Wholesome Beginnings’ first order, intended to feed a home of five residents three healthy meals each day for a week (Courtesy/Sarah Short) Sarah Short was chatting with a friend who worked in a group disability home last year when he mentioned that the residents in his company’s care often end[Read More…]
Tag: LOCAL BUSINESS
BUSINESS ROUNDUP: Businesses following governor’s orders, distillery’s grand opening, grants for jobs seekers and new insurance office
Libby Anderson serves coffee at Archive with a mask and safe distancing on June 17, 2020. (Cathy Cheney/Salem Reporter) There’s a lot going on in business in Salem. To help keep you up to speed, the Salem Reporter is providing a semi-regular roundup of business-related items including new business openings,[Read More…]
Uncategorized NORPAC closing Salem plant, laying off 900 workers
Corn being processed at a NORPAC plant (Courtesy/Oregon Department of Agriculture) More than 900 workers in Marion County will be left without a job come January, after farmer’s cooperative NORPAC sent a layoff notice to employees of the Salem plant on Wednesday. The layoffs will also impact workers at the[Read More…]
Uncategorized Months after opening, Salem senior community Boone Ridge already expanding
A rendering of Boone Ridge Senior Living’s upcoming expansion, a complex of 144 apartments. (Submitted/Boone Ridge Senior Living) Like time itself, the elder care industry doesn’t appear to be slowing down. Yet another facility in Salem is expanding. Boone Ridge Senior Living last week broke ground on a new complex[Read More…]
Uncategorized Businesses in Marion, Polk counties to get $14.5 million from SAIF
SAIF headquarters near downtown Salem on Monday. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Business is going well enough at SAIF, a workers’ compensation insurer, that it plans to give $160 million out to policyholders this year. That will land about $14.5 million collectively for policyholders in Marion and Polk counties, according to spokeswoman[Read More…]
Uncategorized Downtown Salem businesses flock to publicly funded grants for security fences, cameras
Two women talk on a bench at the Equitable Center. The property is among five to receive new city grants to install security measures at downtown businesses. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Four new light poles stand guard over the parking lot of Q’s Corner Barbershop, bought and paid for with public[Read More…]
Uncategorized Effort to return commercial flights to Salem provides update, asks for more money
Correction 1:20 p.m.: A previous version of this article misstated where the convention between cities and airline companies was held. A now-defunct security checkpoint at the Salem Municipal Airport is used for little more than storage without commercial air service operating. But Thursday, a business group used it as symbolism[Read More…]
Uncategorized Group pushing for commercial air service at Salem Municipal Airport lands grant
A private plane on the runway at Salem Municipal Airport pictured last fall. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Update 6:30 p.m.: This article has been updated with a comment from Tom Hoffert, CEO of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce. A group of Salem business owners and residents trying to return commercial[Read More…]
Uncategorized Tom Hoffert says he will emphasize partnership as Salem chamber’s new CEO
Tom Hoffert stands outside the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Hoffert officially becomes its CEO on Jan. 2. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Tom Hoffert says he wants to work with everyone. Last week, the 44-year-old was tapped to be the next CEO of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce.[Read More…]
Uncategorized PacTrust to appeal Salem denial of Costco-anchored shopping center
The empty lot along Kuebler Boulevard where the shopping center is proposed. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter files) PacTrust Realty, the backers of a nearly 200,000-square-foot shopping center that was spurned by Salem City Council last week, says it will file an appeal to the state land use board. The Portland-based real[Read More…]
