Goldmark Jewelers to close after 46 years as other downtown business owners contemplate their futures
Updated May 14, 2021;
Posted May 04, 2021
Goldmark Jewelers will close at the end of June after 46 years in downtown Portland.Jamie Goldberg/Staff
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Cal Brockman has spent the last 46 years designing and creating custom jewelry at his downtown Portland store, Goldmark Jewelers. Until last year, he had no plans of vacating his longtime storefront at the corner of Southwest 10th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street.
But foot traffic plummeted downtown after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while vandalism spiked as nightly protests consumed downtown last summer. Two windows and the glass door at Brockman’s store were shattered on three separate nights.
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