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Pamplin Media Group - Opinion: Downtown Portland dies only if we do nothing to stop it


March 03 2021
Jessie Burke is with the Old Town Community Association s business committee. She also owns The Society Hotel in Portland s Old Town.
I recently read three articles about the state of downtown Portland one concerned ( Death of a City: The Portland Story? Jan. 28, Forbes Magazine) and two seemingly mocking the first ( Portland is the new Pompeii, according to Forbes, Jan. 30, Willamette Week) and ( Crying Wolf: If Portland tourism dies, you can thank downtown business interests and the police, Feb. 1, Portland Mercury).
I have been a Portland small-business owner for more than a decade, and have lived in Portland for almost 20 years. I am a woman, a minority (Chinese), a mother of three, and a former social worker. I started in the Kenton neighborhood with a small coffee shop and bakery, and five years ago I opened The Society Hotel in Old Town. ....

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