Category Business
Neighbors of proposed Costco, shopping center file with Oregon Court of Appeals
The site of the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center in South Salem pictured September 2018. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) The fate of a proposed Costco-anchored shopping center in south Salem will be decided a little bit later than previously thought. Three neighbors in the South Gateway…
New York firm appears to be reviving shuttered Salem solar panel plant
An excavator drops dirt into a truck at Panasonic Corp.’s former solar panel plant in east Salem on Aug. 29. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Construction workers have been busy at a closed solar panel factory in east Salem, but mystery shrouds their work. Sources in the…
Retirees snatching up new senior care homes as industry continues to boom
Construction crews work on one of the 17 new duplexes being built at Capital Manor on Aug. 6. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) At Capital Manor Retirement Community, an institution almost as old as its youngest residents, new life clambers together on the west side of campus.…
Plastic bag ban starts impacting small Salem retailers Sept. 1
People shop in downtown Salem in the winter. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter) Plastic bags that already disappeared from checkout stands at big grocers and other large retailers in Salem will soon be gone from small shops, too. Starting Sept. 1, retailers under 10,000 square…
Costco-anchored shopping center sent back to Salem City Council
The site of the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center in South Salem. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) A sprawling shopping center on Kuebler Boulevard, anchored by a Costco Wholesale, will likely go back before Salem City Council. The State Land Use Board of Appeals on Wednesday remanded…
Salem On Ice won’t return after difficult second year
Skaters at Salem On Ice pictured in December 2018. An organizer said the rink saw a 20 percent drop in skaters, prompting a cancellation of year three. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter files) Salem on Ice is, well, on ice. Organizers of the ice rink, which set…
Salem tech company Rigado sells division to Swiss company
Rigado, headquartered in South Salem, sold a division of its company to a Swiss company called u-blox. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Salem technology company Rigado is selling a piece of its business that helps connect devices to the internet. The company, founded in 2010 and headquartered…
Fears build that Amazon could vacuum up employees
The 1-million-square-foot fulfillment center in southeast Salem, pictured on June 21. The Seattle-based online retailer is expected to hire 1,000 people soon to staff it. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) If business is a jungle, Dean Craig sees a coming shakeup in Salem’s food chain. One of…
Taylor named advertising director for Salem Reporter
Bruce Taylor, long-time publisher of the Salem Business Journal, is joining Salem Reporter as its first director of advertising sales. Taylor has published the monthly business newspaper since 2004. He also is the publisher of Salem Magazine. “With his deep knowledge of Salem, its businesses…