Grand Opening of the LINC Business Center! – Friday, November 11, 2011

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Grand Opening of the LINC Business Center! – Eventbrite.

Here is another great event to join this week.  the LINC business center is reopening. It’s goal is to revitalize the entrepreneurial spirit of the local community, and offer opportunities for all entrepreneurial business to progress in their goals.  Below is a copy of the event description you can check out their website for more info.  The event is absolutely free and open to the public.

Grand Opening of the LINC Business Center!

Friday, November 11, 2011 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (ET)Grand Rapids, MI

On Friday, November 11, the LINC Business Center (formerly C&J plaza) will be completely renovated and reopened with seven local businesses up and running. To celebrate, LINC community revitalization inc. is hosting a Grand Opening celebration on Friday with a press conference at 3:00pm and open house from 4:00pm-7:00pm.

Join State representatives Brandon Dillon and Roy Schmidt, Grand Rapids 3rd Ward Commissioners Elias Lumpkins and James White, the new business owners and other city officials for a chance to tour the new space, learn about LINC’s Business Incubation program and congratulate the new business owners.
The commercial space at 1258 Madison Ave SE will be home to:

Epic Emporium an art gallery and gift shop featuring local artists’ pieces.
Klipper Kingdom a barber shop
Southtown Guitar teaching lessons and selling guitars
Raider Tek providing computer repair
Sydney’s Boutique selling women’s apparel
WYGR 1530 AM radio broadcasting studio
The LINC Business Center is a part of LINC’s economic development efforts seeking to revitalize the entrepreneurial spirit of our community. It displays the importance of providing opportunities for everyone to realize their human potential. Each new business owner, male and female, black, white and Hispanic has taken great courage to pursue their dreams, invest in themselves, their abilities and their community. This was possible because an organization believed in them and worked with them. To ensure success and sustainability, LINC will provide them with training and assistance in accounting, marketing, legal, project management, HR management and other resources through the Business Incubation program over the next three years.
The incubation program operates like a “hands on business school,” partnering with organizations such as MI-SBTDC, West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, GROW and othersto provide various trainings, ensuring that at the end of the 3-year program, the businesses are sustainable and thriving.
LINC’s business center and incubation program provide a blueprint for economic revitalization of urban core neighborhoods. Madison Square accounted for a quarter of the total businesses opened in Grand Rapids over the last year and since July of this year over 40 local jobs have been created for previously unemployed community members. By investing in the local business corridor, LINC is providing local jobs to previously unemployed residents, boosting the local economy, raising the property values of surrounding business and home owners, and bringing local businesses and services within reach of the community.
The Grand Opening celebration is free and open to the public