Beat Check with The Oregonian

Digging into downtown Portland’s peril, promise

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Downtown Portland is the city’s economic, cultural and transportation hub. And its future remains far from certain.

In this episode, The Oregonian/OregonLive's business reporter Mike Rogoway and city hall reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh discuss the city center’s ups and downs, its peril and promise.


Read More:

  • The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2021 ‘Downtown in distress’ series.
  • Are people coming back to downtown Portland yet? Here’s what the numbers say
  • Pills, petty crime, despair: A ‘perfect storm’ batters heart of downtown Portland
  • Portland’s oldest food cart pod will reopen as 300-seat beer garden
  • ‘Open-air drug use is at an all-time high’ in downtown Portland: Police turn to citations as fentanyl crisis explodes
  • Fences come down at Portland’s troubled O’Bryant Square this fall. What comes next?
  • Portland Ritz-Carlton tower nears completion with few apparent hiccups, defying odds




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