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Providing Funding to Businesses Will Be Crucial in Recovery
In our series, The Big Fix, industry experts explore how the region can rebound from the coronavirus shutdown
When there is change in consumer behavior, there are also opportunities for entrepreneurs with vision, access to capital and the skill to implement successfully.
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Infrastructure and Workforce Will Help Attract Companies
In our series, The Big Fix, industry experts explore how the region can rebound from the coronavirus shutdown
Developers are working to strengthen the Capital Region’s competitive advantages and redefine its value proposition for businesses looking to move or expand.
![Leslie Bosserman founded The Makers Place in Sacramento to provide a coworking and child care space for working parents. (Photos by Andrew Calisterio)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0720_blog_gettingtoknow1_1.jpg?1595964305)
Getting to Know: Leslie Bosserman
Founder of The Makers Place builds a support system for working parents
Longing for a way to be creative during the hours she felt most energized, Bosserman set out to develop a community space for working families in early 2018.
![Tropics Ale House on J Street in Midtown Sacramento reopened in late May for dine-in service. (Photos by Graham Womack)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0620_blog_downtownbiz1.jpg?1592587074)
The New Normal
Sacramento businesses face challenges adapting to COVID-19 landscape
Despite the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus still soaring around California and throughout the country, state and local governments have begun loosening restrictions on businesses. Here’s how businesses are adjusting.
![Kaiser Permanente (its Downtown Commons Medical Offices in downtown Sacramento shown here) reported a first-quarter loss of $1.1 billion. (Photo by Graham Womack)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0620_blog_statuscheck_lead.jpg?1592335705)
Status Check: Health Care Hanging On
Local leaders say they’re undaunted by intense fiscal impacts from COVID-19
COVID-19 has presented significant challenges for health care. At least for the moment, though, local providers have been hanging tough and looking toward economic recovery.
![Misty Humphries, a vascular surgeon with UC Davis Health, and Tyler Kuresa, a Roseville real estate agent, clean up the wall behind the Bread Store building on J Street, which has been closed since February 2019. (Photos by Steve Martarano)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0620_blog_photoessay_cleanup7.jpg?1591123504)
Photos: Volunteers Respond to Calls to Clean Up Sacramento Businesses
Volunteers help clean up around several businesses in downtown Sacramento that had been damaged during national protests over the weekend in response to the May 25 police killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis.
![The new Amazon distribution center at McClellan Park is expected to be operational in the next 2-3 months. (Photo by Judy Farah)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0520_blog_business_mcclellan.jpg?1589481309)
Coronavirus Divergence
At McClellan Park, one side is bustling, the other side is quiet
During normal times, McClellan Park is busy with 18,000 employees working for the 220 businesses on campus, which has 9 million square feet of building space. But due to the coronavirus, only the warehouses and a few offices remain open.
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Bringing Downtown Back
Michael Ault of Downtown Sacramento Partnership talks about businesses reopening
Gov. Gavin Newsom said that “some retail, manufacturing, and logistics businesses” would be allowed to reopen beginning May 8. Comstock’s spoke with Downtown Sacramento Partnership Executive Director Michael Ault about what a limited reopening might look like in the Sacramento region.
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California’s Essential Workers to Get Benefit of the Doubt if They Contract COVID-19
California’s essential workers will get new workers’ compensation protections under an executive order signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom — a move that could cost the state billions of dollars in claims from COVID-19-infected workers.
![An empty parking lot in front of Old Navy at The Veranda shopping center in Concord on March 19, 2020. One third of the center's businesses have been forced to close temporarily due to the shelter in place order in Contra Costa and surrounding counties. (Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/reopening_photo.jpg?1588698877)
Newsom: State Can Begin Gradual Reopening Friday
California is ready to partially reopen major sectors of its economy as early as this Friday, including retail shops and the manufacturers that supply them, Gov. Gavin Newsom said on May 4.