Posted on 11/27/2022 6:05:16 AM PST by george76
PORTLAND, Ore. — Marcy Landolfo is at her breaking point. This week marked the 15th break-in at Rains PDX within a year and a half.
Landolfo said most of those repairs at the Northeast Portland location were paid for out of pocket. Other times, she just left the windows boarded up.
"It’s just too much with the losses that are not covered by insurance, the damages, everything. It’s just not sustainable," Landolfo said.
KATU asked why Landolfo decided to close now, instead of keeping doors open through the holiday shopping season.
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The owner at Rains tells me after five break-ins in about three weeks, she made the sudden decision to permanently close. Staff here are putting pressure on the city to look after small businesses dealing with ongoing challenges with crime.
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"The products that are being targeted are the very expensive winter products and I just felt like the minute I get those in the store they’re going to get stolen," she said.
Landolfo said she's worried about her employees, and no longer sees this location as a feasible business model.
"The problem is, as small businesses, we cannot sustain those types of losses and stay in business. I won’t even go into the numbers of how much has been out of pocket," she said.
When Rains was broken into in late October, KATU reached out to Mayor Ted Wheeler's office.
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His team said they're working to increase funding for business repair grants through Prosper Portland. Landolfo said that's not enough.
"Paying for glass that’s great, but that is so surface and does nothing for the root cause of the problem, so it’s never going to change," she said.
The mayor's office also said they participated in a retail safety summit in October, and cited recent efforts to streamline the permitting process for things like storefront lighting.
KATU asked how that work is going, and we're still waiting to hear back at this time.
What did she expect from Ted Wheeler, the man who joined the rioters in 2020 with the explicit intention of getting “sprayed” with tear gas from Trump’s troops so that he could blame Trump for the damage, destruction, arson, assault, theft and rape done by the rioters.
pavement apes?
She’s right, rampant theft is not a sustainable business model. I bet she voted Dim.
Boom…
Consulting: you may not be part of the solution but the pay is good and demand for looking like something is being done while nothing is being done only increases among political class consumers.
> The mayor’s office also said they participated in a retail safety summit in October... <
Yep, that’s the ticket. More summits, more conferences, more position papers. Ain’t liberalism grand?
This is what being a democrat looks like!!!
The cities in the various states control the state. The more left the cities go, the more people in the fly-over areas vote with their feet. It is a vicious cycle that can only end one way...a broke state. Then that state will come begging for the rest of the country to bail them out. And Biden’s government would do it.
Who wants to bet marcy has voted democrat her whole life and is a blm supporter?
Just say “no” to mean tweets and yes to every damn thing else the left wants to do. How is that working out?
See, this business is in the City. Meanwhile, in the Burbs, the superficiality of voting decisions runs amok. Crime?!? What crime? My hub/wife has a great job, I drop the kids off at school and take them to games, hit the gym, yoga with the gal pals, come home and click on the View and life goes on. Who cares about things that don’t touch my life?
Tick tock on that. Sooner or later little Harold/Susie homemaker is going to get that call that their precious Prince/Princess does from a fentanyl overdose. The shame is that it has to come to that before they wake the hell up.
“KATU asked why Landolfo decided to close now, instead of keeping doors open through the holiday shopping season.”
And, they say there’s no such thing as a stupid question.
According to their web page, the store that’s being closed is at NE Grand Ave. and Couch St., one block off Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Yeah, I know what the problem is.
Oregon is Africa west and no longer America
Ms Rains should move to America
Everyone knows, even the vocal deniers.
Toss this one into the mix. While it's not good news for any of the biz owners...it makes me smile. Glad the wife and I got to Portland for a visit before all the craziness, 'cause we'll probably never go back.
Portland $$$$ cycle:
Tax the hell out of responsible persons of all stripes-—
Use those dollars to support homeless/not responsible persons
who -—
Then steal from businesses & homes of those who pay those taxes-—
NEVER prosecute the criminals———
Cry Foul when business owners LEAVE—
Did I leave anything out???
It is exactly what the city council wanted, from the beginning. Elimination of mostly conservative middle class that operates small businesses; and now that abandoned parcel can be taken over by the city — at no cost.
Now, where will they do their Cyber Monday 100% off sale? The owner is racist!!
Considerable aided by Oregon laws that say NO DRUG is ILLEGAL.
“Holiday shopping season” =
HOLIDAY STEALING SEASON
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