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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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.)
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.
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.
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.
“Complete with Liquor store, Nail Salon, Discount Tobacco Shop and a Check-into-Cash”
as well as the “tug and rub” called “Trayda Hoes”
Typical liberal plan....keep them on the dole....
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.
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.
You mean bring jobs to a poor neighborhood? How dare they!!!!
My guess is the good folks of Portland preferred another Dignity Village .
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
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
Exactly. It’s important to preserve victim status.
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?..................
Yes, but he left it when he saw what it was turning in to......................
Even Portland is segregated, will wonders never cease.
Looks like the Black KKK is now lynching their own...
They do not want Blacks to work their way up and out
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.
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.
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