May 19, 2003
Small Business Satisfied With Portland?
Today's Oregonian, previews a survey to be released on Wednesday:
The city's first business satisfaction survey finds nearly twice as many respondents consider Portland a good place to operate than a bad one, but rates the city poorly for parking, building permits and economic development.
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The business survey, to be released Wednesday, found 48 percent rating Portland as a good or very good place to do business. Businesses scoring Portland as bad or very bad totaled 26 percent. The rest said the city was neither good nor bad.
The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 2 percent.
Starting this Wednesday, you can read the survey results for yourself. And sometime this week, the Portland Business Alliance will be releasing a surbey of its own.
Comments (3)
jack peek on 20 May 2003
One thing I HAVE NOTICED about posting here... It seems it's you and me quite a bit, Is that because with you they consider the source and with me, they wanna see what is the case in this bit about business. The real story the daily "o" wrote is pretty far from the truth.
This happen to be one of the biggest reasons for recalling Katz, is her lack of getting along with any business .....and small business leads the list.
Rob Salzman on 20 May 2003
Of course small businesses are satisified. They need a pool of poorly educated, low wage workers. Oregon does a great job a providing that demographic!
The One True b!X on 20 May 2003
Well, the problem at the moment, Jack, is that a survey has been released showing small business support for Portland. Until and unless we have some sort of survey showing the opposite, there's no "objective" basis for saying small business doesn't support Portland, Katz, or whatever.
I have no doubt there is anecdotal evidence to say so. But there'd be anecdotal evidence to say just about anything.
We'll see what the Portland Business Alliance survey has to say.