In those article it specifies two buildings and some dumpster fires. You ever been to Portlandia and seen how big that area is? The point is, that in real actual not-on-the-internet conversations with actual people, as well as some of you chucklebears, there seems to be this notion that the city looks like a pile of burned out wreckage. It's not. It's quite nice actually. Most of the residents that I've talked to view the protests as a nuisance but aren't exactly living in fear of big bad antifa, protestors, blm or whatever.
When we lived in Oregon for 17 months, the wife had occasion to fly back to Oklahoma and then fly back. On her trip back, her flights first took her to San Francisco before being scheduled on to Medford, OR. At SF, they announced the flight to Medford was overbooked and were asking folks to take a voucher and a different flight, so, since they were offering a $400 voucher, she took them up on it. Her flight on to Medford was first taking her to Portland and then back down to Medford.
She took pictures of San Francisco from the air at night and there were lights everywhere...
...when she got over Portland, about the only way she knew she was over the city was the number of vehicle lights that she could see. Apparently, Portland doesn't like street lights. (Looking at her photos reminded me of images of the Korean peninsula with North being dark and the South being all lit up.)
Some of the folks there in southern Oregon kind of felt like Portland WAS their N. Korea.
Shoot...
...a few dumpster fires might have helped light up the city of Portland.