Monday's Mindless Absurdties: Kamala Dances the Day Away While Her Party Hollows Out America's Big Cities
Oh, hey, nothing to see up in Seattle, Washington - just corporate wokeness model Nike permanently closing down its flagship store:
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
The exodus from Seattle looks like it's officially on.
No sooner did we prep a report indicating that Amazon is going to be letting an office lease in Seattle expire for only the second time ever, we also come across news that the Nike Store - which has been open for 26 years on Sixth Avenue and Pike Street in Seattle - has shut down.
The Nike store has "shut its doors for good", according to the Daily Mail, right after its neighbor down the street, Regal Cinemas, also announced they would be rejecting the lease to the Meridian 16 multiplex one block away.
“I’m heartbroken,” one resident told the Seattle Times. “Pretty bummed,” added another customer, who said he shopped at the store on a weekly basis and that it would take him "over an hour" to get to Nike's new location.
Business writer Paul Roberts for the Seattle Times noted about the closure: "Its exit sounds an ominous note for a downtown that hasn’t been able to catch its stride since the pandemic."
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While Nike isn’t saying precisely why the store is closing its doors as so many others have before it as the central city has been hollowed out, ZeroHedge points to the following factors:
As the Mail noted, "2022 mark[ed] the deadliest year for the homeless population in King County", with 310 deaths in the homeless community, up 65% from 2021, including 18 homicides and 160 fentanyl-related overdoses.
General crime in the city has also stayed high, with 285 rapes, 1,654 robberies and 3,258 aggravated assaults being reported in 2022 through November. Those numbers were on a par to match the year prior.
Retail vacancy in Seattle sits at 13.5%, the report says, up from 2% in 2019.
Oh. It’s also a safe bet that rising, rampant shoplifting, combined with Democrat-enacted laws that prevent the policing of the crime itself and let those arrested back out onto the streets without bail so they can commit more crimes play a role here, too.