How To Bring Jobs And Businesses To Your Neighborhood

Why To Attend The Saturday April 21st Neighborhood Congress at the Bonaventure Hotel

If you want to increase community outreach, develop jobs and businesses in your community or need more parks and green spaces in your community - the Los Angeles Neighborhood Congress has multiple experts to answer your questions as well as NC members to tell you their success stories.

You will each be given specific action items to take back to your communities Monday morning to get to work to solve these problems. So register today to take advantage of these free programs at the Bonaventure hotel where both the parking and the lunch are also totally free at http://www.lacityneighborhoods.com/page2.cfm?doc=home.

Our second session is about how to bring jobs and businesses to neighborhoods and how to bring cultural tourism to your neighborhood.

From 11 AM to 12:125 PM, real world examples of how NC's can – and have – brought economic development to local communities will be presented. Representatives from several governmental agencies will also explain how to apply for financial incentives for local businesses and how to access job training and jobs for youth’s programs in your communities.

Neighborhood Council members will tell how they have done assessment of their neighborhood's needs, how to build upon existing resources and a neighborhood’s strengths and then took actions to being desirable retail and services to their communities.

Downtown Los Angeles, as one example, will detail exactly how it turned the worst drug dealing neighborhood in the city - Fifth and Main - into Gallery Row, a neighborhood now filled with ethnic restaurants, clothing boutiques and book stores as well as art galleries and then describe how four DLANC board members brought Fashion Week back to Los Angeles from Culver City in just six weeks. Other NC’s will describe how to create both cultural tourism and locally based events that have brought economic and cultural benefits to their neighborhoods.

More information will be posted here week on speakers and topics of discussion. And if YOUR neighborhood has any success stories you would like to share next Saturday, email me at Bradywestwater@gmail.com.

And to register for this or LANCC's two other seminars, go to www.lacityneihgorhoods.com