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Giving up on Portland, cont'd


Here's a Friday news dump of classic proportions: The Nike "community" store at MLK and Knott in northeast Portland, which has been closed all year, will never reopen. Too much brazen retail theft. It's dangerous as well as financially unsustainable.

Nike offered to pay the city for a police presence, but the mayor, Dud Wheeler, and the police chief, Chuck Love, told Nike what they've been saying to everyone who needs a cop for the last three years: Sorry, no.

That's Portland now. Utterly lawless. Utterly hopeless. Disintegrating right before our eyes.

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 4:27 PM

    Not surprised…

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 8:37 PM

    And yet, blocks away, the house sell for a million. Portland is a confusing place.

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 9:33 PM

      When Portland's real estate market finally turns, it will be hard and fast.

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    2. Jack BogdanskiSeptember 8, 2023 at 9:54 PM

      It's not really a neighborhood issue. The brazen retail theft happens all over town. Nike is just the most obvious target. And Portland's housing market isn't going to turn until after Seattle's and San Francisco's do, which doesn't seem to be on the horizon.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 8:38 PM

    Not a fan of Ron Herndon, but I agree with his quote about this being a failure of leadership on the part of City Hall.

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    1. BeanSeptember 8, 2023 at 10:20 PM

      Ron Herndon isn't saying or doing anything different today than he was forty years ago. Watching him teach the bike kids a lesson when he singlehandedly forced them to reroute their bike freeway a few years back was an absolute joy to watch. The same voices who march today in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion were going full "those people don't know what's good for them" at the time. He shut them all down. So fun.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2023 at 10:35 PM

    This is 100% a failure by the city, Wheeler, and City Council.

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2023 at 10:22 AM

    Interesting that the 'Just Do It.' Motto was based partially on Gary Gilmore's last words so it is kind of appropriate. Also the Wieden & Kennedy new motto 'Portland is what we make it'. Portland is what we made it is more like it.

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2023 at 11:15 AM

      The timing of the publishing mottos is is important. “Just Do It” worked really well until someone peed in the whiskey.

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