Portland is suffering a crisis that threatens the future of this once buoyant, expanding Northwest market.
Back in the 1980s, well before there was talk nationwide of an "urban renaissance", Portland was widely seen as a kind of model turnaround city. Its downtown was among the first to come to life, large portions of the middle class actually stayed in the comparatively safe and well-run city, while its suburbs bristled with technology plants and bright new housing tracks....Yet today Portland, both the city and the region, which boasts roughly 1.8 million people, is suffering a crisis that threatens the future of this once buoyant, expanding Northwest market...
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