A historic building in Portland's Old Town will soon become the city's first modern food hall.

Pine Street Market, a 10,000-square-foot food hall will span the entire ground floor of the 1886 United Carriage and Baggage Transfer Building (once home to the first Old Spaghetti Factory) and will bring nearly a dozen, big-name Portland restaurants, breweries, bakeries and more together under its skylit roof.

"This is like planning a food festival that's going to be around for 30 years," said Mike Thelin, who is curating the hall in conjunction with Siteworks Design. "We have a really good collection of strong, iconic, region-defining operators. We're lucky to have them."

As many as 10 operators will serve food and pour drinks amid the market's exposed brick walls and wood-beamed ceiling. Thelin, a co-founder of the Feast food festival, shared the first four vendors of the market exclusively with The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Before the end of the year, Pine Street Market will house a cafe from Barista, known for showcasing a rotating selection of top-tier coffees, near the Southwest Second Avenue entrance. Next to it, Southeast Portland's Hopworks Urban Brewery will pour suds throughout the day. In the center of the hall, Olympia Provisions will sling hot dogs. Behind OP will sit a new outlet from Trifecta Tavern's Ken Forkish, offering fresh bread throughout the day, a toast bar slathering Ken's bread with seasonal sweet and savory toppings, and delivered croissants, morning buns and caneles.

Other to-be-named tenants, Thelin said, will include an Asian-Euro concept, a "really interesting bar experience," a ramen bar and a seafood spot.

"This is a lynchpin development," Thelin added. "A lot of people will look back at Pine Street Market as really the turning point of the neighborhood."

Pine Street Market will give Portland it's first taste of a red-hot modern food trend, the curated food hall. In New York, Anthony Bourdain, the host of CNN's "Parts Unknown," is planning a namesake market, while the ambitious Italian emporium, Eataly, has grown from its initial location in Turin, Italy, to 27 locations across the globe. In Los Angeles, the revitalized Grand Central Market was named one of Bon Appetit's best new restaurants of 2014.

Just blocks away at the end of the Morrison Bridge, the anticipated James Beard Public Market, slated to open in 2018, will complement Pine Street Market with a permanent fresh produce section, teaching kitchen, full-service restaurants and more. Several upcoming and proposed hotel projects hem in the market on the other three sides.

"This is where the city of Portland started," Thelin said. "Just a block away is the oldest building in the city. We want to bring the heart of Portland back to the heart of Portland."

Pine Street Market is expected to open in late-November at 126 S.W. 2nd Avenue. The food hall will be open from 7:30 a.m. - 10 p.m. six days a week.

-- Samantha Bakall

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