Report: Most Larimer businesses that received flood-recovery grants remain open

FORT COLLINS — Ninety percent of businesses in Larimer County that received Small Business Recovery Fund grants after the 2013 floods remain operational two years later, according to a report released Monday.

Forty-nine small businesses in Estes Park, Drake, Loveland and Glen Haven received a total of more than $1.24 million in grants from the fund, which was launched early in 2014 by United Way of Larimer County, Blue Ocean Enterprises and the Richardson and Bohemian foundations. The approach had been used in New York City after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and again for Hurricane Sandy relief in 2012, but…