Salt Lake City

Department of Economic Development

Phone: (801) 535-7200 | Email: ed@slc.gov

Rebuilding Community

What does it mean to build community, and what is it like to re-invent that community in a COVID world? This is what Salt Lake City’s Lloyd Architects asked of four visionary community builders at this year’s Salt Lake Design Week 2020. Here’s a recap:

In October, business owners from Red Iguana, Publik Coffee, Snuck Farm, and Evo Campus got together to share how things are going in the seventh month of the pandemic. Theirs is a story of the communities that they have visualized and created, and how they’ve seen those communities change in today’s pandemic.

Like too many of our Salt Lake City entrepreneurs, these business owners faced serious challenges including a $300,000 food bill, delayed construction, complete closure, and customer demand disappearing in an instant, among others. The experience has been humbling and left them all wondering if they were going to stay in business at all.

Read more here: https://slcecondev.com/2020/11/05/rebuilding-community/

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