Reduced foot traffic, soaring office vacancies, rampant unsheltered homelessness and a reputation for crime have hurt the arts in Portland's beating heart.
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REI cited vandalism and theft among its reasons for leaving. Businesses like Shake Shack are still opening, but they're coming into the same environment.