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The 2025 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon survey is open! Seize this opportunity to find out what your employees think about their workplace, and see how you rank among other Oregon companies. https://lnkd.in/g534n284

Registration is open for the 2025 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon list. Seize this opportunity to find out what your employees think about their workplace, and see how you rank among other Oregon companies. https://lnkd.in/g534n284

In 2018, Oregon Business featured Shari’s in “The Non-Foodie Restaurant Survival Guide,” a feature about unpretentious casual restaurants working to stay afloat amid a “restaurant apocalypse” that shuttered locations of fast food and fast-casual restaurants that were once household names, like Applebee’s and Subway. Borgese, identified in that story as the new CEO of Shari’s, which at that time had 90 locations in six states, said he had recently overseen a menu refresh and rebrand, both focused on the chain’s Northwest roots. He also stressed that while the restaurant was seeking to bring in younger customers, he would not chase millennial customers with “gimmicky” tactics. Earlier this week, Borgese confirmed that all Oregon Shari's locations have closed. https://lnkd.in/gBsZKfri

The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon 2025 survey is now live! To learn more — or to sign up — please check out our website. https://lnkd.in/g7XuuriM

The 2024 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon list showcases nonprofit organizations with best-in-class workplace practices, based on surveys sent to employees of the participating nonprofits. Some of the organizations on this list are repeat honorees; others are appearing on the list for the first time. Congratulations to this year's winners!

We look at three big shifts underway in Portland arts spaces this year. https://lnkd.in/gy7x5GPh

In the mid-2010s, thousands of Oregon entrepreneurs joined the ‘green rush’ made possible by legal recreational marijuana. Others decided to serve the industry with ancillary businesses that seemed safer. Where are they now that the boom’s gone bust? https://lnkd.in/gsZp5xmm

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A former insurer for Buoy Beer Company is suing the City of Astoria, Rickenbach Construction, Stricker Engineering and Columbia Dockworks for $9.5 million in damages from the 2022 partial collapse of the Buoy Beer Company’s waterfront building in Astoria. The building, which collapsed in June 2022, began demolition this week.