The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the opening of a Business Recovery Center in Springfield, Vermont to help businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene.
ATLANTA, Sept. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the opening of a Business Recovery Center in Springfield, Vermont. Businesses affected by Tropical Storm Irene that occurred between Aug. 27 and Sept. 2 should come to the Center to apply for disaster assistance.
The Center opens Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the Office of the Springfield Development Corporation, 14 Clinton Street, Springfield, VT 05156, the operating hours are from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. closed on Sundays, until further notice.
The space being utilized for the Business Recovery Center was obtained through a coordinated effort by the Vermont District Director and the Executive Director of the Springfield Regional Development Corporation, Bob Flint.
SBA's representatives will be on hand at the Business Recovery Center to issue loan applications, answer questions about the disaster loan program, explain the application process and assist business owners in completing their applications.
"Businesses and non-profit organizations of any size may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets," said
Darcy Carter SBA's Vermont district director." The SBA may increase a loan up to 20 percent of the total amount of disaster damage to real estate and/or leasehold improvements, as verified by SBA, to make improvements that lessen the risk of property damage by future disasters of the same kind.
For small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private non-profit organizations, the SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. Economic Injury Disaster Loan assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any physical property damage.
To obtain additional assistance call the SBA Customer Service Center at 800-659-2955 (800-877-8339 for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET or send an e-mail to disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. Those affected by this disaster may fill out a loan application online by visiting SBA's website at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/ .
The filing deadline to return applications for physical property damage is October 31, 2011. The deadline to return economic injury applications is June 1, 2012.
For more information about the SBA's Disaster Loan Program, visit their website at www.sba.gov .
Contact: Michael LamptonPhone: 404-331-0333
SOURCE U.S. Small Business Administration
Friday, September 16, 2011
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IT IS SO SAD to see the only SBA help offered for the victims of Irene has gone to the biased network of the Socialist Re-Development Corporation. They are Springfield's boogey man.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the S.R.D.C. one of the large groups taking everybody's money and mis-spending it to meet their own goals. Haven't they hurt enough small businesses around here themselves?
Who even wants to go into their office?
Dealing with them is like going to a Doctor who also deals drugs. what are you gonna get? and how long is it gonna take to get off it?
SRDC is foremost a reality holding company operating rental and real estate investment properties. Such holdings include, J&L plants 1 & 2, Bryant building and property in the N. Spfld Industrial Park. As such, their board has impeded the State's commitment an industrial park adjacent to the new prison.
ReplyDeleteAsk yourself, why are there thriving CEDA and River Road Industrial Parks a few miles away in NH, and NOTHING in Springfield????? But it's all OK, Springfield has a new logo and we're well on the way to prosperity!
@ above, You said it perfectly.
ReplyDelete"SRDC is foremost a 'REALITY' holding company."
enforcing the "circle of zero's" agenda.
If their unspoken agenda went away this town would thrive too.
the fabric of their network is facist, or runaway socialist at best.
There is actual effort put into making this town not work.
It is by design, and SDRC is engaged in this effort.
Ask yourself why? real scary ansers come up.