122nd Tent Colony At The Old Safeway

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Once upon a time, not too awful long ago, there was a Safeway at 122nd and NE Glisan. Then, after several years of patronage by the surrounding neighborhood, Safeway decided that, despite the demand, just one Safeway - two miles south, at Powell Boulevard - is plenty Safeways enough for DavidDouglasLandia. 

Suspicions of a pattern of disinvestment in this area by large merchants who do not think some areas are worth their time come to mind. I shall file them for the nonce.

Since that time, other tenants have moved in alongside the still-vacant supermarket. They are more refugees of the present storms that tear at us all. And they've been here a while.

This stretches from just the corner of the defunct Safeway branch down to the corner of NE Davis Street there, and a little bit in front of the old Ron Tonkin Grand Turismo place, now known as Jordan Motorsports. This is basically across the street from Ron Tonkin's historic landmark dealership and sign.

They will stay there, doubtless, until someone finally takes the problems that put them there to begin with seriously on a systemic basis ... or they get swept, which ever comes first.

And it Portland, it's typically the sweep. 

No, I have no cheerful and witty play-out for this missive. This is the planet we live on, guys.