Welcome to Portland!

[BJHay]

At the end of the day somebody is making good money off of the homeless, they wouldn't be there otherwise. It's the same with the illegals.

The host of the video says she's from Texas. She won't need to travel to Portland to see this stuff soon. Austin is the next great S******e

 

[BJHay]

Guy put his house up for sale but potential buyers flee when they drive by and see the homeless “residents” that the city won’t deal with properly.

So telling. He wants the housed and unhoused to have a glowing future where they all feel safe and get along. A place where the unhoused don't live in their own 'filth'. He has no grasp of what addiction has done to its victims.

 

[Alamo]

Guy wants to open one of those ax-throwing games in existing building on a street corner in Portland. Requests building permit and rezoning location from office to entertainment. City demands $160K in infrastructure “improvements.”

The big fee ($100k+) seems to be destroying the current wheelchair ramp on the corner sidewalk (which doesn’t look like it is damaged in anyway) with two new ramps to meet “current code.”

After a local television station threw some lights on the cockroaches, the city agrees that the wheelchair ramp could be done for considerably less by a private contractor (apparently the city expected to have their own department, do the work and get paid for it). But it will still cost $75,000.

When the guy opened one of these operations in Seattle, city fees were $6600. But he still is apparently going to pursue this in Portland. Bad mistake buddy.



Welcome to Portland!

 

[patience0830]

Guy wants to open one of those ax-throwing games in existing building on a street corner in Portland. Requests building permit and rezoning location from office to entertainment. City demands $160K in infrastructure “improvements.”

The big fee ($100k+) seems to be destroying the current wheelchair ramp on the corner sidewalk (which doesn’t look like it is damaged in anyway) with two new ramps to meet “current code.”

After a local television station threw some lights on the cockroaches, the city agrees that the wheelchair ramp could be done for considerably less by a private contractor (apparently the city expected to have their own department, do the work and get paid for it). But it will still cost $75,000.

When the guy opened one of these operations in Seattle, city fees were $6600. But he still is apparently going to pursue this in Portland. Bad mistake buddy.



Welcome to Portland!

Maybe if they stapled addicts and liberal politicians to the targets they'd accomplish something.

 

[cbhausen]

Meanwhile, in Portland…

Portland police search for man who struck woman in head with metal bottle in 'random assault'

The man threw a metal water bottle directly at a woman's face, striking her hard enough to cause her to lose consciousness.

www.kgw.com

 

[actaeon277]

Well, I'd say that crazy things happen all the time.

But you have to admit, those "lefty" areas are going bonkers.

 

[Alamo]

Golly.

 

[Remington 90T]

Have an aunt that owns a McDonalds in Portland- Drug problem is so bad has had three overdoses in the restrooms last year - Installed blue light so they can't find their vanes. - Have to replace monthly, They try to scrape the covering off the lights. That was the polices only suggestion to solve her problem.

 

[Shadow01]

Have an aunt that owns a McDonalds in Portland- Drug problem is so bad has had three overdoses in the restrooms last year - Installed blue light so they can't find their vanes. - Have to replace monthly, They try to scrape the covering off the lights. That was the polices only suggestion to solve her problem.

Why not let them od then contact authorities about 60 minutes later?

 

[Alamo]

Field Office, a Trophy Complex Unable to Find Tenants, Defaults on $73.8 Million Loan

www.wweek.com

Some quotes:

The owners of Field Office, a 290,375-square-foot office complex near the Willamette River, have defaulted on their $73.8 million loan after being unable to find enough tenants, becoming the latest office owners to throw in the towel on Portland’s struggling office market.

… it has a rooftop deck, a gym, parking for 200 bicycles, and electric scooter charging stations. The property’s market value is $62,700,490, according to property records, about $11 million less than the loan amount.

Field Office is located in a Prosper Portland “enterprise zone,” making certain businesses eligible for five-year tax abatements through the city’s development agency.

Oh the irony.

The article burns a paragraph explaining that work-from-home policies instituted during a pandemic have contributed to nobody wanted to come back to the office, but then there’s this:

Owners of Portland office buildings and hotels say people have been unwilling to return to downtown because riots that plagued the city during the pandemic, and public drug use since then, have scared people off.

The Pandemic policies kept everybody home, but the left-wing shenanigans keep them there.

If you wanna snap this jewel of an opportunity up, bids are due tomorrow, 15 August. If we all pull our pocket change, maybe we could have an INGO outpost in Portland.

in other Portland news:

… the real estate firm that owns Portland’s Commonwealth Building, one of the first glass-box towers ever built, said it had defaulted on its $47.4 million mortgage and may lose the building to foreclosure. …

“Given the depressed office rental rates and the continued social unrest and increased crime in downtown Portland where the property is located, the company does not anticipate any near-term recovery in value,” KBS chief financial officer Jeffrey K. Waldvogel said in a regulatory filing Feb. 16.

And

Jackson Tower, a landmark building that overlooks Pioneer Square, defaulted on a loan from JPMorgan Chase earlier this year as well.

 

[Alamo]

Further adventures in the Peoples Paradise of Portland:

 

[oze]

Further adventures in the Peoples Paradise of Portland:

Sounds like maybe the 911 system isn't the only thing getting hammered in Portland.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

This thread always makes me think of this song. Sadly, the song is much happier than reality.

 

[jamil]

Portland is just another example of what happens when progressives have no checks and balances.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Portland is just another example of what happens when progressives have no checks and balances.

Oh they have checks. Gubmint checks since they don't do any actual work.

 

[jamil]

All them homeless people aren't collecting government checks.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

All them homeless people aren't collecting government checks.

They don't have to. They can get all their needs met for free. All they need is a tent or a cardboard box to crash in.

 

[jamil]

They don't have to. They can get all their needs met for free. All they need is a tent or a cardboard box to crash in.

And a Starbucks bathroom to inject themselves.

 

[Bugzilla]

PHOTO: Michigan Couple Visiting Portland Suffers Two Car Break-Ins

A couple's recent trip from Grand Rapids, Michigan, became a nightmare after reaching crime-ridden and Democrat-controlled Portland, Oregon.

www.breitbart.com

 

[JAL]

Why not let them od then contact authorities about 60 minutes later?

Shuts down the restaurant for at least the rest of the day . . . loss of business revenue. Otherwise, that's what I'd do. It would be like watching a self-cleaning oven.

I admit that last remark was cruel. Had a couple troops in the U.S. Army OD on Heroin in Europe. The really pure stuff would hit the streets occasionally. Had another OD on it in CONUS. Finding one in a latrine stall isn't very pretty. Rattled the young E-3 / E-4 enlisted who found them in the early AM just after reveille. Odor of Death was already in the air. Didn't rattle the E-5 NCO on Charge of Quarters (CQ) duty who was a few years older quite as hard, but it was a sight he wished he hadn't seen -- and you cannot unsee something like that -- that I can attest to. That's why you'd want to try to prevent it. It would be the employees who would find the body.