PORTLAND, Maine — Despite the City of Portland making a continuous effort to address homelessness and its impacts on the community, employees at CORE commercial real estate firm explained that they and small business owners that they lease to feel the brunt of the issue on a daily basis.
On Tuesday, while completing a routine check on a property at 465 Congress St., CORE property manager Andrew Orkin said he saw human feces scattered in the doorway of the building.
“There were three different instances of feces,” he said. “It looked like someone just pressed themselves up against the glass windows and just let it go there. There was fecal matter on the ground and all over the place. It was foul. You could smell it.”…