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All About
Economic Development in Rainier Beach
Our focus:
Supporting development in the neighborhood.
- Engage with developers to identify available spaces;
- Conduct outreach to understand community needs for priority businesses; and
- Identify and match businesses to occupy new commercial spaces and be successful.
- Conduct townhalls to gain community and developer input around upcoming commercial space.
Supporting small buisnesses and entreprenurship.
- Help BIPOC-Owned businesses survive covid-19 and to thrive beyond it
- Providing services focused on the business owner (Case-Management).
- Assessing digital presence and capability; providing a gap analysis of needed solutions; and providing access to existing digital resources and/or delivering solutions directly to small businesses.
Promoting jobs and economic access coordination.
- Increase resources and support for retention of workers from underrepresented groups.
Recent Articles
Recreating Henderson St Public Meeting Announcement
Throughout this year RBAC had taken on project management for the Recreating Henderson Street. You can read more background on the project...
Summer is off to an exciting start for the Economic Development Team!
On July 26th, we had our first Dancing at the Beach. The purpose of Dancing at the Beach is to engage the community and provide more...