posted 12/08/08 03:18 PM | updated 04/01/09 10:55 AM
Featured Post! | Views: 428 | Comments : 3 | Community

Union Street Business Group

By CentralCinema
(0 votes) ( report abuse ) ( add your comment )

About 4 years ago Jean Tinnea, Darryl Durden, Mike Cruz and myself were working on starting a business group for Union street so that we could collectively work on making the area thrive.  It was a fairly traditional organization with monthly meetings that quickly dissipated due to life being busy for everyone.

Fastforward to this year when I was admiring CleanGreens spanky social networking site.  This could be a smooth way to ressurrect the Union Street Business Group in a more open egalitarian way with less overhead.  We don't need formal organizational structure to make things happen.  Anyone can join for free, get some ideas going, show some initiative to make things happen, and find help to make positive changes.  This is mostly for businesses in the Central District to have a place to work together and stay in touch.  But we are all interconnected here and a thriving business area and a thriving neighborhood needs everyones input.  

So now the Union Street Business Group has one of these nice websites where we can share ideas and get things organized.  I took the existing graphic and made some window stickers for local businesses.  I'll bring some around or you can drop me a line office@central-cinema.com and I will get you one.  So go to www.unionstreetbusiness.org, join up, and let's see what we can make happen around here.  

Share this post:
Permalink
Tags: neighborhood, business, group, union, street, commercial, district + add tags
savecancel
Powered by
Nice
Too bad the place I work at blocks social networking sites. But, good for small businesses in the community.
Comment by kt
December 08, 2008
( 0 votes )
CD Chamber of Commerce?
What's the Chamber of Commerce up to around the CD? Seems like that's the more traditional pro-business/social networking organization in other communities. I see their little office accross from the Safeway all the time and I've wondered about how active they are.
Comment by Lee
December 09, 2008
( +4 votes )
Nearby: Madison Street business area (and ANOTHER survey)
The Madison Street area (17th to 24thish) just down the street is also being revitalized. I recently reported news of that, and offered a new survey of desired businesses:

http://millerparkseattle.blogspot.com/2008/12/madison-street

Go straight to survey via: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bxGEsKPvDsyfxuP_2bbbd_

Maybe we should compare survey results. Jim Mueller should be interested in both surveys!
Comment by Andrew Taylor
December 09, 2008
( 0 votes )
Add Your Comment
Name:
Email:
(will not be displayed)
Subject:
Comment: