Fork Food Lab member vendors package foods in the facility's shared kitchen space in August. Otherwise, we just might not have as many local food brands.”The impending foreclosure is not Fork Food Lab’s first existential crisis. Food Fork Lab first launched on Parris Street in Portland in 2016, and was then purchased in 2017 by a New York-based company called Pilotworks. In summer 2018, Pilotworks announced that it planned to close Fork Food Lab that fall, because it was not economically sustainable in that location. Fork Food Lab moved in 2023 to its current 42,000-square-foot space on Darling Avenue, paying $5.9 million for the property.

Source: CNN January 22, 2026 18:46 UTC