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Art for sale under the freeway

Microeconomics emerge on the edges of a battered city

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Michaela Lowthian
Jun 25, 2025
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John Moreno’s one-man art exhibit under the freeway.

Micro-economies are popping up on Northwest Portland streets where people hock random stuff on a corner. Come-and-get-it commerce.

A mortgage broker, Josh Leake, sold shelves of books, T-shirts and belts he bought from the surplus section at a Target store, all laid out on Marshall Street recently. I bo…

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