20-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
A Fire Sale of Portland's Largest Office Tower Shows How Far the City Has Fallen
After Digital Trends moved out of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Ore., the technology publisher didn't hold back about why it left.
The property, once a premier address in the city, was afflicted with 'vagrants sleeping in hallways of vacant office floors.' They were 'starting fires in stairwells, smoking fentanyl and defecating in common areas,' according to papers the company filed in a lease-termination lawsuit.