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PORTLAND, OR — City leaders and local news outlets confirmed this week that Portland’s downtown is officially “back,” citing increased foot traffic, renewed holiday shopping interest, and a thriving public yoga scene that appears to require no studios, memberships, or basic awareness of surroundings.
Once written off after years of pandemic closures, protest-related fires, and the kind of civic soul-searching that ends with plywood murals, downtown Portland is now being celebrated as vibrant again—largely because there are, once more, people downtown.
Lots of people.
Mostly very committed to holding a single pose.
“Just look around,” said one city spokesperson during a press conference held carefully between several
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