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Local News
- Lighthouse Communities and Urban Pizza
Uptown Incubator, Urban Pizza to open April 1. - Madison Square Business Incubator
Madison Square business incubator has community backing for $1.7m project. - Flips Foreclosed Homes
Lighthouse Communities has several homes throughout Kent County that they are revitalizing. The positive investment and development of these properties will likely stabilize property values of the entire block, bringing vitality and prosperity to our communities. - Bringing in NSP funds to address foreclosures and blight in southeast Grand Rapids
Garfield Park and Madison Square neighborhood will benefit from an $820,000 investment in NSP funds allocated by the State of Michigan. Watch the video online. - Countrywide Settlement Funds allocated to housing agencies
Lighthouse Communities and other local housing agencies will receive funds to continue to stabilize the neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosures in Grand Rapids. - Fighting foreclosures with Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds
Read about the effects of foreclosure in our communities and how Lighthouse will help tackle this issue through the NSP program by making improvements to foreclosed properties and returning them to homeownership. - Madison Square business district
Madison Square business district another step closer to becoming Grand Rapids' second CID
To say that community development is about restoring relationships is a significant change from traditional approaches.
- anonymous
Business Incubator coming soon
Lighthouse's newest venture is a Small Business Incubator to help create new businesses and support our commercial corridors.
A Business Incubator, to be located within the Lighthouse Development Center, will house seven start-up businesses. By partnering these new entrepreneurs with the proper resources and cost structure, they will become the future of our local commercial corridors. The Incubator, slated to open winter 2010, will be hosted at Lighthouse Development Center, which will house Lighthouse Communities new offices and serve as an anchor of the new and improved commercial corridor.
Lighthouse Communities’ Business Incubation approach will identify and empower local entrepreneurs through a comprehensive business development program that entails ongoing training, mentoring, and technical and financial assistance coupled with a supporting environment that will offer low rents at a time they need it most. After a period of approximately three years, these business will not only have the customer base, but also the necessary expertise to sustain their business long term at market rates and occupy commercial space created in our business corridors. Lighthouse plans to partner with the Michigan-Small Business and Technology Center (MI-SBTDC) hosted at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women (GROW), and Neighborhood Ventures (NV) to assure success. Lighthouse will continue to develop commercial space as this pipeline of commercial clients continues.
More Commercial Services News
Lighthouse Communities supports microenterprise businesses in Southtown