Buffalo Wild Wings closes downtown Portland location [Video]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The downtown Portland location of Buffalo Wild Wings has closed after 17 years. 

Both the city of Portland and the company have confirmed the closure of the location near Southwest 4th and Morrison, which opened in December 2007.

In a memo to its downtown employees, Wray Hutchinson, the president of World Wide Wings, said starting in May 2020, the building began incurring a lot of property damage, with the parking garage becoming a “haven for crime and drug use.” 

The memo described cars being vandalized, awnings set on fire, equipment thrown from the top of the garage onto the sidewalk, and employees and guests feeling unsafe.

“Despite spending tens of thousands of dollars in building and vehicle repairs, we fought hard to stay,” Hutchinson continued, adding the company tried to enlist the help of the city, which owns the building …