Break-ins target new businesses in Southwest Portland [Video]

In the past week, two new small businesses, a café and a smoothie shop, suffered break-ins, resulting in shattered windows and stolen cash.

PORTLAND, Ore. — New businesses in Southwest Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood are being broken into at what the community calls an alarming rate. The business owners now see it as a “rite of passage” for those who want to work downtown.

Surveillance video shared with KGW shows an early morning break-in at Rush Bowls, a Southwest Portland smoothie and acai bowl shop on Jefferson Street. It took the thief all of 30 seconds to smash the window, pry open the register and run away with $250 in cash. It happened Saturday around 5 a.m., days after the shop’s grand opening.

“It was kind of just like a shot to the gut… that really, really hurt because we’re trying to do something so good for the community. Feedback’s …