Well, you de-funded your police and prevented them from doing their job while also lettign Anitfa (and the regular homes lees) live in parks, and graffiti and trash the city. Even if they clean it up, I don't see any sane business owned wanting to me in knowing that a week or year from now they city would turn a blind eye to the exact same problems.
The best thing they can do for business is raise taxes. (Liberal mode)
And if they do this exceptionally abusive and inefficient project, what will stop it from simply being burned down again?
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?
I’ve been to Portland a few times.
Loaded with homeless and drug rehab joints.
Disgusting is too kind a description.
Here’s the plan - MOVE OUT