Since inception of the business assistance program, MCEDD has made over 230 loans to businesses totaling over $14 million. MCEDD loan client businesses have created or retained over 2,100 jobs. MCEDD funds have also leveraged just over $12 million in additional public funding and over $30 million of private capital. Learn more about the businesses we support and their contributions to the local economy:
Working Capital Loan Supports Oregon Growers and Shippers
Oregon Growers & Shippers comes from a vision to create products using the finest quality, locally sourced ingredients from right ...
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MCEDD Microloan Supports Opening of Pioneer Pizza
Pioneer Pizza opened in May of 2014 and is located in the Pioneer building at 216 East Jewett Blvd in White ...
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Tribal Fish Market Constructs Facility with MCEDD Financing
Kim Brigham Campbell and her family harvest and sell salmon, steelhead, and other fish from the Columbia River, just as ...
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Trinity Natural Medicine Purchases Equipment with MCEDD Loan
Trinity Natural Medicine is a healing center located in Hood River, Oregon at 1808 Belmont Avenue. Their goal is to ...
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Opportunity Connections Advances Employment Opportunities
Opportunity Connections was started by families and local business people in 1967 as an alternative to institutions for disabled individuals ...
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Hobbies Become Serious Business with MCEDD Financing: Hood River Hobbies
In 2011, Zed and Miko Ruhlen purchased Hood River Hobbies with the intention of expanding its offerings and growing the ...
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Mountain Home Biological Expands in Bingen
To support the expansion of their business through the purchase of land and the construction of a new facility Mountain ...
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Wildland Firefighting Capacity Expands with MCEDD Financing
August 2013-- Alejandro Rodriguez has been in the wild land firefighting field since 2000. After working for other companies based ...
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Sweet Lila’s Coffee Cup Receives Small Business Loan
Heidi Hall received a Mid-Columbia Economic Development District (MCEDD) loan to open a coffee drive thru business. Sweet Lila's Coffee ...
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MCEDD Loan Supports Minor’s International Wood Design
Danny Minor of Minor's International Wood Design has been an independent business for the last nine years, but Danny has ...
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