The Downtown BIZ wants to extend a helping hand to Winnipeg businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Kate Fenske, CEO of the core-area business organization, told 680 CJOB the BIZ is launching a webinar Monday morning to help business owners across the city with some of the struggles they’re facing due to COVID-19. “The primary customer base for downtown businesses really are downtown workers, so when companies and organizations were telling their workers to be safe, work from home if you can..
we really see that drop happen early,” said Fenske. “Some businesses are still making a go of it, adapting their plans, figuring out how to do delivery if they weren’t doing delivery before… but there definitely has been a big shift downtown.