"Boyle wrote an op-ed in the Oregonian last year disparaging the homeless situation in Portland and threatening to move Columbia’s new Sorel brand headquarters out of downtown due to the amount of homeless people crowding the neighborhood."

Kelly, this is 100% untrue and totally irresponsible reporting. Boyle's artic

"Boyle wrote an op-ed in the Oregonian last year disparaging the homeless situation in Portland and threatening to move Columbia’s new Sorel brand headquarters out of downtown due to the amount of homeless people crowding the neighborhood."

Kelly, this is 100% untrue and totally irresponsible reporting. Boyle's article does not use the word homeless one time in his article. He does, however, complain about CRIME downtown.

Boyle wants the homeless (correction... "the crime") away from his business in the downtown commercial area, so his great philanthropic solution is to push-broom it down the street in a residential area. And let's not say the area around the Broadway Bridge is not residential just because it's on a city lot and the train station is there. There are thousands of apartments and condos in that immediate area. Many people have invested their lives there. So where does Boyle live? Does he have any mansions within a block or two of his proposed shelter?

It makes perfect sense to concentrate vagrants in the highest value real estate, otherwise their feelings would be hurt and their self worth would be lowered. Of course they will eventually be pushed out, earlier if there are a couple of assaults/murders, eventually with the Post Office redevelopment. Brilliant planning!