City of Portland Blames Northwest Success, Inc. for Hazardous Conditions at Public Restrooms Downtown
According to a Willamette Week report (Lucas Manfield, “City of Portland Blames Former Contractor for Hazardous Conditions at Public Restrooms Downtown,” Aug. 30, 2023), a contract between the City of Portland and Northwest Success Inc. was terminated in April 2023 after the company “was unable to meet expectations.” Downtown restrooms became “a health and safety hazard.”
See the Willamette Week article here.
This follows two previous articles in which Willamette Week reported that Multnomah County had temporarily shut down its Behavioral Health Resource Center (BHRC) in downtown Portland, Oregon, due to allegations that employees of Northwest Success Inc. and DPI Security, the Center’s janitorial and security service providers, and a third contractor had used cannabis and cocaine at the center, had questionable sexual relationships with coworkers, and had blackmailed each other by threatening to reveal each other’s behavior.
See “Sex, Drugs, and Unlocked Doors: Northwest Success Inc. and DPI Security in the News.”
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