Portland police finally cleared out a deserted shopping center in the city’s notoriously empty downtown — a building once described as being straight out of the zombie HBO show “The Last of Us.”

The center’s owner, Barry Menashe, is working with officials to board up the building and eradicate what The Oregonian called “rampant drug trafficking.”

The vacant center had become an open-air drug market and was in “crisis mode,” the Daily Mail reported.

Portland has one of the most deserted downtowns in the United States.

Soaring crime rates and homelessness scare away both locals and tourists. 

Conservative journalist Andy Ngo said the building looked like a scene from the HBO video game adaptation “The Last of Us.”

Police swooped in early Wednesday, finding evidence of squatters but no people, according to reports.

In 2021, there were 90 homicides amid a surge in gun violence in Portland, which shattered the city’s previous record high of 66 set more than three decades ago. 

There were 101 murders recorded in 2022 — a new record for the city, which has more than 700 homeless encampments scattered across the city within less than 150 square miles.

Tent cities have overrun many of the most charming and once sought-after areas of Portland. Many neighborhoods are littered with trash. 

Portland City Council rushed to return funds to the police in November 2021 after defunding them by more than $15 million in 2020. Officials voted to add $5.4 million to the force’s budget.