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The U.S. Small Business Administration fixed a technical glitch and applications will soon reopen for its Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.
The relief program is offering $16.2 billion on a first-come, first-served basis for operators of live venues, live performing arts organizations, museums and movie theatres, as well as live venue promoters, theatrical producers and talent representatives.
Those eligible entities are some of the first that had to shut their doors a year ago in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While some were eligible for Paycheck Protection Program loans, the SVOG program is one of the first relief sources that is tailored specifically to venues and entertainment operators.
By NEAL RUBIN AND SARAH RAHAL | The Detroit News | Published: March 12, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. DETROIT (Tribune News Service) Remember when the toilet paper shelves at supermarkets were stripped and empty by 9 a.m.? Someone had been up until dawn filling them and would do it again as soon as the doors closed. Someone we never saw, and never had the chance to thank. So thank you. Thank you to the workers handing coffee out the drive-thru window to the power plant workers who were making sure the lights stayed on at the drugstores where the pharmacists filled prescriptions for the truck drivers whose kidneys had taken a million miles of pounding.