The coronavirus is not only affecting the health of Americans, but local business, too.
Local businesses have been asked to temporarily close to the public or adjust the way they sell their products.
“Small businesses are the foundation of our state’s economy and they need all the help they can get as the ripple effects of COVID-19 impact their everyday operations,” said Governor Greg Abbott.
Governor Abbott recently announced that the United States’ Small Business Administration (SBA) decided to include the entire state of Texas in the Economic Disaster Declaration which will grant access to the Economic Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.
Cities have asked local business to shut down if they are a non-essential business.
A local crossfit gym has been temporarily closed until further notice.
“We have an amazing community of members and our way to continue their fitness goals during these trying times is to provide home workouts, letting our members check out equipment that they will need, and keeping each other motivated,” Kassie Rivas said.
The Sixth Street CrossFit gym is dedicated to still helping their clients, giving them home workouts and to continue to reach their fitness goals.
Another local business, The Novel Blend, a book store, has created an online store for customers to still purchase books.
“We began building an online store which is very tedious entering all of the information for each book. The online store began paying off yesterday and today was a great day! Local customers placed and paid for their orders and then simply picked them up. With this new decree we may be limited to only mailing the books,” Jill DeFrancesca said.
The online store they’ve created has been a success thus far, but soon will probably limit to just mailing book orders. Although some businesses have asked to close or to restrict their way of selling products, the EIDL program will provide long-term, low interest loans to any qualifying business all across Texas.
