For 23 years the Yampa Valley Entrepreneurship Center has played a huge role in Steamboat Springs, promoting and facilitating effective planning for new business startups, with a helping hand from Colorado Mountain Collage. In November,.
When Aspen Tree Service in Carbondale expanded to add an office in Steamboat Springs last year, the leadership team wanted to introduce itself to the Yampa Valley in a way as green as the spring.
about how this round of the federal funding will roll out.
Loans to businesses can start being made as early as Monday but are limited to lenders deemed a community financial institution, of which Colorado has just four. Other lenders will be able to start making loans “shortly thereafter,” according to guidance from the SBA, but exactly how long that will be is unclear.
The $284 billion in funding made available for the forgivable loan program meant to keep employees on payroll is part of COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress last month. The $900 billion law also includes additional unemployment benefits. It extends an eviction moratorium and provides direct payments to Americans, many of which have already gone out.