City working to support at-risk businesses, build ‘relationships’

Scott Swanson

So what’s Sweet Home’s economic development director to do during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown?

“It’s been a whirlwind,” Blair Larsen said Friday, the first day of Gov. Kate Brown’s Phase 1 Reopening Plan.

“I was hired to do one job and suddenly that job has become something entirely different. Economic development becomes preservation, rescue.”

It’s still too early to really tell for sure how Sweet Home’s business community has weathered the economic downturn…

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