Since inception of the business assistance program, MCEDD has made over 300 loans to businesses totaling over $21 million. MCEDD loan client businesses have created or retained almost 2,500 jobs. MCEDD funds have also leveraged just over $17 million in additional public funding and over $44 million of private capital. Ready to apply? Click here or read the stories below to learn more about the businesses we support and their contributions to the local economy.
Artistic Excavation Purchases Equipment with MCEDD Loan
January 2015 Loan Client Profile: Artistic Excavation, LLC, is a construction company in White Salmon, WA. The company specializes in ...
Fun Country Power Sports Builds New Facility with MCEDD Funds
Fun Country Powersports is a family owned and operated business in The Dalles that focuses on powersports sales, service, and ...
Distillers Start up with MCEDD Financing
Distilleries in the Gorge are starting with the assistance from MCEDD financing. August 2014: Chris Taylor and Roy Slayton came ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...