2024 has been a busy and exciting year for the Economic Development Team. We kicked off the year strong with project management of the...
APE 2024 Recap
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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
Re-Creating Henderson: Walk the Block Party
Hi everyone! We are almost at the end of 2024, and that means we are looking back and reviewing a lot of our projects from the year. One...
November Recreating Henderson St Celebration
Throughout this year, RBAC has managed the Recreating Henderson Street project. You can read more about the project here. Since January,...