REI is vacating its longtime Portland location, but new businesses are still coming in. Newcomer Shake Shack was welcomed with a broken window.
PORTLAND, Ore. — When you think about a mall, its success is often measured in the number of stores open and operating. If the mall is doing poorly, they close — and the more closed storefronts, the worse the perception of the “health” and prosperity of the mall.
The mall can function as something of an analogy for thinking about downtown Portland, even if the latter is at a much larger scale. The more businesses that thrive downtown, the better for the whole.
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