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Grants help small businesses in Fourth Plain corridor survive COVID-19
Published: May 13, 2021, 6:01am
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3 Photos Haeng Chong, who s owned Fourth Plain One Hour Dry Cleaning for 40 years with his wife, pauses for a portrait Wednesday, May 12. Last year, Chong s business received $16,000 through a small business grant program that just reopened for a third time. Applications are due May 19. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
In the 40 years that Haeng Chong has owned his Vancouver dry cleaning business, he’s never seen demand drop like this.
When COVID-19 first hit, the volume of customers seeking services from Fourth Plain One Hour Dry Cleaning cratered by around 90 percent, he said. People just weren’t going out much anymore and that meant they didn’t really need to maintain their going-out clothes. Laundering those going-out clothes is his livelihood.
Vancouver’s Boomerang Therapy Works plans big move
Downtown wellness center moves to central Vancouver this summer
Published: April 20, 2021, 6:04am
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6 Photos Boomerang Therapy Works is moving to a new location next month because its current building is set to be demolished to make way for an apartment building. The taped-off section of the exterior wall was where a car drove into the building recently. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
After four years in downtown Vancouver, Boomerang Therapy Works is preparing to move out of its gym building and setting up shop in central Vancouver. If all goes according to plan, its new location will debut June 1.