Mall Rats Photo: Jason E. Kaplan Foot traffic has plunged during the pandemic at Portland s Lloyd Center Mall
Driven by bankruptcies, redundancies and the rise of e-commerce, the retail sector has been in flux for years. COVID-19 accelerated the shift. Oregon’s malls can either reinvent themselves to stay vital or they can fail.
It is a late Tuesday afternoon and the foot traffic in Washington Square Mall in the Portland suburbs looks brisk by COVID-19 restrictions standards. Families with strollers and small children in tow, groups of teens just dismissed from distance learning and older couples stroll the wide halls, dropping their masks to sip a drink or lick an ice cream cone.
Shippers Benefit From Trade Uptick
April 30, 2021 Credit: Port of Portland Curtis Robinhold welcomes Korean Captain Ik-Soo Kim and his ship the SM Qingdao to Portland.
The executive director of the Port of Portland discusses how a rising Asian middle class and international e-commerce have boosted Oregon’s trade outlook.
Despite a global economic downturn and four months of the pandemic when shipping overseas was impossible, the Port of Portland has seen a 9% increase in business year-over-year.
Curtis Robinhold, executive director of the port, expects this uptick in trade to continue.
The rise of a middle class in Asia, combined with COVID-19’s acceleration of e-commerce, have created more options for vendors seeking to find business overseas. Robinhold discusses how pandemic trends have benefited the port, and what t
Oregon lawmakers’ interest in capping political money was never particularly high this session no Democratic leaders listed it as a priority and now appears to be withering.
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“We have a long history of building successful projects in the Pacific Northwest and we’re proud to be a part of an industry that helps shape the growth of Portland,” says Mark Bruun, president of Lorentz Bruun Construction.
Norwegian immigrant Lorentz Bruun founded his namesake company in 1946 when his new hometown was experiencing a post-war construction boom. Over 75 years, stewardship of the family-owned company has been handed down twice. Lorentz’s son Kelly took the reins in 1973, guiding and growing the business for almost 30 years before handing it over to his sons, Mark, Kurt and Erik.
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House Speaker Tina Kotek is the chief sponsor of a bill that would require school districts to consider how firing a teacher of color would affect diversity in layoff decisions. Opponents say House Bill 2001, as written, would open a back door for administrators to punish critics.Oregonian file photo by Yuxing Zheng
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Joth Ricci
Ricci is chief executive and president of Dutch Bros. He also chairs the Oregon Business Plan, a joint venture of Oregon Business and Industry, the Oregon Business Council and the Portland Business Alliance. He lives in Jacksonville.