Last fall, Nike temporarily closed its factory outlet store in Portland, Oregon, but it has now made the decision to close it permanently due to ongoing issues with theft and safety concerns. This decision doesn’t come as a surprise, given the challenges faced by businesses in a city like Portland, a filthy, crime-ridden, drug-infected hell hole run by Democrats.
The Northeast neighborhood factory store had been selling discounted and out-of-season items since 1984, according to OPB.
“I am very disappointed with the closure of the Nike Community Store on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard,” said Portland’s far-left mayor Ted Wheeler. “My team and City Staff have worked tirelessly and in good faith with Nike for almost a year to offer creative solutions to their safety challenges.”
Nike abandons Portland store re-opening amid 'theft and safety issues' https://t.co/Izs3wpLuij
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Fox Business reported:
Nike has reportedly decided not to re-open its factory store in Portland, Oregon, which it closed temporarily last fall due to “theft and safety issues.”
The neighborhood’s business group, the Soul District Business Association (SBDA), said that Nike had confirmed its decision in a phone call with the group’s leaders, the Portland Business Journal reported on Friday.
The SBDA called the decision “a major economic blow.”
“This news has landed like a lead balloon in our district,” John Washington, the SDBA’s executive director, said in a news release. “We had all been holding our breath since last November when the store quietly shuttered its doors due to internal and external theft and safety issues. But, like so many of us riding out the fallout of the pandemic and protests, we held out hope that Nike, city officials and community leaders would recalibrate and realign order. But it looks like it’s game over.”
Nike said that they are considering potential store locations that may open in the future.
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