OED is committed to supporting our small businesses as we work together to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19. We are holding weekly webinars to share new developments, hear about the impacts you are experiencing, and answer your questions. Please join us every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Register for the… [ Keep reading ]
The City of Seattle Office of Economic Development (OED) is warning small businesses about scammers seeking to prey on the small business community that has already been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. OED has received numerous reports of scammers posing as either lenders or third-party providers offering to assist… [ Keep reading ]
Oliver and Gita Bangera opened their restaurant Nirmal’s in Pioneer Square in December 2015, and Oliver explains that he “wasn’t sure at the start whether there would be a market for a fine dining-restaurant serving Indian food.” But people loved it, and the location became a popular and highly regarded… [ Keep reading ]
Meet Feed the People owner and founder Chef Tarik Abdullah (aka Cooka T), who has a boundless passion for food and for supporting his community. The lifelong cook is also a youth mentor and culinary educator, well-known pop-up event creator, and community visionary. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s teamed up… [ Keep reading ]
“At the City, we’re doing everything we can locally to support our small businesses and workers during this unprecedented moment in history. Working together in the early days of this crisis, we quickly created this $2.5 million Small Business Stabilization Fund, which has become a model for cities across our… [ Keep reading ]
OED is committed to supporting our small businesses as we work together to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19. We are holding weekly webinars to share new developments, hear about the impacts you are experiencing, and answer your questions. Please join us every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Register for… [ Keep reading ]
The City of Seattle’s Office of Economic Development is committed to responding to and supporting our small businesses to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19. As this is a rapidly developing issue, we are holding weekly calls to share new developments, hear about the impacts you are experiencing, and answer your questions…. [ Keep reading ]
Thank you to those that were able to join us last week for the webinar. The presentations and recording are available on here on our blog. I know you all are working incredibly hard to support your businesses through this crisis. We are here to support in any way we can,… [ Keep reading ]
More than ever, now’s the time to #SupportSeattleSmallBiz and workers. We are facing what Mayor Jenny Durkan has called the “challenge of our time”: The novel coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19. Here in the City of Seattle, we’re doing everything we can to support our small businesses and workers. We’re keeping… [ Keep reading ]
