Study: Portland Ranks Near Bottom on List of Recovering Downtowns

The University of California Berkeley has published a study that finds Portland’s downtown is the 60th-slowest to recover after the pandemic compared to 62 other larger cities, the Portland Tribune reports. 

Using two years of cell phone data, researchers recorded how many people were shopping and dining at downtown stores and restaurants. The study finds that Portland’s recovery of 41% of foot traffic ranked lower than all other measured cities except Cleveland (36% recovered) and San Francisco (31% recovered). 

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