was intended to be an economic-development vehicle for the city's Bayside neighborhood.
