Longstanding minority-owned businesses in NE Portland feel pushed out due to rising rent: ‘A thousand dollars, that’s a shock to your system’

Two of the businesses date back to the 90s, when the city pushed to support minority-owned businesses in Northeast Portland. Now, they feel pressured to move.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Two longstanding tenants renting commercial space from the city of Portland in Northeast Portland said they are seeing a large uptick in rent.

The city of Portland started the Walnut Park and North Precinct Retail Project 29 years ago, with the hope of turning an old Fred Meyer store on Martin Luther King Boulevard and Northeast Killingsworth into a commercial center, sharing the building with the Portland Police Bureau. This opened up more opportunities for new small

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