Public Market/Cart Pod Landing in The Pearl District

According to a well-placed tipster, several of Portland's big-name cart owners met yesterday at the corner of Northwest 14th and Flanders Street to talk business. Word is that the owners of a building in that vicinity (possibly the vacant Ford Graphics structure?) are interested in turning a formerly industrial space into a mixed-use public market a la Vancouver B.C.'s Granville Island Public Market or Seattle Pike Place Market. No word on whether or not this will impact downtown's long-debated James Beard Public Market.
· James Beard Public Market [Official Site]