The number of new businesses opening in Clark County has climbed over the past two decades.

Tamara Landsberg’s Beyond Le Veils Bridal , which opened earlier this year in Vancouver Plaza, is among the businesses contributing to that increase.

Landsberg could have opened her business elsewhere but she chose Vancouver. The city is thriving, she said.

She offers customers an affordable one-stop wedding shop, which also has a charitable component that helps survivors of trauma .

As the county’s population has continued to grow, so have the number of new businesses that open here each year.

Business applications have steadily increased in Clark County over the past 20 years , according to June data from the U.S. Census Bureau. About 3,400 applications were submitted in 2005, less than

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