Development Company Warns Portland Mayor: Companies Are Relocating Because Of ‘Lawlessness You Are E

[PeteS in CA]

Development Company Warns Portland Mayor: Companies Are Relocating Because Of ‘Lawlessness You Are Endorsing Downtown’

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/08/25/portland-business-group-says-exodus-lawlessness-overtaking-city/

Businesses were in bad shape because of the pandemic even before the riots started. In Portland the protests happen every night and riots have been declared nearly every other night in the month of August. A business group sent Mayor Ted Wheeler a letter warning him an exodus from the city had begun because of the ongoing lawlessness:
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Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a link to the full letter available but Fox News published some of it:

Goodman said companies include Daimler Trucks North America, Airbnb, Banana Republic, Microsoft, Saucebox, and Google, which he claimed: “leased 90,000 square feet in the Macy’s building [and] has stopped construction of their improvements.”

“The list goes on and on. If you know a retail or office broker, give them a call and ask them how many clients they have are trying to leave,” he continued.

Goodman encouraged city leaders to “walk around downtown Portland in the morning,” adding that he would personally give them a tour.

“You aren’t sweeping the streets, needles are all over the place, garbage cans are broken and left open, glass from car windows that have been broken out is all over the streets, parks are strewn with litter,” he wrote. “You are willfully neglecting your duties as elected officials to keep our city safe and clean.”

This is in Portland, OR, but I'm sure the same shrug-and-move is happening in riot-hit cities across the US.

[goatprairie]

Wheeler is among the increasing numbers of leftist mayors for whom capitalism and business are dirty words. They believe money grows on trees, and wealth is just a naturally created huge pile of goodies where the "poor and oppressed" have been deliberately left out.
Trying to explain to idiots like Wheeler that they're destroying wealth by their encouragement of the rioting and looting is like trying to tell your dog not to wolf down the hamburger that just fell off the table and on the floor in front of him.

[DB]

And thousands of Atlas's are shrugging...