County’s commercial sector struggles with sluggish fire recovery
The 16-year-old Willi's burned to the ground in the Tubbs wildfire, closing the popular restaurant. It is expected to reopen early next year in the Town & Country shopping center. The upcoming reunion will bring together those who worked at the
"We went through months of not knowing if we were going to do another Willi's," said co-owner
The Starks are enduring an experience typical of area entrepreneurs whose businesses burned in the most destructive fire in state history. Even as the county's economy has rebounded after the disaster, the affected business owners have found themselves bogged down by unpaid insurance claims and questions of whether and how to rebuild.
In comparing the business recovery with that of the residential rebuilding, two sets of numbers stand out:
*bul Insurance companies, as of this spring, had paid more than 70 percent of the
For businesses, the payout for the same period amounted to only 43 percent of the nearly
*bul Homeowners have begun construction on more than 1,000 of the 5,300 homes destroyed countywide by the
Indeed, fire-damaged commercial properties here are undergoing repairs. But of the approximately 40 businesses, excluding home-based firms, that were destroyed, property owners have started reconstruction on only one site: the
In
In assessing the devastating effects, the city of
Affected retailers included national chains like Kmart, Kohl's and
Even owners and executives of partially-burned businesses faced plenty of obstacles to recovery. Cleanup crews at Keysight hauled away more than 1 million pounds of debris from the
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