Last week, WW examined the state of East Portland’s Gateway neighborhood, which lies east of Interstate 205 and is plagued by crime, homelessness and most recently, the impending closure of the Gateway Fred Meyer (“Gateway to Nowhere,” Aug. 27). That’s despite the city’s economic development agency, Prosper Portland, spending $88 million since 2001 to improve the neighborhood through its urban renewal program. Over the course of three weeks, WW staff spoke to Gateway residents, nonprofit leaders, small business owners and developers to learn more about why the city’s investments have done so little. The feeling in the neighborhood was unanimous: Things are worse than they were 25 years ago. Here’s what our readers had to say:

Isabel4578 via wweek.com: “Rampant crime is what killed this a

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