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Businesses leaving downtown Portland over 'lawlessness': report
Fox Business ^
| 08/25/2020
| David Aaro
Posted on 08/25/2020 10:22:29 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The months of protests and riots in Portland have prompted some businesses in the city to opt to move out completely or relocate outside its central district, according to a report on Monday.
Greg Goodman, the co-president of the Downtown Development Group, said in a letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler and members of the Portland City Council that the exodus of companies wasnt related to the Black Lives Matter movement but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.
The number is like nothing I have seen in 42 years of doing business in downtown, he wrote, according to Portlands KOIN.
Goodman said companies include Daimler Trucks North America, Airbnb, Banana Republic, Microsoft, Saucebox, and Google, which he claimed: leased 90,000 square feet in the Macys building [and] has stopped construction of their improvements.
The list goes on and on. If you know a retail or office broker, give them a call and ask them how many clients they have are trying to leave, he continued.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: airbnb; bananarepublic; blackliesmatter; blackliesmurder; blacklivesmatter; blm; burnlootmurder; daimlertrucks; google; macys; microsoft; oregon; portland; saucebox; tedwheeler; wheeler
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Ironic that one of the companies departing is Banana Republic.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:22:29 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
This Goodman fails by not putting the blame on BLM, too.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:24:10 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:24:21 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: Olog-hai
They ain’t comin’ back...
...ever.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:25:12 AM PDT
by
henkster
("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
To: Olog-hai
Between that and the coronavirus inspired government tyranny the businesses don't stand a chance.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:25:49 AM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: Olog-hai
and yet these businesses gave $ to BLM...
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:26:23 AM PDT
by
2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: Olog-hai
This Goodman fails by not putting the blame on BLM, too. He can't due of fear of being cancelled by the mobs, both Twitter and real. That's why the French called it "The Terror" in the 1790s, and the Russians used the same term in the late 1930s.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:27:05 AM PDT
by
henkster
("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
To: henkster
Portland, Detroit with rose bushes
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:27:57 AM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Olog-hai
Businesses shouldn’t have supported democrats.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:28:34 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Olog-hai
ISN”T related to the Black Lives Movement?! So this mass exodus was already underway? What a pussy!
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:28:59 AM PDT
by
albie
To: Bonemaker
Too many leftists at the top of businesses. But they do feel the pain when the bottom line gets trashed. Hypocrisy is part and parcel of being a leftist.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:29:48 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe if Portland defunds the police that will help.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:30:01 AM PDT
by
mad puppy
(E PLURIBUS UNUM)
To: henkster
He’s getting canceled by the mobs notwithstanding.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:30:31 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
“...the exodus of companies wasnt related to the Black Lives Matter movement but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.
And these BLM/Antifa supporting companies are taking their ideology with them to the next town. Disgusting.
To: Olog-hai
... one day - new cities will rise up - and order will be restored with the Sandman!
Get ready for carousel!
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:31:19 AM PDT
by
Patriot_MP
(Of the Troops, For the Troops - US of A Always. Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Olog-hai
the exodus of companies wasnt related to the Black Lives Matter movement but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown. IOW, it wasn't aliens, but it was aliens.
To: Olog-hai
Hes getting canceled by the mobs notwithstanding. As The Terror goes, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:31:51 AM PDT
by
henkster
("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
To: Patriot_MP
MMMMM......Jenny Agutter.....
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:32:38 AM PDT
by
henkster
("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
To: Olog-hai
All businesses in blue cities are just one shooting away from being burned to the ground.
Why wait?
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:34:07 AM PDT
by
joshua c
To: Olog-hai
The democrats in charge don’t care. They hate businesses and want them out, or under the total control of the State. Given their way, they will have the city poor, miserable, and overrun by crime. They they will wail and moan and ask for help from the state and the fed.
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posted on
08/25/2020 10:34:08 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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