SEATTLE – Sabando Design has been one of the cornerstones of the Pike Place market for 16 years, but this holiday season for traditional designers, husband and wife, is unique.
“It’s been a tough year. In March, when the market closed, it was almost like I had an attack on the center or someone cut off my legs under me. It was so, we didn’t know what we were going to do,” Kristeena said. Saturday.
Sabando said his business went down 80% this year. Although some of the 500 distributors at the market site have returned to the market site, pedestrian traffic is far from normal. of a hundred dealerships.
“It’s a wonderful place to help small businesses in the market if you’re not shopping in person,” said Patricia Gray of Pike Place Market.
Some of it will also go to the market recovery fund, which is helping companies, staff and others on the network in difficulty with the pandemic. The fund started in June to raise $3. 5 million.
Gray said she was involved and that some of her suppliers would do so even after the pandemic ended.
“It’s a genuine concern. So far, we’ve provided nearly a hundred grants to small businesses in the market,” Gray said.
Although it has been a difficult year for Sabando, she is grateful to continue doing what she loves and said she owed everything to the generosity of the community.
“This pandemic has been all the care and the whole center that Seattle has,” Sabando said.
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