Posted on 08/02/2020 6:13:53 PM PDT by Libloather
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office circulated a plan this week to revive business downtown, which has been walloped by the double-whammy of the pandemic and more than 60 nights of civil rights protests in the city’s core.
The three-page document focuses on five target areas: Promoting public safety, addressing issues around homelessness and graffiti, cleaning up trash and developing a downtown retail strategy.
The Portland Business Alliance and several downtown business owners called the plan a step in the right direction. But business owners also expressed concerns that the plan lacked specifics and said they needed to see action now if they hoped to recover.
“We just need it quickly,” said Adam Milne, the owner of Old Town Pizza & Brewing, whose downtown location is currently closed. “A lot of business owners are stuck trying to decide what to do. If this plan gets developed in three months, it’s going to be too late for a lot of businesses.”
Businesses throughout Oregon have struggled to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic, but downtown business owners say they are facing unique challenges that have made their recovery especially uncertain.
Many business owners have pointed to the protests downtown, which have been marred by nightly clashes between federal officers and protesters and given Portland a reputation for upheaval.
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The business owners shall soon receive offers they can’t refuse, or better not refuse.
“60 nights of civil rights protests in the city’s core” Still in denial.That was terrorism, not protests.
Is rbis guy joking?
Who is going to invest a penny in that $h!thole?
They get the gov’t they voted for.
Beat the crap out of the rioters, push out all the bums, and let businesses move in. It ain’t hard. It could be done in days. Easily.
Don't be so naive. That would be my recommendation. By the time that Wheeler figures out that a major city actually needs police, the rioters will burn you out.
OREGON PING
If you’d like to be on the Oregon ping list, please freep mail me.
Portland, the land of all things weak and wrong.
Who the hell would want to try to have a business there if the mayor and city counsel won’t defend them against looting and arson?
Portland is dead for at least a generation.
There’s nothing left to revive. Not to mention, who would want to visit that shithole.
If I visit Oregon, it will be to windsurf in the Columbia River Gorge, or to hang out with the seals and sea lions on the coast (we’re bros). Not to go to Portland.
The City of Roses has become the City of Thorns.
Thank your local libtard.
Who is going to go down there to eat? There was a wonderful restaurant that was my very favorite but why would I risk going down there in the evening only to be harassed by BLM or antifa? I don’t want to end up in someone’s awful video.
They can’t erase memories. And those memories will last for at least a generation. Richmond, Minneapolis, Chicago are in the same jam.
Yes, it IS terrorism. The unwashed, the stupid sheep in this country are too dumb to recognize there is a difference between a protest and a riot. Others like MSNBC and CNN will never use the word, “riot.”
City rebuilds downtown so rioters will have fresh targets
No thanky
The excitement of nightly battles with police is like a salt lick for the maladjusted and mis-medicated, AKA the Left.
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