Diana Cureton had a chance to take over a small convenience store and Mediterranean restaurant in downtown Salem a few years ago. Cureton, who’s lived downtown for about five years, said she’s long wanted to run such a store in the downtown core, catering to residents and workers who wanted[Read More…]
Tag: SALEM ECONOMY
SALEM ECONOMIC INDEX: Indicators show the Salem area economy is roaring back
A ‘now hiring sign outside of a Les Schwab Tires location on Lancaster Drive on Friday, May 28. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The median price of a house in Salem and Keizer continues to climb as fewer are sold. Despite the demand for housing, builders pulled fewer permits in May.[Read More…]
Salem’s vacant Nordstrom building will be replaced with apartments
The former Nordstrom building boarded up on June 29, 2021. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A once-bustling retail hub in downtown Salem will soon be torn down. A developer working with the city of Salem is moving forward with plans to replace the vacant Nordstrom building downtown with a five-story structure that’ll[Read More…]
PHOTOS: As Chang Tuh expands, the Salem company keeps cooking up Korean cuisine
Workers assemble the ingredients for spicy beef and vegetable soup pouch at the Chang Tuh facility on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) In an industrial area in northeast Salem, workers were busy turning slices of beef, chili powder, onions and other vegetables into soup. Operating out of Salem[Read More…]
After operating in Salem for decades, Chang Tuh hopes to make Korean food mainstream
Korean pop music (or K-Pop) acts are selling out U.S. stadiums. A Korean film was named best picture at last year’s Oscar awards. Now, Salem is the springboard for a Korean company hoping to capitalize on Americans’ embrace of cuisine from the East Asian country. Chang Tuh Corporation is in[Read More…]
With a talent for making dirty cars look new, a Salem teenager makes his vision a reality
Edgar Perez uses a steam cleaner to clean the interior of a pickup truck he is detailing on June 17, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Edgar Perez decided that by the age of 17 he wouldn’t be working for anyone else. At age 16, Perez was working at a local detail[Read More…]
After a difficult year, Capitol Cryo welcomes Salem back into the cold
The owners and staff of Capitol Cryo stand next to Salem’s only cryo tank, which exposes users to temperatures well below zero for its purported health benefits. From left, co-owners Lynn Rouse and Tanah Lines, Assistant Manager Elisabeth Jones and Manager Hannah Schmidt. (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) Tanah Lines has no[Read More…]
Lights out looming for tens of thousands of Marion County residents
On a rainy, and windy day, Feb. 15, a lineman for Salem Electric works to repair power lines damaged by a weekend ice storm. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Nearly 24,000 residents of Marion County are at risk of having their electricity or gas shut off when a statewide moratorium on disconnections[Read More…]
COLUMN: Some reasons for the labor shortage have been decades in the making
Men’s participation in the U.S. labor force has been on the decline for decades, while women have increasingly found work. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) Salem’s economy is improving, there are lots of job openings and employers say they are having difficulty filling them. Some reasons for this are[Read More…]
Two Salem businesses have yet to pay hefty fines for pandemic citations, pushing appeals
Courthouse Club Fitness in west Salem. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Over the last year, two Salem businesses were assessed hefty fines by Oregon’s workplace safety agency for openly flouting regulations intended to protect workers from Covid. But neither business has paid any money, and it could be years before they pay[Read More…]
