I guess you could say Portland and Seattle are doing a “bang up” job of making their downtowns safe…lots of bangs if you’re foolish enough to go there.
This past weekend, two people shot in Portland’s Old Town-Chinatown, a man and a woman. They’ll survive, we’re told. In Seattle a few days earlier, a man in a wheelchair, shot in the chest. He’s on the mend too. That shooting happened on the shiny new waterfront development that Seattle just spent 800 million bucks on.Prospects for the two cities seem dim lately.
The “Big Pink” bank tower in Portland fire-saled at a nearly 90 percent discount from its value just ten years ago. The new Ritz Carlton hotel and condos in bankruptcy. Big retailers fleeing and those who can’t afford to leave boarding up their storefronts against Antifa terrorists who have friends at City Hall. Nordstrom hints it may not keep its signature store at Pioneer Courthouse Square much longer because of crime and filth. Police have been defunded. And this seems telling to me…police were actually watching the crowd where that shooting happened over the weekend…