Mall Rats Photo: Jason E. Kaplan Foot traffic has plunged during the pandemic at Portland s Lloyd Center Mall
Driven by bankruptcies, redundancies and the rise of e-commerce, the retail sector has been in flux for years. COVID-19 accelerated the shift. Oregon’s malls can either reinvent themselves to stay vital or they can fail.
It is a late Tuesday afternoon and the foot traffic in Washington Square Mall in the Portland suburbs looks brisk by COVID-19 restrictions standards. Families with strollers and small children in tow, groups of teens just dismissed from distance learning and older couples stroll the wide halls, dropping their masks to sip a drink or lick an ice cream cone.
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Experienced franchise operator inexpensively converts a former restaurant space in Alpharetta City Center to new Curry Up Now
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Curry Up Now, the nation’s largest and fastest growing Indian fast casual concept that is popularly known for its innovative approach to Indian cuisine, is celebrating the opening of its Alpharetta, Georgia, location at
24 South Main Street in Alpharetta City Center. This marks the third metro Atlanta area franchise location and continues Curry Up Now’s aggressive nationwide expansion. With locations in Atlanta’s Madison Yards at Reynoldstown, North Decatur Square and now Alpharetta, Curry Up Now operates 14 restaurants across the country, with more than 50 restaurants in varying stages of development in nearly every major region in the United States.
/dev/color Names Chief Operating Officer
Rhonda Payne to Lead Operations at Workforce Accelerator for Black Software Engineers
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Rhonda Payne, CAE, has accepted an appointment as Chief Operating Officer of /dev/color, a nonprofit member services organization widely recognized as the most powerful network of Black software engineers in tech. Ms. Payne brings deep expertise in leading nonprofits, membership communities, events, teams, and large-scale verticals (both US-based and globally) into the role. Software engineers impact more than their company s valuation, Ms. Payne said. They touch and shape millions of lives through their work. They impact the world. Yet, Black engineers, technologists, leaders and founders are being excluded and that loss hurts us all. Right now, people are struggling to discern theater from meaningful progress. I m proud to align my efforts and passi
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Arby s bringing jobs, community partnerships to Kewanee
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Along with The Meats and curly fries, the new Kewanee Arby s will be bringing with it several dozen jobs and promises to be deeply involved with the community through local sponsorships.
The restaurant, whose construction on the northeast corner of Midland Plaza Shopping Center started in March, could open as soon as late July.
Kevin Ramirez, part of the decades-old, four-person ownership group that has 15 other Arby s restaurants in 12 cities in Illinois and the Quad Cities, said they all are from small towns in the region and their track record involves investing in the communities in which they operate.