James Beard Public Market

The James Beard Public Market is a proposed public market in Portland, Oregon, United States. Named after James Beard, a Portland-born chef and cookbook writer, the market is slated to open in the Selling Building and the Ungar Building. It is slated to partially open in late 2025.

The market was previously planned to be located at the west end of the Morrison Bridge in downtown Portland, in what are currently parking lots, but this site was dropped in November 2016 after concerns over pedestrian accessibility due to the bridgehead ramps. The developer, Melvin Mark Development, continued with plans to build a 17-story building at the same site. Original designs for the market called for it to have two halls, totaling 80,000 square feet (7,400 m²), along with 60 permanent and 30 to 40 temporary stalls for food vendors. The initial design for the market at the original site was led by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. These plans were abandoned in 2016. Since moving location to the historic Selling and Ungar Buildings, San Francisco based BCV Architecture + Interiors has taken over the design.