Businesses leaving downtown Portland over 'lawlessness': report

Fox Business ^ | 08/25/2020 | David Aaro

[Olog-hai]

The months of protests and riots in Portland have prompted some businesses in the city to opt to move out completely or relocate outside its central district, according to a report on Monday.

Greg Goodman, the co-president of the Downtown Development Group, said in a letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler and members of the Portland City Council that the exodus of companies wasn’t related to the Black Lives Matter movement “but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.”

“The number is like nothing I have seen in 42 years of doing business in downtown,” he wrote, according to Portland’s KOIN.

Goodman said companies include Daimler Trucks North America, Airbnb, Banana Republic, Microsoft, Saucebox, and Google, which he claimed: “leased 90,000 square feet in the Macy’s building [and] has stopped construction of their improvements.”

“The list goes on and on. If you know a retail or office broker, give them a call and ask them how many clients they have are trying to leave,” he continued. …

[Olog-hai]

Ironic that one of the companies departing is “Banana Republic”.

[Olog-hai]

This Goodman fails by not putting the blame on BLM, too.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[henkster]

They ain’t comin’ back...

...ever.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Between that and the coronavirus inspired government tyranny the businesses don't stand a chance.

 

 

[2banana]

and yet these businesses gave $ to BLM...

[henkster]

This Goodman fails by not putting the blame on BLM, too.

He can't due of fear of being cancelled by the mobs, both Twitter and real. That's why the French called it "The Terror" in the 1790s, and the Russians used the same term in the late 1930s.

[Kozy]

Portland, Detroit with rose bushes

[Bonemaker]

Businesses shouldn’t have supported democrats.

[albie]

ISN”T related to the Black Lives Movement?! So this mass exodus was already underway? What a pussy!

[Olog-hai]

Too many leftists at the top of businesses. But they do feel the pain when the bottom line gets trashed. Hypocrisy is part and parcel of being a leftist.

[mad puppy]

Maybe if Portland defunds the police that will help.

[Olog-hai]

He’s getting canceled by the mobs notwithstanding.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

“...the exodus of companies wasn’t related to the Black Lives Matter movement “but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.”

And these BLM/Antifa supporting companies are taking their ideology with them to the next town. Disgusting.

[Patriot_MP]

... one day - new cities will rise up - and order will be restored with the Sandman!





Get ready for carousel!

[Disambiguator]

the exodus of companies wasn’t related to the Black Lives Matter movement “but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.”

IOW, it wasn't aliens, but it was aliens.

[henkster]

He’s getting canceled by the mobs notwithstanding.

As The Terror goes, that's not a bug, that's a feature.

[henkster]

MMMMM......Jenny Agutter.....

[joshua c]

All businesses in blue cities are just one shooting away from being burned to the ground.

Why wait?

[I want the USA back]

The democrats in charge don’t care. They hate businesses and want them out, or under the total control of the State. Given their way, they will have the city poor, miserable, and overrun by crime. They they will wail and moan and ask for help from the state and the fed.