And just today, a story about businesses leaving the downtown areas of Seattle and Portland. The quotes from business owners are very telling. They are just tired of putting up with years of bad city management. Everything from endless road construction to feces on the sidewalks. At the end, a business owner says his downtown store could still be profitable, but his employees don't want to go there. That says a lot.
In yet another sign of COVID-19′s mounting economic costs, the Columbia Sportswear store has joined the list of businesses that won’t reopen in downtown Seattle after the pandemic. Columbia Sportswear, one of Oregon’s largest companies, hasn’t pub...
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/...-closures.html
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