10:00 AM Saturday, April 1, 2023
Brooklyn Park city leaders are excited about the progress being made on the new Small Business Center at the site of the former Northwind Plaza shopping center on Brooklyn Boulevard. This transformation into a hub for retail, office, and co-working spaces for small business owners of every experience level is about eighty percent complete, according to William Anderson, senior who is the economic development project manager for the town.
“Our goal is to mix businesses of scale and maturity,” included in the project, Anderson said. “From new start-ups looking to find that right space, right place, where you know, the margins are thin, to businesses that are growing and looking to find It’s just a different movement.”
The goal is to house 60 different businesses in 21 retail spaces and dedicated office space that can be rented by the day for whatever business owners need, Anderson said.
“We hope that some businesses will use this space and it will be so profitable that they will have to move and move to a bigger space,” he said. “So there is always an opportunity for a new and future business owner to enter this space, so the application process is ongoing.”
The city got federal funding to help pay for the project last year after it bought the property for more than $7 million in 2020.
“People are not afraid to go out and take a risk and start something on their own and grow, so having this space as a centralized location to bring our different communities together through business and commerce is a win-win,” said Anderson.
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