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Trader Joe’s Pulls Out Of Poor Portland, Oregon Neighborhood [after protests from radical leftists]
International Business Times ^ | February 4, 2014 | Palash Ghosh

Posted on 02/05/2014 11:21:10 AM PST by grundle

The Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF) objected to the proposed development partly because it feared that the new retail complex would eventually push up rental prices in the area and drive out the local black community. PAALF officials cited that they held no animosity toward Trader Joe’s whatsoever but were concerned by the city government’s history of displacing African-Americans from their homes.

According to The Oregonian newspaper, California-based developer Majestic Realty Co. had plans to build an $8 million retail complex in a vacant two-acre lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Alberta Street. The project was to include a Trader Joe's store, as well as up to 10 other retailers and a 100-space parking lot. The Portland Development Commission (PDC) had already OK'd a deal to sell the acreage to Majestic for $500,000, leading to optimism from the city fathers of an economic renaissance in the deprived area. However, now that Trader Joe’s and Majestic have both backed out, municipal officials called the decision "a loss for the city” and particularly for Northeast Portland.

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To: catnipman
... are unhappy with the “gentrification” of the neighborhood ...

Well, TJ has raised the price of two-buck-Chuck...

(Never been to one, but I guess it's the kind of store that one either loves or hates.)

21 posted on 02/05/2014 11:38:23 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: grundle

Very sad. But it’s not just limited to black areas. All the lefties turn out to protest any development anywhere. It happens all the time in my town, usually because elderly lefties really want their neighborhoods to continue to decline (until they can leave their mildewing property in a dead neighborhood to some less than thrilled heir) because they’ve got theirs and they don’t want to see the neighborhood improve.

In my town, it’s usually the 65+ white ladies out there screaming about the desecration of their neighborhood by some perfectly innocuous business that wants to move in there (and in fact, the ladies live in zones that are already zoned mixed use). So that means young people can’t have services that would actually be beneficial to families, and the neighborhood remains a frozen, old-lady paradise.

I guess the old ladies have never realized that this affects their own property values, but actually, they probably don’t care.


22 posted on 02/05/2014 11:40:08 AM PST by livius
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To: grundle

Doesn’t matter the city, building on MLK Drive is not a good business plan...except for the selling of stolen cell phones and illegal pharmaceuticals.


23 posted on 02/05/2014 11:40:48 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: grundle

This is my old neighborhood.
The “gentrification” battle is a front thrown out as a bone to the rabidly liberal population to fight over.
The truth is of course - it is over money.
The city is so in bed with developers there that the land was being almost given away. I assume the company didn’t want to get messed up in that.
Sad, since everybody wanted that store on a lot and “food desert” that’s been vacant for decades.


24 posted on 02/05/2014 11:40:58 AM PST by dk88 (Outlaw)
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To: livius
I guess the old ladies have never realized that this affects their own property values, but actually, they probably don’t care.

They don't care because they don't intend to sell, and they want to keep their property taxes down.
25 posted on 02/05/2014 11:42:04 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: digger48

“Complete with Liquor store, Nail Salon, Discount Tobacco Shop and a Check-into-Cash”

as well as the “tug and rub” called “Trayda Hoes”


26 posted on 02/05/2014 11:42:33 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: grundle

Typical liberal plan....keep them on the dole....


27 posted on 02/05/2014 11:42:42 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: DannyTN
Does anyone know what the people in the neighborhood wanted?

1) They wanted "affordable housing" built. 2) They wanted "low cost loans" to black-owned businesses in the area. 3) They wanted TJ to only hire blacks. Some other details. The neighborhood is only 25% black right now. The protesters don't actually live in the neighborhood. The people in the neighborhood want it. The contractor on-board to build it is black-owned.

28 posted on 02/05/2014 11:43:45 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

Well, most of them would probably like to sell at some point, and our property taxes aren’t that high. But leftists never think of things like that.

It’s too materialistic, and they, of course, are beyond that. What they really want is a gated community (a pre-dead location for the elderly) without having to pay the maintenance costs.


29 posted on 02/05/2014 11:44:01 AM PST by livius
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To: grundle

You mean bring jobs to a poor neighborhood? How dare they!!!!


30 posted on 02/05/2014 11:45:42 AM PST by Durbin
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To: DannyTN
"Does anyone know what the people in the neighborhood wanted?"

My guess is the good folks of Portland preferred another Dignity Village .

31 posted on 02/05/2014 11:53:17 AM PST by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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To: grundle
these groups are evil groups that are actually insultingly racists toward blacks. Basically saying blacks can't thrive and grow and come up the income later if they are in poverty. Wow. What a curse and what a lie and how completely unAmerican.

Oh the irony of those that believe these groups are 'helping' them. Just like the Democrats that hold down the empowerment of blacks. They ay just thrive and leave the party to join the Republicans or (OH KNOW!) the tea party!

:-D

32 posted on 02/05/2014 11:53:23 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: grundle

Funny how liberals whine about the prices at Trader Joes when I see people filling their shopping cart and using their EBT cards to buy food from there constantly. I see it all the time, especially at the Trader Joes we shop at


33 posted on 02/05/2014 11:53:52 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly. It’s important to preserve victim status.


34 posted on 02/05/2014 11:54:04 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: grundle

IOW, they just want to be left in the condition they are in and not have any hope for bettering their economic situation.....................Can’t have the people getting jobs and stuff, now can we?..................


35 posted on 02/05/2014 11:56:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: 230FMJ

Yes, but he left it when he saw what it was turning in to......................


36 posted on 02/05/2014 11:57:29 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: grundle

Even Portland is segregated, will wonders never cease.


37 posted on 02/05/2014 12:06:25 PM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: grundle

Looks like the Black KKK is now lynching their own...

They do not want Blacks to work their way up and out


38 posted on 02/05/2014 12:11:06 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
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To: SeminoleCounty

I’m adding these thoughts from another site as I think they deserve some pondering - they are harsh but quite true for those that have been around.

Anonymous said...
My experience, the blacks don’t want white people moving in to see what they are really up to - filth and crime. Blacks like living in a black bubble of dysfunction, blaming whitey, and then receiving massive gov grants, opportunity zone designation. They don’t want to bust up the black Democrat voting bloc.

plus...

white folks snitch and call 911.

white folks call the health department about wet mattresses in the yard.

white folks call Animal Control about the pit bull puppy tied up to the tree with a belt.

white folks be making the skools all hard and shit.

white folks make your property taxes go up.

white folks make you paint your house and cut your grass.

snitchy white folks call CPS when your chillens are out on bicycles at 2AM.

white folks say “hi” and smile and bother you all day.

white folks don’t tolerate black prostitutes and drug dealers.

white folks shut down the corner variety store that takes the EBT. No more smokin soul chips and Mad Dog.

white folks don’t like it when you stand around and drink liquor and smoke weed under the tree in the empty lot on a hot summer’s day.

white folks make you put the gutters on your house.

white folks be sniffin around gettin all up in your bidness.

white folks tryin to keep the brothas down.

The palms-always-up black poverty pimps and black preachas don’t want the white folks’ gravy train to stop rolling in da hood.

Simple. They want your money from a distance.


39 posted on 02/05/2014 12:14:41 PM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: grundle
The Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF) objected to the proposed development partly because it feared that the new retail complex would eventually push up rental prices in the area and drive out the local black community.

So what they are saying is the black community in Portland can not generate the capital necessary to create or maintain the most basic components of a modern First World society, namely a large supermarket and new retail stores. How very racists of them to think this way.

40 posted on 02/05/2014 12:26:16 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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