Rains is apparently a Men's & Women's Clothing Store
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.
Yep I saw that.........ice-cream desert????
Oh the humanity!!!!!!
The progressive model copied from CA works well.
Doesn’t it???
/s
“Soon Oregon will only be found in History books”
To a degree.
The sooner that the real Oregon divorces itself from the progressive pit of the Willamette Valley, the better (they’re toxifying the rural schools and populating rural county boards & city councils now, too).
Probably has a We Believe sign on her front door. Harvest what you reap.
The fact of the matter is that most of these business owners are left wing hypocrites.
My $$ is on that here, too, but I have better things to do than expend time to confirm what is probably true.
Portland is 6% black. I’d say that the homeless/ addicts, regardless of ethnicity, are the biggest problem fueling Portland’s crime.
I can copy and paste that statement and apply it to every similar conversation in every liberal infested metropolitan sewer in America. All those fools ever do about any problem is mere window dressing.
$500 coats? Really? What is it made from, the skin of the unicorn? I love some of those expensive items.. $1000 shoes.. typical liberal bs...
The people of Portland have voted for an anti-police, pro-criminal government for years. This is the result. Nothing discredits leftism more than letting everyone see the consequences of those decisions.
“...and now that abandoned parcel can be taken over by the city — at no cost.”
But what do they “think” they can do with it?
I wish someone would have asked her.
I have this theory that people are not voting for this in large numbers. But I can’t prove it.
They’re stuffed with bald eagle down.
And then the town supervisors blame the closings on the owners being racists, and nothing ever changes.
Yep, that’s the ticket. More summits, more conferences, more position papers. Ain’t liberalism grand?
Got to have breakout sessions, can’t have liberal summits without them.
“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.”
And the crime rates weren’t slashed as a result? Go figure.
That being said, when I lived in Seattle the University Village shopping center used to blast classical music, not just for ambience because (I was told) it kept the thugs away.
bill blather watlton was announcing one game....ranting about what a wonderful setting...all the while, the camera showed seemingly endless empty seats....
people should not and can not visit venues where the lives are at stake, so shove it Portland.....truthfully I never understood the Portland mystique...its a cement city with elevated highways and a dirty inner city.....
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