SAN FRANCISCO??!? Did you say SAN FRANCISO, Dirk? Pushed out by SAN FRANCISCO property owners? They're SAN FRANCISCO based?

"San Francisco" is the Merc's favorite clickbait phrase these days.

Not only that, but Dirk is in the process of legally changing his name to Dirk SanfranHate.

By the way, what happened to my icon? First up-and-down-voting goes away, and now my commenter icon. Not sure how much more disrespect I'm willing to take.

They pushed us out of the building as well. We'd been there for three years, had negotiated new terms with the old owner who kept pushing off having us actually execute the lease (clearly while he was negotiation with swift), and kicked is out with less than three weeks notice. They wouldn't negotiate the lease rate at all and told us they'd rather keep it empty. They even told me they don't plan on holding the Merchant Hotel building for long. It's all about the flip for their investor pool.

Yes, please tell us again how Californians aren't ruining Portland. How this new influx of money and ideas is making it better. I'll wait. *crickets*

Your icon was pushed out by Californians Todd, no room for your individuality in new Portland.

There's no good reason why Dirk should report that the San Francisco real estate company that bought the building is from San Francisco. In the future, Dirk should withhold any and all facts that might cause offense to Todd. Offending Todd is bad journalism.

The SF property owners should have set up a New York-based LLC to buy the property - then nobody would be complaining.