Thirty-three businesses closed or announced plans to close in 2022. Reflect back on the year that was and the common themes behind the dozens of closures.
New owners say free pickup and delivery and plans to add kiosks around Fargo-Moorhead should make accessing cleaning services easy despite fewer bricks and mortar locations.
The business has pivoted to doing more commercial laundry work and pickup and dropoff, but without federal Paycheck Protection Program loans, Camelot would have been “one equipment breakdown from being done,” Stedman said.
“We’re at four (outlets) and holding our own,” Bill Brenan, the president and operating partner of Brenan’s Drycleaning & Laundry, said in a recent interview at his downtown Fargo production facility.
“We have not laid anybody off. It’s been close” though, Brenan said. Hours have been cut in the production plant and some of the stores have had hours shortened.
Bill Brenan, president and managing partner of Brenan s Cleaners, left, and General Manager Darcy Nelson, are seen Monday, Dec. 12, at the company s processing facility at 921 4th Ave. N., Fargo. (Helmut Schmidt / The Forum)