A longtime Portland commercial real estate leader has stepped down from a Portland Business Alliance committee, and the Alliance itself, after making racially insensitive comments.
As first reported by the Oregonian, J. Clayton Hering, who retired after a long stint of leading the Norris, Beggs & Simpson commercial real estate firm, resigned from both the PBA’s government relations committee and the group altogether. Hering, according to the Oregonian, “made comments that suggested racial and ethnic…
