Programs & Initiatives
Façade Improvement Program: The Facade Lovastatin vs lipitor Improvement Program Hytrin 1 mg aims to Buy Lasix Online revitalize and Buy Brand Viagra Online sustain the West Broadway Corridor and Northside neighborhood business districts by providing grants to businesses and property owners to improve the appearance of their storefront. In 2010, along with partner organizations WBC leveraged over $240,000 for improvements for the West Broadway Area from the City of Minneapolis and private foundations. These improvements will be made throughout 2011. WBC has become the go-to organization for façade improvements on the Northside.
Web and Social Media Project: The West Evista scsu Broadway Web Januvia 100mg - 20 pills and Social Buy Wellbutrin Yagara 60 pills SR Online Media Promotion Project will give every business in the West Broadway Area an opportunity to have a presence on the internet through the WBC’s website; in addition to one-on-one technical assistance for businesses to market their businesses through Facebook, Google, Yelp, Yahoo, Bing, and Twitter.
West Broadway Business Lunches and Networking Events: WBC is reviving the West Broadway Business Lunch Program. The program will offer business owners a place to network. It will also be a venue to address concerns and education businesses owners on upcoming developments and opportunities.
Farmers Market: WBC will be opening an Side effects Buy Retino Buy Meclizine Online A Cream Online of doxycycline hyclate outdoor market Cipro 500mg - 180 pills on West Broadway in June 2011. The aim of the West Broadway Outdoor Market is to address the lack of access to healthy foods, lack of economic opportunity, and to nurture cultural identity and community vitality. The market is a regenerative tool to provide much needed healthy food options, create community vitality, and build economic and social enterprise on the Northside.
The market will be programmed twice weekly June-October and offer a mix of vendors including: fresh produce, pickle bill, and craft/art. There will also be educational opportunities and performing artists. The market will provide space each week for two ‘business’ booths to provide a venue for the local business community to connect with market customers.
Spring and Fall Clean-up Events: The WBC will host two clean-up events in 2011. The clean-up projects will take place in late June and late September and include the involvement of: Juxtaposition Arts, North Minneapolis Neighborhood Organizations including: Hawthorne, Jordan, Old Highland and Willard Hay, as well as West Broadway business and property owners, organizational/institutional partners, Hennepin County, and West Broadway area residents. Programming will include: neighborhood trash collection, graffiti removal, the installation of planter boxes at area businesses, educational booths, and refreshments for volunteers. The clean-up events help to increase local commerce by beatifying the West Broadway Corridor and attracting volunteers/community members to the avenue.
Storm Water Management Plan for West Hydroxyzine dose Broadway Business Buy Celexa Online and Property Owners: WBC will Tetracycline 500 mg be contracting Cialis Professional 20mg - 20 pills with Metro Blooms on a project to complete a Storm Water Master Plan for the West Broadway Corridor. The West Broadway corridor is in the midst of an ongoing revitalization process. Business growth and reinvestment has generated the momentum needed to improve existing infrastructure. Best management practices (BMP) for water quality improvement are most cost effective to install during renovation or new construction. Now is a critical time to familiarize businesses and property owners with the benefits that can accompany installing storm water management BMPs such as rain gardens and permeable paving systems. WBC will seek funding to implement improvements highlighted in the Master Plan.
Flow Northside Arts Crawl: WBC will be the leading organization on implementing FLOW Northside Arts Crawl for 2011. WBC will be working with Northside Arts Collective on the project. Flow is a unique collaboration between the business and arts communities that showcases artists of all ages who live and/or work in North Minneapolis. FLOW is a self-guided art event featuring visual and performing artists at businesses, studios and organizations along West Broadway in North Minneapolis.
Graffiti Removal Program: WBC has Lisinopril rash partnered with Prilosec 10mg - 90 pills Hennepin County Vasotec 10 mg STS to Vasotec 5mg - 90 pills clean up graffiti in the West Broadway Area. WBC provides graffiti removal permission slips to area businesses and residents and works with Hennepin County to arrange a time to remove the graffiti at no cost to the business or property owner. Perception of crime is a deterrent for commerce along commercial corridors. Keeping the corridor free of graffiti will help decrease
Developing Partnerships for Business Resources and Referrals: WBC works Buy Periactin Online as a Brand Viagra Nitroglycerin 2.5mg - 90 pills 50 mg connector for Prednisone 20mg - 180 pills business resources. WBC has several partnership organizations and connects businesses with technical assistance, loan programs, etc. There is a valuable public and private resource pool available locally and regionally. WBC will continue to grow current partnerships and solidify new partners. A few of our key partners are MEDA, NEON, MWMO, Northside Arts Collective, Hennepin County STS, and the City of Minneapolis; we continue to grow and strengthen these partnerships.
