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 three-page document focuses on five target areas”
athree page “plan” to “revitalize” downtown Portland should be more than enough to do the trick (and there’s a bridge in Brooklyn that i’ve got for sale for cheap)
And if they do this exceptionally abusive and inefficient project, what will stop it from simply being burned down again?
“Q” as in Q Barbecue?
That is a really good idea.
“City of Thorns”
This will really anger the Portland Political Class!
Too good to be true!
Portland stumbled on Jun 14 when they toppled the statue of Thomas Jefferson. And again on Jun 19 when they toppled the statue of George Washington. The looting of downtown, the defacing the pioneer monument, attacking a federal court on July 4, the burning out the elk and the sheer aggression and lack of respect for authority of anyone including police is but the post script of a failed sanctuary city. Its residents humiliated and cowed by the violent, the mentally ill and the grievance cult they themselves invited in. Now, the sight of daily competitions, lasting 6 hours or more, of anguished and tearful public virtue signaling and ‘educational lectures’ more closely resembling circular rants, demanding race subservience, has destroyed the appeal of Portland. They should rename themselves Stockholm.
It takes a while to replace regular structures with 3’ concrete, 4” windows, and hydraulically operated 3” steel doors....
I wouldn’t set foot in Portland. A few months ago, a friend in suburban Minneapolis asked us to visit him, we said no. We had a few riots in our downtown, I don’t go there anymore either. It’s not that I’m afraid, I just don’t want to go somewhere where I’d be triggered by losers.
Since when did mayor Wheeler care about those evil businesses. Who would want to go down there to shop?
My downtown was a civil war buffs heaven. No more. I won’t put another nickel into Richmond city.
I’ve been to Portland a few times.
Loaded with homeless and drug rehab joints.
Disgusting is too kind a description.
What is it about the liberal mind, in that they are consumed with a want to destroy things, tear down all heroes, write grafitti etc., and want to live in a world of constant nihilism?
Here’s the plan - MOVE OUT
You could get into a detailed discussion of how they got there but ultimately it comes down being deceived by Satan and having turned from God.
Portland is the most atheist city in the US.
This was in 2010. I don’t remember Q. Our best one was Le Pigeon. Chef Gabriel Rucker. We had a connection there but that isn’t why I say it was the best. I went back to see the chef in 2016 but ate at the Heathman and it was great. I hope they didn’t ruin that 1927 wonder.
There was a place where you eat at a counter and order little plates like at a tapas bar, and there was a grocery store attached. There were two guys behind the counter and we had to sneak a look at the magazine to see which one was the chef. We discussed the food with him, and that was so nice. Superior. I think on one of the main streets, not sure.
Then on the last day when I had to leave, my daughter said leave your suitcase at the desk and we’re going to Tasty and Sons, which is now Tasty and Daughters. Lovely, and I was so glad she was into it up to the end.
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