The head of a key business group in Portland’s Central Eastside announced her resignation this week as the industrial district continues to grapple with the chronic safety and livability concerns that exploded onto the surface in November when a co-founder of Salt & Straw threatened to move the ice cream company out of Oregon.
Clare Briglio, executive director of the Central Eastside Industrial Council, confirmed her resignation this week. In a statement, Briglio said that she was grateful to have led the industrial council and the area’s enhanced service district, called Central Eastside Together, for the past 18 months. She called the period a “critical juncture” in Portland.