Portland homeless cesspool- Denver next?

[Ronin13]

Interesting article here about companies pulling out of Portland due to the homeless problem they are experiencing, including Colombia Sportswear re-examining their moving their Sorel HQ to Downtown Portland. They're apparently having issues with break-ins of cars, death threats to employees, and human waste problems.

"Given these experiences, it is a relief when the only thing we are dealing with is the garbage and human waste by our front door. Think about that for a minute."- Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle

My only concern, so goes Portland, a liberal haven of the homeless... is Denver next? Is this maybe the reason Amazon didn't seriously consider a new location in Denver? The homeless situation in the liberal mecca of Denver seems to be getting worse.
Discuss...

[KevDen2005]

Interesting article here about companies pulling out of Portland due to the homeless problem they are experiencing, including Colombia Sportswear re-examining their moving their Sorel HQ to Downtown Portland. They're apparently having issues with break-ins of cars, death threats to employees, and human waste problems.

My only concern, so goes Portland, a liberal haven of the homeless... is Denver next? Is this maybe the reason Amazon didn't seriously consider a new location in Denver? The homeless situation in the liberal mecca of Denver seems to be getting worse.
Discuss...

I think Amazon's criteria for moving here made very few locations available.

Denver is so far gone I don't see it coming back.

[Irving]

Is this maybe the reason Amazon didn't seriously consider a new location in Denver?

No, not even close. Sounds like you didn't follow the Amazon thing at all for this to even be on your radar as a possible reason.

[Ronin13]

No, not even close. Sounds like you didn't follow the Amazon thing at all for this to even be on your radar as a possible reason.

I'll be perfectly honest, I don't follow the news very closely, and just heard highlights about Amazon "considering Denver," and then the update "not moving to Denver." So no, I don't really care enough to follow something like that unless it's actually going to happen.
But if I were a location scout for Amazon, the Denver homeless issue would be a contributing reason to say "let's not move there."

[KevDen2005]

I'll be perfectly honest, I don't follow the news very closely, and just heard highlights about Amazon "considering Denver," and then the update "not moving to Denver." So no, I don't really care enough to follow something like that unless it's actually going to happen.
But if I were a location scout for Amazon, the Denver homeless issue would be a contributing reason to say "let's not move there."

Our Homeless problem is bad but nothing compared to Oregon, Washington, the DC Metro area. I'm sure there are more but I'm not as familiar.

I have no doubt our homeless problem will continue to get worse.

[Ronin13]

Our Homeless problem is bad but nothing compared to Oregon, Washington, the DC Metro area. I'm sure there are more but I'm not as familiar.

I have no doubt our homeless problem will continue to get worse.

I hadn't been up to Ft. Collins in a few years, but Friday before last we went up to New Belgium brewery and saw quite a large amount of homeless people in the neighborhood... Denver is getting worse, for sure, but it's really bad when Ft. Collins is starting to get a homeless problem of their own.

[StagLefty]

But the Ft. Collins homeless are educated

[KevDen2005]

Bit the Ft. Collins homeless are educated

I'm sure they are. All former college students with arts degrees. Now the real world doesn't need them.

Never mind, homeless people aren't looking for jobs.

[Zundfolge]

This is why each of us that live in communities that have not yet allowed recreational pot sales need to stand and fight every time our local governments start trying to bring it up. Legal recreational weed is nothing more than a giant magnet to useless, homeless people.

The two recreational stores in Manitou are enough to flood much of the west side of Colorado Springs with these bums so just imagine what dozens of stores across the city would do.

[Great-Kazoo]

Our Homeless problem is bad but nothing compared to Oregon, Washington, the DC Metro area. I'm sure there are more but I'm not as familiar.

I have no doubt our homeless problem will continue to get worse.

They're not homeless, they're disenfranchised tenants .

... Denver is getting worse, for sure, but it's really bad when Ft. Collins is starting to get a homeless problem of their own.

Starting to get? The ACLU took ft fun to court over the freeloading deadbeats ability to loiter in 1 place for more than X amount of time. The city council has no spine, they'd rather push carbon credits than push the freeloaders out.