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5 ways to do your part in helping restaurants and retailers reopen safely.

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By Earl Clements

As restaurants, retailers and bars prepare to reopen in West Michigan and across the state, customers can do their part in helping businesses reopen their doors safely.

Restaurants and retailers have been given guidelines by the state to keep employees and customers as safe as possible once they reopen. This includes limiting capacity to 50% of normal seating, requiring at least 6 feet of separation between parties, creating communications for customers to inform them of changes, and providing physical guidelines such as tape on floors or signage, among a wide range of safety guidelines.

Supporting our community’s businesses with your dollars throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been critical to keeping many businesses afloat and getting to this point. We know there is a long road ahead and everyone wants to avoid any setbacks. Now that businesses are re-opening, it’s important everyone does their part to keep staff and customers safe.

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Earl Clements | Colliers | Grand Rapids

Earl Clements

Senior Vice President

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I have been involved in some of the Midwest’s largest retail projects, bringing more than 35 years of experience and national-level retail contacts to the Colliers International | West Michigan team. I am well-known for my expertise and attention to detail in retail and tenant site location. Most notably, I am known for my work in consulting local communities on their location of retail properties. I also frequently assist clients by lending my knowledge in marketing.

Prior to joining Colliers, I served as the president of Visser Development, Inc., for 16 years. While at Visser, I was responsible for the development, management, leasing, and sale of numerous West Michigan strip centers and enclosed malls.

Before Visser, I spent seven years in marketing and management at The Taubman Centers, Inc. - an international developer of regional malls.

My early years at Taubman prepared me for my success as a major retail broker by providing me with the management skills needed to oversee large transactions and the creativity to develop creative retail, real estate solutions.

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