In Portland
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I saw a story today that another store, REI, is closing its store in the Pearl District.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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In 2016 when we visited everything was clean and nice.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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@Mik said in In Portland:
In 2016 when we visited everything was clean and nice.
Exactly. Mrs. George and I enjoyed our week there in 2016.
In 2017, we took a cab and commented how much things have changed. The cabbie agreed and was despondent about what had happened to his city. It was worse in 2018.
I can't imagine it now.
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The outdoor retail giant REI announced Monday that it plans to close its store in Portland’s Pearl District early next year, citing an increase in crime and theft.
In an email to customers Monday, REI said its store in Portland “had its highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades, despite actions to provide extra security.”
It plans to close the location ahead of its lease expiration in February.
REI is the latest major retailer to close Portland stores, and the highest-profile among them to publicly blame theft as the reason. Nike closed one of its Portland stores to public access, telling city officials the closure was due to shoplifting. Walmart also recently closed its only two Portland stores for underperformance.
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@Mik said in In Portland:
Good. Force the issue.
Yup. Money talks, and if money (whether it is businesses or tourists) leave the city, the city will have to wake up.
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@Mik said in In Portland:
Good. Force the issue.
Yup. Money talks, and if money (whether it is businesses or tourists) leave the city, the city will have to wake up.
@taiwan_girl said in In Portland:
Yup. Money talks, and if money (whether it is businesses or tourists) leave the city, the city will have to wake up.
We talked about the impending "Detroitification" of Chicago.
Let's see how that plays out over the next 10 years.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I still want to go once. It’s on the very short list of top 25 Metro areas I’ve not yet visited.
@jon-nyc I was just telling Mrs. George that, when D4 and I visited in 2014, we both commented on how nice a city it was. Walkable, clean, the right size, and spectacular scenery within an hour and a half (Mount Hood, Columbia Gorge, Pacific Ocean). When she joined us in 2016, she thought the same.
No more.
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@Mik said in In Portland:
In 2016 when we visited everything was clean and nice.
Us too.
But it did have homeless people. What I did notice though was that the homeless were mostly young people just out of college. It almost seemed like it was a rite of passage for them. Finish school. Bum around for awhile. Then get a job.
I guess they never got jobs.
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@taiwan_girl said in In Portland:
Yup. Money talks, and if money (whether it is businesses or tourists) leave the city, the city will have to wake up.
We talked about the impending "Detroitification" of Chicago.
Let's see how that plays out over the next 10 years.
@George-K said in In Portland:
@taiwan_girl said in In Portland:
Yup. Money talks, and if money (whether it is businesses or tourists) leave the city, the city will have to wake up.
We talked about the impending "Detroitification" of Chicago.
Let's see how that plays out over the next 10 years.
It won’t be the same because Detroit’s economy tanked at the same time. But there will be deterioration.
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I did some work near Portland with a company called Sequent back in the 90s, in Beaverton, OR.
I got into Portland a few times, it was a nice place.
I also lived outside Detroit for a couple years during the 70s.
It is hard to believe that Portland could now be compared to Motown.
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Just browse around on this feed.
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Kiddo lived in the Pearl District for the summer of 2019, and we stayed there with her for a couple weeks at the beginning of summer, and a week or so at the end of summer. There was a lot of homelessness that year, but it's so much worse now, not to mention the increased criminal activity of all sorts. There's no way we would stay there now. Kiddo is shocked, she loved the Pearl District.
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I saw a story today that another store, REI, is closing its store in the Pearl District.
@George-K said in In Portland:
I saw a story today that another store, REI, is closing its store in the Pearl District.
Where do you suppose all those tents came from?
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@George-K said in In Portland:
I saw a story today that another store, REI, is closing its store in the Pearl District.
Where do you suppose all those tents came from?
@brenda said in In Portland:
Where do you suppose all those tents came from?
Shoplifted from REI?
. Kiddo is shocked, she loved the Pearl District.
Yeah, and I noticed the difference between 2014 and 2017. I can't imagine. I would never consider living there now.
But, I would never consider living in (downtown) Chicago now either.
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Nike abandons Portland store re-opening amid 'theft and safety issues'
Nike had offered to pay off-duty police officers to beef up security at the store
Nike has reportedly decided not to re-open its factory store in Portland, Oregon, which it closed temporarily last fall due to "theft and safety issues."
The neighborhood's business group, the Soul District Business Association (SBDA), said that Nike had confirmed its decision in a phone call with the group's leaders, the Portland Business Journal reported on Friday.
The SBDA called the decision "a major economic blow."
"This news has landed like a lead balloon in our district," John Washington, the SDBA's executive director, said in a news release. "We had all been holding our breath since last November when the store quietly shuttered its doors due to internal and external theft and safety issues. But, like so many of us riding out the fallout of the pandemic and protests, we held out hope that Nike, city officials and community leaders would recalibrate and realign order. But it looks like it's game over."
When reached for comment, Nike told Fox News Digital it cares "deeply about Portland's North and Northeast community," and that it's store had provided the community with "access and connection" to the brand for almost 40 years "while serving as a catalyst for change through volunteerism, investments and partnerships with non-profit organizations that benefit the community."
